In April, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York hosted aconference on "Homonationalism and Pinkwashing." If neither term is familiar, consider yourself one of the lucky few who has avoided exposure to the bizarre new inversion of language that seeks to turn Israel's history of generally respecting gay rights into the leading...

  In her controversial book, From Time Immemorial, which examined the false narrative concerning the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Joan Peters referred to something she identified as "turnspeak," "twisted rhetoric artfully aimed at the hearts and minds of the West, originated by the Arabs, and rivaling the Soviets, who are veterans of ‘semantic infiltration' and the word...

  In April, 2013, the student government at the University of California-Irvine (UCI) approved a resolution condemning a faculty member, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, at the University of California-Santa Cruz for allegedly making hateful and inflammatory comments about the Muslim Student Association. In her efforts to draw attention to what is happening on California's campuses,...

  BERLIN – The German Green party is under fire because of its push in the Bundestag to label Israeli products from the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Leading German politicians and academic specialists weighed in last week, accusing the Greens of promoting Nazi-style boycotts of Jewish products and ignoring the lessons of the Holocaust. Philipp Missfelder, a deputy from the Christian...

  In May 2013, the Church of Scotland issued a document titled The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘promised land'.[1] This text, which was a follow up to another paper on the same subject, Theology of Land and Covenant,  published in 2003, generated a lot of complaints, most of them directed at its criticism of the belief that the Jewish people have a legitimate claim to the...