Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe
ARTICLES BY: Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe
The Academy Promotes Hamas
JNS.org - Do academic organizations represent intellectual values—above all objectivity? Or do they represent the current state of their communities and those communities’ prejudices and...
How Hamas Took UNRWA Hostage
Truth is a rare commodity when it comes to international organizations -- and all the more so when it comes to the United Nations Relief...
The UN Agency for Palestinians Is Even Worse Than You Think
Serious corruption allegations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which were derived from a leaked...
Pro-Israel Faculty Members Must Speak Out on Campus
With the normalizing of antisemitism comes the normalizing of BDS. Professors and academics who support and advocate for BDS feel empowered and emboldened by the...
After Funding Cut, UNRWA Employees Are Out in the Cold in Gaza
Several weeks ago, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) evacuated at least 10 international senior officials...
Palestinians Don’t Have to Live Like Refugees
Dramatic shifts are rare in American foreign policy. But one undeniable example is the Trump administration’s recent decision to cease funding the United Nations Relief...
Reframing the Middle Eastern and Palestinian Refugee Crises
There are two Middle Eastern refugee crises currently vying for resources and attention. One is nominally focused on Syria, but in fact extends from Libya...
Canada’s Misguided Decision to Restore Funding to UNRWA
Of all the problems that dominate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, only one ensures that the conflict will never end: the growth in the number of Arab-Palestinian...
Why the Quakers Support BDS Against Israel
American religious history is filled with examples of faiths whose public perceptions defy deeper realities. The Quakers, for instance, are known as peaceful and supremely...
Mahmoud Abbas: Palestinians Better Off Dead Than Living Outside of Israel
Faced with the suffering of their own people, the Palestinians recently decided not to help. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas rejected a deal with...
What Type of Zionism is Acceptable?
Among the most pernicious consequences of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement has been the wedge driven between Israel and liberal Americans, including...
America’s Palestine Refugee Policy is Ludicrous
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. By any measurement, Western policy towards United Nations Relief...
From Welfare to Warfare
As Operation Protective Edge enters its third week, we have now seen four incidents in the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas that...
Truly Understanding UNRWA
The Palestinian refugee issue has been around since 1948. UNRWA, the United Nations institution dedicated to their preservation, has been in existence since 1950. With the...
