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Columbia University janitor: “We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed by an angry mob with rope and duct tape and masks and gloves”

FREE PRESS Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out Francesca Block May 6, 2024 It’s the viral image that captured the clash between the anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia and the campus workers who tried to stop them. As … Continue reading

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In the eyes of the Biden administration Hamas is the smaller problem. The bigger problem is Benjamin Netanyahu.

TABLET MAG The Gantz Megillah Gadi Taub May 7, 2024 In the eyes of the Biden administration Hamas is the smaller problem. The bigger problem is Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.S. is willing to live with Iran’s proxies everywhere, as part … Continue reading

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Finally, a university run by actual grown-ups: “The University of Florida is not daycare, and we don’t treat protesters like children”

JEWISH INSIDER UF President Ben Sasse: Negotiations with ‘the people who happen to scream the loudest,’ are unwise Gabby Deutch May 7, 2024 Last week, while college administrators across the U.S. seemed paralyzed over how to respond to campus anti-Israel … Continue reading

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The White House and its supporters are using Muslims in Michigan to justify a slew of deeply hostile policies against Israel. Will that matter come fall?

JNS The Jewish vote is up for grabs, and it may decide the election Caroline Glick May 3, 2024 …The Muslim vote, on the other hand, is always in contention. For the past decade or so, Muslim Americans have demanded … Continue reading

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Few Jews still believe the Jewish establishment has done a good job defending and protecting the community from the rhetorical onslaught against Israel that has morphed into a full-on assault against American Jewry

JNS Some in the Jewish establishment, even now, dilute our pro-Israel voice Charles Jacobs April 17, 2024 …From the start, the “establishment”—the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Federation system, the Jewish Community Relations Councils and many rabbis—failed … Continue reading

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What’s old is new again: “In the 1990s, every time an Israeli built a room on a house on the West Bank, the settler policy was said to be “isolating” Israel from the international community”

COMMENTARY Israel’s Splendid Isolation John Podhoretz May 2024 Six months into the war against Hamas, and we’re told Israel is more isolated than ever. But is it, though? Israel has been engaging in self-defense against marauding or rocket-firing Palestinians intermittently … Continue reading

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Possible arrest warrants for Israeli leaders expose the utter perversity of the ICC

JNS Now is the time for choosing Caroline Glick April 26, 2024 …Early this week, rumors began to swirl that ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan is poised to act on these groundless complaints [charging Israel with genocide] and issue international … Continue reading

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The Palestinian terror organization refuses to release hostages while clinging to its last stronghold in Rafah. So why is the Biden administration throwing the full weight of the U.S. government at Israel to prevent it from routing Hamas?

TABLET MAG Saving Hamas Lee Smith May 1, 2024 Reports are circulating that the Israelis are planning an operation in Rafah to eliminate the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza. If so, the Netanyahu government will be acting against the very … Continue reading

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Yesterday a photo circulated of a Columbia student holding a sign asking why the school would have them read Edward Said’s works if administrators didn’t want them putting the lessons into practice. Good question!

COMMENTARY Where’s Biden’s Anger at the Feckless Universities? Seth Mandel May 2, 2024 …A UCLA protester holding a press conference yesterday was asked about the tentifada’s goal of forcing the university to divest from conceivably Israel-related companies. She responded that … Continue reading

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Antisemitism Awareness Act overwhelmingly passed by Congress, 320 to 91; Naftali Bennett gives the history of Zionism in 3 minutes

NEW YORK POST Four out of five Americans favor Israel over Hamas, most back Rafah operation: poll Ryan King April 29, 2024 Americans favor Israel in its war against Hamas by a margin of four-to-one and nearly three-quarters support a military … Continue reading

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