Copyright 2026 Asaf Romirowsky Tue, 19 May 2026 08:15:56 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Asaf Romirowsky :: Writings https://romirowsky.com romirowsky@gmail.com (Asaf Romirowsky) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us https://romirowsky.com/31421/why-us-is-in-iran Mon, 18 May 2026 09:00:00 EST President Trump's trip to China brings the economic implications of America's war against Iran into sharper focus. The fact that the Taiwan Strait generated more news than the Strait of Hormuz during the recent news cycle, is a telling indicator. Critics... https://romirowsky.com/31419/fixing-mideast-studies Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:00 EST Dear Graduates: It is now the middle of college graduation season, and we will not be making any commencement addresses. One of us is a former president of several major universities who will mark the first time in 45 years not presiding over graduation... https://romirowsky.com/31409/university-of-michigan-commencement-address Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 EST Derek Peterson, a professor of history and African studies and chair of the Faculty Senate at the University of Michigan, hit a nerve at the school's graduation ceremony earlier this month with his praise for the "pro-Palestinian activists who have ...... https://romirowsky.com/31178/unrwa-after-the-gaza-conflict Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST What is a refugee? The 1951 UN Refugee Convention says it is someone outside their country of nationality with a 'well-founded fear of being persecuted' for reasons of race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinion. Yet beyond... https://romirowsky.com/31112/mamdani-support-for-unrwa Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:00:00 EST Just three weeks before he pulled off one of the greatest upsets in recent American political history, becoming the next mayor of New York City at age 34, Zohran Mamdani went for a jog in Prospect Park. He was participating in a 5K for Gaza, with all... https://romirowsky.com/29046/deal-with-hamas Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:00:00 EST The historical events and their magnitude following Israel's ceasefire with Hamas are not a result of one single factor. Clearly, the courage and sacrifice of the Israel Defense Forces throughout the war these past two years, especially during the... https://romirowsky.com/28752/columbia-antisemitism-bad-faith Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:00:00 EST Call it Christmas in July: After more than a year of doing absolutely nothing to punish students who seized university property, disrupted classes, injured university employees, threatened Jewish classmates, and shared propaganda by terrorist... https://romirowsky.com/28523/mohsen-mahdawi Mon, 12 May 2025 09:00:00 EST Two weeks ago, a judge ordered the release of a 34-year-old named Mohsen Mahdawi, a graduate student detained weeks earlier by Department of Homeland Security agents in Vermont. The usual suspects, including pundits, professors, and our self-appointed... https://romirowsky.com/28503/middle-east-studies-what-next Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:00:00 EST Academic Middle Eastern studies at American universities for decades have focused mainly on a limited number of topics: the embrace of every academic fashion at the expense of language study, classical literature and history; the vilification of Israel... https://romirowsky.com/28430/mahmoud-khalil Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:00:00 EST As it unfurls, the saga of Mahmoud Khalil—the Columbia agitator picked up by immigration enforcement last week—looks less like a complicated immigration-law dispute and more like something out of a John le Carré novel. But inspect the details, and... https://romirowsky.com/28409/higher-education-doge Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:00:00 EST What are the next steps for university leaders and donors after the Trump administration's slew of executive orders on removing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies from American life, identifying and removing hostile foreign students, and... https://romirowsky.com/28396/egypt-gaza-refugees Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:00:00 EST As the Israel-Hamas cease-fire arrives at its pivotal second phase, Egypt has emerged as the unlikely focal point for the next stage of the multifront war that has consumed the Middle East since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Although most of the world has... https://romirowsky.com/28365/deporting-pro-terror-protestors Sat, 1 Feb 2025 09:00:00 EST "It shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence." So... https://romirowsky.com/28241/palestinians-facing-trump Wed, 4 Dec 2024 09:00:00 EST It's been a very bad month for terrorists and their sympathizers. No matter how you feel about the president-elect, Donald Trump has made it clear that, when it comes to the Palestinians, his administration is going to do things differently. His... https://romirowsky.com/28232/palestinians-intifada-razzia Tue, 3 Dec 2024 09:00:00 EST Two Arabic phrases have taken center stage since the Hamas massacres of October 7. The first is intifada – literally throwing off – which has echoed on campuses and on streets worldwide. Intifada originated in the Palestinian uprising of 1987, which...