BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 964, October 2, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Trump is right to defund UNRWA, whose anti-Israel propaganda undermines efforts to make peace.
Dramatic shifts are rare in American foreign policy. One undeniable example is the Trump …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 957, September 23, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The anti-Semitism crises exploding in the British Labour Party and threatening to erupt in the US Democratic Party have complex sources in both the elites and the middle class. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 944, September 11, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Anti-Semitism continues to be aggressively promoted in the guise of anti-Israelism in two highly influential arenas: politics, particularly in Britain; and on campus. In the US, the BDS movement …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 893, July 13, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas’s recent illnesses have again raised the matter of his successor. This brewing issue highlights contradictory aspects of Palestinian political culture. The leaders create chaos …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 803, April 20, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: International political changes and genuine refugee crises have prompted a renewed examination of UNRWA, the internationally funded mechanism for the Palestinians. The problem of transferring UNRWA’s health, welfare, and …
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There are two Middle Eastern refugee crises currently vying for resources and attention. One is nominally focused on Syria but in fact extends from Libya to Afghanistan. The other crisis is Palestinian and has supposedly been going on …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 656, November 26, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: From the 1920s to the present, Palestinian elites have called for Muslim, Arab, and other forms of international support in order to situate their cause at the head of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 640, November 13, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing collapse of Theresa May’s government in Britain raises the possibility of new elections in which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would be the likely winner. The red-green alliance …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 577, September 3, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The concept of “settler colonialism” has been applied with almost unique vehemence against Israel. But the fact that Jews are the indigenous population of the Southern Levant can be …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 450, April 24, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The election of Donald Trump as US president has generated superficial comparisons with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But one key factor in both leaders’ success is a fragmented …
