“Cancel Culture” Fast-Forwards Past Anti-Semitism
Meet Grant Napear. The basketball broadcaster was fired after tweeting “All Lives Matter” following the killing of George Floyd. Meet James Bennet, the former New York Times editorial...
Tag: Public Policy and Advocacy
June 26, 2020
Latin American Countries in the UNHRC
In the last days of June, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) decided to discuss and vote on “issues linked to human rights violations”. However, the council did not say a word about...
June 4, 2020
“A Secure Europe In A Better World”
With Hezbollah Unchecked, the EU Falls Short of its Own Security Aspirations Much like most things in the European Union, the question of designating Hezbollah in its entirety as a...
May 4, 2020
Coronavirus Does Not Stop Violation of Human Rights
The United Nations is warning countries to undertake all possible efforts to protect civilian populations, cautioning that the spread of coronavirus must not be wielded as a weapon to abuse power....
April 24, 2020
Iran’s Spiral Toward Chaos and Aggression
The U.S. killing of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and Iran’s subsequent mishandling of its Covid-19 response have left the country in political and economic disarray as its...
April 3, 2020
A Look Backward and Forward to Carnival Season
As millions worldwide are in lockdown due to the current health crisis, it seems hard to believe it was only a month ago that Carnival season was in full swing everywhere from Europe and Asia...
March 24, 2020
The Importance of the WHO
The world is learning, in a truly frightening fashion, just why the World Health Organization (WHO) is so vital to the health of humanity. The WHO is the United Nations agency that works on...
February 19, 2020
75 Years After the Holocaust, a Revisionist Trend is Sweeping Europe
With the commemoration of 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz just behind us, it’s becoming clear that there is a revisionist trend sweeping Europe. The arc of post-World War Two...
December 13, 2019
Israel’s Critics Strike an Unsettling Note on the Pompeo Declaration
The reaction was both peremptory and predictable: Critics of Israeli and U.S. policies firmly snapped back against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration that the U.S. no...