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Oct 10, 2015, 9:47 PM

Two Narratives for Two Peoples: Why I Confronted Ilan Pappé

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people and modern Israel is its crowning achievement. In the face of unbelievable oppression, refugees from antisemitic Europe and the Middle East built a thriving community to be proud of...

Sep 10, 2015, 11:33 PM

Blame Obama and His Supporters for Syria

Action has consequences. So does inaction. With 4 million refugees from Syria pouring into Europe and 8 million more displaced inside the country, what are they saying now -- those who warned as recently as 2013 that an American-led...

Sep 9, 2015, 5:28 PM

The Solution to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: If Not Now, When?

The Syrian refugee crisis has reached epic proportions. That those who cautioned against Western intervention years ago, because it could only make things worse, have been proved wrong (worse than this?) is incidental now. With nearly 4 million refugees...

Sep 7, 2015, 10:28 PM

Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism: BDS Hurts Itself Again in L’affaire Matisyahu

Last month’s pathetic “Matisyahu affair” conclusively demonstrated the obvious. BDS -- or what some call, with a mischievous wink, and not inappropriately, “BDSM”: the sadistic Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement to destroy Israel -- is anti-Semitic. For this time -- as everyone knows by now -- the performer they tried to ban from singing...

Nov 11, 2014, 12:31 PM

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (hurrah!) has prompted an absurd publicity stunt inviting comparisons between, on the one hand, that infamous barrier to travel from Communism to the Free World and, on the other, the Israeli...

May 29, 2014, 8:41 AM

Judith Butler’s Mythologies: “Truthiness” in the Philosophy of BDS

In her book of late 2012, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (Columbia UP), Judith Butler arguably plagiarizes Edward Said, whom she reveres as a heroic figure, while badly misquoting in ways that are deeply offensive, and contrary to...

May 27, 2014, 12:07 AM

The Disappearing BDS Movement: From Anti-Zionism to Anti-Semitism

Step by misstep, the faltering BDS (Boycotts, Divestments, Sanctions) movement is stumbling into an abyss of hatred that will soon lead to its rejection by reasonable people everywhere. In fact, at this rate, critics of the campaign to unfairly stigmatize Israel...

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About Me

Gabriel Noah Brahm is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), a Research Fellow in Israel Studies at Brandies University, a Visiting Professor in the School of Philosophy and Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. He is coeditor (with Cary Nelson) of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel (Wayne State University Press, 2015) and coauthor (with Forrest G. Robinson) of The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in the Company of Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx (Missouri University Press, 2011). He serves as an Associate Editor of Politics and Culture and an Advisory Editor for Fathom: For a Deeper Understanding of Israel and the Region.