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Post-Christmas Annual Appeal

Dearest Readers: I am turning to you again, for the last time this year. If you have been reading my work, you know how illuminating and how prescient it has been. I can only continue this work with your support. I first sounded the alarm about

MY DYSFUNCTIONAL PAYPAL BUTTON IS BACK! PLEASE SHOW ME THAT YOU CARE ABOUT MY WORK

Dear Reader and Supporter: Greetings! My PayPal donation button has not been working for quite a while; I only learned of this yesterday. Therefore, if any kind soul among you wishes to make an end-of-year donation to my work, now is the time. Trust me,

Welcome to Hamas West, AKA Connecticut College

The Connecticut College administrators have finally put it in writing. And they did so on the last day of the semester before the winter break when they knew that students would be leaving or already gone. Based on what they wrote, these administrators

The Terrorist Wears a Burqa

A number of journalists initially claimed that a woman was behind the San Bernardino massacre, and that Tashfeen Malik radicalized her husband Syed Rizwan Farook. Anyone who has studied Islamic terrorist killers and radical Islamic culture knows that

Op-Ed: Challenging the right to 'Birthright'

Posters which demonize Israel-only have been hanging all over the Connecticut College campus for 48 hours now. The Administration has not ordered them taken down. Some Jewish students are both frightened and sickened by the stepped-up pace of

Annual Funding Appeal

Dear Reader: Hello! Instead of my usual annual fundraising appeal I am sending you this site on GoFundMe. One of the professors under siege whom I helped insisted on posting this. He is the sweetest soul. Thus, if my work this year has found favor in

'Women's studies' is betraying women under Sharia law

Last week, the National Women's Studies Association membership voted to boycott Israel. The resolution reads, in part: "As feminist scholars, activists, teachers, and public intellectuals ... we cannot overlook injustice and violence, including

The death knell for Women's Studies

The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) has just voted to support a boycott ofISIS. No, just joking. The boycott is against Israel - only. The recommendation was developed in 2014 by Feminists for Justice in Palestine and draws on a

The Intifada Comes To Austin

Earlier this month, on November 13th, twelve members of a group calling itself the "Palestine Solidarity Committee," descended, lynch-mob style, upon an American campus in Austin, Texas. What happened next makes the grossly objectionable Apartheid Week

How Hitler-era brown shirts took over Hunter College

For the first time in the 21st century and on the American campus, legitimate economic grievances, specific to New York City, specific to the United States, have been tied to Zionism. Led by a screaming woman in hijab and a man, assisted by the usual