BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,051, May 26, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Ever since the 1960s, the Western academy has been churning out “scholar-activist-warriors” who carry the mantle of activism in lieu of scholarship. The result is generations of well-meaning yet …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,033, May 17, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: UN NGOs have a long history of attempting to sell their own neutrality and even-handedness. UNRWA stands out as an agency that has abused its diplomatic immunity to transform …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,899, January 22, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As we observed during the US presidential election of 2020, the presumption that tolerance and pluralism connote openness and acceptance is false. American Jews in particular have once again …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,823, November 17, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: “The struggle for Palestine” has long been an axiomatic slogan in the Arab-Palestinian narrative and continues to be used to this day to galvanize the masses—but as the Middle …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,734, September 7, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: History and historiography matter. As Winston Churchill astutely said, “Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after it has happened; but only the wise man …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,663, July 28, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Ancient Greece considered athletic ability both a measure of one’s value and a cure for social inequality. Athletics were seen as providing a form of moral education, with Plato …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,609, June 18, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent riots in the US underscore how identity politics have been hijacked by red and green alliances between socialist and Islamist ideologies. We are now seeing a conjoining …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,535, April 19, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Strategically, Israel’s fundamental military premise is defensive but its tactics are offensive—a result of its geography and absence of territorial depth. Israeli decision-making has always been driven by the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,445, February 10, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The necessity of a Jewish nation state was a foundational premise for the founding fathers of Zionism, no matter what their political persuasion. That understanding was once shared by …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,392, January 5, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The American Jewish Left has once again fallen in line with the Palestinian demand that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict always be conflated to a problem of “occupation,” regardless of facts …
