not Israel—is apparently acceptable among many in Norway's elite. Consider former Prime Minister Kare Willock's reaction to President Obama's selection of Rahm Emanuel as his first chief of staff: ""It does not look too promising
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so the formal demand for a boycott failed. But in practice it exists. Jewish pro-Israel speakers are subject to a de facto boycott.
there have been efforts to enact academic and cultural boycotts of Jewish Israeli academics. This boycott is directed against Israel's ""occupation"" of Palestinian land—but the occupation that the boycott supporters have in mind is not of....
I delivered three lectures to packed auditoriums at the invitation of student groups. I received sustained applause both before and after the talks.
as long as I was willing to promise not to mention Israel. An administrator at the Trondheim school said that Israel was too ""controversial.""
India and “the rest” will simply take over Western values wholesale
most of us have lost the historical plot. It is possible
” which also points to the most serious limitation of the revisionist case. The “triumph of the West” that followed the collapse of communism in Europe was clearly not the “end of history.” As Ferguson must know
follies and misfortunes of mankind.” Imperialism certainly added its quota to these. But the question is whether it also provided
it was bound to affect interpretations of the old imperialism
which not only left the United States top dog globally
it’s shattered the bottle. I said of Libya in an earlier column: Be ruthless or stay out. So now the West is in
their inner “Basta!” That’s how the Arab spring began on Dec. 17 in the little town of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia — with a fruit peddler’s “enough” to humiliation. In my end is my beginning.
enough of the 20th-century police states in the 21st-century. Yes
remember all that alarm a couple of months back when a Hezbollah-backed businessman
the provisional Constitution allows (and
founder of Al-Ghad Party. Nour came in a distant second to former President Hosni Mubarak in 2005 and spent the subsequent four years in prison on politically motivated charges. Known as a born politician and an effective campaigner
the leader of a group of judges who confronted the Mubarak regime over the last decade. Al-Bastawisi is
the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nobel Prize winner. While respected for his clear articulation of liberal political stances and courage in openly criticizing the Mubarak regime
the former foreign minister and current secretary-general of the Arab League. While popular for his Arab nationalist stances