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Aug 8, 2023, 6:35 AM

Ethnic Conflict Underpins the Judicial Conflict

Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to change the Israeli judiciary have provoked outrage across the progressive left. Indeed, President Biden criticized the legislation (which says Supreme Court can no longer use its reasonableness doctrine to overturn parliamentary legislation) as a threat...

Feb 5, 2023, 11:08 AM

Intragroup Disparities Complicate Affirmative Action Initiatives

In the last two years, there have been claims of racial insensitivity among the royal staff made by Megan Markle and Ngozi Fulani. Whether or not these claims are completely valid, they have galvanized sections of the British public...

Dec 21, 2022, 5:41 AM

The Differential Responses to the Antisemitism of Ye and Farrakhann

Trump’s meeting with Ye (Kanye West) and Nick Fuentes has again put antisemitism front and center. Across the political spectrum, commentators have argued that this meeting disqualifies Trump’s candidacy. Senator McConnell stated: First, let me just say that there...

Nov 23, 2022, 9:17 PM

Is there an alternative to Affirmative Action at selective colleges?

Many of the leading corporations have filed a brief to the Supreme Court in support of continued college affirmative action policies. "Racial and ethnic diversity enhance business performance," the companies – including Apple, General Electric, Google and Starbucks –...

Nov 9, 2022, 9:21 PM

The election’s impact on Jewish-Palestinian relations

Understandable gloom dominates those who are appalled that overtly racists are not only members of the victorious Likud coalition but likely to have influential positions in the new government. As I have written elsewhere, like President Nixon, in the...

Oct 6, 2022, 5:16 PM

What We Should Learn from the Jackson (MS) Water Crisis

For six months Jackson homes had no clean water; a result of unprecedented rains and undermaintained treatment facilities. There has been a predictable urge, just as in Flint, to link Jackson’s problems to systemic racism. “Racism set Jackson up...

Aug 10, 2022, 4:51 PM

Why Palestinian Efforts to Create a Third Intifada Were Defeated

The Abraham Accords have proven to be an important achievement: positively linking a number of Arab countries with Israel. It has now been embraced by the Biden Administration and Prime Minister Yair Lapid has urged the Palestinian Authority (PA)...

Nov 11, 2021, 5:05 PM

Arab Citizen Gains Should Be Centerpiece of Pro-Israel Narrative

Increasingly on US campuses Israel is vilified as an apartheid society ruled by colonial settlers, leading to an increasing share of Jewish student facing harassment. According to a newly released ADL-Hillel report, one-third of Jewish students experienced anti-Semitism last...

Sep 4, 2021, 7:45 PM

Feminist Conundrum: Gazan Women

The Afghan withdrawal debacle has highlighted the difficult situation faced by Muslim women. While Taliban leaders are sometimes characterized as being seventh-century Islamists, their views on sharia law are not so different from many other traditional Middle Eastern societies,...

Jun 8, 2021, 10:11 PM

The Dishonesty of Anti-Racist Narratives

The anti-Israel position in response to the armed conflict between Hamas and Israel brought out the same style of criticism as the anti-racist movement. Both efforts reject any mention of the behaviors of the designated oppressed – black Americans...

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Robert Cherry is a recently retired professor of economics at Brooklyn College. Author of Why the Jews? How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021); and The State of the Black Family: The State of the Black Family: Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures—and New Initiatives Offering Hope (Bombardier 2023).

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