Posts Tagged: Asaf Romirowsky
America’s Palestine Refugee Policy is Ludicrous
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. By any measurement, Western policy towards United Nations Relief...
The ASA’s Stunning Hypocrisy on Israel Boycott
The American Studies Association (ASA) adoption of a BDS resolution in December 2013 garnered a significant backlash from over 250 American university presidents and academic...
Are UN Agencies Fighting for Human Rights or Supporting Terrorism?
Operation Protective Edge has put a significant spotlight on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) after munitions were found in...
Truly Understanding UNRWA
The Palestinian refugee issue has been around since 1948. UNRWA, the United Nations institution dedicated to their preservation, has been in existence since 1950. With the...
The Leftward Tilt of American Jews
Twenty years after the Oslo peace process, and now with the collapse of the recent negotiations mediated by John Kerry, Jewish American leftists groups are...
Remembering Some History About Jews and Palestinians
The failure of American-mediated peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the likely creation of a Hamas-Fatah government in the Palestinian West Bank...
Explaining Why So Many Palestinians Are Still Refugees (REVIEW)
With the recent breakdown of another iteration of attempts to "make forward progress" in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, many have remarked on the basic intractability of the...
The Origins of Palestinian Refugee Relief Efforts (REVIEW)
Romirowsky and Joffe's book Religion, Politics and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief is an important volume for those interested in truly understanding the origins of...
The Failure of Religious Diplomacy at the Birth of Israel
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief (New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), by Asaf...
How Can Kings College Tolerate BDS?
For nearly twenty years, under the leadership of Middle East historian Efraim Karsh and his Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme, Kings College London was...
It’s Always ‘Groundhog Day’ With the Israeli-Palestinian ‘Peace Process’
The 1993 movie "Groundhog Day," in which the character played by Bill Murray relives the same day over and over again, is an apt...
Palestinians Must Abandon ‘Right of Return’ Claim
US-backed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are entering a critical period. With reports suggesting Israeli acceptance of the 1967 lines and land...
The ‘Big Tent’ Illusion on College Campuses
More and more, we hear from faculty and students about the need to have an "open tent" or a "big tent," of ideas and opinions...
Professor Strips Thesis of Judith Butler Sourcing, Calls for RDS – ‘Retractions and Disavowals in Scholarship’ – to Oppose BDS (INTERVIEW)
Israeli artist, playwright and professor Dahn Hiuni on Tuesday said he launched a new movement called RDS - Retractions and Disavowals in Scholarship - to...
