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“Poverty, hardship and a sense of hopelessness are driving protesters into the streets in Iran, where they have been met with brutality by the Revolutionary Guard”

SPIEGEL ONLINE Eyewitnesses on the Unrest in Iran by Susanne Koelbl November 28, 2019 Thousands have been protesting against the government and revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei in dozens of Iranian cities for more than a week now. The security forces … Continue reading

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IKEA Israel: The Swedish furniture and home accessories giant is becoming increasingly popular nationwide among the Haredi public

TIMES OF ISRAEL Courting ultra-Orthodox consumers, IKEA turns to kosher inspiration by Ira Tolchin Immergluck December 1, 2019 When walking through the winding showroom in the IKEA store in the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion, it’s understandable if you … Continue reading

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“Jewish refugees from the Middle East know the truth: Only a sovereign people seen as invincible and indestructible are secure in this region”

JNS Israel will only attain peace through victory by Nave Dromi November 24, 2019 Ever since the Muslim conquest, occupation and colonization of the Middle East and North Africa in the seventh century, Jews, among others, lived under a dhimmi … Continue reading

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“Feminists denounce the Western “patriarchy,” but say nothing against the Muslim treatment of women as chattel; gays denounce Christian bakeries, but say nothing against the Muslim execution of gays”

AMERICAN THINKER Understanding the Islam/West Narrative by Raymond Ibrahim November 26, 2019 Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world is eye-opening, to say the very least. In the first century of its existence (between … Continue reading

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“How nonsensical jargon like ‘intersectionality’ and ‘cisgender’ is imbued with an air of false authority”

WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘Idea Laundering’ in Academia by Peter Boghossian November 24, 2019 You’ve almost certainly heard some of the following terms: cisgender, fat shaming, heteronormativity, intersectionality, patriarchy, rape culture and whiteness. The reason you’ve heard them is that politically … Continue reading

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BBC to Corbyn: “Eighty percent of Jews think that you’re antisemitic. That’s quite a lot of British Jews”

JERUSALEM POST Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘train-wreck’ interview on antisemitism by Ezra Taylor, Reuters November 27, 2019 UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn did little to quell accusations of antisemitism in an interview on the BBC on Tuesday. In an interview with the … Continue reading

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“If Netanyahu stood down, Likud could elect a new leader in the hopefully forthcoming primaries, and swiftly form a national unity government with Blue & White, the majority of whose members already support their basic policies related to defense and the settler blocs”

JERUSALEM POST Netanyahu – in the national interest, please step down now by Isi Leibler November 26, 2019 After the electoral impasse, I was one of the first of Prime Netanyahu’s long-term admirers and supporters to suggest that unless he … Continue reading

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“Since the land did not belong to Transjordan, we must not use the term “Occupied Territory,” and under the precepts of international law it is nonsensical nomenclature”

FRONT PAGE MAG There are No Settlers on the West Bank by Professor Jason D. Hill November 25, 2019 …To begin with, the Israeli Jews are not settlers in Judea and Samaria. From here on, they should be referred to … Continue reading

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What motivated House Democrats members to send Pompeo that letter?

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“Leaving the story of Mizrahi Jews out of pro-Israel advocacy is a mistake”

JEWISH JOURNAL The Damage Done by Shouting Down Ideas by Hen Mazzig November 20, 2019 For the past several years, I’ve traveled around the United States as an advocate, speaking about my family’s story of exile from Iraq and Tunisia … Continue reading

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