Asaf Romirowsky
ARTICLES BY: Asaf Romirowsky
In the Middle East, ‘The Tail Wags the Dog’ (REVIEW)
Blaming the West has become the most pervasive method of teaching for many Middle East studies departments, which are becoming the heart of pop-culture academia....
Steven Salaita: The BDS Movement’s Favorite Martyr
Steven Salaita, whose anti-Zionist/Semitic tweets and uncivil rants cost him a position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), used a recent appearance in Philadelphia to portray himself...
The Iran Nuclear Deal Will Destroy Any ‘Stability’ in the Middle East
Traditionally, American Presidents and policymakers have strived to create and maintain stability with their Middle East allies. Yet now with the Iran deal we have...
Combating BDS
Combating BDS requires a deep understanding of the movement, its funding, organizational architecture, and the plethora of Jewish and Muslim NGOs who fund-raise and train on...
Israelis Still Want Peace – the Right Peace
Prior to the Israeli elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under fire for securing his right-wing base when he stated, "I think that anyone who is...
Examining America’s First Foray into the Middle East (REVIEW)
At the turn of the 21st century through today, American involvement in Middle Eastern politics runs through the Central Intelligence Agency. In America's Great Game: The...
The ASA’s Stunning Hypocrisy on Israel Boycott
The American Studies Association (ASA) adoption of a BDS resolution in December 2013 garnered a significant backlash from over 250 American university presidents and academic...
‘Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying’
One line from the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption embodies perfectly the Arab-Israeli conflict, "Get busy living or get busy dying." This line encapsulates the...
Are UN Agencies Fighting for Human Rights or Supporting Terrorism?
Operation Protective Edge has put a significant spotlight on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) after munitions were found in...
The Leftward Tilt of American Jews
Twenty years after the Oslo peace process, and now with the collapse of the recent negotiations mediated by John Kerry, Jewish American leftists groups are...
How Can Kings College Tolerate BDS?
For nearly twenty years, under the leadership of Middle East historian Efraim Karsh and his Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme, Kings College London was...
The ‘Big Tent’ Illusion on College Campuses
More and more, we hear from faculty and students about the need to have an "open tent" or a "big tent," of ideas and opinions...
Arafat, Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State (REVIEW)
State of Failure: Arafat, Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.) 'If you build it, they will come," was the...
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (REVIEW)
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God, by Matthew Levitt (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013). In the Fall of 2002, as the Bush...
