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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ron Dermer speaks on Thursday, April 16, 2015, in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
December 14, 2016, 11:45 pm
Defending anti-Muslim group, Israel’s envoy to US slams racism watchdog
Ron Dermer calls Southern Poverty Law Center – which tracks attacks on Jews, blacks and other minorities – ‘defamers and blacklisters’
By ToI Staff
Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2007. (photo credit: AP/Shiho Fukada)
December 14, 2015, 6:49 am
Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2 others awarded Lantos Human Rights Prize
Women’s rights activist is an outspoken critic of child marriage, female genital mutilation and honor violence in Islam
By JTA
Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2007. (photo credit: AP/Shiho Fukada)
March 20, 2015, 6:37 pm
Islam critic floats Judaism conversion
Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls previous endeavor to adopt religion difficult, suggests future attempt
By JTA
Former Brandeis University president Frederick Lawrence. (Brandeis University/JTA)
February 5, 2015, 3:54 pm
Amid freedom of speech scandal, Brandeis head steps down
But insiders say it was his lackluster fundraising that made Frederick Lawrence leave the leading ‘Jewish’ liberal arts school
By Uriel Heilman
Yossi Klein Halevi
April 29, 2014, 10:22 am
Yossi Klein Halevi
Reimagining Muslim-Jewish relations
A response to Jews who criticized his support for the Brandeis decision not to honor Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Phyllis Chesler
April 20, 2014, 12:02 pm
Phyllis Chesler
Would Halevi have banished Spinoza?
Yossi Klein Halevi’s defense of Brandeis’s decision to cancel an honor for Ayaan HIrsi Ali is indefensible
Yossi Klein Halevi and Abdullah Antepli
April 17, 2014, 12:50 pm
Yossi Klein Halevi and Abdullah Antepli
What Brandeis can teach Muslims and Jews
By opting not to honor Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the university marked the line between criticizing and demonizing
Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2007. (photo credit: AP/Shiho Fukada)
April 9, 2014, 8:08 am
Brandeis nixes honor for Islam critic after outcry
School cancels plans to give honorary degree to human rights campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who has called for war against Islam
By AP
"Israel is what I wished Iran would be after the fall of the shah’s regime," says Afshin Ellian, an Iranian exile and professor at Holland's Leiden University. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
December 1, 2012, 11:05 pm
Thousands of miles from Iran, and still in danger
Since fleeing for Europe, poet and professor Afshin Ellian has become a staunch critic of the Muslim world — which he says should emulate Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Alex Traiman
June 26, 2012, 5:53 pm
Alex Traiman
Let Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak
Shayna Zamkanei makes it sound as if landing in the West made this courageous woman a sellout. Nothing could be further than the truth
Jen Maidenberg
June 24, 2012, 12:58 pm
Jen Maidenberg
Getting at the heart of a heady conflict
It’s we, the students of human relations — not international relations — who will one day help guide this region to a solution
Shayna Zamkanei
June 22, 2012, 12:27 pm
Shayna Zamkanei
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s anti-Islamic non-compromise
Ironically, at a conference dubbed ‘Tomorrow’ and focused on the need for communication within the region, we had a speaker hinting and miming that Muslims can’t be trusted
Deena Levenstein
June 21, 2012, 12:26 pm
Deena Levenstein
All the president’s white Jewish men
The Presidential Conference’s disappointing homogeneity among both speakers and attendees is not conducive to real change
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