Most Clicked This Week
- Bret Stephen's Israel stint taught him "democracies rarely muster their full reserves of determination until they’ve been bloodied one time too many"
- Israeli Superstar Gal Gadot tries to cheer us up but the knives are out: “Nothing like rich famous people singing “imagine no possessions” in their mortgage free homes as the rest of society queue at Lidl for broken biscuits”
- “The Rafah Brigade has been defeated. Their four battalions have been destroyed, and we have completed operational control over the entire urban area”
- ‘Are you a Jew?’ Arab Attacks on Jews nothing new.
- "The explicit goal of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is the elimination of the Jewish state, not the building-up of a Palestinian counterpart"
- Roman colonialists invented the word “Palestine” in order to insult the native Jewish population with the memory of their ancient enemies, the Philistines.
- Israel reaches out to France before resumption of Iran nuclear talks
- Rafah Egypt-Gaza border crossing "track record conclusively disproves the widespread fallacy that Hamas is primarily concerned with the Palestinian cause rather than the cause of global jihad"
Monthly Archives: August 2025
“Lox & Loaded — it’s the catchy name behind a new gun club formed in Chicago”
CBS NEWS Lox & Loaded gun club aims for self-defense for Jewish community amid antisemitism threat Charlie De Mar August 18, 2015 …The gun club is aimed at giving Jews and allies the tools to defend themselves with antisemitism at … Continue reading
Posted in Chicago, Jewish, Politics
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The book that the Communists wanted to kill is more relevant than ever
FRONT PAGE MAG Animal Farm Turns 80 Daniel Greenfield August 20, 2025 …The 80th anniversary of the publication of Animal Farm passed almost without notice on college campuses where Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto is the most assigned political work and … Continue reading
“How nice to pat yourself on the back for your aid to the implacable enemies who are starving Jewish hostages, thereby joining the ranks of useful Jewish idiots in every generation”
ARTUZ SHEVA UJA donates $1 million to Gaza: Insanity or worse? Ronn Torrosion …This is a despicable act by American Diaspora Jews of whom it can only be said seem today to be enemies of the Jewish state. When representatives … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Federation, Gaza, Palestinians, UJA
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A Health Ministry report described the systematic starvation, as well as physical and emotional torture, carried out by Hamas terrorists on hostages released from Gaza earlier this year
JPOST Gaza hostages face systematic starvation, constant abuse by Hamas, Israeli medical report finds Dr Itay Gal August 12, 2025 The lives of the remaining living hostages in Gaza captivity are under immediate threat due to physical and mental torture … Continue reading
Highland Park sets a new standard.
STANDWITHUS Highland Park Becomes First City in Illinois to Pass the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism into Law August 12, 2025 In an historic unanimous vote of 7-0 on August 11, the Highland Park City Council passed an ordinance that officially … Continue reading
“While support for Israel remains stable (and high) among Republicans, it has cratered among Democrats — just 8 percent of Democrats approve of Israel’s military action in Gaza, down from 36 percent just after the attacks”
POLITICO The new politics of Israel Charlie Mahtesian and Calder McHugh August 12, 2025 Would you have voted to oppose sending weapons to Israel (as more than half of Senate Democrats recently did)? How do you think the next administration … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Democrats, Illinois, JB Pritzker, Pete Buttigieg
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“It’s time to demand that Qatar put Hamas leaders on a plane and send them to Israel. Until Qatar does so, Qatar should be considered a state sponsor of terrorism”
DANIEL RUBENSTEIN SUBSTACK BLOG Qatar Told Hamas to Keep the Hostages August 7, 2025 …“How many of you know that on the afternoon of October 7, 2023, while Hamas’s massacre was ongoing, Qatar condemned Israel?” In a room of about … Continue reading
“Halacha would see neutralizing the Hamas power base in Gaza City not as an act of conquest for conquest’s sake, but as fulfilling a mitzvah to save life (pikuach nefesh)”
FUTURE OF JEWISH Jewish sources say a lot about conquering Gaza City Joshua Hoffman August 9, 2025 …The Torah recognizes that war is sometimes necessary, but never desirable. In the Book of Deuteronomy, we find laws distinguishing between a milchemet … Continue reading
“All while the actual Arab nations that initiated the war continue to hold most of these “refugees” in permanent limbo, denied citizenship and rights in their countries for more than 75 years”
ALGEMEINER The ‘Right of Return’ Isn’t a Right — It’s a Means to Attack Israel Micha Danzig August 8, 2025 …In the obsessive international discourse around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, “right of return” has become a sort of incantation. Palestinian officials … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Palestinian, Right of Return
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Former Obama speechwriter finds neutral ground with his right-wing knuckle-dragging brother-in-law
CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Yes: Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family? Michael Ziffra, MD August 7, 2025 Is it time to stop snubbing your right-wing family? That’s what a recent New York Times essay asks. It was penned … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
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