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The Western intervention in Libya aroused much more passion in the Western left than it did in Arab countries. Or, to put…
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[Slightly edited and footnoted version of remarks delivered at New York University 28 Feb 2011 for Israel Apartheid Week] This evening a…
[This is a revised version of a talk given at Yale University on Nov. 11, 2010, at a forum sponsored by Students…
The New York Times front-paged a story on the conflicting video images of the assault on the Gaza flotilla, concluding that neither…
Stephen R. Shalom is a professor of political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey. His books include Which Side Are…
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1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what are you for?…
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