Most Clicked This Week
- Pensacola Saudi gunman's Twitter account "condemned US support for Israel and included a quote from Al-Qaeda’s deceased leader, the Saudi Osama bin Laden"
- Israel to no longer bar travelers from US and UK
- CBS, NBC Bash Netanyahu on Election Night; ‘Could Destroy’ Chances for Peace with Obama, Palestinians
- An otherwise positive story from #NYT about Israel's battle against coronavirus "marred by its opening" which has now been changed online
- 49 US Republican senators say they will not back new #Iran nuclear deal. This Isn’t #Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse.
- Harold Rhode: Critical thinking on Islamic Law was shut down by Sunni leaders 1000 years ago. This meant the end of progress, situation continues to this day
- “Most radical leftists believe this noxious legacy foretells our future and will continue unabated unless American politics is fundamentally overturned”
- As small but growing numbers of Haredi men enlist in the Israeli military, attitudes in their strictly observant communities start to shift
Monthly Archives: January 2022
IHRA definition of antisemitism “controversial” where it recognizes that double-standard criticism of Israel is actually Jew-hatred
TIMES OF ISRAEL UN head skirts adoption of IHRA antisemitism definition in Holocaust memorial speech by Jacob Magid January 27, 2022 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday skirted around announcing the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged António Guterres, antisemitism, IHRA, United Nations
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“Attorney general who brought the charges against Netanyahu, Avichai Mandelblit, is due to leave office at month’s end, and both prosecution and defense see benefit in concluding the negotiations beforehand”
FDD Possible Netanyahu Plea Deal Could Shake Up Israeli Politics by Shany Mor January 25, 2022 Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mulling a plea deal that would spare him prison time but likely bar him from politics for … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Avichai Mandelblit, Benjamin Netanyahu
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“The terrorist stopped me from being a parent, he shouldn’t stop me from being a grandparent”
JERUSALEM POST Bereaved families fight to use deceased child’s sperm to be grandparents by Anna Ahronheim January 25, 2022 Bereaved families who lost their sons during military service are fighting the state to allow them to become grandparents by using … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
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“Many of the states promoting and supporting the establishment of the UN commission among the most ardent and prevailing human rights violators in the international community”
JERUSALEM CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS The UN Descent to its Deepest Depths of Hostility against Israel by Alan Baker January 23, 2022 The inherent, long-existing political hostility against the State of Israel within the United Nations, in general, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council
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“If you think the reason Israel gets so much support in Congress is the money and influence of the pro-Israel lobby, you might be surprised to learn that that lobby ranks 20th on the most recent list of congressional donors”
NEW YORK TIMES What an Antisemite’s Fantasy Says About Jewish Reality by Bret Stephens January 21, 2022 A man travels 4,800 miles from the north of England to the heart of Texas. Once there, appearing to be homeless, he gains … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Colleyville, Texas
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“In each case, except for the attacks in the synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, the assailants were Islamists and Palestinian terrorists”
WHITE ROSE Woke Terrorism by Thane Rosenbaum January 22, 2022 …It goes without saying that other planned attacks—in an astounding number of different nations—have not gone so well. The law of averages when it comes to Jews confronted with those … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Terrorism
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Opening Jan. 27 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Chicago, ‘The Journey Back’ puts participants in the narrators’ shoes as they hear their tales of suffering and survival
TIMES OF ISRAEL Holocaust survivors help viewers experience the camps firsthand, via virtual reality by Cathryn J. Prince January 27, 2022 Every morning inside the barracks, 599 women each tore a crumb from their small bread rations and gave it … Continue reading
Historian Eliezer Tauber explores how Palestinian propaganda backfired by turning a bloody battle into a fateful blood libel
TABLET MAG Remember Deir Yassin! by Gil Troy January 20, 2022 Deir Yassin. For decades it was the main count in the Palestinian indictment against Zionism and Israel. In the 1970s, when Palestinian terrorists butchered schoolkids and Olympic athletes, they … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Deir Yassin, Palestinians, Zionism
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“Never has a U.S. president given up so much leverage so quickly for absolutely zero gain”
WASHINGTON EXAMINER Biden saves Iran from itself by Richard Goldberg January 20, 2022 President Joe Biden came into office pledging to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal quickly and then negotiate a follow-on agreement to address the deal’s many flaws. … Continue reading
Hundreds of American rabbis across the political spectrum sign open letter pushing back against increasing intolerance within Jewish community
JEWISH JOURNAL Will Rabbis’ Statement Spark a Moment of Reckoning for the Jewish Community? by Monica Osborne January 13, 2022 The past nearly two years have left indelible marks on the soul of America. We have become increasingly divided on … Continue reading
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 