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Asaf Romirowsky

Asaf Romirowsky is the executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA).

Columbia University Library in New York City. Credit: Studio Melange/Shutterstock.

The universities’ betrayal of the university

Institutions of higher education have embraced ignorance and intolerance.

Shira Weissbach and Asaf Romirowsky

May. 16, 2024

A rally at Tulane University in New Orleans got violent after a pro-Palestinian supporter hit a Jewish student in the face, Oct. 26, 2023. Photo by Bali Levine.

The academy promotes Hamas

Bigoted academics and students must be held accountable for their hatreds.

Asaf Romirowsky and Alex Joffe

Nov. 13, 2023

Austro-Hungarian journalist and founder of modern-day Zionism Theodor Herzl. Source: YouTube.

The Zionist dream at 75

Normalcy and Jewish self-identity have become part of the struggle for the Diaspora as it comes to terms with what the Zionist enterprise built, warts and all.

Asaf Romirowsky

Apr. 25, 2023

Lord Arthur Balfour in British Mandatory Palestine, with Vera and Chaim Weizmann (seated, at left), Nahum Sokolow and others in 1925. Credit: Avital Efrat via Wikimedia Commons.

The distinctiveness of the Balfour Declaration

It’s worth framing the historical conversation on the document with the use of firsthand observers.

Asaf Romirowsky

Nov. 4, 2021

Hamas members at a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Rabbis for Hamas

So warped are the perceptions of Western academics that even American Jewish rabbinical students are effectively shilling for an Islamist terror organization committed to killing Jews.

Asaf Romirowsky

May. 26, 2021

The 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, takes the oath of office. Jan. 20, 2021. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The true nature of tolerance

American Jews have once again been forced to choose between their Jewish identity and a “pluralism” that generates intolerance.

Asaf Romirowsky

Jan. 24, 2021

U.S. President Donald Trump, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyani wave from the Blue Room balcony during the Abraham Accords signing on Sept. 15, 2020. Credit: White House/Tia Dufour.

The never-ending ‘struggle for Palestine’

The binary view of the Arab-Israeli conflict that has prevailed for decades may have shifted following the Abraham Accords. But if so, what comes next?

Asaf Romirowsky

Nov. 17, 2020

Supporters of the BDS movement against Israel. Photo by Alex Christy/Flickr.

Facts find no room in the world of BDS

Anti-Semitism is the only form of hate speech that cancel culture has no problem tolerating, while pro-Israel stances remain occasions to cancel those who dare express it.

Asaf Romirowsky and Alex Joffe

Sep. 21, 2020

Journalist and author Peter Beinart in 2012. Photo by Flash90.

‘If you will it, it is no dream’ … but only on our terms

The necessity of a Jewish nation was a foundational premise for the founding fathers of Zionism, no matter what their political persuasion. That understanding was once shared by most American Jews.

Asaf Romirowsky

Feb. 11, 2020