Most Clicked This Week
- "When I spoke to the prime minister, it was clear that Lauder’s intervention with Trump angered and distressed him"
- "We have enough crazies of our own who were born in the United States; we don’t need to import any more"
- Syria: "The U.S. should do everything in its power to ensure Israel’s success in its growing confrontation with #Iran, which serves U.S. interests, and those of our other Sunni Arab allies"
- The Middle East Masquerade Party
- "Israel’s confusing plethora of small parties actually keeps Ḥaredim and Israeli Arabs, in particular, from becoming too alienated"
- The Saudis Team Up With Israel
- “The visit of two anti-Israel members of Congress is an opportunity for them to see the real Israel, and perhaps learn a thing or two”
- Survey Finds 85% of European Jews Fear Bringing Children to Rosh Hashanah Services
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Using children to further political goals: US media take a leaf right out of the Palestinian book
JNS From Israel to America: The dangerous weaponization of children by Eldad Beck June 21, 2018 …This “conscientious mobilization,” similar to that which accuses Israel of intentionally murdering children, not only turns children into political soldiers, but increases the risk … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
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Moe Berg: “The Catcher Was a Spy” is “a dutiful laundry list of a biopic, ticking off boxes in Berg’s career — brainiac, athlete, loner, secular Jew, secret agent”
WASHINGTON POST Paul Rudd plays a Jewish baseball player who becomes a spy — and yes, he is a real person by Michael O’Sullivan June 19, 2018 Morris “Moe” Berg was an odd duck. The baseball player and coach, who … Continue reading
Krauthammer: “What began as an experiment has become the very heart of the Jewish people – its cultural, spiritual, and psychological center, soon to become its demographic center as well. Israel is the hinge”
JERUSALEM POST A Tribute to Charles Krauthammer by David M. Weinberg June 22, 2018 …Krauthammer understood that American Jewry was dying. “Nothing will revive the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and the Islamic world. And nothing will stop the rapid … Continue reading
Deborah Lipstadt: “Trump’s family-separation policy is horrible, but equating it with genocide is both historically and strategically misguided”
THE ATLANTIC It’s Not the Holocaust by Deborah Lipstadt June 22, 2018 The Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents brought a flood of comparisons to the Holocaust. Some described the facilities used to hold the children as … Continue reading
JFK Airport ambush on Birthright participants to deliver IfNotNow’s “simplistic narrative that Israel is wholly responsible for anything bad that happens to the Palestinians”
JNS IfNotNow accosts Taglit Birthright groups at New York airport by Eliana Rudee June 20, 2018 At New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Monday night, Birthright Fellow and student leader Ariel Tidhar reported that the American Jewish activist group … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Birthright, CAMERA, IfNotNow, Taglit-Birthright
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Accused spy Segev told Shin Bet interrogators “he did not hand over any classified information to his Iranian handlers”
JERUSALEM POST Segev: I wanted to fool the Iranians and come back to Israel a hero by Anna Ahronheim June 19, 2018 Disgraced former minister Gonen Segev, who has been charged with spying for Iran, has admitted to doing so in … Continue reading
The Jason Greenblatt-Jared Kushner Peace Process Regional Tour
TIMES OF ISRAEL Saudis meet with Kushner, Greenblatt to discuss Gaza, peace push by AFP and TOI staff June 20, 2018 Saudi Arabia’s crown prince on Wednesday hosted US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt and adviser Jared Kushner … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt, Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia
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US State Department “infuriated by Friedman’s success in helping to persuade Trump to finally recognize that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital”
NEW YORK POST Why the establishment despises Trump’s ambassador to Israel by Jonathan S. Tobin June 18, 2018 The foreign-policy establishment and the mainstream media agree: David Friedman isn’t their kind of US ambassador to Israel. He’s just too pro-Israel … Continue reading
Nikki Haley: UN Human Rights Council “is ‘a cesspool of political bias’; announces US departure”
TIMES OF ISRAEL US quits the UN’s Human Rights Council, citing its ‘chronic bias against Israel’ by Raphael Ahren and Agencies June 19, 2018 The United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council, US ambassador Nikki Haley said … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Nikki Haley, UN Human Rights Council
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“No doubt, Hebrew Union College expected an edgy talk from Chabon”
JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS Michael Chabon’s Sacred and Profane Cliché Machine by Elli Fischer June 13, 2018 …Hebron, a small and heavily fortified Jewish community with a violent history, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, exemplifies for Chabon, all … Continue reading
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