A. Jay Adler
ARTICLES BY: A. Jay Adler
Lessons from Brooklyn College BDS, Barghouti, and Butler
Reader and correspondent David Lurie has directed me to some not well-publicized revelations about the Brooklyn College BDS event. To begin, the campus BDS chapter...
Response to Judith Butler at Brooklyn College
The ironic and the disingenuous are kin. Their commonality resides in a gap, which is the distance between what is said and something else. With...
The Israeli-Palestinian Textbook Study Fraud
You think you're a person of good will and fair minded. You are a strong and aggressive advocate for Israel against its many and varied...
Two Epistemic Closures: The GOP and Israel-Critics
What do Tuesday's election results remind us of? They should recall the result of November's U.S. elections. Against all evidence - and here I do mean all...
Aaron Swartz and “Hactivision”
When did it happen? When did technology become knowledge? When did code become wisdom? When did Greek gods become geek gods? When did the new...
Why Obama Hearts Hagel
The last time I wrote about President Obama's then only rumored selection of Chuck Hagel I said two things I knew I would wish to...
The Hagelian Dialectic
The Chuck Hagel trial balloon has been aloft for weeks now, not to burst or land - since its lofting was never officially acknowledged -...
When Is an Open-Air Prison a Terrorist Camp?
It is a term we hear a lot in the twenty-first century anti-Israel propaganda storm, flung wildly against the truth - that Gaza is an...
Israel and Hamas: Reflections on the Spirit of Resistance
Paul Newman's 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, the apex of journeyman Stuart Rosenberg's directorial career, imbued popular culture with many iconic scenes and memorable lines. ("What we...
Not So Random Questions, Facts, and Observations about Gaza and Israel
If foes in Mexico - drug cartels, for instance - were firing rockets and missiles into an area roughly covering 25% of the United States this...
The Dangers of Golden Dawn – and National Public Radio
Where do we find the licensing body for the journalistic profession? Who are the determinants of journalistic malpractice? There are none. Sanction for malpractice can be...
True Liberal Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Enthymeme
In rhetoric, an enthymeme is an argument that contains an unarticulated premise. Commonly this is because the conversation is among a group of people with...
“Innocence of Muslims” and the Faith Fallacy
In all the discussion of freedom of speech because of the "Innocence of Muslims" video, and the resurgent disputes about Islam - which, if any,...
Impenetrable: The Hollow Rhetoric of Judith Butler
That title appears a contradiction. We think of the impenetrable as dense, so thick and compacted it cannot be pierced. But what is hollow is...
