For the third consecutive year, a Hamas-affiliated ticket won the student council elections at Birzeit University in the West Bank. We already know that the poor and uneducated are not the only ones who support jihadi ideology. As early as 2004, research by Professor Shaul Kimhi showed that about one-third of the suicide bombers who have targeted Israelis were students ...
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Jerusalem’s true ‘importance’ in Islam
In contrast to the widespread misconception, Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran — not by the name al-Quds, and not by al-Maqdis, as the city is most commonly referred to in Arab literature. This is most surprising, in light of the fact that dozens of passages from the Quran are predicated on stories from the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic ...
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