Asaf Romirowsky

Asaf Romirowsky is executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and a senior nonresident fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.

 A PROTEST is held outside a US federal court in Oakland, California, last January where members of the Palestinian community presented an oral argument in a lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to halt US support for Israel.

How intifada and razzia shape the Palestinian struggle and global perception – opinion

 JEWISH VOICE For Peace members and supporters hold a rally outside the Zeckelman Memorial Holocaust Museum in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Quakers view the Palestinian narrative as just and righteous - opinion

 A PERSON waves an Israeli flag on the bridge overlooking the main entrance to Jerusalem as hostages’ families and supporters culminate a four-day march from Re’im, scene of the Nova festival massacre, earlier this year.

We must become October 8 Jews - opinion


The way to address antisemitism on college campuses is to defund and deport - opinion

How have we allowed our venerable institutions of higher learning to turn into fetid swamps of violence and bigotry?

 A PROTESTER waves a Palestinian flag during a rally at Columbia University in New York, in November.

American Anthropological Association boycott of Israel will be to its detriment - opinion

The resolution will certainly act as a blacklist and litmus test for Israeli and Jewish anthropologists in the context of university departments, and in classrooms.

 THEN-EDUCATION minister Naftali Bennett with Israeli Prize winner, anthropologist Deborah Bernstein, at the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem in 2019.

MESA's Israel boycott encapsulates everything wrong with academia - opinion

The point of the academic boycott of Israel is to twist official opinion in the manner that has already been done in academia.

 STUDENTS CONGREGATE on the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

From normalizing antisemitism to denying it - opinion

Our leaders have the obligation to fight and condemn racism in all its forms, including antisemitism. If they don’t, they are giving a free pass to the same hatred they claim to be fight.

 Jewish Community Calls For Kippah Gathering To Protest Against Anti-Semitism

‘Palestine’ in the age of identity politics

In contrast to the American political arena, Palestinian politics have always been about identity politics: Palestine is for Palestinians and we are here, whatever that means.

Sara Netanyahu, Jason Greenblatt and David Friedman tour Pilgrimage Road

College administrators aiding and abetting antisemites

What distinguished this year’s annual week of harassment of Jewish students on Emory’s campus from other SJP events was that the eviction notices were officially sanctioned by Emory.

Candler Library, Emory University

Quaker activists

Caption: BDS supporters hold a protest against Israel in South Africa's Gauteng province recently

The anti-Israel religion

Since religion is as old as human civilization itself, it has garnered a reputation of being conservative and old-fashioned.

Jews praying at the Western Wall on the eve of Tisha Be'av, July 31, 2017.

Books: A consummate diplomat

Asaf Siniver looks back at the legacy of Abba Eban.

Abba Eban (center right), and David Hacohen (center left) raise the Israeli flag above the UN building on November 29, 1947, soon after the UN voted to partition Palestine

BDS equals economic warfare

Due to the ongoing violence in Syria, SodaStream also went out of its way to offer employment to Syrian refugees – one of the only Middle Eastern companies to do so.

Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign protest in Cape Town [File]