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...Harvard Nakba Committee commemorate the 1948 dispossession of Palestinian Arabs from Israel next week. While the Palestinian refugee crisis is a tragedy in its own right, the committee has chosen to commemorate the dispossession of approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arabs by adopting the reckless, revisionist history of Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, an apologist for terror (he once stated, “I support Hamas in its resistance against the Israeli occupation though I disagree with their political ideology”) who directed the effort by the Association of University Teachers to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities...
...Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen—was disappointing. The song featured amusing lines such as “China Garden has only moo-shoo pork for me,” but the acting and singing skills of Jonathan K. Tam ’10 and Ilan J. Caplan ’10 drew the most laughter. Tam, in particular, stood out—not only because he was the sole Asian in a predominantly white, Jewish cast. His renditions of “Ten Copecks” had the audience doubled up in laughter from the start...
...Crimson dropped another nailbiter, this time to Princeton, in the CSA semifinals, failing to set up a much-anticipated rematch with the Bantams in the final. Nevertheless, Harvard players flexed their muscle at Individuals, with Ilan Oren ’07 making it to the final four and Siddharth Suchde ’07 capturing the national title...
Gerald Steinberg, a strategic analyst at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, says that December's U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, which claimed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, was a "major shock" to Israel. "This disrupted 15 years of Israeli policy based on working with the international coalition to pressure Iran to drop its nuclear weapons program through sanctions and the threat of military action, if necessary. Within two weeks, the momentum of the sanctions regime to contain Iran was suddenly reversed...
...Institute of Politics Fellow Tony Leon, according to an e-mailed statement from Danielle L. Charlap ’09, the president of Hillel’s steering committee. “It was a shame that it was not more widely attended,” said audience member Ilan J. Caplan ’10. “The topics touched on are very important.” The trivia game addressed a variety of Jewish idiosyncrasies, from famous Jewish director Woody Allen’s views on sex to the need to immerse oneself in the mikvah...