Mystical Politics

I'm very troubled by the two laws that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has just passed, to prevent UNRWA, the UN refugee agency for...

 

Momodou Taal, a foreign graduate student at Cornell (from the UK), has been banned from the Cornell campus because he has violated conduct r...

October 17, 2024 Statement from President Joe Biden on the Death of Yahya Sinwar Early this morning, Israeli authorities informed my nationa...

The anti-Israel, antisemitic movement has a new goal - driving Hillel off university campuses. There is a new organization, called "Dro...

The latest Instagram Story from Ithaca College Students for Justice in Palestine includes a page with the slogans “Glory to the Martyrs. ...

I just saw an announcement that our local pro-Hamas groups are having a demonstration on Saturday, October 5. Sponsors include Ithaca Commit...

The Israeli artist Shoshke (Zeeve) Engelmayer posted this response to today’s attack from Iran. The Israeli attack upon Lebanon has been nam...

The misnamed Jewish Voice for Peace chapter at the University of Michigan posts pro-Hezbollah and pro-terrorist messages on its Instagram pa...

Terrible news tonight.  The bodies of six of the hostages were just found by the IDF in a tunnel near Rafah. Times of Israel: Overnight, th...

From the Times of Israel 8:07 am  (Israel time) Universities cancel exams after IDF strikes, Hezbollah attack Universities announce the canc...

This photo taken from a position in northern Israel shows a Hezbollah drone intercepted by Israeli air forces over north Israel on August 25...

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv, calling for the release of hostages Saturday.  Credit: Florion Goga/ REUTERS.  Published in Haaretz online Anothe...

This is one of the last of the New York Times' Vertex puzzles. They've decided to stop offering Vertex, unfortunately - I've alw...

I'm feeling really nervous about what will happen on October 7 this fall. I don't think I'm worried that there will be another H...

The new semester is due to start in just a week, and in addition to the usual anxieties about beginning classes (getting my syllabi finished...