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Blake Ziegler | Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Last November, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that anti-Zionism, opposition to the existence of a Jewish state, is inherently antisemitic. The statement was directed at BDS, the Palestinian-led movement calling for the boycott, divestment, and sanctioning of Israel. We find similar rhetoric in the Biden administration, where U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield stated that
Eddie Damstra | Wednesday, March 1, 2017
One of my biggest reservations with President Obama was the manner in which his administration handled relations with Israel. From negotiating a deal that gives Iran, whose leadership vows to destroy the state of Israel, a path to nuclear weapons to refusing to veto a U.N. resolution condemning Jewish settlement activity, President Obama and his
Letter to the Editor | Monday, April 18, 2016
The Center for Civil and Human Rights was one of six campus co-sponsors of an April 8 talk by George Deek, an Arab Christian who has served in Israel’s diplomatic corps. Mr. Deek, now a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown, reflected on his personal experiences and suggested a path to peace based on those experiences. Co-sponsorship
Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 15, 2016
On April 8, Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) hosted George Deek, a representative of Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Deek’s narrative denied Israel’s relentless attempts to rebut the rights of the Palestinians, and it discredited the Palestinian struggle for justice and equality. During his talk, he presented Israel as a bastion of diversity
Andrea Vale | Monday, March 21, 2016
Four students have founded the Friends of Israel Club on Notre Dame’s campus, aiming to educate students on the history and current political situation within Israel. The club, which began meeting last month, is a bipartisan political group which also hopes to offer opportunities to support Pro-Israel politicians and legislation. According to junior James Argue, co-founder
Christopher Newton | Monday, October 6, 2014
A Sunday after a home-game win: as always, a time for procrastination and limited productivity. The Irish won this weekend and advanced to the top five, so why worry about applications, theses and editorial columns? There’s a Bar Rescue marathon on Spike that needs your undivided attention for what some might call an excessive number
Billy McMahon | Monday, September 8, 2014
Editor’s Note: This column is part of a special Viewpoint Debate which asks the question, “Should the United States provide military and financial support to the state of Israel?” To read the column that answers “yes” to this question, read Tim Scanlan’s accompanying article. In the past two months, the state of Israel has dropped
Tim Scanlan | Monday, September 8, 2014
Editor’s Note: This column is part of a special Viewpoint Debate which asks the question, “Should the United States provide military and financial support to the state of Israel?” To read the column that answers “no” to this question, read Billy McMahon’s accompanying article. As we headed back to campus in August, the conflict in
Tori Roeck | Thursday, February 6, 2014
In his new book titled “Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty and Conflict,” history and peace studies professor Asher Kaufman uses maps to illustrate the complexity of the border dispute among Israel, Syria and Lebanon, using this border area as a microcosm of Middle Eastern history for the past 100 years. Kaufman said