Monthly Archives: May 2015

Canary Mission Website Gives Hard-Left a Taste of their Own Medicine

BREITBART May 28, 2015 by Raheem Kassam There’s a website called ‘Canary Mission.’ I don’t know who’s behind it. Nor, it seems, does anyone else. But I think it’s a great exercise in turning the tables on anti-Israel activists who have … Continue reading

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A year on, father of slain teen seeks to ‘translate pain into something positive’

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Renee Ghert-Zand May 31, 2015 Ofir Shaer gives in to the pain, letting it wash over him. He is like a reed that bends to the wind, rather than a mighty tree that refuses to yield. “People … Continue reading

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The Problem Starts at the Top

MOSAIC by Ruth Wisse May 26, 2015 Responsibility for American universities’ failure to confront anti-Semitism rests with administrators and faculty…Hitler’s attempt to establish the Third Reich in 1930s Europe gained legitimacy when leaders in Western democracies excused the Nazi assault on democratic … Continue reading

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Who’s to Blame for FIFA Arrests? Jews, of Course.

OBSERVER by Jonathan Greenberg May 29, 2015 FIFA controversy just the latest in wacky Zionist conspiracies As the United States begins blessedly to clean out the dark, vile hallways of the international soccer organization, FIFA, you can bet that the … Continue reading

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Have Democrats Pulled Too Far Left?

NEW YORK TIMES by Peter Wehner May 27, 2015 AMONG liberals, it’s almost universally assumed that of the two major parties, it’s the Republicans who have become more extreme over the years. That’s a self-flattering but false narrative. This is not … Continue reading

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Barack Obama’s anti-Semitism test

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick May 29, 2015 …In his interview with [Jeffrey] Goldberg, Obama gave a reasonable if incomplete definition of what anti-Semitism is. Obama said that an anti-Semite is someone who refuses to recognize the 3,000-year connection between … Continue reading

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Some thoughts on being Jewish in contemporary polite society

TABLET MAGAZINE By Taffy Brodesser-Akner April 3, 2015 I Probably Won’t Share This Essay on Twitter A famous screenwriter/director and I were having lunch, doing our interview…And he asked me to turn my tape recorder off, so I did, and … Continue reading

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Aided by the Sea, Israel Overcomes an Old Foe: Drought

NEW YORK TIMES by Isabel Kershner May 29, 2015 …“We were in a situation where we were very, very close to someone opening a tap somewhere in the country and no water would come out,” said Uri Schor, the spokesman … Continue reading

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Which do you prefer, America or Somalia ? You might be surprised

An Ami Horowitz Digital Short May 27, 2015 Filmaker Ami Horowitz hits the streets of the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis to ask American Muslims what they think of America. According to his Twitter feed, Horowitz claims these quotes were not … Continue reading

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Turkey’s ‘Jerusalem Fetish’

GATESTONE by Burak Bekdil May 30, 2015 It is truly fascinating that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a professor of political science, believes that Jerusalem, built a millennium before the birth of Islam, is originally a Muslim city. And, according … Continue reading

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