Most Clicked This Week
- “America's team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran's diplomats at the bargaining table”
- #MAGA "Jerusalem is now looking at what may be the most pro-Israel White House in the history of the bilateral relationship"
- Students find affordable housing in shipping container apartments
- This all has to change: "Palestinian curriculum rejects the legitimacy of Israel’s existence, justifies violence against it, defines such violence as a religious obligation and informs students that Jews and Zionists are irredeemably evil"
- Eurovision Song Winner Barzilai was "unrepentant with her popular techno dance beat about women's empowerment" [VIDEO]
- Set in New York in 1977, “Hunters” follows a band of Nazi hunters who find out hundreds of Nazi officials living in the US are plotting to establish a “Fourth Reich”
- "The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented"
- “Yale University has quietly adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism”
Monthly Archives: June 2017
“The oligarchs of the Bay Area have a problem: They must square their progressive worldview with their enormous wealth”
ORANGE COUNTRY REGISTER California’s descent to socialism by Joel Kotkin June 14, 2017 …California’s progressive regime of severe land-use controls has helped to make the state among the most unaffordable in the nation, driving homeownership rates to the lowest levels … Continue reading
#BDSFail 18,000 member group says academic boycott of Israel “contradicts MLA’s purpose to promote teaching and research on language and literature”
LEGAL INSURRECTION Modern Language Association members pass ANTI-BDS resolution by 2-1 margin by William A. Jacobson June 14, 2017 In a severe blow to the anti-Israel academic boycott movement, the 18,000 member Modern Language Association has passed a Resolution explicitly … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, MLA, Modern Language Association
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“British Jews and many other British nationals were shocked and dismayed with the outcome of last week’s general elections”
J-WIRE British Jews: A wake up call by Isi Leibler June 13, 2017 British Jews and many other British nationals were shocked and dismayed with the outcome of last week’s general elections in the U.K. Contrary to expectations, Conservative Prime … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister Theresa May
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Gaza: If Amnesty International can’t blame Israel, they’re not so interested in the story [IDF VIDEO]
COMMENTARY A Humanitarian Travesty in Gaza by Evelyn Gordon June 14, 2017 Gaza’s worsening electricity crisis provides a textbook example of why many so-called human-rights organizations no longer deserve to be taken seriously. The crisis stems entirely from an internal … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Amnesty International, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights Watch
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We Don’t Need no Roger Waters [VIDEO]
HUFFINGTON POST Wish You Weren’t Here Roger Waters by Rabbi Yonah Bookstein June 13, 2017 A group calling itself “We Don’t Need no Roger Waters” are calling for a boycott of musician Roger Waters. The Change.org petition wants a worldwide boycott of Waters … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Ian Halperin, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Roger Waters
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Palestinian Authority terminates “pay-to-slay.” Or not.
ALGEMEINER Tillerson Still Hopeful on End to Palestinian Terror Payments Despite PA Denial of Policy Change by Ben Cohen June 14, 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered a clarification on Wednesday of comments he made the previous day … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Donald Trump, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority, Rex Tillerson
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“Buffett owns $5 million of Israeli bonds in his personal portfolio”
REUTERS Warren Buffett to encourage investing in Israel bonds June 12, 2017 Billionaire investor Warren Buffett will travel to New York this week to help Israel sell government bonds, the underwriting agency for the bonds said on Monday. Development Corporation … Continue reading
“There is a reasonable debate about whether saying “Islamic terrorism” actually helps in the fight against it”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS An Islamic Terrorist by Any Other Name by Charles Lipson June 12, 2017 What should we call the vile killers of London, Manchester, Fort Hood, Boston, Nice, and Paris? For years, our leading politicians have danced gingerly … Continue reading
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Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary in Yiddish [VIDEO]
TABLET MAG 150 People Sing the Canadian National Anthem in Yiddish by Jonathan Zalman June 12, 2017 Last week a group of 150 people from all walks of life gathered in Toronto to perform a version of the Canadian national … Continue reading
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