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Yasir Arafat’s Visit to the UN and the Long, Sorry History of Legitimizing Terrorists
The backstory of his speech, and its translation.
Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer is a historian at Tel Aviv University and the Walter P. Stern fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He served as founding president at Shalem College in Jerusalem.
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Not Syria’s Power, but Syria’s Weakness Now Threatens the Middle East
A look into the past.
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Seeing “Aida” in Tel Aviv
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How Hassan Nasrallah’s Predecessor Paved the Way for the Current War
In 1992, an Israeli airstrike killed Abbas al-Musawi.
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Edward Said, Charles Malik, and the Arab View of the West
A different model of a modern Middle Eastern intellectual.
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How Bernard Lewis Came to America
Remaking both the man and the country.
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What a 19th-Century French Painting Can Teach Us about Hamas’s Barbarity
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The President of Columbia’s Resignation Is a Victory for the Anti-Semites, Not the Jews
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Until Palestinians Exorcise the Ghost of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, It Will Continue to Haunt Them
“Many mistakenly believe his collaboration with Hitler and the Nazis discredited him. It didn’t.”
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The Gay Dutch Zionist Poet Who Became a Haredi Anti-Zionist
The murder of Jacob de Haan.
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Lord Byron and Zion
Thoughts for the British poet’s 200th yortsayt.
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To Fix Their Problems, Universities Must Reaffirm Their Commitment to the Pursuit of Truth
Twenty years of hating Israel at Columbia.
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Why a 7th-Century Battle Matters to Modern Muslims
The legend of Badr.
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Robert Oppenheimer’s Embrace of Israel
The nuclear physicist’s belated bar mitzvah.
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A Century Without a Caliph
“Many Muslims are still painfully conscious of this void.”
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Distorting the Legacy of Martin Luther King on the Subject of Israel
A revealing interview made no mention of Palestinians.
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Hamas Apologists Borrow a Page from the Nazis
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What Bernard Lewis Taught, and Learned from, World Leaders in a Lifetime of Conversations
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The Middle East Studies Association Reaps the Fruit of Its Own Politicization
Boycotts of Israel might explain falling membership.
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How Barbara Walters Helped Israel and Egypt Make Peace
“The most important interview of my career.”
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The Decline of Middle East Studies—Then and Now
A critic of the field reflects on the criticisms leveled in 1979.
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By Not Speaking Up, Middle East Scholars Have Ceded Ground to the Radicals
How morally bankrupt activism displaced scholarship.
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How Middle Eastern Studies Went Wrong
Hijacked.
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With the Advent of Zionism, Muslims Adopted the European View of Jews as Bearers of “Cosmic Evil”
Semites, anti-Semites, and Bernard Lewis.
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How Yitzhak Shamir Saved Israel’s Relationship with Jordan, Brought in a Million Soviet Jews, and Helped Create an Economic Miracle
The man who avoided war and averted illusory peace.
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The Middle East Studies Association Boycotts Israel—and Embraces Irrelevance
The cost of politicization.
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Academic Middle East Scholars Spent Two Decades Making Themselves Irrelevant
They got things wrong, and failed to learn from their mistakes.
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The Polish Jew Who Became One of the 20th Century’s Major Muslim Thinkers
When Leopold Weiss turned into Muhammad Asad.
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Why the Israeli Declaration of Independence Is So Popular
By Martin KramerI am grateful for the excellent comments by Eugene Kontorovich and Yonatan Green to the final installment of my seven-part series on Israel’s declaration of independence. Basically, these two lear...
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The Larger-Than-Life Persian Diplomat Who Understood How to Manipulate the American Media
Ardeshir Zahedi, ambassador to the stars.