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A.J. Caschetta

A.J. Caschetta is a principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, where he is a Ginsburg-Ingerman fellow.

Georgetown University's main campus. Washington National Cathedral is visible above campus, and the Washington Canoe Club is in the lower right on the Potomac River. Credit: Patrickneil via Wikimedia Commons.

George Washington University’s antisemitism problem

Jewish students must conceal their identity to avoid being "confronted or heckled" on campus.

August 24, 2023

Press briefing by Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories at the United Nations in New York City, Oct. 27, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock.

Israeli counterterrorism is not ‘arbitrary’

The U.N.’s “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” does not appear to understand the English language.

July 16, 2023

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) supporters seen during a rally marking the 52nd anniversary of its founding, in the West Bank city of Nablus, on Dec. 14, 2019. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

The State Department returns to hating Israel

Its just-released assessment of Joe Biden’s first year as president whitewashes Palestinian terrorism.

March 6, 2023

Roger Waters. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Roger Waters: The Leni Riefenstahl of rock and roll

Once the world recognizes the sickness of Waters’ propaganda and once free people stop showing up for his concerts, his influence will dwindle and, one of these days, his world tours will be limited to shows in Russia, China and Gaza.

February 7, 2023

A protester holds a picture of Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish woman whose death in the custody of Iran’s “morality police” has sparked widespread unrest. Source: Twitter.

Who will celebrate World Hijab Day this year?

No doubt plenty of virtue-signaling progressives will observe this celebration of misogyny.

January 24, 2023

World powers discuss the possible revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) meeting in Vienna on April 20, 2021. Source: Enrique Mora/Twitter.

From Minneapolis to Vienna, projecting weakness invites aggression

Like the U.S. military’s handover of Bagram Air Base to the Taliban and the Minneapolis Police Department’s surrender of its 3rd Precinct building to rioters, a second nuclear deal with Iran will ensure even more aggression. It will also make war, perhaps even nuclear war, inevitable.

January 3, 2022

Protesters wave Palestinian flags at an anti-Israel demonstration in San Francisco, May 16, 2021. Credit: Raphaël Vinot/Wikimedia Commons.

The Palestinian ‘battle flag’

Just as PLO chief Yasser Arafat turned the checkered keffiyeh into a symbol of terrorism, today’s Palestinian nationalists have turned the banner that of their aspirations into one as contemptible as that of the Confederates.

June 8, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane at Andrews Air Force Base for a flight to Amman on July 15, 2013. On that trip to Jordan, Kerry said Arab ministers told him that the core issue of instability in the region and other parts of the world is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Credit: U.S. State Department.

History proves John Kerry wrong … again

The former U.S. secretary of state said things about peace-making in the Middle East that he probably now wishes he could take back.

September 22, 2020

Palestinians walk past a mural of George Floyd painted on a section of the security barrier in the city of Bethlehem, June 8, 2020. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

The Islamist takeover of George Floyd

From the moment that video footage of Floyd's death went viral, Palestinian activists throughout the United States and abroad tried to turn the subsequent protests against police brutality into an American intifada.

July 26, 2020