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Amsterdam shows how bad things are. But this time we have Israel
One of the most chilling elements has been the reports of how the Israeli fans were abandoned by the local authorities
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The US must reject the Palestinian claim of a ‘right of return’
In trying to navigate the conflicting positions of American interest groups and citizens, policymakers end up pleasing no one.
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The DEI scam destroying education and fomenting antisemitism must end
An insightful case study of how it works at the University of Michigan demonstrates the danger of allowing woke ideological rule. The next administration can do something about it.
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Israel at war: democracy in action
The common cause uniting citizens with the armed forces has been key to Israel’s military success.
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The Next Mutation of American Anti-Semitism
Just as generals are warned not to keep fighting the last war, we should not be monitoring the campus Hamas protest movement according to last year’s benchmarks. As the war
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What Israelis Deserve
Dear nations of the world complaining about Israeli self-defense actions: None of this is for you. Israel’s security is first and foremost about Israel’s security. Yet the people who live
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A modern pogrom through history’s lens
Though it has only been a year, some things have become clear since Oct. 7.
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Israel’s dangerous bet on deradicalization
The basis of the Palestinian national identity systematically erases all Jewish connection to our ancestral homeland.
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Four Illusions Shattered by October 7th
As we face the New Year, it’s time to embrace the sobering reality that October 7th brought home.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Calling All Jewish Democrats: It's An Emergency
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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This wasn’t a war crime – it was an audacious assault on anti-Semites
The left’s crazy wailing over the exploding Hezbollah pagers shows that Israel can’t do right for doing wrong.
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Tucker Carlson – The anti-William F. Buckley
Where Buckley worked to kick the crazies, the conspiracy theorists, the bigots, and the antisemites out of the Conservative movement and thereby the Republican Party, Carlson has made it his mission to bring them back. Opinion.
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The Plot To Make October 7 the New Nakba
Some anti-Zionist tactics develop over decades. Once they do, however, they provide anti-Semites with a cookie-cutter template so that other versions can roll right off the assembly line. The most
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Harris-Walz Are NOT Pro-Israel (Or Even Pro-Jewish) - Joshua Namm
If you are still planning to vote for Harris-Walz, be honest with yourself. Would you put up with any of this if it had all been carried out by Republicans instead of Democrats?
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Time to nix 'Palestine': Terrorists aren't entitled to a state
The one-dimensional, tunnel-vision demand for the two-state solution (2SS) is a recipe for continuing the conflict, not for resolving it.
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America 2024: Is antisemitism “the point?”
Rather than side unreservedly with Israel after the brutally barbaric onslaught on it, the Democratic party & the Biden administration chose to take unprecedented measures against the elected government of a friendly nation. Opinion.
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The Israeli imperative to destroy myths, not just missiles
Most sane analysts understand that Hamas and Hezbollah are Iran-backed terrorist organizations whose military capabilities have to be countered. But illusions about the P.A. remain dangerously intact.
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The Justice System’s Disgusting Indifference to Murder and Attacks on Jews
Two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist massacre in Israel, Samantha Woll, a 40-year-old Jewish woman, was found murdered outside her Detroit home with multiple stab wounds. The man charged with the brutal slaying, Michael Jackson-Bolanos, was acqui
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Thou Shalt Not countenance invidious discrimination
It’s time for a Kennedyesque public show of force by the President and Department of Justice, of the sort that occurred in 1963, to put an end to US campus antisemtism. Opinion.
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Demanding real change: How Global Jewry can hold institutions accountable - opinion
Nothing will come out of demands with no consequences. It is not enough to share a post or article with your network of people who already agree with you.
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Daniel Pearl’s Father: KSM Deserves the Death Penalty
‘A new trial should start with a new charge for the murder of my son.’
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Israeli Lives Aren’t Cheap – Commentary Magazine
In the 2004 Israeli movie Walk on Water, a Mossad agent played by Lior Ashkenazi is tasked with tracking down and eliminating an aging Nazi in Germany. In trying to
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Zombie Anti-Zionism
The left’s addiction to warmed-over Soviet Anti-Zionist propaganda from half a century ago proves that its criticism of Israel has nothing to do with facts on the ground in Gaza.
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Netanyahu’s hour - Melanie Phillips
Congress cheered him to the echo, but that's not enough to save Israel, the United States and the west
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Occupied Palestinian territory is reoccupied Jewish territory
The falsehoods and omissions in the ICJ's Advisory Opinion are revealed one by one in this article. Op-ed.
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Were Americans listening to Netanyahu’s message?
The contrast between the pro-Hamas mob outside the Capitol building and the prime minister’s address illustrated the stakes involved in the debate about Israel.
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Kamala Harris is no friend of Israel
A Harris administration would do more than offer woke platitudes; it would implement anti-Israel policies.
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Biden’s legacy is a world in flames
The reversion to Obama’s foreign policy and appeasement of Iran spawned an escalation of terrorism that endangers the West while killing Israelis.
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Vilifying Israel's Use of 2,000-Pound Bombs Only Ends Up Costing More Lives
Depriving Israel, or any other country, of the ability to use 2,000-pound bombs while fighting in densely populated areas only prolongs the human tragedy.
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Can Israel afford to stand up to America?
Netanyahu is addressing Congress because he has no other option
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The global lust for Jewish blood
I was not surprised by the great American feminist silence after Oct. 7.
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The driver of western Jew-hatred
Well-meaning people supporting the Palestinian cause are actually empowering Islamo-Nazis
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American Institutions Have Chosen Breakdown and Disorder
It’s about 25 miles, as the crow flies, from a particular street corner in Thousands Oaks, California, to Congregation Adas Torah in Los Angeles. Another way of saying that: It’s
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‘Holocaust and Genocide’ Centers: A Requiem
There’s an easy way to fix the problems that Holocaust and Genocide centers around the country are facing: Drop the “and Genocide” part. You can have a Holocaust center or
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It's Time to Start Using the Term 'Palestinian Civilian' Correctly
As long as the press and world leaders fail to ask these questions, continuing to push unsubstantiated casualty figures, they are empowering Hamas.
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Hamas terrorists are playing the West for fools
The group’s leaders aren’t interested in the lives of Palestinians, only in their own self-preservation
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Life Hack: If You Don’t Want To Be Killed, Don’t Take Hostages
The reaction to the rescue of four Israeli hostages being held by Palestinians is a microcosm of the past 70 years of this conflict.
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Saving Sinwar – Commentary Magazine
The most important part of the Wall Street Journal’s expose on Yahya Sinwar’s text messages isn’t a message written by the Hamas leader at all. It is, rather, the collapse
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Notes from the safest place in Europe for Jews
Hungary’s government is despised by liberals. But Budapest is Israel’s only real ally in the European Union and, as long as Viktor Orbán remains in power, the Jews there are safe.
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The racism of never blaming Hamas for anything
Following the rescue of four Israeli hostages, it is time the Western left gave Hamas some credit for its evil.
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How the Anti-Israel Propaganda Ecosystem Works
The House of Representatives has passed a GOP-led effort to sanction the International Criminal Court over its kangaroo prosecution of Israeli officials. And the timing is perfect: It has just
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Wake up, Americans! As northern Israel burns, your government is throwing the Jewish state to the wolves
Yesterday, northern Israel was in flames. An enormous barrage of Hezbollah drones set fire to numerous areas in the Galilee. You can see the massive scale of the conflagration from video footage here, here and here.
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Israel’s Great Strategic Failure
It wasn’t October 7. It's the continuing avoidance of military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Is the genocide accusation antisemitic? Yes
Or to put it another way, can one make the patently false claim that Israel is engaged in genocide and not be antisemitic? And if you are ignorant and misled and spout antisemitic tropes, are you still antisemitic? Opinion.
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Egypt must pay a price for its sponsorship of Hamas
Since Oct. 7, it has become clear that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has been playing Israel for a fool.
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Why has Gallant abandoned Israel’s war goals?
Since the failed peace process began in 1993, the General Staff became a stakeholder in the success of its “partner,” the Palestinian Authority.
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‘Palestinianism’ – An Ideology of Genocide
After 'National Socialism', basically, an ideology to be counted as a branch of Socialism, as the name already indicates, 'Palestinianism' is contemporarily the most deadly ideology seeking the genocide of the Jewish people and its state: Israel. In the f
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: If You Vote for Biden, You Ain’t Jewish: Joe Biden and the Jewish Vote
With his latest perfidy toward Israel, Joe Biden has lost the Jewish vote. Will it matter to the outcome of the 2024 election?
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What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like in Practice
If you are shouting genocidal slogans at preschoolers, you’re probably not the good guy. If you’re a middle schooler shouting genocidal slogans at preschoolers, you are surrounded by adults none
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The Meaning of Israeli ‘Independence’ – Commentary Magazine
“There is no question that this year, our Yom Ha’atzma’ut celebrations are different,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in an Independence Day message to Jews abroad. And indeed, the Jewish
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The West is proving that Islamist terrorism works
What would be the worst foreign policy message imaginable? There are many contenders, but the frontrunner has to be simply that “terrorism works”. Once this lesson has been learnt, the door will be open to years of violence against us. It’s called appeasement, and history has taught us where it leads.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Is the US really this stupid?
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Yom Hashoah after Oct. 7: How Holocaust education failed
A generation of young Americans was taught to universalize the Nazi war on the Jews, leaving them vulnerable to being seduced by antisemitism and woke lies about Israel.
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The war against the Jewish story
The ease with which anti-Zionists have managed to portray the Jewish state as genocidal marks a historic failure of Holocaust education
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The Fight to Define Anti-Semitism
The race is on: Can Congress save the American Jewish community from destabilizing a rare plank of cross-ideological consensus? First, the good news. The House of Representatives ended the day
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Elder Of Ziyon - Where are the children's books about Jewish life in Israel for Jewish American Heritage Month?
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran?
Are these female protestors for Hamas so afraid of freedom that they appease the most dangerous demons on earth by supporting them?
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‘Picking on the smallest minority’: College students ‘rehashing age-old anti-Semitic tropes’
Israeli author and activist Noa Tishby has blasted college students for “rehashing age-old anti-Semitic tropes” by “picking on the smallest minority in the w...
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We are the West's last generation before the new Dark Age begins
There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Western societies, a nihilistic impulse, a pathological self-loathing that threatens to destroy our way of life. We live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, fairest and most technologically advanced polities in history, and yet millions of young people are being taught to hate the West, to despise the liberties that make their lifestyles possible, to tear down every institution and tradition.
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What happens when children seize the wheel
The U.S. posture in this war has rattled Israel and the U.S.’s Sunni allies to their core.
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How Israel Can Win in Gaza—and Deter Iran
The key to both goals is going after Hamas in Rafah.
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The World Is Paying A Deadly Price For Obama's Foreign Policy
Joe Biden, feckless and weak, has surrounded himself with Barack Obama acolytes. Iranian dupes and Israel antagonists, all.
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Jonathan Glazer, Liberal Jewish Prophet
Oscar acceptance speeches are to culture what tax audits are to a small business: nasty, brutish, and somehow never short enough. And yet, when Jonathan Glazer took the stage at
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Who, Exactly, Does the Hezbollah-Flag-Waving Dirtbag Represent?
Yesterday an array of protesters spouting anti-American and anti-Israel slogans stopped highway traffic en route to Chicago’s O’Hare airport, on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and in other cities. In
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Strangling Israel slowly
A remarkable realignment may be under way: Israel and the Arabs v America and Iran
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Hamas has all but won | The Spectator
It would be hard to imagine that almost exactly six months after October 7, I would find myself saying this, but Israel is either on a path to defeat or has lost the war already.
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Outrage over aid-worker deaths is about saving Hamas, not civilians
All armies at war make tragic mistakes. But President Biden and Israel’s critics are cynically exploiting the incident as an excuse to shatter the alliance with the Jewish state.
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The global onslaught against Israel
Britain and America are making the Jewish state their scapegoat.
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Palestinian terrorism is not about self-determination
In today’s jihad-oriented Middle East, Islamic faith is being placed in the defiling service of terror-violence.
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What Chuck Schumer Has Wrought
Congratulations to Chuck Schumer, this year’s true April Fool. The predictably vile consequences of his public attacks on Israeli democracy are here, and no doubt there will be more coming.
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Joe Lieberman and the Democrats’ abandonment of Israel and the Jews
Caroline Glick’s “In-Focus”
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UK threat to withhold Israel arms sales is a show of Western weakness
Opinion: Western weakness has wider implications beyond its immediate unintended consequences, and at a time of increasing danger from the despotic China-Russia-Iran axis, it seems to be afraid to stand by its allies when the going gets tough
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Feeble Britain is now letting Hamas win the propaganda war
In a sane universe, the democratic world would pull behind Israel until the war is won
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Opinion: Why antisemitism and anti-Zionism are so deeply intertwined
The holiday of Purim, celebrated by Jews around the world this weekend, tells a story of ancient antisemitism that has remained sadly relevant, writes Rabbi Avi Weiss.
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The Red-Right-Hand Apologists
The Jewish people do not “see things differently.” We see things as they are. It’s the benefit of being an eternal people. So we don’t need to play the postmodernist's
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The American betrayal of Israel
Astoundingly, the US is feeding its beleaguered ally to its enemies
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Biden is risking the Jewish vote
Presidents who turn on Israel have always ended up in failure and defeat.
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Israel has become a partisan issue. Do American Jews care?
While Trump is impatient for a complete victory over Hamas, Biden and Schumer wave the white flag in their party’s civil war against Democrats who loathe the Jewish state.
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Why wasn’t October 7 prevented? Time to look to the West
Even if it is possible that they didn’t know the exact date of the attack, it’s still reasonable to ask for soul-searching in the West and among Western allies about why Oct. 7 wasn’t prevented.
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Israel Haters: Not Too Swift - Joshua Namm
No one ever accused them of being bright.
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The terror of the right delusion
It's so much easier to construct bogeymen than face up to murderous reality
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The Phony “Occupation” Dodge
Francesca Albanese, the Italian lawyer who holds the United Nations position of “Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories,” is defensive when it comes to accusations of anti-Semitism. This is understandable, considering her own record of controversial statements. In 2014, she wrote that the United States tends to be pro-Israel because it is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby,” while Europe supports the Jewish state because of its “sense of guilt about the Holocaust.” In most places, revealing that you believe conspiracy theories about Jews controlling America would be disqualifying. At the United Nations, it earns you a promotion.
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We need to talk about Gen Z’s Palestine mania
There was nothing laudable about Aaron Bushnell’s tragic suicide.
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Islamism: A watershed moment in the decline of Britain
In a supine Britain, Islamists are seizing their opportunity
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How Hamas Hijacked British Democracy – Commentary Magazine
After all the false alarms, the crisis of British democracy is finally here. The cause is not a nebulous concept like “disinformation” or a prime minister getting ousted by her
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How the ‘settler violence’ campaign works
One of the many distressing aspects of the campaign to criminalize Israeli civilians is that it’s apparently the first target. The next one? The IDF.
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Biden gambles with Israeli security
Opinion: Biden and his colleagues are first and foremost politicians, not strategists, with the primary objective of getting reelected; to that end, they are willing to pay in Israeli security currency
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The moral bankruptcy of the West: Accepting terrorist propaganda as truth
And while I don’t expect the world to stand on the sidelines and applaud the IDF, we should be able to expect some semblance of integrity.
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Elder Of Ziyon - How to accuse Israel of the worst human rights abuses: a handy guide
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Talk of Palestinian state post-Oct. 7 sign of US moral collapse
Such an eventuality would "embolden Hamas and make the PLO irrelevant," the Israeli minister told JNS.
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Aid to Israel was taken hostage by Ukraine
Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell’s insistence that the Jewish state would get nothing unless Ukraine got far more killed the remains of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus.
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Israel’s American frenemy
Instead of regarding Iran as the mortal enemy not just of Israel, but of America and the civilized world, the Biden administration is treating it as an asset that must be protected.
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It’s time for American Jews to toughen up
We must teach our children to defend themselves by themselves.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Hamas & Hezbollah believe US will not help Israel | The Caroline Glick Show
On this week’s episode of “The Caroline Glick Show,” she talks with American classicist, military historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson abo...
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Two states, one for Jews, one for terrorists
Biden is more worried about Gaza’s “innocent civilians’ than about the 1,200 really innocent Israeli civilians who were butchered Oct. 7. And he wants to be sure Sinwar gets his reward for killing them - a state. Op-ed.
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Biden's 'Two-State Solution' To Reward Palestinian Terrorism, Destroy Israel :: Gatestone Institute
The declared policy... of the US and Britain since the 1993-95 Oslo Accords has been that a two-state solution should come as part of a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. If the Oslo Accords are so cavalierly abrogated, what do
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The Dangerous Racializing of Anti-Zionism
The city of Chicago is coming in for much criticism and ridicule for passing a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, instead of doing something for the
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Israel ICJ genocide case: An upside-down, perverse generation
How can it be genocide when the so-called “victims” are granted the opportunity to escape the conflict?
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America and Britain cross a treacherous red line
Their unhinged obsession with the “two-state solution” threatens to incentivise Hamas
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The Knee-Jerk Opposition To Anything Israel Says or Does
Whatever it is, they’re against it. Western powers seem to have embraced the opposite of the famous story in which the Israelites accepted the burden of
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Matti Friedman: What If the Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started?
Take the current war with Hamas and multiply it by ten. That’s what war with Hezbollah would look like. And Israelis are not asking if it will begin, but when.
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A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day
Those who support a ceasefire to allow a genocidal antisemitic movement like Hamas to commit more slaughters of Jews shouldn’t pretend to mourn the Six Million.
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History is Repeating Itself Once Again
From the blog of Lisa Feldsher at The Times of Israel
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Gullible Americans are funding Hamas, not starving children
Just like the international aid that built their tunnels, funds for Gaza civilians promoted by celebrities like Doug Emhoff’s daughter are helping terrorists.
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Stop exploiting the Holocaust as a weapon against Israel
Since October, many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have distorted the memory of the Holocaust to wage political and economic war on Israel, thereby diminishing the scale and severity of the atrocities that were carried out by Nazi Germany.
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First They Came for My People, Then They Came for the Jews
A South Sudanese former slave recognized the Palestinian pogrom on Oct. 7
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Elder Of Ziyon - US aid to Israel, the "unsinkable aircraft carrier, " is a bargain
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Elder Of Ziyon - It must be said: The United States is helping Hamas survive, and survival is victory
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Israel must draw a red line in Gaza
Israel must avoid any empowerment of any of Hamas’s members, or the Jewish state will lose its sense of security, not to mention its merciless neighborhood’s respect.
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Time for Honesty: Tough Questions for my Jewish Brothers and Sisters Abroad
Tough Questions for my Jewish Brothers and Sisters Abroad. In Memory of Elisha Loewenstern, HY"D
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Violent Pro-Palestine Demonstrations Are Not a Bug
They’re a feature of a dangerous new politics
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The US pushes to reward Oct. 7th with a Palestinian State | The Caroline Glick Show In-Focus
The US and the international community continue to push Israel to create a Palestinian state in Gaza when the war is over, but is this something that Palesti...
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It’s time for an American Jewish rethink
We thought we were at home in America, but no such luck. Opinion.
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Elder Of Ziyon - How I grew up respecting all people, then came to Israel and learned not to trust Arabs
Many Israelis reluctantly find they can no longer assume that a nice Arab is really nice. It's a difficult lesson for nice people to learn.
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Supporters of genocidal Hamas accuse Israel of genocide
The libel that Israel is committing a non-existent genocide or ethnic cleansing is a cruel irony.
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We need to face up to the scale of the axis against Israel
There is onslaught against Israel and the Jews from an unholy alliance between extremist Muslims, the left and the political class, and we need to start taking the fight to them
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Jews have a home in the conservative movement
The left’s betrayal is an opportunity for Jews to reassess which side truly embraces their most essential values.
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Eliminate the ‘Diaspora mentality’
Israel and the Jews must accept that we will never be “normal.”
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The whitewashing of Hamas
Jake Wallis Simons on how the vilification of Israel has revived the oldest hatred.
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South Africa is inverting reality by accusing Israel of genocide
It is Hamas that should go on trial at the International Court of Justice, not the Jewish state
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A New Existential War - Part III: Forming a Clear Post-War National Vision Means Returning to the Roots of Zionism
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,251, January 8, 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On the morning of October 7, 2023, the strategic Israeli security concept
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Elder Of Ziyon - On tolerance and arrogance
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Israel has woken up to Islamist terror, while the West remains asleep
To remake an Israel that its citizens feel safe in, there is only one proper outcome
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Trust Me, You'd Rather Live in a Pro-Israel America
Just as Jew-hating Palestinian terrorists united Israeli Jews, Jew-hating American populists clump the right-wing Ben Shapiro with America's overwhelming liberal Jewish community.
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Israel's Righteous Response to the 'Genocide' Charge
A courtroom drama may not seem too exciting to Israelis right now, considering the fact that they’re at war. But there is nonetheless something cinematic
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Joshua Namm: “Intifada" Is Absolutely A Call For Genocide
Those Who Deny It Are Fools Or Liars.
I rarely write an article condemning another article. My usual goal is to inform, persuade and be critical of flawed or dangerous ideas.
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Labeling Jews as 'settler-colonialists' flips the truth
One only need to recall the UNRWA definition of a Palestinian refugee to realize the basic truth of counter-Palestinian demography claims.
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Why are you angry at the Auschwitz Museum?
The anti-Israel brigade has lost the moral plot.
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Israel defending itself is not ‘escalation’
Israel is facing an onslaught on multiple fronts. But when Israel retaliates, it is accused of being the aggressor.
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The ‘Two-State Solution’ Echoes Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’
Obviously, Israel cannot have adjacent a Palestinian state fixated on exterminating the Jewish homeland. Israel is here to stay.
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America’s Mainstreaming of Hamas, Antisemitism, and Terror
Hamas’s Nazification of Israel and the Jews should be taken seriously. This extremist ideology is inciting violence against Jews and Jewish institutions across North America today. - America’s Mainstreaming of Hamas, Antisemitism, and Terror
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Israel: Standing up for national unity and national survival
Oct. 7 shattered the founding myth of the so-called peace process with the PLO—that there were “extremists” and "moderates" on both sides.
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"048" graffiti in Haifa is a warning for Jewish Israelis
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Elder Of Ziyon - My Intersectionality Victimhood Calculator can predict how news articles are written
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To earn America’s respect, Israel must strike first
Whenever America tells us "Don't go to war" and we reply "Yes, but" – in 1948, in 1956, in
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I Saw the Children Hamas Beheaded With My Own Eyes. Shame on Queen Rania
Phrasebooks belonging to Hamas found in the Re'im area listed phonetic Hebrew commands in Arabic "Take your clothes off!"; " Spread your legs!'; "Get down!"
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Zionism isn’t racism, but Palestinism is
Since the Mufti began inciting pogroms in 1920, the Palestinian Arab national movement has been defined by a racist and murderous hatred for Jews, from support for the Holocaust to attempts to commit a second Holocaust. Opinion.
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Destroying Western culture, one Islamist protest at a time
they are shutting speakers down, blocking the entrances to trains, obstructing traffic by blocking roads and bridges all over North America. Op-ed.
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The year Israelophobia took over
In 2023, the world’s oldest hatred returned with a vengeance.
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Hamas's antisemitic influence is even bigger than the Nazis'
The global scope and scale of Hamas’s antisemitic influence dramatically exceeds even the Nazis from whom it takes much of its own inspiration.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Keeping Them Out: "It Begins Every Time We Wake Up Alive"
After October 7, Stephanie Treger is ensuring her family's safety by spearheading an effort to stop using non-Israeli Arab workers.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel: The If/Then Fallacy is still around
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Israel’s False Partners
Progressives who divide the world into ‘oppressors’ and ‘the oppressed’ are not our allies.
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Standing up to the American colossus
Why is the U.S. leveraging its position as Israel’s ally to compel an Israeli defeat at the hands of Iran and its proxies? The answer is politics.
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More Than 30 Americans Died on October 7 — Where Is the Outrage?
Antisemitism is so ingrained in our society that Americans with dual Israeli citizenship are treated with disdain
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Elder Of Ziyon - It Is Time For Jews To Go Beyond 'Holocaust Mode' (Daled Amos)
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Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage
The murder and rape of Israelis on Oct. 7 led to a spike in antisemitism, not anger against Hamas. And yet, the world can’t tolerate photos of defeated Palestinian terrorists.
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Israel’s survival clashes with America’s Lebanon delusions
With regard to Lebanon, U.S.-Israel relations are on a collision course.
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Shattering the Myth that Holocaust Denial is More Prevelant on the Right
Is Holocaust denial a disease of the right or the left? The mainstream media would have you believe that denying the Holocaust is akin to white supremacy and, therefore, a problem of the extreme right.
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Rape Denial + "Free Speech"
“Those who don't have truth on their side, turn to dishonesty.” It was apt that Katharine Brodsky tweeted this yesterday morning. What’s going on right now in the Israel-Hamas war is bigger than life. It should stop every serious person dead in their trac
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Muslim Lives Matter. Jewish Lives Don’t.
Attacks on Muslims and Jews are treated very differently.
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Charging Jews with genocide is to (falsely) declare them guilty of precisely what was done to them
Israel’s response to the 7 October Hamas attacks has emboldened many to say the once unsayable
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Kissinger's Final Interview: Forget a Palestinian State, Let Jordan Rule
Kissinger said in October that Hamas's terror attack October 7 had killed the two-state solution, and Jordan should rule the West Bank.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Weimar America
Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity…
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Cruel Irony of Falsely Accusing Israel of Genocide as It Battles Genocidal Hamas
Falsely accusing Israel of the horrible crime of genocide in its defensive war with evil Hamas is a particularly cruel and odious blood libel.
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The Road to a Second Kristallnacht
I’ve always been fond of a line from George Orwell: “To see what’s in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” It sums up ...
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The brutal truth about 'Never Again'
Don’t be fooled by the temporary Israel-Hamas ceasefire
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The infernal choice behind the hostage deal
Israel is in this terrible situation principally because of America.
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America shouldn’t let Hamas bargain its way to victory
Israel had no choice but to accept a deal to release some hostages. But Washington shouldn’t pressure Jerusalem to let the terrorists run out the clock on a just war.
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Why can’t ‘intersectional feminists’ condemn Hamas’s misogyny?
A disturbing number of women’s groups have downplayed the rape of Israeli women.
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How To Rescue All The Hostages Quickly – And Protect The West From The Islamic Terrorism Of The Crime Family That Rules Qatar
This article was first published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv on November 21, 2023. In the struggle to obtain the release of the hostages held by Hamas, there is a vitally important path to rescuing them – and it is a path that the Israeli media and th
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Al-Shifa Hospital and the pathological distrust of Israel
From CNN to the radical left, why won’t people accept the truth about Hamas’s horrors at al-Shifa?
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Israeli women were raped during Hamas attack. Where’s the outcry?
The organizations meant to stand for the prevention and eradication of such attacks have been eerily silent since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. And this silence has been deafening.
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What do the Palestinians want?
Westerners assume that the Palestinians seek a future of prosperity and freedom and peace because that is what they aspire to preserve for themselves. But this isn’t the case.
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How dangerous are the anti-Israel conservatives?
Unlike most Republicans and their voters, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and friends are defending antisemites in the wake of Oct. 7. Do they have Trump’s ear?
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Replace American Jewish Communal Leadership
Look around at the disarray and the betrayal of Jews by alleged friends and allies, and you’ll see a bitter truth: Our leadership has gone bad
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The future of the Democrats lobbies for Hamas
Revolts among Biden’s State Department and congressional staffers against support for the Jewish state are a harbinger of the collapse of a bipartisan pro-Israel consensus.
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Britain's civilisational emergency - Melanie Phillips
I spoke about this broader crisis on my recent trip to America
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Elder Of Ziyon - Rallies: Do They Make a Difference (Judean Rose)
Rallies are proliferating outside of Israel in the wake of October 7th. What do they accomplish?
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Sorry, Obama: 'We' Aren't Complicit. It's You Who Has Blood on Your Hands
Maybe we can finally see Obama for what he truly is: The man who set the world on fire.
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Footage of Hamas barbarism shows why ceasefire is not an option
Israelis take steps to avoid civilian casualties; Hamas revels in their slaughter
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Sanctioning Jew-hatred doesn’t conflict with the First Amendment
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and those cheering for Hamas have the right to say what they want. But institutions should treat them the same way they would neo-Nazis or Klan members.
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Great Britain: Goodbye to all that
As Remembrance Weekend approaches, Britain mourns the passing of more than its military heroes
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The absolution of Hamas
How the West’s woke radicals became Hamas’s moral spindoctors.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Take Them At Their Word
From Hamas to Iran to Turkey, when our enemies tell us what they're going to do, we need to listen.
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Israel is more committed to protecting civilians in Gaza than Hamas is
In stark contrast to Israel's efforts to protect Palestinian civilians, Hamas shows a complete disregard for the safety of its own population.
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How Britain appeased Islamic extremism
Its supine policies sowed an evil wind. Now it's reaping the whirlwind
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We ask ourselves how ordinary Germans could stand idly by in the 1940s. Today, we must ask: How can so many stand idly by and applaud?
HOWARD JACOBSON: Sometimes it's the smaller acts of violence that tell you most about man's inhumanity to man. For many, many there is no such thing as an innocent Jew.
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Make Gaza Israel again
Aside from toppling Hamas and freeing the hostages, let’s rebuild the Jewish communities of Gush Katif that were uprooted 18 years ago and restore a civilian Jewish presence in Gaza.
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Stop blaming the West for the Arab world’s anti-Semitism
The rampant anti-Semitism in the Middle East is rooted in a theology and a history that deems Jews inferior to Arabs.
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Yad Vashem is wrong about Hamas and the Holocaust
The museum’s bizarre opposition to comparing the crimes of today’s Islamist killers to the Nazis is a betrayal of its mandate to preserve Jewish history.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Follow the Money: The Dirty Trail that Led to October 7th
How much money flowed to Iran from Presidents Obama and Biden, and why it funded the October 7th Massacre.
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Liberal Jews Have No Reason To Be Surprised By Progressive Antisemitism
Sooner or later radical leftists were going to be emboldened and find themselves in positions of power. Sooner is now.
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Feminists Are Consenting to Hamas' Rape Culture
And they're doing it proudly, on campuses and capitals around the world
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The West’s monster within
Liberal society contains the seeds of its own destruction.
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Hamas, its supporters and prevarications about international law
‘Occupation’ and ‘proportionality’ do not mean what pro-terrorism propagandists claim they mean.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Who Paid for the Simchat Torah Massacre?
Joe Biden says that the unfrozen $6b did not fund the Simchat Torah Massacre. Logic suggests that may not be true.
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Gaza: The "humanitarian" fallacy
Pressure on Israel to allow aid into Gaza is pressure to allow aid to Hamas
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My Fellow Conservatives: We, Too, Have an Antisemitism Problem
I'm just asking you to recognize that truly caring about Jews means not abandoning us the second there is a bit of difficulty.
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The ‘Two-State Solution’ is Terrorism
Giving terrorists a state only leads to more terrorism.
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Israel & Biden’s Three Nos
President Joe Biden's visit to Israel elicited a collective sigh of relief. The show of friendship and the strong statements of support, peppered with some Yiddishisms, gave Israelis a feeling that the U.S. truly has their back. The dispatch of two Americ
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The Islamo-left is a menace to Jews and decency
The Western left’s failure to denounce Hamas confirms its abandonment of secularism and reason.
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Jewish Progressives: The Day the Delusions (Hopefully) Died
A lot of people woke up on October 7 as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed?
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When We Said “Never Again,” We Meant It
← Biden’s Bear Hug
When We Said “Never Again,” We Meant It
Posted on October 21, 2023 by Victor Rosenthal
My heart is breaking. What I surmised yesterday, but was afraid to write has turned out to be true. I have never wanted to be wrong more than I do this morning. But I can’t pretend that “it will be OK,” as Israelis like to say.
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Elder Of Ziyon - The most moral army in the world needs to fulfill the promise of Never Again
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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The only choice Israel has
"A War of Annihilation" – this is how James Mattis, who served as the US Secretary of Defense in
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A new generation of hate rises in America
There are some buildings where the penthouse floors look spectacular. But the foundations and the lower floors are rotten. It feels like that at the moment when looking at the US-Israel relationship.
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Why a ceasefire would normalise the pogrom
Cary Nelson argues that those calling for a ceasefire ignore, are ignorant of, or are unconcerned by the need for a decisive defeat of Hamas. Such a defeat, Nelson argues, is vital for Israel's deterr...
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Courage in an age of moral degeneracy
As we reel from both evil and its facilitators, we salute those who publicly call this out
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The Biden administration must face it: Terrorism works
Secretary of State Antony Blinken ordered his Office of Palestinian Affairs to delete the statement as soon as journalists began calling. “Terror and violence solve nothing,” it read. It was the usual State Department pabulum. Most statements nowadays are
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The West’s fifth columnists
Media outlets are enabling anti-Jewish evil in a time of war.
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Drinking a cup of Starbucks is drinking a cup of Jewish blood
It is with a heavy heart that the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, along with our esteemed partners, calls for a widespread boycott of Starbucks. Opinion.
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Why won’t the Jews just let themselves be killed?
Nothing better captures the moral decay of our woke elites than their haughty disdain for the State of Israel.
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It's Only a War Crime if Israel Is Doing It
Once again self-proclaimed international law experts are throwing around terms that they do not understand to accuse Israel of atrocities as it responds to a vicious attack from the terrorist group
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Hey AOC, There Is No Moral Equivalency Between Hamas and Israel
(This column is Part 2 of a series of articles explaining the fallacies that have led to the world’s leftists supporting Palestine, Gaza, and Hamas’ horrors.)
The concepts of “Palestine” and “Palestin...
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Hamas Uses Western Morality as a Weapon Against Israel
Hamas wants these human shields—especially children, women, and the elderly—to remain in harm's way.
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Hamas did it because we are Jews
"We must tell the world that Hamas, Hezbollah, and other enemies of Israel have genocidal ambitions."
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Why won’t the Jews just let themselves be killed?
Nothing better captures the moral decay of our woke elites than their haughty disdain for the State of Israel.
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Our cities and streets are full of hate
The said never again. And then when 1300+ Jews were slaughtered in a single day - they all took to the streets to rejoice.
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The cruelty of the Left
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so," Ronald Reagan once quipped of his political opponents.
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Once, I Was a Peace Advocate. Now, I Have No Idealism Left.
After terrorists killed my cousin Daniel Pearl, my family called for peace. But after the worldwide celebration of our people’s slaughter, my hope for peace is dead.
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Decent liberals may do more harm than pro-Hamas demonstrators
Those who decry the crimes of Hamas while opposing efforts to destroy the terrorists are a greater threat to Israel than those openly cheering for Nazi-like atrocities.
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Now, it’s personal: We’re seeing exactly who believes that Jewish lives matter
The usual pundits bloviate about a “cycle of violence,” equating the arsonists of Hamas with the Israeli firefighters. They pontificate about ending the “occupation” and implementing a two-state solution. They are lunatics.
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An existential evil: Israel's battle is a war for civilisation against barbarism
Israel's battle is a war for civilisation against barbarism
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Hamas atrocities explode the two-state myth
The United States may finally be prepared to let Israel defeat the Islamist terror group. But that shouldn’t lead to a push for a Palestinian state after that is accomplished.
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The women-hating women who support Hamas
These American and European women are cheering for the rape, torture, public humiliation and murder of Israeli women and children.
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Vengeance After a Pogrom - John Podhoretz
I don't know how many 9/11s this is for Israel—one, or 10, or 20—but there's one way in which it is exactly like 9/11, which is to say, the people of
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The Hamas pogrom is the result of the West's refusal to accept the idea of evil
Every aggressive cause is thought to be amenable to compromise
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What have the Palestinian Arabs ever done to deserve concessions?
Why are they always treated like children from whom less is demanded than fron adults? Op-ed
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The essence of the Palestinian heritage
UNESCO's decision to declare Tel Jericho a 'heritage site in Palestine' contributes to a great lie and the erasure of Jewish history. Op Ed
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We must shun California's radical ethnic studies
The greatest danger of Jewish proponents of radical ethnic studies is that they end up supporting outrageous political positions completely at odds with traditional Jewish interests.
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Jews, never give up!
In every generation, they rise against us, but in a generation where everyone seems to be rising against us, what must we do?
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Palestinian activism demands checking your liberalism at the door
Can you be truly committed to liberal values and be an full-throated supporter of the Palestinian cause? We ask this question partly in response to recent co
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Bibi’s Seven Presidents
Benjamin Netanyahu was elected the prime minister of Israel for a sixth time in November 2022—and by the time Labor Day rolled around in 2023, he had yet to
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Palestinian Authority: The enabling policy of impunity
A primer in how not to react to wrongdoing.
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Op-Ed: The Palestinians Set Israel's Own System Against Itself
Israel's Civil Administration is well aware of the hostile takeover of its land but is choosing not to enforce its legal mandate.
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IHRA and only IHRA
The Biden administration’s credibility in the fight against antisemitism is on the line.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Tucker Carlson and the Jews Who Need Proof (Judean Rose)
Some insist on proof that antisemites are antisemites, to their peril.
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For the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, “Human Rights” Is a Tool to Manipulate the West
Currently consisting of 56 states in addition to the Palestinian Authority, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) began with an effort in 1969 to blame Israel and “Zionists”—falsely—for setting fire to al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Tel Aviv Riot: How Intra-Communal Eritrean Violence Was Used To Malign Israel
Why did some news outlets and social media commentators make an intra-Eritrean conflict all about the Israeli response?
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Zionism is a model for indigenous people - opinion
Many New Zealanders view Israel through the lens of our own settler colonialist history: the Jews, like the British, are seen as white European colonizers; the Palestinians as the indigenous Māori.
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Exposed: 30 Years Ago, Israel’s Left Illegally Established a Palestinian State with the Oslo Accords
Israelis would soon face a new concept: “The Victims of Peace.”
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The End Of Self Rule In Judea: The Interloper's Prey & Lessons For Today
From the blog of Leonard Grunstein at Jewish Standard
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The Oslo disaster 30 years on
Thirty years after its euphoric launch, the ‘Oslo peace process’ between Israel and the PLO stands as the worst calamity to have afflicted Israelis and Palestinians since the 1948 war, and the most...
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Palestine and the Holocaust: What If?
I was scanning the news (a common Jewish activity), when a recent article by Marwan Bishara in Al Jazeera (Aug 18, 2022) caught my eye. The article, titled “The Palestinian misuse, and Zionist abuse, of the Holocaust,” was written after Palestinian leader
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Should Israel refer to Australia as occupied Aboriginal territory?
Australia’s Labor Party government ought to take a look in the mirror before hurling false and insulting accusations at Israel.
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Remember the lessons of the Sbarro bombing
Islamist terror fed at the teat of Western appeasement. It's happening again. Op-ed.
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World Indigenous Day: Recognizing Jews' ties to the Land of Israel
It is crucial that we have a deep understanding of our own identity so that we can proudly declare, “I am a Jew, and I am indigenous to the Land of Israel.”
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Israel's leadership never cared about the Sbarro bombing victims
This dismissive attitude toward the victims of terror has persisted over the years as the following events illustrate.
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Conservative values can unite a divided Israel
This is the path forward for Israel, a path that respects the diverse identities of its citizens while upholding the principles of a Jewish and democratic state.
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Don't let the Palestinians erase the Jewish history of Israel
Joshua’s battle over Jericho is ancient history but there is an important battle to fight today – combating the replacement of Jewish history by the Palestinian narrative in UNESCO
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'Shut Up or Else!' The True Link between Islam and the Left
Despite their many outward differences, Islamic authoritarianism and leftist liberalism are, in fact, very similar, especially in that they brook no dissent. Here, I'd like to offer a more focused look into their similar modes of operation, especially
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Israel: Time to Stop Toeing the Line
U.S. military aid is making IDF generals place Washington’s interests above Israel’s
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Israel: Who is actually doing the burning?
What is arguably the most often cited lesson of Jewish history can be boiled down to two words: sinat chinam or
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Elder Of Ziyon - RFK Jr.’s Antisemitism: A Legacy from Grandpa Joe? (Judean Rose)
RFK Jr's attitudes toward the Jewish people may be a legacy from his grandfather, Joseph P. Kennedy.
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The real coup against Israel's democracy
For once, Ha'aretz has stated an important truth
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Are We Seeing BLM 2.0 in Israel?
I’m in Jerusalem, where it’s 10:30 p.m., and I am seeing what looks like the early BLM demonstrations version 2.0 outside my window.
At 9 p.m., Ben Yehuda Street was beautiful and joyous. The area tha...
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Ignore President Biden, Here's What Is Really Happening In Israel
The alleged authoritarian 'backsliding' by Israel's 'far-right' government would actually make the country far more democratic.
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Herzog’s lamentable performance
Israel needs to deliver an entirely different message to its two-faced U.S. ally.
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Disingenuous indigenous virtue signaling
B&J’s misguided indigenous campaign is not grounded in historical fact or law. Op-ed.
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Israel is Not a Racist State, in Theory or in Practice
U.S. Representative Pramilla Jayapal’s recent statement that Israel is a “racist state” is both false and dangerous.
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Biden’s Bibi hatred endangers national security
The 75th anniversary of the strong, historically unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel is being celebrated this year.
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Biden, Netanyahu and the Anti-Israel Democrats
The President has a change of heart on meeting Israel’s Prime Minister, sort of.
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Boycotting Israeli science harms everybody
As Israelis further test the enduring stamina of their democratic principles this week on the issue of judicial reform,
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Just say no to ‘Palestine’
The potential emergence of a Palestinian terrorist rocket brigade in Judea and Samaria serves to underline just how foolhardy it would be to establish a Palestinian state in the area.
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Britain's current transparency approach is morally wrong - editorial
The British government is refusing to disclose whether it has safeguards in place to ensure that its aid to the PA is not underwriting the obscene “pay to slay” policy.
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There's no real debating with reform opponents
You are a nice person, but you don't really understand the judicial reform, Lt. Col. (res.) Oren Shvil told
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Elder Of Ziyon - Comparing 1921 Zionists with 1994 Palestinians
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Israel is playing pretend as multi-front conflagration looms
Israel might soon face the same challenges it did in the spring, as the terror wave in Judea and
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The Jenin Operation Showed That Israel Preserves Life
Over the past week, the unfolding of the Jenin operation has sparked concerns about potential violence near Israel’s populated areas. Thankfully, the IDF achieved an exceptional level of success, accompanied by an unusually low casualty rate. Official rep
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Elder Of Ziyon - The world sends a message: Israel should just accept Jews being murdered
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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The Unpredictable Consequences of Dodging a Bullet
From the blog of Leonard Grunstein at Jewish Standard
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Surge in Palestinian terror is a preview of a two-state ‘solution’
Allowing Jenin to remain a base for attacks would be a replay of Israel’s Gaza disaster. So why are Biden and liberal Jews still fixated on turning that nightmare into reality?
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The Centrality Of Terrorism To Palestinian Authority Ideology
The centrality of Antisemitism to PA ideology - PMW Director Marcus explains PA political and religious Antisemitism
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American vs. Israeli Patriotism
The 4th of July is a time to reflect on what Israel can teach America about love of country.
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Giving ‘progressive’ antisemites the benefit of the doubt
Both mainstream Jewish groups and their allies in the Biden administration are determined to avoid taking on left-wing Jew-haters and the ideas that drive them.
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Biden’s Plan to Combat Anti-Semitism May Have You Singing in Russian
Like Lenin, Joe Biden is now using condemnation of anti-Semitism for his own political reasons having nothing to do with honest opposition.
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What's behind the escalating Palestinian terror offensive
The four factors pushing the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to escalate their terror assault on Israel.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Sides Now: When Officials Lump Terrorists Together with their Jewish Victims
The moral equivalence drawn between terrorist and Jewish victim is especially abhorrent when it's drawn by US officials.
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The New U.S. National Strategy To Counter Antisemitism Reveals Ignorance About The Reality Of Antisemitism In America
On May 25, 2023, the Biden administration published the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism,[1] a 60-page document full of calls to Congress and "Whole-of-Society" calls to action. Notably, the strategy includes several instances of
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The United Nations' Jihad Against Israel
The UN, ostensibly dedicated to protecting human rights, and has, in fact, devolved into hurling bogus, tabloid-style allegations as it joins other blood-libel false charges by considering the addition of Israel to its list of blacklisted entities in its
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel's position on artificial intelligence in battle is more moral than that of Human Rights Watch (update)
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Why can’t we talk about Ukrainian antisemitism?
Nazi imagery prevalent among Kyiv’s soldiers points to a horrific past and problematic present. Noting this doesn’t justify Putin. But silence about it won’t defend freedom.
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Trashing nationalism isn’t a defense of the Jews
Demonizing those who march with Israeli flags on “Jerusalem Day” and conservatives who push back against the Marxist war on the West is equally disingenuous and wrong.
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Israel Under Fire and The West's Pusillanimous Response
Neither Ukraine nor Israel has any territorial ambitions or aggressive intent against their attackers — both Ukraine and Israel are fighting purely defensive wars to protect their civilian populations. There is another common factor. Islamic Jihad in
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As Gaza’s rockets are fired at Israel, so are media missiles
Behind Western hostility to Israel and indifference towards Iran lies a baleful explanation.
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Islamist antisemitism is flying under the Jewish communal radar
New report details how Muslim hate groups have rebranded themselves as intersectional allies to Jewish left-wingers.
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Why the Palestinians have failed to create a state
Over the last 75 years, since Israel’s founding, the Palestinians have achieved the dubious distinction of being among the
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Enemies wage an ‘unconventional’ legal war against Israel
Amid a lecture tour at U.S. law schools, the former Knesset member discusses attempts to censor her and her message for the next generation of attorneys.
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Military Aid to Israel Offers Very Valuable Returns
The partnership between the United States and Israel is now being threatened by a few fringe members of Congress calling on President Biden to restrict military aid.
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1,660 Israelis dead since Palestinians’ promise to end terror
If you believe in peace, history has proven nothing can be achieved without putting a permanent stop to Palestinian terror.
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It's Not ‘pro-Palestinian’ to Justify Killing Israeli Civilians
The European Left and Human Rights Groups Fail to Deal Seriously With Their Bad Apples Who Legitimize Targeting Israeli Jews, Whether They’re Settlers or Not. Instead, Those Voices Build Their Social Clout by Claiming That They’re Being Silenced, Smeared
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Israel's Miraculous 75th Birthday
This week, as the State of Israel celebrates 75 years of independence, sovereignty, and liberation, we ought to indeed marvel at the miracle that is the modern Jewish state.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Is Tucker Carlson a Covert Antisemite? (Judean Rose)
Tucker Carlson is popular with Jewish conservatives. Are they right to insist that Carlson is not an antisemite? The evidence says otherwise.
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The price Israel pays for its existence
Too few in the west grasp why this terrible toll continues to rise
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Diane Abbott and the deranged left
Abbott’s mad letter sums up everything that’s wrong with identity politics.
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Israel is Fighting the World’s War
Memorial Day in Israel has important lessons for all of us.
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Israel’s protests cross sacred red lines
The battle is existential and reflects a similar struggle in the west
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Antisemites are those who hate Israel, not those who love it
The IfNotNow group’s attack on Ron DeSantis is part of a left-wing effort to smear conservative Zionists while defending those who aid Jew-haters like George Soros.
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Another problem with ESG investing: Anti-Israel bias
The truth about environmental, social, and governance investing began coming into focus last year. A report commissioned by Chicago-based investment research firm Morningstar revealed anti-Israel bias in the ESG ratings of Sustainalytics, Morningstar’s ES
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The problem with Israel’s protests
This movement is defending the power of an unaccountable judiciary.
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Israel's protesters are enemies, not heroes, of democracy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu announced Monday night he was temporarily pausing his government’s judicial-reform efforts.
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Netanyahu’s Shameful Surrender to the Left
The Left bet that with enough pressure they could shut down democratic judicial reform in Israel.
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Why critical race theory could be dangerous for America's faith-based communities
We need to build alliances between Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus.
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The Real Meaning Of 'Pro-Palestinian'
Inviting Hamas and PIJ officials to participate in such events shows that the real aim of the so-called pro-Palestinian groups is not to help the Palestinians, but to incite and spread hate and libels against the only democracy in the Middle East: Israel
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A ‘resistance’ coup just defeated Israeli democracy | ערוץ 7
A false narrative about Netanyahu’s “judicial coup” may achieve its goal of toppling him. But more than that, the consequences for future governments and U.S.-Israel relations are ominous. Op-ed.
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Don’t believe the Jimmy Carter revisionists
Despite the natural sympathy for a dying man, the revisionist attempt to erase his failures and their consequences should not prevail.
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The Case For Netanyahu: Unelected judges should rule… Seriously?
Melanie Phillip makes the case for Netanyahu's reforms
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Israel’s two-faced allies - Melanie Phillips
Cognitive dissonance in America and Britain undermines their key Middle East asset
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“Extreme, insufferable, close-minded”: Allison Josephs criticises media outlets’ depiction of Orthodox Jews
Allison Josephs, the Founder and Executive Director of Jew In The City, a non-profit organisation that seeks to change negative perceptions of religious Jews, appeared on the most recent episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism where she spoke of the often
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Elder Of Ziyon - To China, Israel must be marginalized
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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The ADL’s woke war on the right won’t stop antisemitism
The group’s hyping of statistics about hate downplays the threat from the left while attacking conservatives on issues that have nothing to do with its mission.
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Democrats should stop meddling in Israeli democracy
The Biden foreign-policy team is just the latest Democratic administration that has sought to interfere with the politics of the Jewish state to undermine Benjamin Netanyahu.
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What the rioting left fails to see
The attempted criminalization of Israel and Jews will continue even if the judiciary’s power is limited.
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The Huwara Riot Was No ‘Pogrom’
Anti-Palestinian violence comes from the margins of Israeli society. Anti-Jewish violence comes from the Palestinian mainstream.
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Concept of Palestinian state employed for purpose of destroying Israel
The "Palestine liberation" movement is not a revolution.
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Terror-supporting Palestinian school built by USAID spotlights worldwide problem for agency
A fundamental shift is needed in which the agency is incentivized to pay more attention to where its money is going, says Middle East Forum Washington project director.
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The real ones to blame for the rioting in Huwara
The ones who must do a severe cheshbon hanefesh — introspection — are those in Likud. They wring their hands and do nothing. Op-ed.
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How Can Jews Support Ukraine After the Holocaust?
An exchange between Bernard-Henri Lévy and Natan Sharansky, from the recent Tablet event in partnership with the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine
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Golda Meir would agree with Netanyahu on this one
Helen Mirren is a wonderful actress, but her claim that she understands Golda’s “world” or the contemporary debate about Israel’s Supreme Court is pure bunk.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Jimmy Carter, antisemite.
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Intifada Intel: What the IDF Knew in July 2000 (Judean Rose)
In which the common myth that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount provoked the Second Intifada, is busted
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Israel’s Supreme Court debate: Let’s start with the facts
Writing in the Tablet on Feb. 22, an Israeli scholar of the American political system claims that the proposed
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There is no alternative to Israeli victory
Our enemies believe time is on their side, we must prove them wrong.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Judicial Reform Would Allow the Israeli People to Get What They Voted for: Right Wing Legislation
"Large" protests notwithstanding, the debate over judicial reform in Israel has been ongoing for decades.
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Why keep pretending that Jews building homes prevents peace?
Palestinian terrorism and disinterest in a two-state solution ensure that peace is impossible. But the United States and its allies prefer to focus on Israeli housing starts.
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Jews and the myth of greed
The evolution of the Jewish stereotype -from the Middle Ages to Joe Rogan, Ilhan Omar, Kanye, and more.
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Intersectional Antisemitism in America
The internet has brought jihadists, neo-Nazis, and anarchists together through their shared hatred of Jews
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Burns’ CIA resumes war on Israel
The current director, Bill Burns, a longtime employee of the State Department, brought his ill-informed and destructive views to the CIA.
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The anti-Bibi resistance wants Americans to thwart Israeli democracy
Some well-known writers and publications aren’t just gaslighting the world about judicial reform. They’re also playing into the hands of their country’s foes.
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There Are No Two Sides Here
The cycle of violence does not need to be stopped, the violence belongs entirely to the side that chooses to educate its children to feel hatred and anti-Semitism. The Israeli war on terror is necessary and justified, even if some lunatics give it excuses
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Ousting Ilhan Omar cause for reflection, not celebration
Reluctance to favor expelling Ilhan Omar highlights the challenges associated with celebrating the political rise of American Jewry.
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The entrenchment of Western Jew-hatred
As the age of reason skids off the road, diaspora Jews are rabbits in the headlights
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Elder Of Ziyon - It’s Not a “Terror Attack.” It’s a Terror Attack
Why would journalists put "terror attack" in scare quotes when describing the Neve Ya'akov synagogue shooting?
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Terror in Jerusalem, Counter-Terror in Jenin, and False Moral Equivalency
While coming from different starting points, two journalistic misdeeds— drawing a false moral equivalency and applying a double standard — end up with the
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Who was really behind the Jerusalem terror attack
This isn’t random terrorism, it’s carefully calculated terrorism.
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Israel’s critics continue to hold the Jewish state responsible for Palestinian terror
The anti-Bibi resistance at home is helping foes abroad blame the Netanyahu government, not the terrorists, for the Jerusalem massacre.
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Sickening reaction over Israeli massacre
The west's liberal hypocrites have Jewish blood on their hands
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Why American Jewish politicians have rushed to defend Ilhan Omar
If Jewish leaders won’t stand up to a powerful antisemite, they should be replaced.
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The ‘cycle of violence’ dehumanizing cliches after Jerusalem massacre
Though Jerusalem was on the receiving end of violence, the global community still turns the narrative against the victim state.
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Russian–Ukraine war escalates threat to Israel's security
For the last 11 months, Israel has sought to signal its opposition to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine while
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Jerusalem's Jewish majority has been restored after 100 years
Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish national and spiritual existence since time immemorial.
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The unhinged reaction to the new Israeli government
The shallowness of progressive Jews is creating a crisis for the Jewish world
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Elder Of Ziyon - Forward op-ed: Zionists complaining about death threats are "snowflakes"
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Moshe Dayan’s Tragic Blunder - Meir Y. Soloveichik
Whenever Israel’s Temple Mount is in the news, one is reminded of the old joke in which two Americans, touring England, pay a visit to Runnymede. “It was
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The undeniable link between antisemitism and America’s decline
It Starts With The Jews But Never Ends With The Jews.
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Even the PLO knows the Jews are indigenous to Israel
PLO knew they could not erase history, so they chose instead to rewrite history.
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Why ban the PLO - and Confederate - flags? | Israel National News
Flags have power and it can be negative. Think Nazi Germany's swastika flag or the USSR's hammer and sickle. Op-ed.
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Caroline Glick: The ‘woke’ West is assaulting Jews for embracing their heritage
The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guest Richard Landes.
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The Real Reasons for Europe's Demonization of Netanyahu
He's too far right, and too Jewish.
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Jews are the owners of the Temple Mount
No other nation shares this history, no other nation has had the same capital for 3,000 years and has never had another one, and Jerusalem was never the capital of any other nation.
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‘Pro-Palestinian’ Means No Such Thing
Palestinians in Jenin at the funeral of gunman Youssef Salah who was killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli …
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A letter to our Jewish brethren in Europe
1. Brothers and sisters in Europe, some of you have published an appeal – another in an endless series
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Why Palestinians Want to Slaughter Jewish Worshippers
The Palestinian Authority, which is in charge of security in Nablus, has -- despite official agreements in the Oslo Accords -- nevertheless refused to fulfill its commitment to protect and ensure free access to Joseph's Tomb. So far, no one has called
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Netanyahu must defend Israel against ‘wokeism’
The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guest Yoram Hazony.
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From Jew vilification to the delegitimization of Israel
Why do so many people dislike the Jewish state? Is it because we Israelis are a bit loud on planes? Is it the genuine challenge to find an Israeli who doesn't cut in line? What is the correct answer?
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The Jewish People are Winning - Looking back at how far we have come
As the most proud and nationalist Jewish government ever was just sworn in Jerusalem yesterday, I wanted to take us all back to how things were just 16 years ago to understand.
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Why Israel Can’t Send The “Iron Dome” To Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has forced countries to clearly identify their national interests.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Whoopi Goldberg's perverted mindset is a manifestation of the larger phenomenon of Black antisemitism
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Happy inclusive holidays! - Melanie Phillips
Seasonal greetings should not resort to euphemisms
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For The New York Times and The Washington Post, even the World Cup is about the Palestinians
The papers simply can’t let their obsession go.
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The Palestinian issue is about supremacy, not justice
Privilege and supremacy are usually associated with white Europeans and Americans and not the seemingly poor and oppressed Palestinians.
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Is talk of globalism an antisemitic dog whistle?
The ADL and other liberals mistakenly believe critiques of efforts to undermine national sovereignty and pushing woke leftist policies are always about Jew-hatred.
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Why Leftists Embrace Islamist Ideas about the West
Richard Landes, chair of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and author of Can the "Whole World" Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, was interviewed in a December 5th Middle East Forum Webinar (video) by Dexter Van
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A tale of two narratives | Israel National News
Since the Zionist narrative has demonstrable validity over the irreconcilable, mutually-exclusive counter-narrative of the Palestinian-Arabs, it is the Zionist narrative that must prevail, Op-ed.
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The Palestinians’ World Cup propaganda victory
The embrace of the Palestinian cause by Morocco’s team and many Arab fans shows the gap between their governments’ appreciation of Israel and popular opinion.
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'Black People are the real Jews'
The Jewish presence in the civil right movements has been erased from black history. Liberal Jews have erased their own history. Op-ed
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Every Time You Wish Someone 'Happy Hanukkah' You Acknowledge The Historic Jewish Claim On Jerusalem
The Festival of Lights is just another reminder that the Jews have a singular, millennia-long relationship with Jerusalem.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Would Netflix allow a drama about the 1929 Hebron massacre? (UPDATE)
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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It sucks to be a Jew on the left
As Hadley Freeman leaves the Guardian for the Sunday Times, she opens up about her Jewish experience
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Trivializing antisemitism based on politics
After news broke that former President Donald Trump carelessly dined with both Ye and avowed holocaust denier Nick Fuentes
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Elder Of Ziyon - Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma’ada: Killed Not for the Color of His Skin but for His Jewish Faith
Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma'ada was a real Jew but not because he was black.
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The FBI should investigate the attack on US citizen in Jerusalem bombing
The FBI announced that it will be investigating the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh but was silent when an American was injured in a bombing.
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Israel does not need anyone’s permission to exist
We must hold our heads up high and say ‘hinenu,’ we are here.
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Qatar’s farcical World Cup begins
Qatar’s censorship on behalf of its Iranian ally aligns with the sly, underhanded manner through which it used its wealth and influence for the purpose of bribing FIFA into awarding Doha the 2022 World Cup, an outcome that former FIFA President Sepp Blatt
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It’s time for Israel to untie the American apron strings
Deep changes in American society are a security risk for Israel.
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Dragons and dragon-slayers in Israel and America: Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not
Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not.
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Elder Of Ziyon - The French reaction to Kristallnacht: Let's pretend to care about Jews while watching them suffer
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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How not to fight Antisemitism | Israel National News
Jewish organizations want to fight antisemitism but have they isolated themselves from the people they claim to represent. Op-ed.
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No More ADL - Tablet Magazine
When it comes to Jews, the organization now does more harm than good
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Elder Of Ziyon - Yes, extremist rhetoric can normalize violence - and that includes "anti-Zionist" rhetoric
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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The Holocaust Is Not Your Metaphor
"A production of Romeo and Juliet for non-binary performers"
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Biden shouldn’t try to ‘save’ Israeli democracy from election victors
Democrats don’t want Netanyahu or a right-wing/religious government in Jerusalem. But what they really don’t want is for the Jewish state’s voters to determine their own fate.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Palestinians care about their economy....but only when they can blame Israel
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Israel: Jewish sovereignty is on the ballot
The real issue dividing Israeli society isn’t former premier Benjamin Netanyahu or the economy, but something far more basic: Israeli society is being torn apart by the issue of national sovereignty.
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Hysteria greets British PM Liz Truss’s embassy move proposal
Britain’s elites loathe Israel on a scale that just doesn’t exist in America. Op-ed.
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Middle East: How to Lose Friends and Influence Over People
A decade of Obama-Biden foreign policy has broken the Middle East and America’s security order
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Israel walked into a Lebanese trap
Give Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid credit for belatedly understanding just how dangerous the off-shore gas deal he thought
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Why "progressives" can’t deal with antisemitism
The war against the Jews is also the war against western civilisation
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Russia's annexation is illegal. Israel's are legal. Here's why.
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Combatting anti-Semitism must include emancipating Zionism
Knowing the real-world harm that excludes Zionists from equal access and participation—in university book clubs, in support groups for victims of sexual harassment, in class, etc.—is an unacceptable reality.
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Israel's 'Peace Partner' Is Slaughtering Israelis
These two bodies [Palestinian Authority (PA) and its ruling faction, Fatah] are headed by one man: Mahmoud Abbas, who has zero compunction about his loyalists murdering and wounding Israelis. On the contrary, he encourages it and pays generously for it
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Why Haven’t Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib Even Mentioned Iran’s Hijab Protests?
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in August 2018. Photo: Rashida Tlaib via Twitter. As of this writing, heartbreakingly brave Iranian …
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Elder Of Ziyon - Malki Roth: A National Jewish Cause (Judean Rose)
Why isn't Malki Roth a household name, a national Jewish cause?
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We Must Always Remember the Extraordinary Gift of Israel
Performers play musical instruments near Dung Gate, close to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen …
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The slaughter of Shulamit Ovadia and the myth of ‘lone wolf’ terrorism
Israeli security officials, politicians need to realize: There is no such thing as a “lone wolf” terrorist. It’s not TikTok and Twitter that breed and cultivate such monsters; it’s the PA.
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How the UN gives international legitimacy to murderous regimes
“Wine with Adam” with Adam Bellos and guest Hillel Neuer
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Fighting for social justice while ignoring Arab slave masters
The hypocrisy of those purporting to believe in social justice and ranting about white privilege and colonialism is well
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What has the game-changing Abraham Accords accomplished after two years?
For one thing, the dialogue has shifted from security to collaboration.
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The “State of Palestine” is just a stepping-stone to the destruction of Israel
The “State of Palestine” is just a stepping-stone to the destruction of Israel
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Tearing Up the Rules of Engagement Between Israel and America
A photo of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in the West Bank city of Jenin on …
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The unlearned lessons of 9/11
A short memory may be helpful as a coping mechanism, but it is deadly in matters of foreign policy.
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Abu Akleh and Biden’s pro-Iran realignment
The U.S. administration is exposing Israel to existential peril.
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Blood-Soaked Lessons of the Munich Olympics
An image of one of the Palestinian terrorists who took part in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. …
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Exodus vs. Birth of a Nation: Media Miss Mark on Jewish Self-Determination, Palestinian Nationalism | Honest Reporting
Media should both revise their take on Israel's story and leave the Palestinian tale of eternal violent struggle on the cutting room floor.
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Do not confuse the Jewish story with white privilege
The writer's grandfather suffered through Auschwitz after watching his family be murdered in the gas chambers.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Where is "Home" for a Jew? And Why the Double Standard for Arabs Still Living in the British Mandate for Palestine?
Where is home for a Jew? And If an Arab is born in Amman, isn't he already home?
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Sharansky: Gorbachev wouldn't have released Soviet Jews if not for global pressure
Former prisoner of Zion praises late Soviet leader for freeing Jewish prisoners but says his policy was driven by the cost to the Soviet Union, not sympathy
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Israel: Cozying up to Biden has been a disaster
Like any gambler who is willing to seize on any glimmer of hope that irresponsible betting will be rewarded
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You can't fight antisemitism while ignoring its supporters on the Left
Summarizing millennia of hatred in an hour is a tall task. But that’s what Dana Bash and CNN attempted with their Sunday special Rising Hate: Antisemitism in America.
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The Use of Human Shields Is a War Crime. America Must Hold Terrorists Accountable
A robust U.S. government response to the use of human shields by PIJ and other terrorist groups would concretely advance several American national security and foreign policy objectives.
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Enough rounds of fighting in Gaza, it is time for victory
The IDF looks for every possible way to maintain peace even if the very heavy cost is the complete loss of deterrence.
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'Germany should send money to families of Munich victims rather than Palestinians'
Former German parliamentarian Volker Beck proposed a creative idea this week to resolve the crisis regarding the compensation to
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Mahmoud Abbas Israel remark part of Holocaust trivialization trend
A new report on Holocaust denial comes as the Palestinian president outraged Germany with his “50 holocausts” comment.
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Elder Of Ziyon - The anti-Israel Left makes up new laws, and ignores international law, when it comes to Israel
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Progressives for jihad
The woke set’s sympathy for Palestinian Islamic Jihad is deranged.
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The 'forever war' against the West
Just under a year ago, President Biden asked this question: “What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this
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Identifying with the invisible residents of southern Israel
The government in Jerusalem constantly calls for unity. What might help in this virtually impossible endeavor would be a heavy dose of empathy for those bearing the brunt of the enemy’s will—and repeated attempts—to annihilate the entire Jewish state.
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Gaza: The Usual Suspects Condemn Israel
Commenting on the killing of Zawahiri, UN Secretary General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the UN was "committed to fighting against terrorism and strengthening international cooperation in countering that threat". Of course it was a different story
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Operation Breaking Dawn was a long time in the making
Operation Breaking Dawn so far seems to have more in common with Operation Black Belt in which Al-Ata was killed and Hamas chose not to get openly involved.
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As Biden is applauded, we're left wondering
From the blog of Frimet Roth at The Times of Israel
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Elder Of Ziyon - Whoopi Goldberg Really Needs to Stop Talking about the Holocaust and All Things Related (Judean Rose)
Whoopi puts her foot in it again, calling TPUSA participants complicit with neo-Nazi protesters.
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Dershowitz: ‘Nothing Jewish’ About Left-Wing Jewish Democratic Council of America
There is nothing particularly Jewish about the Jewish Democratic Council of America, which speaks neither for Jews nor Democrats.
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How the ‘awokening’ of the media erased the working class and the Jews
A recent book details how a moral panic about race solidified journalists’ contempt for non-elites, as well as helps perpetuate economic suffering and anti-Semitism.
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Putting Netanyahu back in office can save Israel’s democracy
A majority of voters in Israel and a large majority of Jewish voters consider Netanyahu the most fitting candidate to lead the lone Jewish state.
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The killing of Zawahiri: Twenty years too late
Al Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed twenty years too late, he should have been neutralized long ago, but he kept getting away with his deeds.
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Why won’t the UK recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital?
The opening of talks on a UK-Israel free-trade agreement (FTA) is a welcome development for both countries. The negotiations, launched by Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan in a meeting with Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely on Wednesday, follow a bilat
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How the Abraham Accords are helping the Middle East come to terms with Israel’s existence
Both Israel and its regional partners would do well to emphasize through its diverse citizenry that it’s not some colonial aberration but very much of the region — culturally, religiously and socially.
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The urgent need for Jewish leadership - Melanie Phillips
It's time Jews told their diaspora leaders to wake up
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DISPATCH FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: How To Get Away with Killing Americans In Terrorist Attacks: One Father’s Chilling Story
Listen now (13 min) | “The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself.” - James E. Faust It is every parent’s worst, most unimaginable nightmare. August 9, 2001.
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Israelis or Palestinians: Who’s More Tolerant?
According to the left, “oppressor Israel” bad; “oppressed Palestinians” good. So you would expect, under this formula, that the Palestinians would be very…
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Why is the Flawed Palestinian Cause So Prominent on the Hard Left?
Why does the Palestinian cause get so much attention, when there are much more compelling causes around the world such as those of the Kurds, Uyghurs, and other stateless and oppressed people? There are more demonstrations on university campuses against
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Elder Of Ziyon - Jews Building Homes: If the Thought Makes You Nuts, Congrats! You’re an Antisemite
A letter from 29 Democratic congressman demands that Biden stop Jews from building homes.
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The Israeli Moment
If anyone is going derail the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, Israel is really the only local counterweight that counts.
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Zionists Don’t Need To Justify Their Existence
Why would I need to justify where I live or the policies of my government? I’ve never seen a similar talk given by people who live in other countries unless they were an official spokesperson of the
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Israel Is the Least-Stolen Land
To the Editor: In "'Native Land Acknowledgments' Are the Latest Woke Ritual" (op-ed, June 11), Eugene Kontorovich elegantly ridicules the budding leftist requirement that public statements be prefaced by a ceremonial nod to the peoples who once inhabited
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Condemning the 'mapping project' isn't enough
On the face of it, the “Mapping Project” undertaken by Boston BDS was a disaster for the anti-Semitic movement.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Who Killed Abu Akleh and the Bullet they Wont Let Us See
The truth is important, but the hidden bullet already tells us what we need to know about who killed Abu Akleh.
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Terror-finance rulings the Supremes must strike down, despite Biden's pleas
The Supreme Court is set to decide if it will consider two important terror-financing cases centering on the ability of Americans who have been harmed in terrorist attacks to seek redress.
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'UN must recognize Jews from Middle East countries as refugees’
The Abraham Accords, as well as being a cause for celebration, also raised the issue of Jews from Arab
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Israel: The Opposite Reaction To The Killing Of Schoolchildren
There is perhaps nothing as shocking and horrible as the murder of young children at school. The United States has seen and mourned the tragedy too often, most recently at Uvalde, TX where an 18-year old killed 19 students and two teachers. Ten people wer
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The Soviet origins of left-wing anti-Zionism
Today’s haters of Israel are heirs to one of the longest and most effective anti-Semitic propaganda campaigns in modern history. Op-ed.
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Liberating our Jerusalem
Confronting the forgotten history of Muslim occupation of Israel.
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Shavuot, the Six-Day War and the Sorry ‘Status Quo’ on the Temple Mount
Palestinians shout slogans at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as …
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Why the US won't stop appeasing the Palestinians
The Biden administration’s obsession with boosting the Palestinian cause at the expense of Israel continues apace. Follow Israel Hayom
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Is It Time to Rethink the Relationship Between Jews and Elite Universities?
NYU Stern School of Business. Photo: Wikipedia commons. In recent years, antisemitic incidents, including the decision by Ben & Jerry’s …
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What if Israel treated America as America treats Israel?
Consider news reports that sound significantly different.
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The 'Jews are defiling Al Aqsa' narrative is inciting antisemitism
While I visited the Temple Mount this week, I had one persistent thought: how can the mere presence of a Jew cause defilement?
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Op-Ed: The U.S. State Department and Antisemitism
Despite earlier criticisms, the U.S. State Department has decided to treat Amnesty International as a credible source. And as CAMERA told the Algemeiner, it
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The Temple Mount: ‘These Stones Are Not Silent’ - Meir Y. Soloveichik
On May 6, 2022, Israel’s Independence Day, the Temple Mount was opened to Jews for the first time in 11 days. Jewish visitors, calmly and proudly walking
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Why do young Americans give Israel the cold shoulder?
It turns out that most Americans have no idea what the controversy over the antisemitic BDS movement is about.
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We should restore the sounds of holiness to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount
How much more will we allow this to happen before we wake up and change the music?
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Why It Is More Likely the IDF Did Not Kill Shireen Abu Aqleh
How the available evidence casts serious doubts on the idea that the IDF fired the shots that killed Abu Aqleh
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As Israelis, we should march proudly in our capital
Someone has to stop the insanity. Just like every other capital around the world, Jerusalem hosts mass marches. Of
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Israel's refusal to Jewish claims on Temple Mount encourages Islamists
It is the un-Jewish “status quo” that Jordan, with American backing and Israeli acquiescence, is seeking to force on us all.
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Tlaib and her crocodile tears
A Palestinian-American, Azzam Muslih was murdered, but, strangely, Rashida Tlaib had nothing to say about it. Op-ed.
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Elder Of Ziyon - The obvious truth the world doesn't accept: Palestinians are responsible for Palestinian violence
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Who is really responsible for Palestinian suffering?
Resolutions proposed in the US House of Representatives mean nothing. They give members an opportunity to pay lip service
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The world made Israel necessary by refusing to help Jews in WWII
The Evian Conference in 1938 acknowledged that there was a Jewish refugee problem, but none of the countries participating agreed to take them in.
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Did Abraham use a smartphone?
One anachronistic untruth is the same as any other. If ancient Hebron can baldly be called "Palestinian", any claim can be accepted. Op-ed.
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Israel is losing sovereignty over east Jerusalem
There are certain neighborhoods in east Jerusalem that would be life-threatening for Jews to step into.
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Big Lies, Blood Libels, and anti-Zionist narrative | Israel National News
A day in the cognitive war against the Jews, perhaps the hottest war, one which will determine the outcome of much else.Op-ed
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Elder Of Ziyon - 05/18 Links Pt2: Denying Jewish Identity Is the Epitome of Anti-Semitism; How the Guardian's anti-Israel bias colours everything
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Why Israel's Arabs Are Its Biggest Threat
Israeli decision-makers are consumed with the lethal threat posed by Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, but a no less insidious threat has gone virtually unnoticed: the Israeli Arabs' growing rejection of Israel's Jewish nature and their systematic
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Elder Of Ziyon - Bullet math - it is more likely that Palestinian bullets killed Shireen Abu Akleh
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Harvard, BDS and the Nazis
The editors of Harvard’s student newspaper have just urged a boycott of the Jewish state and praised a campus
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Palestinians Lie to Murder Jews; The U.S. Rewards Them
The terrorists and their families are saying that they actually believe the lies of the Palestinian leaders that the mosque is being attacked, violated and desecrated by Jews. They are saying that this is the reason they are sending Palestinians to
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The Palestinian death cult - worshipping the murder of Jews
At its core, the anti-Israel movement is a death cult, a movement that denies truth, craves bloodshed, glorifies violence, and worships death.
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The DeSantis affair The disgraceful politicization of Jewish Institutions
By refusing to allow a conference to be held in its building where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a speaker, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage declared itself a partisan institution.Op-ed.
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Progressively Sliding into Antisemitism
From the blog of Rachel Wahba at The Times of Israel
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Nakba Day: Annual Reminder that Palestinians Learned Nothing from History
The Jews accepted the Partition Plan whereas the Arabs rejected it. In other words, the Jews chose compromise, and the Arabs gambled on war-and lost.
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Israel is not a shtetl, Messrs. Putin and Lavrov | Israel National News
Israel cannot be pushed around, as it was with the Jews in the good old days. At 74, it is a strong, vibrant country-and a democracy. Op-ed.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Proud to be a Zionist - 5782
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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How ready is Saudi Arabia for potential normalization with Israel?
The subject of Israeli-Saudi ties has caught the media headlines in Israel again following an Israel Hayom interview with President Isaac
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Why the Left went from being pro-Israel, Zionism to opposing them
Solidarity with the struggle of the long-persecuted Jews for national freedom was seen as an integral element in an anti-fascist, anti-colonialist, and anti-racist worldview.
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Jordan's attitude towards Temple Mount is antisemitic and hypocritical
Jordan has demanded that Israel relinquish more control over Temple Mount to the Wakf following the recent terror wave and Temple Mount conflicts.
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Elder Of Ziyon - You Say Nakba, We Say You Fled, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Judean Rose)
The real "Nakba" was a disaster of Arab making
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What have we really learned from Yom Ha’Shoah? | Israel National News
Yom Ha’Shoah comes to teach, to remind, to educate and to wake up a sleeping nation. Even in Israel, a major wake-up call is needed.Opinion.
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America’s biblical roots | Israel National News
Do Jews betray a “dual loyalty” when they support Israel? Absolutely not. Jews who support Israel stand for the very best of our American heritage and our American values.Op-ed.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Should the Performance of the Korban Pesach be Illegal in the Jewish State? (Judean Rose)
Every year, Temple Mount activists prepare to perform the Passover offering. Every year, they are arrested.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Let's drop the pretense that Jordan is moderate and wants peace. It is a major and official driver of antisemitic incitement.
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In Every Generation They Rise Up to Destroy Us
There is a word for violent, unprovoked attacks against innocent Jews going about their ordinary lives: pogrom.
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We progress, the Palestinians regress, and so the world turns
There's no point in searching for a reason or an immediate explanation behind the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv,
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In the 21st century, anti-Zionism means antisemitism
How many deadly terrorist attacks must take place inside of Israel before it starts being called another intifada? Thursday’s
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The endless ignorance of tying Ukraine needs to Israel’s Iron Dome
Israel couldn’t supply Iron Dome to Ukraine, because Israel has never supplied the system abroad, except to the US.
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Debunking liberal assumptions about Jewish security in Europe
According to most of the international media, democracy was defeated in this week’s Hungarian election. The victory of incumbent
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Don’t reward Palestinians for a new wave of terror
The Biden administration tried to sabotage an Israeli-Arab summit by raising the Palestinian issue. It shouldn’t use terrorism as an excuse to resurrect the failed policies of the past.
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Elder Of Ziyon - How to Survive in the Middle East (Vic Rosenthal)
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The Lesson of Ukraine
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden talk as they arrive at NATO …
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Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
The reaction to aggression against each country plays very differently in the anti-Semitic West. Opinion.
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Becoming the strong tribe of the Middle East
In an interview with Fox News, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the fight he led against the
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What Zelenskyy got wrong about Israel
In Israel, one of the most-shared videos in recent weeks shows a Ukrainian soldier named Alex revealing the contents of his military backpack. After waving his night-vision goggles at the camera, he pulls out a Ukrainian-language translation of Golda, a 2009 biography of Kyiv-born former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
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Nationalism goes back into fashion with certain exceptions
All of a sudden, nationalism is back in fashion. The world isn’t just cheering the heroic efforts of Ukrainians
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Biden’s Unconscionable Empowerment of Both Russia and Iran
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Winter Meeting in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2022. …
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Morality propaganda: Ukrainian refugees, Israel, and money
Over the years I have learned to smell propaganda. Being an Israeli means being under constant attack – both overt and covert. We are threatened with physical violence, terrorism, and war. We are also threatened by more sophisticated and elegant methods s
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Why anti-Zionists lie and exaggerate about Israel
Anti-Zionists twist facts and use antisemitism to make Israel look bad.
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Israel & Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: The False Narrative of Israeli Neutrality
The pernicious message that Israel is neutral or silent in this war just because it doesn’t sound the same as the U.S. is simply false.
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Biden Blames the Jews for His Ukraine Policy
The president and his people try to seal a new Iran deal by hanging their appeasement of Putin on Israel
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Amnesty International is no longer a human-rights group, it’s just another ‘progressive’ lobby
If you had any doubts that Amnesty International opposes the very existence of Israel, its executive director just made it crystal-clear: Addressing the...
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The Winner in Ukraine Won't Be Russia or America. It Will Be China. - Tablet Magazine
A seat at the European table won't be too much to ask for the man who saves Europe from nuclear war
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The West is selling out to Iran to lower gas prices
Like politics, wars can make for strange bedfellows. In the Second World War, even a staunch anti-Communist like Winston
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Washington's betrayal has only just begun
On Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers are actively plotting to murder former
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Russia’s Invasion Is a Wake-Up Call for Israel and the West
Destroyed Russian tanks are seen, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in the Sumy region, Ukraine, March 7, 2022. Irina Rybakova/Press …
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Elder Of Ziyon - Of Ukraine Hero Worship and the Jews (Judean Rose)
Some Jews feel for Ukraine, even as they cannot forget history.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Jewish American Privilege and Ukraine (Forest Rain)
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Future of Democrats and the mainstreaming of antisemitism
The future of the Democratic Party was summed up in two things that happened this week. One was the
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For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine
Putin claims his aim is "de-Nazification", but it's Putin who's unleashing neo-Nazism
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Elder Of Ziyon - Politically incorrect thoughts about the Russia/Ukraine war
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Ukraine Demonstrates Why Nationalism Can Be A Force For Good
What Ukraine has shown, and Europe may be starting to understand, is that nationalism can be a force for good and democracy.
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The lessons for Israel from Russia’s war on Ukraine
Self-reliance is the key to security. Israelis must understand that they should avoid being put in a position where, like the Ukrainians, they must rely on fickle international sympathy.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: The Ukrainians are Coming--or Not (Judean Rose, UPDATED)
The Ukrainian ambassador to Israel tells a whopper.
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New Zealand’s Jewish problem
What is wrong with this far-away island country? Whence the anti-Israel animus? Op-ed.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Where are the stories of Ukrainian civilian victims?
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Pollak: Ukraine Invasion Means Israel Likelier to Launch Preemptive Strike on Iran
The Russian invasion of Ukraine will have effects beyond Europe, and could push Israel to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran.
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Ukraine crisis shows Israel the international community won't rescue you
Even though Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria is fully supported by history and international law, and Russia illegally occupies large parts of Ukraine, accusations against Israel will continue.
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For Israel, victory gives us a future | Israel National News
We are loathe to hit the enemy hard enough to break its will to continue fighting and so have only another war to look forward to. Op-ed.
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The Naqba dynamic: A sobering analysis of Arab-Jewish relations
The fundamental Arab goal is complete de-Zionization of Israel, meaning canceling the Law of Return and the Jewish Nation-State Law.Op-ed
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Jewish history is under attack
The Jewish heritage been committed to remember our past, treasure our traditions, and pass them on to future generations. When we remember, we can ensure the world the world never forgets.
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America’s future depends on our relationship with Israel
Opinion: "I’m an unapologetic believer in the promises God has laid out in Scripture," writes Dr. David Jeremiah.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Here is what the "progressive" opponents of the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021 actually oppose
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Whoopi Goldberg Said What Progressives – Including ADL – Are Thinking About Racism
When Whoopi Goldberg said the Holocaust wasn’t about race, because Nazis and Jews were both white, she voiced what has become unquestioned truth in today’s progressive circles. The ADL, an organization founded to fight Jew-hatred, is complicit.
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Why We Lied to Ourselves About Whoopi Goldberg and Antisemitism
Whoopi Goldberg speaks during the WorldPride 2019 Opening Ceremony, a combined celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall …
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To Combat Antisemitism, We Must Oppose Anti-Zionism—at Home and Abroad
Jew-hate will never be snuffed out in an environment in which anti-Zionism is tolerated and condoned.
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The Surge in Holocaust Revisionism
The leader of Holocaust revisionism today is not Whoopi Goldberg but the current Polish government. Opinion.
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My father Elie Wiesel would have been ashamed of Beijing Olympics
Most of the world didn’t seem to know, or care, that the host country is hosting a pageant of “peace and friendship” while simultaneously terrorizing its Uyghur minority.
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Why race isn’t about skin color
At what point did the Jews become so white that the likes of Whoopi Goldberg don’t believe the Holocaust was about race?
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Whoops, Whoopi: the Holocaust was all about race
The celebrity's ignorance reflects the twisted views of an alarming number of people
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Where are the real journalists? 15 questions for Amnesty
Where are the real journalists? Here are fifteen questions for Amnesty International that I would ask. Why is almost nobody else asking them?
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When Israel Can’t Be Blamed, No One Cares About ‘Human Rights’
Israeli security forces prepare to arrest suspects in the Dec. 19 terror attack in Homesh, in the West Bank. Photo: …
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Whoopi Goldberg's gaffe proves that woke 'anti-racism' can all too easily slip into anti-Semitism
Critical Race Theory is constructed so that it can only ever end up landing Jews in the role of the despised
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Whoopi Goldberg Says Holocaust Wasn’t About Targeting Jews. Here’s Why That Matters.
The asininity of Whoopi Goldberg's remarks cannot be overstated here. It is absolutely clear that the Nazis targeted Jews as a race.
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Why Palestinians Dream of a Genocidal Victory
The use of tropes and the appropriation of history have frequently been used by totalitarian regimes to inspire their people to strive for victory. The Nazis often used medieval Norse imagery and mythology, as well as the construction of the idea that
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Amnesty's 'apartheid Israel' calumny
The allegation is unjustified and malicious -- deeply harmful to Israel for those who take it at face value; damaging to Amnesty's credibility for those who know better
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Whoopi Goldberg isn’t the only one who doesn’t understand antisemitism
Of course the Holocaust was about race. But it’s no longer surprising that there’s some dispute about that.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day proves everyone loves dead Jews
It was a great day for Israeli diplomacy. For the first time, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution sponsored
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History Lessons: America’s New Antisemitism Begins with Cultural Erasure of American Jews
As a Muslim woman committed to combating radical Islam, also known as Islamism, I research contemporary antisemitism, particularly Islamist antisemitism.
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American Jews Will Not Cower
A law enforcement vehicle is parked at a school in the area where a man believed to have taken people …
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US Ambassador Thomas Nide's refusal to visit Judea-Samaria Jews - opinion
Nides’s statements are a painful indication that the ambassador wishes to appease the PA’s terrorist dictatorship, radical Islamists and radical leftists.
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The real lesson of the Texas synagogue attack
Few understand the crucial role of antisemitism in Islamist extremism
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I watched the FBI become so woke it can’t call out terrorism
The FBI has made a sea change in defining criminal suspects since the Obama administration and its attorney general, Eric Holder, set out to transform the justice system. Post-Obama, law enforcement hesitates to describe criminal suspects’ race for fear o
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Emily Schrader: BDS is a colonialist movement
BDS self-identifies as a progressive human rights cause, but its goal is to destroy the State of Israel.
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Being Jewish in an Unraveling America - Common Sense
The bad guy was killed. The good guys were saved. But the reaction to the hostage-taking in Colleyville, Texas, should alarm American Jews.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Let's help out the FBI in figuring out why a Muslim terrorist sympathizer might attack synagogues
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Is the US Holding Israel’s Iron Dome Hostage to an Iran Nuke Deal?
While President Biden, Senate, and Congress slow-walk and bicker over replenishing Jerusalem's dwindling defensive missile shield supplies, PM Bennett says his country won't be bound to any rickety renewed nuke deal - nor stand idly by to Iran's increasingly genocidal threats
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A Jewish majority is insufficient to protect Israel
After their claim to be the peace camp exploded into a million pieces in a hundred suicide bombings, Israel’s
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How the term ‘Arab Jew’ distorts history and slanders Zionism
Not only are Mizrahi Jews simply not Arabs, but they are also, in fact, the embodiment of resistance to colonization. They shine as a beacon of light across the Middle East and North Africa. Opinion.
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UN’s war on Jewish Jerusalem: A denial of indigenous rights
The UN’s attack on Jewish Jerusalem is simply part of its wider anti-Israel strategy seeking to undermine and delegitimize the only Jewish state in the world.
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In practice, ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ boils down to leftist dogma, including hatred of Israel
Kudos to the Heritage Foundation workers who pinned down crystal-clear evidence of ugly bias among those pushing “diversity, equity and inclusion,” or DEI.
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Are Palestinians an indigenous people?
Arabs who call themselves Palestinians—derived from the word “Philistines,” an invading force from the Aegean Sea—use the word “indigenous” to legitimatize their efforts to carry out their struggle against Israel’s existence.
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Mainstream Jewish Groups Need to Understand That Interfaith Dialogue Legitimized CAIR
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations (San Francisco) addresses the audience during a panel discussion titled ‘Dismantling …
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Holocaust Education and “The Elephant as the Table”
Interview with Master Holocaust Teacher Dorene Schwartz-Weitz on the need for mandatory Holocaust education.
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Biden is paving the way for a dangerous ideology
Democratic members of the US House of Representatives passed legislation last week to create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia worldwide. The bill was sponsored by Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, and her Jewish colleague Rep. Jan S
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Holocaust manipulation: Do not defile their memory
“She gave my dad life and then he gave me life and now I’m helping her to survive,” said Toronto physician Dr. Jordana Sacks.
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Double standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact.Opinion.
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The Arab Apartheid No One Talks About
"Not all of the professions will be opened to Palestinians under the new decree...." — L'Orient Today, December 8, 2021. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon "are socially marginalized, have very limited civil, social, political and economic rights, including
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Opinion: Don’t be fooled. Zionism is an Indigenous rights movement and being anti-Zionist is antisemitic.
Danzig served in the Israeli Army and is a former police officer with the New York Police Department.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Myth of the Good German
Some Holocaust movies are embellishing history to impart the wrong lesson.
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Is it Islamophobic to call out Ilhan Omar for antisemitism?
As far as congressional Democrats are concerned, another right-wing nut job needs to be disciplined. The newest target of
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The Most Legitimate State on Earth - Tablet Magazine
Israel is the model for the nation-state idea on which the current global order was founded. That's why opponents of the idea see it as a target.
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The Other War – Jewish Policy Center
The Hamas terror attack on three Israelis in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, and the death of one, received little attention in the American press. The victims were Jews who had just visited the Western Wall to pray, and the deceased was planning to
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Israel needs a narrative strategy. This is why.
A fascinating BBC TV series has explored the way in which Britain’s former Labour prime ministers, Tony Blair and
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Richard Gere et al, thanks for the reminder to bless Israel
Richard Gere and more than 100 other movie notables signed a letter not to bless, but to curse the precious land and its holy people. Op-ed.
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Fighting Anti-Semitism: Lessons From Kristallnacht
We must recognize that racial hatred is not a uniquely Jewish problem, and that what starts with the Jews, seldom ever ends with the Jews.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel haters (and the woke altogether) use classic brainwashing techniques
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Hating Jews is Becoming a Leftist Purity Test
The Jewish groups that failed to fight campus anti-Semitism are about to live under it.
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Jerusalem Consulate: A Nail in the Coffin of Peace
This may seem like just another diplomatic facility to issue visas, promote trade and take care of US citizens, with no greater consequence than the US consulate in Edinburgh, UK. But it is far more than a mere office for paper-shuffling diplomats. It
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Is Mayim Bialik too Jewish for 'Jeopardy!'?
It may turn out that a lot of Americans are devoting as much thought to the question of who
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Why are Jews so quick to defend our enemies?
Jewish schools must not teach their pupils a one-sided narrative of Palestinian victimhood
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The cost of Kamala validating 'Israeli genocide' speech
US VP Kamala Harris validated a student who accused Israel of ethnic genocide.
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Is it ever okay to praise antisemitic blood libel?
Does it matter if politicians let lies told by people they meet publicly go unanswered? That’s the question that
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AOC's tears, Schumer's silence, Kamala's ignorance
Does VP Harris really believe Israel is perpetrating ethnic genocide? Does AOC think Israeli civilians should be killed by rockets? Op-ed.
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Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America?
There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in the event of a Nazi-like outbreak. I don’t know if young Jews think about this, but nearly all Jews who grew up in the decade
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The Left's embrace of violence against Jews
Why the Left seems to think it’s perfectly acceptable for Jews to die in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Op-ed.
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Twenty Years After Durban, What We Still Get Wrong About Left-Wing Antisemitism
Supporters of the antisemitic BDS movement in South Africa have issued a cautious ‘apology’ for demanding the expulsion of Jewish …
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When you vote to let terrorists kill Jews, that is antisemitism
In blocking funding for Israel's Iron Dome system, the Squad and others have gone from slurs to real-world consequences
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Israel: Progressives Hand Democrats Another Embarrassment
With majority Democrats locked in a bitter internecine struggle over just how much of Joe Biden’s domestic agenda they can pass in one fell swoop, the
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Assessing the twin disasters of September 2001
We have a tendency to forget that two historical events occurred in early September 2001. No one needs to
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Can the West be honest about the Islamist threat?
It was only two months ago that the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, boasted on Twitter about flying a
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You can't be 'pro-Israel' if you defend anti-Zionists
It appears that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) may have finally gone a bit too far even for some of
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For Anti-Zionists, 'Palestine' Does Not Stop at the Green Line
In the aftermath of the recent uproar over the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company announcing it would boycott the
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Boycotting the Western Wall
We need to stop pretending that the Ben & Jerry’s argument is over a handful of wild-eyed “settlers” on remote hilltops. This is a fight over boycotting the Western Wall. Op-ed.
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AOC: Agent of chaos
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fomenting chaos through the fabrication and dissemination of half-truths and the promotion of ruinous policy.
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A Response to ‘Rolling Stone’: Many Young Jews Like Me Support Israel
An antisemitic banner on display outside Clifton Hookah in Paterson, NJ. Photo: courtesy of ‘Stop Antisemitism.’ Marisa Kabas frames her …
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Elder Of Ziyon - Keeping the Jewish State Jewish
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Deconstructing the Jerusalem flag march
It took participants to say that whatever clothes the “Emperor Hamas” did or did not have, there’s nothing it could do or say to deter their assertion of love for Israel and ineffable tie to the Holy City.
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Ilhan Omar is a wakeup call for American Jews
A new generation is upon us; people who know and care nothing about Judeo/Christian values. They keep coming and are getting elected.Op-ed
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Anti-Israel rhetoric has always been about the Jews
In the hate business, antisemitism was always an easy sell and business is really good now
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Elder Of Ziyon - Jerusalem Flag March? I Vote Yes! (Judean Rose)
Why is the Jerusalem flag march, the Rikudgalim, so important?
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Faced with a tsunami of anti-Semitism, Diaspora Jews still cling to their bubble
A neo-pogrom is being facilitated by Western elites who, if they aren’t taking part in this war against the Jewish people either on the streets or in the media, are piously wringing their hands but not taking the necessary action to stop it. Op-ed.
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Israel Has Set a New Standard for the Ethics of War
Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike, amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza City May 17, 2021. Photo: …
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Elder Of Ziyon - The Poisoning of American Jewry is Complete (Judean Rose)
An encounter with the author's relative underscores the schism between American and Israeli Jews.
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The International Community is Encouraging Hamas to Attack Israel Again — and Again
Rockets are launched by Palestinian terrorists into Israel, in Gaza May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa This headline says it …
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If you side with Hamas, your antisemitism is showing
For the past two weeks, rockets have been fired into civilian areas of Israel by the terrorist group Hamas.
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As Pogromists Activate, Chuck Schumer Cowers - John Podhoretz, Commentary Magazine
On 47th Street in Manhattan, the famous "Diamond District" where so many Jews work, someone set off an incendiary device this afternoon. A car caravan
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ZOA: Concerns Raised that Israel, Under Pressure, Agrees to Ceasefire with Hamas
Israel’s announcement that Israel had accepted an “unconditional ceasefire” commencing at 2 a.m. Israel time, brokered by the U.S. and Egypt, raises concerns.
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Playing American Race Politics in the Middle East - Tablet Magazine
New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman and others are grafting a domestic psychodrama onto a foreign region—and endangering American Jews in the process
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Why does the hard left glorify the Palestinians? | TheHill
In a world in which massive violations of human rights have, tragically, become the norm, why has the hard left focused on one of the least compelling of those causes?
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Elder Of Ziyon - What to Answer Anti-Israel Idiots (but it won’t help) (Judean Rose)
If you dare to enter the fray and debate the Israel-haters, some suggested responses to questions.
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The Squad Is Rooting for Hamas
Hamas has a booster club in one of our political parties, and no major Democrat dares criticize it.
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Lies, incitement and irresponsibility - the western betrayal of Israel
Politicians are media have lost their moral compass. What we are witnessing is a total betrayal of the truth, of Israel and of the Jews.
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With Israel under Attack, Watch for Progressive Anti-Semitism
Not only does history's oldest virus—anti-Semitism—today receive 24/7 assistance from social media, but it metastasizes as quickly as deadly new strains of COVID-19, spawning Jew-hatred and hate
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Progressivism's Moral Atrocity in the Middle East
If you spent the last several years ignoring events in the Middle East and you’re just now tuning in, the images on your television screen might suggest to
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Why victory in Gaza runs through Jerusalem
The IDF has had some nice successes in the military sphere. Some 50 terrorists have already been killed, among
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Cobra Kai and the Jewish State
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Israel: Until we assert ourselves, projecting actual power and deterrence, we will be picked apart
We live with a functional absurdity, in which the most powerful army in the world hamstrings itself irrationally. Op-ed.
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When Will it End? When They Pave Gaza and They Put Up A Parking Lot (Judean Rose)
What is the ultimate solution to the rockets on Israel from Gaza?
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US has plunged its relations with Israel into crisis
In light of the reactions from Washington to the Hamas and Fatah-inspired Arab violence in Jerusalem, it is hard
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For Progressives Netanyahu isn't the problem, Israel is
Just a few years ago, Senator Elizabeth Warren was a bit of joke. With her views placing her at
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Accusations ZOA supports white supremacy is undeserved abuse
ZOA defamed for defending the Jewish people with absurd accusations of ‘elevating white supremacist voices’
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Has anti-Israel discourse taken over the United States?
History will not be favorable to our current American political leaders unless they promptly correct the strong perception that they abandoned Israel and Jews.
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Biden Just Threw Israeli-Palestinian Peace Under the Bus | Opinion
At a time when the Abraham Accords finally mark acceptance by some Arabs of Israel's belonging and permanence in the region, the Biden administration is refinancing an agency that provides
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We recognize Haman. But where are Mordechai and Esther?
This week’s festival of Purim provided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an irresistible analogy. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook
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Is Joe Biden Looking to Take Obama's Place as the Most Anti-Israel President in History?
Barack Obama’s antipathy toward Israel during his two terms was unprecedented at the time, but it looks like Joe Biden is going to give him a run for his money....
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American Jews Voted for This: The Story of a Nation, Amcha (Judean Rose)
A one-woman mantra campaign that aims to drive home the import of the Jewish vote for Biden.
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Only an Israel victory over Palestinian Lawfare will stop the ICC process
The Palestinian Authority has taken off its gloves, if it ever even had them on. Israel should do likewise. Op-ed.
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The moral obligation for Israel vaccinating its citizens ahead of Palestinians
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No, ‘Jewish Supremacism’ Does Not Define Israel
Earlier this month, the organization B’Tselem issued an eight-page paper that declares the Jewish state guilty of apartheid. It’s absurd.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Stop using Jews as pawns to score political points, .@TedCruz and .@AOC.
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The dangerous logic of anti-racism
If racism is about prejudice and power, where does that leave high-achieving minorities?
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Stop Playing Down the Significance of Morocco and Sudan Normalization Deals
A general view shows an empty street following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Casablanca, Morocco, March 20, …
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Misguided American Jews hiding in plain sight - Opeds - Israel National News
Dear American Progressive Jews, do not cower. Do not cling to your enemies. Hiding in plain sight, “passing,” will not save us. Opinion.
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The Torah Versus the Left
Question: What book is the opposite of the left? Answer: the Torah. The Torah is the Hebrew name of the first five books of the Bible, the “Five Books of Moses.” The Torah is the foundation of the rest of the Bible and the rock on which both Judaism a
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How the Trump administration banished the ghosts blocking the path to peace
Trump administration banished the ghosts blocking the path to peace.
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The agenda that undermines America’s bond with the Jews - Melanie Phillips
The Trump interlude is clearly viewed as an irritating setback to be reversed
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Israel: Obama’s revisionist ‘Promised Land’
In his new memoir, the former U.S. president misleads readers in a way that will forever shape their negative perspective of the Jewish state.
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How Trump can expose biggest lie in Middle East: Palestinian ‘refugee’ myth
The Trump administration may be on its way out, but it can still advance American interests between now and January.
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Obama, Netanyahu, AIPAC and the Jews
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with then-US President Barack Obama, at the Mount Herzl national cemetery, in Jerusalem, …
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Trump’s core righteousness shines through Pompeo's anti-BDS and pro-Jews in Yesha speech - Israel National News
For no conceivable political gain, post-elections, Trump sent Mike Pompeo, to the Mideast with special tasks.And now Pollard. Op-ed.
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Blaming the victim: Theo van Gogh, Charlie Hebdo, and the end of Free Speech
While Muslim extremists slice the throats of those at prayer, the NYT and others accuse the French of failing Muslim immigrants. Op-ed.
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If you care about Israel, you have to vote for Donald Trump - The Jerusalem Post
Given Trump’s track record on Israel and the Middle East, if you truly care about the state of Israel, you need to vote for Donald Trump.
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Heads Up, Liberal Jews––Don’t be Jews with trembling knees
Democrat Senator Joe Biden confronted Israeli PM Menachem Begin in 1982, threatening to cut off aid to Israel. How did Begin respond? Op-ed
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Israel-Sudan Deal Seals Trump's Mideast Legacy
The U.S. president’s methods may be controversial, but a President Biden would need to respect the clout his predecessor has built in the region.
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Jews backing Biden are the real 'freiers' - opinion - The Jerusalem Post
Biden/Harris administration is likely to be more even more anti-Israel and antisemitic than the Obama/Biden administration was.
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Trump’s Middle East Metamorphosis - WSJ
Arab leaders fear a President Biden may spurn Israel and cozy up to Turkey and Iran.
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The Wonder of the Abraham Accords - Meir Y. Soloveichik
Three days before Rosh Hashanah, I heard the most unexpectedly stirring sermon of the High Holy Day season. The pulpit from which it was delivered might have
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Joe Biden is not a friend of Israel - Israel National News
Biden implemented Obama's foreign policy because he agreed with it. His presidency would be a third Obama term. Opinion.
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Trivializing the true evil of Nazism - Opeds - Israel National News
Democrats, including Jewish ones, call Trump a Nazi, distorting the meaning of Nazism and turning it into an empty political smear. Op-ed.
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Trump, antisemitic? This is madness
The assertion that Trump is biased against Jews is ludicrous, plainly stupid and as false as it is profoundly dangerous. Op-ed.
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American Jews should reject Joe Biden - The Jerusalem Post
Biden does not get to tell us what a Biden administration would look like; we have already seen it.
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Trumping Palestinian lies and Tehran’s agenda
In one fell swoop, Trump set the record straight about Israel and its neighbors.
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What Bahrain’s deal with Israel really means
The Bahrain agreement with Israel is another important step in assembling a Washington-led coalition against a major strategic threat
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If Israelis love the Arabs in the UAE, how can Zionism be racism?
Israel haters often say that Zionism is racism, saying that the entire idea of Zionism is anti-Arab.
This week we saw an outpouring of love from Israeli Jews to the Arabs of the United Arab Emirates. Israelis are excited to start new business initiatives, to visit the UAE with their families. Zionists worldwide are enthusiastic over the possibilities. Israelis and Emiratis are exchanging admiring posts on social media.
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Biden can’t have it both ways on Sarsour and anti-Semitism
After a spokesman distanced the Democrat from a prominent anti-Semite, others apologized to her supporters. Opinion.
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Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism
From the blog of Ben Yeroushalmi at The Times of Israel
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Was The Beirut Explosion Intended for Israel?
A view shows a damaged building and vehicles following Tuesday’s blast in Beirut’s port area, Lebanon, Aug. 6, 2020. Photo: …
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Larry Levine - Black Lives Matter (except if you are black)
Larry Levine – Black Lives Matter (except if you are black) Pretty catchy logo, BLM, and I like the extra added touch of the fist thing. Since I am in the t-shirt biz, I can appreciate good marketing. If you are a corporation and want to look goo
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The progressive world: An antechamber to evil
After days of anti-Semitic rants on social media, the “Grime” rapper Wiley has finally been barred from Twitter and Facebook
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For Israel, Not Winning is Losing :: Middle East Forum
The late war hero and U.S. Senator John McCain once said: "When you're not winning, you're losing." Israel has won a lot of wars in its relatively brief history, but the last outright victory came almost half a century ago, in 1973 when it rebounded
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: The Inevitable Decline, And Possible Fall, Of The West (Vic Rosenthal)
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Elder Of Ziyon - Rabbi Abraham Cooper missed his opportunity as a guest with @NickCannon
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Why Israel will always be a Jewish state - The Jerusalem Post
Israel’s greatest security risk is a binational state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Elder Of Ziyon - When I say Beinart’s “peace plan” resembles Hamas’ plan, I’m not joking
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The link between George Orwell, George Floyd and the Jews
Anybody who believes that the goal of the protesters has been to raise consciousness about the unfair treatment of blacks is missing the point and the bigger picture.
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Why Israelis are framed as "white oppressors"
Must see: 30 year old video by Arab American Institute reveals plan to manipulate the left wing to undermine US support for Israel. Op-ed.
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Yes: annexation, No: Palestinian state - The Jerusalem Post
There is no compelling moral, historical or political reason why annexation in whole or in part should be made contingent on agreeing to the creation of a Palestinian entity.
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The Jewish people are not “settlers” in their own ancestral heartland
Why should 'peace' between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs require that Israel give its ancestral birthright for a mess of potage?
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Dear Europe – the Israelis are not your Jews
It is revealing how they address their complaints against Israel, doing so in terms of “punishment,” as to a misbehaving child. Opinion.
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Israeli Sovereignty, Not Appeasement, Is the Key to Lasting Peace
It is long past time for Israel to apply sovereignty to large swaths of Judea and Samaria.
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Elder Of Ziyon - The problem with how world media treats Jews and Israel (Seth Mandel and Stephen Daisley)
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A Purim lesson at the White House
The chants of “Death to Israel” wafting across the world from today’s Iran confirm that the more things change, the more they remain the same.
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Netanyahu’s victory is an indictment of his indictment
The silver lining for Netanyahu of not having an immunity request on the Knesset’s docket was that long debates on his status would not be at the top of the news in the weeks before an election.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Suddenly, Israel Is Not The One Being Isolated
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Israel: Chances of 4th election may be higher – and lower – than you think, experts say
In about two weeks, Israelis will be asked to vote in the general elections for the third time in one year –
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Why young Europeans can’t understand Israeli settlers
Europe today is post-God, post-nationalism, post-family and post-Holocaust—and is therefore understandably at odds with the very concept of Israel.
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Being Fired by Trump Does Not Make You a Holocaust Victim
Government bureaucrats aren’t endowed with a God-given right to work in the executive branch of the United States government. Most of these "victims" will find lucrative work elsewhere.
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Palestinian ‘right of return’ is really about ending Israel's existence
On Jan. 28, President Trump revealed his administration's long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. As several commentators noted, the proposal explicitly states that there shall be no “right of return” — a key phrase with a very particular meaning tha
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The best thing about the Trump plan is that is exposes the hypocrisy of the anti-Israel crowd
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: It's the peace, stupid
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It's time to build in Judea and Samaria as we do in Tel Aviv
US President Donald Trump has spent months formulating the much-anticipated counter-Oslo Accords measure. Yes, it is precisely this president, who
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History won't forgive the leaders who say 'no'
There are moments in the life of a nation that require transcending the "petty" and which outweigh all political scores.
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CAMERA Op-Ed: The Washington Post and the Truth About Gaza
A recent Washington Post report on deteriorating conditions on Gaza relied on anti-Israel organizations. Worse still, The Post failed to place guilt where it
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Israel News: No, Philo-semitism is not antisemitism in sheep's clothing
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Conservative Voices Turning Against Israel is a Dangerous Development
The isolationist voices on the right are not necessarily anti-Israel, however, their opinions about the Middle East lead some to turn against Israel.
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Will Arab anti-Zionism revive? | The Jerusalem post
The old wall of Arab anti-Zionism has fractured, but lingering hostility against Israel could explode anew.
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Don’t confuse me with facts: It’s always about the ‘occupation’
The American Jewish left has once again fallen in line with the Palestinian demand that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict always be conflated to a problem of “occupation,” regardless of facts or history.
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Israel needs to say categorically that enabling Jews to live in the West Bank is not a war crime
Israel needs to say categorically that enabling Jews to live in the West Bank is not a war crime.
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Why Trump Gets it Right about Antisemitism
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Don't let Sanders get away with redefining 'pro-Israel'
Linda Sarsour did it again. The Palestinian-American BDS activist/anti-Trump "resistance" activist spoke at a conference of American Muslims for Palestine
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Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’
The Jewish community of Beit El in Judea and Samaria. Photo: Yaakov via Wikimedia Commons. I have written before about …
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Want to Keep Jews Safe? Criminalize Marijuana – Tablet Magazine
Sarah Halimi’s case marks a new milestone for the already embattled French Jewish community. After a drawn out court case, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, a Paris judge dropped the murder charges against Halimi’s killer, Kobili Traoré, 29, on the grounds that smok
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London Bridge horror proves we need new solutions to 23,000 jihadists in the UK
Two innocent people are dead because of the Government’s refusal to confront the threat Britain faces from Islamic jihad.
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And they call themselves the New Israel Fund?
The New Israel Fund has the chutzpa to stand with Europe's bias against israel.
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Trump and Netanyahu: Both Being Investigated for Made-Up Crimes
The most striking similarity is that both are being investigated for actions that their legislatures have not explicitly made criminal. Politicians always seek good coverage and many vote with that in mind. Some even negotiate good coverage in advance of
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Israel News: To all two-staters: Take this simple challenge
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Elder Of Ziyon - Pompeo is right - stopping claiming that settlements are illegal can help peace
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The Trump Administration Is Absolutely Correct To Call Israeli ‘Settlements’ Legal
In a move that will only further buttress the Trump administration’s well-deserved claim to being the most pro-Israel American presidency since the 1948 founding of the Jewish state, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced today that it shall hence
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Elder Of Ziyon - Rockets are the definition of terror
There is no one accepted definition of terrorism, but of the dozens of definitions adopted by various countries, most mention the basis for the etymology of the word - an act meant to inspire fear and terror in the public for political purposes
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MAKOVSKY: Calls To Cut Aid To Israel Detrimental To U.S. Interests
With fires raging constantly in California, no one would reasonably argue to cut the firefighters’ budget. Yet several leading Democratic presidential candidates recently called for cutting American military aid to Israel despite it increasingly acting as
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Why U.S.-Israel Security Cooperation Is A Win-Win
One of the few points of unbounded bipartisan agreement in Washington has for decades been that U.S.-Israel security cooperation is right, good, mutually beneficial, and worth every nickel spent on it. It is well–grounded in facts and has acknowledged ben
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Why Be Nice About the Horrors of the Holocaust? (Judean Rose)
Should we have been more understanding of a teacher who threatened her students with the gas chamber?
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It’s time to put an end to labeling Trump an anti-Semite
This July, Aaron Boone, the manager of Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees, created an internet meme when he launched
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Will the Anti-Netanyahu Crowd Like Gantz?
Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White Party (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party. …
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PRAGER: Criticism Of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitism; Anti-Zionism Is. This Is Why.
Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy's origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of all the countries in the world, only Italy is illegitimate.
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Judaism should not be used an ideological prop | JNS
Protesters using Tisha B’Av to call for the elimination of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are doing more than using a misleading analogy.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel: How and Why we are Losing the Cognitive War
The long war against Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel has been going on since before the founding of the state. The identity of our enemies varies depending on their ability to fight at any given time and other factors, but – with one important exception that I will discuss later – they are drawn from the Arab and Muslim nations in our region.
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Israel is in the Middle East: Nobody hijacked it. It's just not what its pioneers thought they'd created.
It’s not European. And it doesn’t divide into right and left, religious and secular. Matti Friedman, author of a new book about Mizrahi spies, on why Israel baffles and infuriates
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Arabs: You can’t Judaize Jerusalem | The Jerusalem Post
The Pilgrimage Road is part of Jewish history, and as Friedman said, Israel is as likely to give up that heritage site as the United States would surrender the Statue of Liberty.
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Why The July Fourth Spirit of Freedom Unites America and Israel | United with Israel
On July 4, 1776, Americans chose freedom over British tyranny. On the same date 200 years later, Israel made the same decision by not succumbing to Arab terror.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: How אם win back the squandered gift of 1967
Recently I watched a short (10 minutes), very powerful video about Israel’s victory in the Six Days War. The film suggests that the victory was literally miraculous. It may well have been so, although miracles like the destruction of the enemy air forces or the capture of the Old City only happen when divine intervention is combined with careful preparation, struggle, and sacrifice by humans.
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Marc Lamont-Hill: Hypocrite & Personification of Orientalism | Dmitri Shufutinsky | The Blogs
arc Lamont-Hill, the controversial far-left academic activist, has gotten himself into hot water once again recently.
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Rashida Tlaib & the "One-State Solution" - A Euphemism For The Destruction Of Israel | United with Israel
The well-documented history of Arab rejectionism is largely ignored by “progressives” since it does not fit into their narrative of Arabs as perpetual “victims” and Israel as the “villain.”
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War Crime!: Placing a Note in the Western Wall
I urge all visitors to join me in a conspiracy to violate the UN Security Council Resolution...Obama, himself, engineered the Resolution. He pushed it through the Security Council despite some reservations by other members, including Egypt, which
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There's Nothing Progressive About Terrorists Targeting Civilians—Except When Israelis Are the Victims
Many Western progressives, including those in elected office, who claim to support peace, equality, and social justice, seem to think it is OK for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to launch rockets at Israeli civilians.
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Yair Netanyahu: Gaza Proves ‘Land for Peace’ Means ‘Land for War'
Imagine the south of the U.S. being bombarded by missiles for days at a time. Such is the reality here in Israel as I write this.
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The Reality of the 'Two-State Solution' – Jewish Policy Center
Last week, Jared Kushner, one of the administration’s point men on the Middle East, dispensed with the term “two-state solution” in its impending peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians. “The two-state solution has failed,” he said. Not fo
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FLEISHER: Explaining The Clash Of American Liberal Jewry And Israeli Nationalism
The recent landslide election of Benjamin Netanyahu and the ascendancy of the Israeli Right has deepened the rift between Israeli and American Jews — the latter of whom disproportionately identify with the political Left.
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How Bibi Did It:
The West’s most successful politician scores again
Watching Benjamin Netanyahu win elections has become so customary that it is easy to miss the profound significance of his April 9 victory. When Netanyahu lost to Ehud Barak in 1999—the last time he was booted from office in an election—the Labor Party alliance won 26 seats.
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Donald Trump, Morton Klein, and Effective Jewish Leadership | Spengler
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN April 13 that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan to extend Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements wouldn’t hurt the administration’s forthcoming peace plan, a gesture of support to the Jewish State unthinkable un
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Analysis: AIPAC's moment to step back from two-state solution
AIPAC conference registered a first. It invited to speak an official representative from across the Green Line. Will it signal a more open position by the pro-Israel lobbying giant toward the Arab-Israel conflict?
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The Campaign to Make Ilhan Omar’s Antisemitism Unassailable
Two prominent American-Islamist political activists, both avowed opponents of Israel’s existence, renewed complaints last week that the recent controversy involving Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN)’s series of antisemitic statements was unjust.
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Why Israel Must Destroy Hamas Once And For All
To again borrow from one of my favorite (perhaps apocryphal) Einstein aphorisms: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Why Anti-Zionism is the New Anti-Semitism (And Why They Are The Same Thing) | The Star
Current practitioners of anti-Semitism excuse themselves by falsely separating between the Jewish religion and the Jewish people.
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Dems shouldn’t support anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar – She doesn’t speak for me and other American Muslims
Rep. Ilhan Omar is a leading critic of Israel in Congress and pretends this has nothing to do with her feelings about the Jewish people.
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Liberals' Anti-Semitism Problem Isn't Going Away
There are three questions that can best gauge whether people are being critical of Israel's policies or critical of the existence of the Jewish state.
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Where Are America’s Jewish Leaders?
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Photo: Screenshot. Israel is once again facing major new international military and political challenges. Yet despite …
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Alan Dershowitz: Time to tell the truth about the Palestinian issue
The New York Times ran one of the most biased articles about the conflict by a mainstream newspaper.
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Termites, Bigots and GOATs: Rationalizing Complicity with Anti-Semitism
Consider the front page story in the New York Times Sunday Review, which singled out the Palestinian issue as "one of the great moral challenges of our time" -- ignoring Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Tibet, Cyprus and many far greater
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Palestinians' Anti-Semitic Stereotyping of Jews
Abbas and the Palestinian leadership are clearly trying to drag Israel into a religious conflict with all Muslims, not only Palestinians. The Temple Mount has become their favorite platform for disseminating blood libels.... If anyone is defiling the
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Is Rashida Tlaib Guilty of Bigotry?
To single out only the "Jew among nations," and not the dozens of far more serious violators of human rights is bigotry pure and simple, and those who support BDS only against Israel are guilty of bigotry. What is unacceptable is discriminatory actions,
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How Israel-Haters Use a False Framework to Spread Their Hate
In The New York Review of Books, anti-Zionist author Antony Loewenstein wrote an article called “Exporting the Technology of Occupation.”...
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US: Why should we fund PA hospitals, when Abbas diverts money to pay terrorists?
State Department defends its defunding of Palestinian Jerusalem hospitals by noting that the PA intends to give monthly stipend to family of terrorist who killed US-born Ari Fuld
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Painting a Fuller Picture on Hebron
Less than a year ago I decided it was high time for me to visit Hebron. After all, Hebron is the world's oldest Jewish city,
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U.S. is Taking an Axe to the "Peace Process." That’s Good. – Jewish Policy Center
The Trump administration has restored the United States to the position of honest broker – emphasis on “honest” – and taken a hatchet to a series of fantasies underlying the notion of an Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.”
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Israel and the grave danger of media bias
Misinformation matters because media outlets have great power. They shape the way we understand the world and, ultimately, drive our behavior.
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Kudos to Netflix For Dropping Farrakhan 'Documentary'
Those who create the magic that is Hollywood are currently confronting a multitude of challenges, from new technologies to mega-mergers...
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Natalie Portman’s disgusting denigration of the Holocaust - Opinion - Jerusalem Post
What does Natalie Portman want?
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Why The Trump Team Is Wrong About Hamas
JNS.org –Donald Trump’s senior Mideast advisers are proposing to give Hamas billions of dollars if it will recognize Israel and...
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NO HOLDS BARRED: The apotheosis of Sheldon Adelson
Where have we seen one of the foremost contributors to politics in the world dedicate his influence to the interests of his people over and above any personal consideration?
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An open letter to the participants who left their Birthright trip
These young adults affiliated with IfNotNow chose to feign ignorance. I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I am hesitant to engage with you because a response would give your rhetoric a degree of legitimacy. On the other hand, your rhetoric is so presumptiv
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Terror kites, terror tunnels, suicide bombings, stabbings, rock-throwing: the lie of the Palestinian “right of return”
Nazi politician and propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels once advised: “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. [One should] keep up the lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”
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Boycotting Israel is a hopeless misdiagnosis of the problem
Any suggestion of boycotting the Eurovision, or boycotting Israel in any other way, betrays a catastrophic misunderstanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Israel’s winning strategy against Hamas - Opinion - Jerusalem Post
“What is the strategy for Gaza?’ asked Jelin during a live interview for Channel 2 news.
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Why Hamas wants thousands of Palestinians to die next week
Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is arranging for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to march on the Israeli-Palestinian border next Monday and Tuesday. Addressing Palestinians in Gaza, Hamas' leader there portrayed the protests as a peaceful effort t
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Rampant Holocaust denial in the Arab world
The problem is in the hearts and minds of Arab youth.
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Israel's Birthday: Jewish Power at 70 Years
Israel is a safeguard for Jews, not a vanity.
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Incoherent U.S. policy on Syria mystifying allies, empowering enemies - International news - Jerusalem Post
Experts contend that both Russia and Iran would be empowered should President Trump move ahead with military withdrawal from Syria.
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Analysis: Strike in Syria shows Netanyahu follows through on threats
The message of Israel's alleged strike on Homs is clear: Israel has interests and intends to act upon them.
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Donald Trump Jerusalem Embassy Move: A Good First Step | National Review
Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem will help, but the best way to restore order in the Middle East would be to stop sending aid to Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian government ...
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Trump’s Non-Radical Decision on Jerusalem
This is not a radical position. It has been the consensus in the United States for more than two decades,
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Donald Trump Strikes a Blow against International Anti-Semitism
By moving America’s embassy to Jerusalem, the U.S. confronts the bigoted double standards of the international community.
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Pro-BDS contributions to Jewish groups -- a Trojan horse? | The Times of Israel
Ahead of the UN's Ambassadors Against BDS conference, a look at the strange bedfellows partnerships between Muslim and Jewish communities may make
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Here’s A List Of All The Muslim Countries That Ban Jews | Daily Wire
Fake news infected the body politic this week as liberals lost their minds over President Trump’s falsely-labeled “Muslim ban,” which bars refugees from seven high-risk Muslim majority countries (previously identified by President Obama’s own Depa
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Alan Dershowitz: Why I Will Leave the Democratic Party If Ellison Is Elected its Chairman
Tomorrow the Democratic National Committee (DNC) will have to choose the direction of the Democratic Party, as well as its...
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Israel Is Not the Occupier | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
This past summer, the section of the Republican Party’s platform on Israel included a key statement made in anticipation of...
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Obama’s Late Hit on Israel
Obama’s last-minute betrayal of Israel on the United Nations Security Council resolution is shameful and poorly thought out,
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Why Are Jews Not 'Radicalized?' | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
According to the most popular and largely dominant theory of why Muslims become radicalized, the more they feel discriminated against, the more likely they are to engage in terrorism and join terrorist groups such as Islamic State. This theory claims to b
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Cory Booker Admits Iran Deal Blunder
On the most important vote affecting Israel’s security in a generation, Mr. Booker has failed.
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Not an uprising against occupation. An uprising against Israel
Op-ed: In bloody, unmistakable capital letters, the perpetrators of this new round of evil mayhem proclaim to Israelis: We don’t want to live alongside you. We want to kill you
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Palestine: The Psychotic Stage - WSJ
In The Wall Street Journal, Global View columnist Bret Stephens on the truth about why Palestinians have been seized by their present blood lust.
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Why the Jews Are the Canary in the Coal Mine
Even in the matter of "slavery," the Torah works toward the natural and ideal condition of each and every individual person, which is freedom. In the Torah system, if a master strikes his slave and wounds him, the slave goes free. If a master ha
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Mike Huckabee's the Bomb Thrower? | Yonason Goldson | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
“This President’s foreign policy is the most feckless in American history. It is so naive that he would trust......
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The fiction of the Israel-Palestine peace dividend - David's Harp - Israel News | Haaretz
Sorry, RAND: Israel is doing fine economically without peace, and the Palestinians should be skeptical that their state will bring them much prosperity.
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The ‘Court Jew’ Controversy Re-Erupts: How Obama and Israel Changed the Stakes of Jewish Power
Last week an issue that has simmered for some time in private conversations burst out into the open—in a very unpleasant way. At the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on June 7, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew offered a stirring defense of the White Ho
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Blog: Yesterday I was informed that I am not a resident of Israel - Blogs - Jerusalem Post
Six Supreme Court Justices from the United States informed me that, as far as they were concerned, I am a resident of Jerusalem, Full Stop.
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Time to be honest about Israel's capital (Opinion) - CNN.com
Frida Ghitis: Diplomacy sometimes creates moments of delusion. That fact is on clear display when it comes to how the United States treats Jerusalem.
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J Street: The Jewish enemy within - www.jewishaz.com: Your Voice
In late March 2015, a New Yorker article concluded that despite the difficult economic conditions of many Israelis, the Israeli public by and large did not trust Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, who head the Zionist Union political bloc, with Israel’s secu
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Barack Obama’s Anti-Semitism Test
Is US President Barack Obama an anti-Semite? This question has lingered in the air since his first presidential bid in 2008. It first arose due to the anti-Semitic sermons that Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for more than 20 years, made as Obama and his family sat in the pews.
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When did America forget that it’s America?
On a number of occasions during the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the Israeli government has appealed to the United States and its allies to demand a change in Tehran’s aggressive behavior. If Iran wishes to be treated as a normal state, Israel has said, then it should start acting like one. Unfortunately, these appeals have been summarily dismissed.
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The unfolding farce of Obama’s deal with Iran
The president didn’t sign a bad framework deal with the ayatollahs. He left it unsigned, open to ever more worrying interpretation.
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Peace, the Grand Delusion of the Jews
“Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.” —Abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass On one sunny August afternoon in Boston in 2014, I made my way through the Boston Common public park and watched from a distance as people bega
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Krauthammer: No peace in our time
Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be no Palestinian state while he is Israel’s prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection does not portend more strife in the Middle East.
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The Iranian Regime on Israel's Right to Exist — Atlantic
The foreign minister says his country is friendly to Jews. But his country seeks the elimination of the country in which nearly half the world's Jews live.
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Netanyahu’s Moment | The Weekly Standard
Sometimes a speech is just a speech. Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech about Iran policy on March 3 will not be his first address to Congress. It will make familiar, if important, arguments. One might assume that, like the vast majority of speeches, it would soon be overtaken by events in Israel and the United States and the world.
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No Holds Barred: Susan Rice and the politicization of genocide - Opinion - Jerusalem Post
Is there any dirty job for the Obama administration that Susan Rice is not prepared to do? Need someone to fraudulently blame the murder of an American ambassador in Libya on a stupid film? Send Rice to the Sunday morning talk shows.
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Charles Krauthammer: On the cusp of an epic capitulation
A sunset clause? The news from the nuclear talks with Iran was already troubling.
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Alan Dershowitz: Democrats' Boycott of Netanyahu 'Appalling, Irresponsible'
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has slammed Democrats for planning to boycott a controversial speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week to Congress.
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Alan M. Dershowitz: The Appalling Talk of Boycotting Netanyahu - WSJ
In The Wall Street Journal, Alan M. Dershowitz writes that Congress has every right, and even an obligation, to hear the Israeli leader speak about the Iranian threat.
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Netanyahu: If Iran nuclear deal is good, why hide it from Israel? | The Times of Israel
No responsible PM could refuse invitation to speak to Congress on issue that threatens israel's survival, he tells visiting US Jewish leaders
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Obama’s offensive against Netanyahu backfires - The Washington Post
The Obama administration is going all out to see that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated, but the campaign of veiled threats and anonymous leaks is backfiring: Instead of sinking in the polls, Netanyahu is rising.Obama's offensive against Netanyahu isn’t working.
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Why Netanyahu, The Churchill Of Our Time, Must Speak Before Congress
It is fitting and proper--indeed essential for our very security--that Speaker John Boehner has extended an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran and its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and
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Have Jews ever been safe in France? | Warren Adler | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
There is a jewel of a museum in the Marais district of Paris. It is the Musée d'Art et......
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NY Times Lethal Anti-Israel Journalism Strikes Again - Op-Eds - Arutz Sheva
Like the White House, the New York Times is potentially guilty of incitement to genocide and defamation; certainly, they are guilty of slanting the news about Israel in every way possible.
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The time for marches is over; it's time to act over anti-Semitism - Telegraph
In every Jewish school in Europe parents drop their children wondering, just wondering, what might happen. That has to change
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For Zion's sake: Netanyahu in Paris – pushing Israel’s dignity to the front row - Opinion - Jerusalem Post
To the Left, Netanyahu’s trip to Paris was a public relations disaster for Israel.
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The dilemma of France's liberal Jews - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
Opinion: Analysis: Paris terror attacks worsen the situation of secular French Jews, many of whom still believe in the Republic's universal values and feel that France, rather than Israel, is their national home.
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Do Jews Have a Future in France? - The Daily Beast
There is no future for Jews in France as long as Europeans refuse to confront the tacit acceptance of violence by many of the continent’s Muslims.
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Je suis Charlie, Je suis Ilan: why is this different?
As thousands of Israelis waited for the snow to fall yesterday in Jerusalem, parents found themselves attempting to entertain......
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Boycotts Go Both Ways | Gedalyah Reback | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
Another day, another report about a boycott, or a threat, or a sanction, or an insult, or a divestment,......
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A stinging defeat for Abbas, but no great victory for Israel | The Times of Israel
Netanyahu persuaded Nigeria to abstain as UN Security Council rejected Palestinian statehood, but could only muster US and Australian opposition, and the French let Israel down
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Rinsing Israel Out of Europe: The Zionistfrei Movement - WSJ
In The Wall Street Journal, Brendan O’Neill writes that in Britain, France, Spain and beyond, a drive to ban products from the Jewish state is picking up speed.
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Why do we keep saying it's not anti-Semitic? - Independent.ie
There are wars, there are terrorist attacks and there are pogroms. What occurred this week at the Har Nof Synagogue in Israel was age-old anti-Semitism. It was not political, it was not
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What about the Jewish Nakba? - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
Opinion, Ben-Dror Yemini: Op-ed: For decades, the Palestinians have nurtured the ethos of the Nakba while Israel chose to downplay the persecutions and expulsion of the Arab Jews. It is time to set the record straight.
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Why I Was Called a Nazi | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
Last week, among other things, I was told by a Palestinian student visiting FSU that the 67 innocent Jews murdered in Hebron in 1929 were actually not Jews, but Arabs. I was also told I am less of a person than Hitler because at least Hitler had the chu
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7 reasons why the Palestinian crisis & the Black struggle for freedom are absolutely nothing alike | Dumisani Washington
The “parallels” between the Palestinian plight and that of African-Americans have been made for decades, and this has always......
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No Holds Barred: The ferocious battle for Israel at New York University
Over the last few years NYU has emerged as one of the most hostile campuses to Israel in the United States.
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Israel Must Be Defended on American Campuses | New York Observer
Who better to respond to Abbas’s blood libel than the world’s foremost voice against genocide, Elie Wiesel?
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Fundamentally Freund: From Gaza to Catalonia: Europe’s insufferable hypocrisy
Perhaps it is time for someone to pull Mogherini aside and whisper into her ear: before you start offering unsolicited advice to Israel, you might want to get your own hypocritical house in order.
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Latest Amnesty International report shows ignorance, bias and excuses Hamas war crimes
It is clear that Amnesty is more interested in damning Israel with war crimes charges than with the truth.
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‘Don’t let this ‘murderer’ speak at King’s College’
‘‘I do not think that the university should condone violence such as this in letting him justify......
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Rabbi Shmuley: Bibi the “Chickensh*t” Who Won’t Play Ball with Obama | New York Observer
You know you’ve seen it all when an American administration is reduced to calling a world leader – and a primary ally – a “Chickensh**t.”
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When Jews moving into non-Jewish neighborhoods elicits scorn from liberals | CiF Watch
Imagine if Jerusalem authorities forbade Palestinians (those with permanent Israeli residency) from moving into Jewish neighborhoods in west Jerusalem, citing the need to protect the delicate demographic balance of the capital, and keep such neighborhoods
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A Jewish Israel, equal for all | Aliza Lavie | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
Patricia Marks Greenfield's Op-Ed for the Washington Post last week (An Israel equal for all, Jewish or not)......
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Joan Rivers' High Holy Day Sermon | Avi Mayer | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
Can we talk? Saturday, Yom Kippur, marks thirty days since Joan Rivers' passing. She may not have been a rabbi......
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Dear Fellow Liberals: I’m Done Apologizing for Israel | TIME
Some years ago, I was seated at dinner next to a British law professor, whom my husband, also a law professor, had invited to a conference that he’d organized. The conversation soon turned, as conversation often does among professional intellectuals, to Israel...
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In Praise of Student Supporters of Israel | Cherryl Smith | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
In spite of the many biases, phobias, anti-“isms” and micro-aggressions studied at universities, anti-Israelism does not seem to be......
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Seven ways you don't get Jews to criticize Israel | Stacy Herlihy | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
I am a Reform Jew. This means that I wear my Judaism lightly, like a small heirloom pin. I......
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Take Away Their Guns -- Then We'll Talk
There will never be peace in the Holy Land until Hamas is totally disarmed.
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2014 Gaza Conflict Is Part of Hamas' Long, Effective War on Israel | New Republic
That there won't be one—and that there will be one.
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Open letter to Geraldo Rivera from a former soldier in the IDF | Micha Danzig
Mr. Rivera, If you are going to repeatedly go on the news and quote the Hamas talking points and assert......
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‘Non-kosher’ Islamists and ‘kosher’ ones | JPost | Israel News
Some in the international community will want to signal to the world’s Muslims that they have nothing against them and will try to differentiate between the bad evil folks, such as Islamic State and the good evil folks: Hamas.
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Why Jordan Doesn't Want More Palestinians
By mistreating the Palestinians and depriving them of their basic rights, Jordan and other Arab countries are driving them into the open arms of extremists, especially Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Jordan, Lebanon and Syria
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Who's responsible for these anti-Semitic attacks? Give me one guess...
I was attacked by a swan the other day, as I walked along the bank of the River Stour in Kent. The creature climbed out of the water and lunged…
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Students for Justice in Palestine: What's in a Name? | Dumisani Washington
My friend and colleague, Chloé Simone Valdary wrote a brilliant article exposing the hypocrisy and the brazen appropriation......
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Battling dark emotion at the Gaza border | Shmuley Boteach | The Blogs | The Tim
It was a moving day. Almost too moving. And I don’t know how to quite process the emotions. Having arrived with my family in Israel, we traveled to Sderot, the beleaguered city of twenty-five thousand in Southern Israel which Hamas uses for target practice. More than twelve thousand deadly rockets have been fired at its inhabitants. Every home has a bomb shelter.
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Fear, fatalism or support: Why isn't Gaza revolting against Hamas?
Experts divided on whether fear of Hamas, anger at Israel, or the lack of alternatives is keeping Gazans quiescent
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Down with the Yellow Star
Give me a yellow star. A dreary, cloth patch sewn in the shape of a Star of David that every Jew was forced to wear in Nazi Germany along with every country the Germans conquered; every country allied with Germany ; every culture looking to expose the hated Jew.
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Why Jews unite more than Christians | David Suissa | Jewish Journal
Imagine that you are a Jew, and that you are president of the United States. Your security adviser has just whispered in your ear that 200 Jewish girls in Africa have been kidnapped and are being threatened with rape.
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The West is ignoring the practitioners of 'disproportionate’ violence
It’s Hamas and Isis who are willingly sacrificing the lives of men, women and children - not Israel
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How Israel was seduced by deceptive calm in Hamas's Gaza | The Times of Israel
The Netanyahu government preferred to ignore the tunneling and rocket-production as it sought 'quiet above all'. Is it about to repeat the mistake?
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Making David Into Goliath | FrontPage Magazine
Empathizing with the underdog is a natural human instinct. When we see a little David facing off against a mighty Goliath, our hearts go out to the little guy. But what happens when Goliath pretends to be David and then accuses David of really being Goliath?
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Who is the real enemy? | Masada Siegel | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
I was working at CNN as a field producer on Sept 11, 2001. In disbelief, I watched smoke pour out of the enormous gash in the World Trade Center. Soon after, the building started to fall.
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The Israel you never hear about | Masada Siegel | The Blogs | The Times of Israe
This handsome smiling face reached out to me from Facebook grabbing my attention, and then I read the post. IDF......
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Hamas Versus Israel: Moral Clarity Awards | David Harris
To be sure, there have been a few testy moments between Washington and Jerusalem during the tension of war, but they shouldn't be confused, not for a moment, with the strength of this enduring, unique, and mutually beneficial relationship....
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Artists without borders. Or facts. | Opinion | Jewish Journal
I am an Israeli, I am an American, and I am an artist. As such, the following topic is especially irritating to me. As the war in Gaza breaks yet again, we have seen an influx of artists and celebrities chipping in with their personal two cents. It can come in the shape of Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz signing an open letter condemning Israeli ‘genocide’: a curiously indefensible position given the tremendous Palestinian population growth since 1967, not to mention Israeli provision of aid and medical care (even in this present war) to wounded Palestinian civilians. Or it can come in the form of a popular catch phrase such as #FreePalestine, tweeted from the likes of Rihanna and Selena Gomez.
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In Defense of Zionism - WSJ
They come from every corner of the country—investment bankers, farmers, computer geeks, jazz drummers, botany professors, car mechanics—leaving their jobs and their families. They put on uniforms that are invariably too tight or too baggy, sign out their gear and guns. Then, scrambling onto military vehicles, 70,000 reservists—women and men—join the young conscripts of what is proportionally the world's largest citizen army. They all know that some of them will return maimed or not at all. And yet, without hesitation or (for the most part) complaint, proudly responding to the call-up, Israelis stand ready to defend their nation. They risk their lives for an idea.
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Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Guardians of civil society paved way for Hamas terror tunnels
The scope of Hamas’ terrorist tunnel freeway system is shocking.
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Krauthammer: Clueless in Gaza - The Washington Post
John Kerry is upset by heavy criticism from Israelis — left, right and center — of his recent cease-fire diplomacy. But that’s only half the story. More significant is the consternation of America’s Arab partners, starting with the president of the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas was stunned that Kerry would fly off to Paris to negotiate with Hamas allies Qatar and Turkey in talks that excluded the PA and Egypt.
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The UN must end its anti-Israel campaign | Mark Meadows
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) announced that it is launching an “independent” inquiry into Israel’s......
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The lesson of the lone soldier | JPost | Israel News
Three soldiers, Sean Carmeli and Max Steinberg from the United States and Jordan Ben-Simon from France, were killed in the early days of the ground battle.
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The trouble with UNRWA
Israel privately says the UN's Palestinian refugee organization -- now a prominent factor in the war with Hamas -- is biased, hostile, and shouldn't exist at all. So why doesn't Israel want it abolished?
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Why I Decided To Start Wearing A Kippah
First off, don’t get all excited, I am not converting to Judaism, I have two serious issues that I c...
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This is why Americans go fight in the Israeli army
This week, two Americans serving in the Israel Defense Forces were killed in Gaza. Max Steinberg, from Los Angeles, was 24. Sean Carmeli, 22, came from Texas. Both were Lone Soldiers—Israel’s term for troops with no immediate family living in Israel. I used to be one of them.
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To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter From an Angry Black Woman –
The student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is prominent on many college campuses, preaching a mantra of “Freeing Palestine.” It masquerades as though it were a civil rights group when it is not. Indeed, as an African-American, I
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BILL WHITTLE: THE CASE FOR ISRAEL
As Israel is under attack from Hamas in the Gaza strip and BDS -- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions -- right here in America, Bill Whittle makes the historic...
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Why do people hate Israel? | Dennis Prager
We live in a bad world.
There is nothing new about that. The world has been pretty bad since its inception. That’s why God destroyed it and started all over again (with little to show for the new experiment, one might add).
From a moral perspective, look at the world since 2000.
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UN probe of Israel will only encourage Hamas war crimes | JPost | Israel News
Israel should have nothing to fear from an objective investigation. It should also have nothing to fear from the UNHRC “investigation” – if its biases are exposed for all to see.
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Massacre at Yarmouk | Jonathan Messing
Yarmouk was home to the largest Palestinian refugee community in the country before the conflict began. 180,000 Palestinian civilians called it home. Now only 20,000 remain. Food and medical supplies are routinely denied entry and starvation is one of the three main causes of death. Recently, in the Jarabulus area, 22 people were killed and thrown into the streets to instill fear in the population. Some of them were children.
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Larry Elder - Why There Can Never Be 'Peace in the Middle East'
Secretary of State John Kerry is the latest to think the power of his personal diplomacy can bring
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UN And International Community Share Gaza Guilt - Michael Medved
If the international community has nothing much to say about a governmental entity launching literally thousands of rockets against civilian targets in a n
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I'm Done Apologizing for Israel
I ask the enraged critics of Israel's defensive responses to Hamas: Would you have us not respond to this monstrosity? Do you think it's not worth losing the PR battle to retain our humanity and save as many lives as possible?...
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Six Reasons Why Americans Should Care About The War Between Hamas and Israel
Hamas and al-Qaeda are of the same ilk. Brothers in arms, both Islamist terrorist groups are funded by Iran and theologically motivated to wage a violent jihad, or holy war, against the West.
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Articles: Israel: Damned if they do, damned if they don't
Have you heard the saying “working twice as hard to be half as good?”
This is precisely the dilemma Israel finds itself in all too often. Currently Israel is again embroiled in an unwanted battle of self-defense against Hamas, an enemy obsessed with its destruction.
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Charles Krauthammer: Moral clarity in Gaza
Israel accepts an Egyptian-proposed Gaza cease-fire; Hamas keeps firing. Hamas deliberately aims rockets at civilians; Israel painstakingly tries to avoid them, actually telephoning civilians in the area and dropping warning charges, so-called roof knocking.
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Which Palestinians should I trade places with?
A friend recently asked me, “why don’t you trade places with the Palestinians for a while, to get a truer feeling for their position?” It was an interesting proposition, but I needed more clarity. Which Palestinians should I trade places with?
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MAEL: Boston's Anti-Israel Activists Encourage Bigotry and Support for Terrorism
Just over a year since the tragic Boston bombing, which saw four people murdered and hundreds injured, pro-terror sympathy has made its way to the streets of Boston. Three rallies, all claiming to rally support for the victims of Gaza, quickly revealed th
