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“Israel’s surrender to Hezbollah demands over the Karish gas field and failure to respond effectively to Palestinian terror are making Israel look like a “loser” to others in the Middle East”

JNS The Israeli government’s weakness and fear will cause its enemies to up the ante Harold Rhode October 16, 2022 In recent days, my colleagues and I have been closely monitoring the fallout from two major events: 1)Israel’s surrender to … Continue reading

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“The wealthiest musician in the world appears to hold deeply conspiratorial views about Jews informed by the antisemite Louis Farrakhan and a hate cult called the Black Hebrew Israelites”

COMMON SENSE Kanye West’s Dark, Twisted Fantasy. And Jewish reality. Bari Weiss October 17, 2022 Yesterday was any given Sunday in America, which meant that most Jews were not at all astonished when we looked down at our phones and … Continue reading

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“The distinction such people draw between anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism enables them to drape themselves in the mantle of victimhood that connects them to the Holocaust, medieval blood-libels and the endemic anti-Semitism in English literature”

JNS The false distinction between anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing Melanie Phillips October 20, 2022 Those trying to defend the Jewish people from the tsunami of Jew-hatred swamping the West often face an implacable refusal to acknowledge that anti-Israel or anti-Zionist attitudes … Continue reading

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Israel’s guilt is a given: Only those who have openly declared Israel guilty of “systematic oppression of Palestinians” will be featured on panel

CAMERA BLOG Mainstreaming the Apartheid Lie in the Heart of the NY Glitterati David Littman October 14, 2022 On October 22nd, the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) – a prominent organization of legal scholars and practitioners – … Continue reading

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A bad new Illinois law has put the state on a path to further breakdown of public order.

CITY JOURNAL Illinois’ UN-SAFE-T Act Paul Mauro October 17, 2022 After the 2020 death of George Floyd, jurisdictions across the United States enacted changes to their criminal-justice systems—slates of reforms generally described under the catchall term “bail reform.” One such … Continue reading

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“Yair Lapid trades Mediterranean gas fields claimed by Israel to Hezbollah in exchange for a line of rusting buoys”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel-Lebanon deal brought the US back to the region Oded Granot October 13, 2022 No sooner had the announcement of the maritime deal with Lebanon than the politicians started squabbling over it, with both … Continue reading

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“Because it’s unlikely that his name will be publicly remembered for long, it’s worth pausing to consider the grisly murder of Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh in the West Bank city of Hebron.”

NEW YORK TIMES A Cruel Death in Hebron Bret Stephens Oct. 11, 2022 …Murkhiyeh (some news accounts transliterate his surname as Marhia) was a 25-year-old gay Palestinian man who had been living for two years in Israel and had filed papers for … Continue reading

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“Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin’s legal action against internet giants gets added to US justices’ docket, with decision possibly rendered by the summer of 2023”

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#TwoStateSolution “The idea that a Jewish and a Palestinian state will coexist peacefully is widespread in contemporary academic and political circles but ignores the reality on the ground”

JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY Understanding Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution delusion Professor Efraim Inbar October 11, 2022 …Unfortunately, a stable and peaceful outcome according to the two-state concept is not expected in the near future for two reasons. The two … Continue reading

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Jordan Peterson called Israel the “cardinal model of the nation state,” and asked whether “as Jews in Israel, are you telling the greatest story ever told?”

JNS Conservative stars Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro address sellout crowd in Jerusalem Alex Traiman October 6, 2022 Conservative superstars Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro lectured a standing-room only audience of approximately 3,000 at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on Thursday. … Continue reading

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