Asaf Romirowsky
ARTICLES BY: Asaf Romirowsky
MESA’s Troubling ‘Statement of Solidarity With the Palestinians’
Following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after an intense 11 days of military activity, universities published statements of support. Surprisingly, however, this support was...
UNRWA’s False Façade of Neutrality
Walter Eytan, Israel’s first director-general of the Foreign Ministry, made the observation that “The [Palestinian] refugees were a gift to Arab propaganda, which succeeded, by...
The Waning Power of the ‘Struggle for Palestine’
In his 1974 book Palestinians and Israel, the late Yehoshafat Harkabi wrote that following the Six-Day War: The collision with the Palestinians [was] presented as the...
Sports, Moral Education, and the NFL
Sports have always played an integral role in modern life, connecting popular culture with patriotism and nationalism. But the NFL, and football in general, are...
The Fauda Effect: Israeli Active Defense on the Screen
The Israeli concept of “active defense” has long been used by the film industry as a tool with which to showcase the Israeli perspective on...
If You Will It, It Is No Dream… but Only on Our Terms
In his address to the Zionist Congress in London on August 2, 1900, Theodor Herzl said: Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured home in...
An Open Letter to UMass Professors Who Support BDS
Below is an open letter to the faculty members who signed a pro-BDS letter to University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy: We do not know...
Netanyahu and Gantz Need to Learn the Hebrew Word ‘Mamlachtiut’
Israelis are a cynical bunch, yet they have a specific term for putting one’s own interests aside for the greater good -- a fact that...
The Tlaib-Omar Show Was a BDS Masterstroke
It is a great and quintessentially Israeli irony that Arab members of the Knesset have repeatedly proposed establishing an official Nakba Day -- in other...
Lessons From Israel’s First US Ambassador
After the slanderous assaults on American Jews and Israel by Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), there was a slew of condemnations from...
The New Religion of Anti-Zionism
Being anti-Israeli is the modern face of antisemitism. And it is just as toxic. Anti-Israelism is also a modern-day religion, in that it demands unquestioning...
Antisemitism Spreads in the United States
In his 1940 film "The Ghost Breakers," Bob Hope finds himself in Cuba facing a strange menace -- zombies. An acquaintance explains, “A zombie has no...
The Fight for Zion
For American Jews, Zionism has become a source of debate, controversy, embarrassment and guilt, as they try to come to terms with the activities of...
A Quaker Education — Against Israel
Unwittingly, the Friends’ Central School, a well-regarded Quaker establishment in Pennsylvania, has once again come under fire for its ties to the boycott, divestment and...
