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The Islam Nation of Palestine won’t be what they’re telling us

QUILLETTE Palestine Misunderstood by Petra Marquardt-Bigman October 31, 2019 …A Pew survey from 2013 of almost 40,000 Muslims in 39 countries found that Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were often among the Muslim populations with the most extreme … Continue reading

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U of I “righteous gentile” student leader Jack Langen stands with Israel

ALGEMEINER University of Illinois Student Leader Hailed for ‘Courageous’ Stand With Jewish Community in Fight Against Anti-Israel Resolution by Caleb Galaraga October 31, 2019 As tensions soared Wednesday night during a student government meeting at the University of Illinois at … Continue reading

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Thanks to Jordan Peterson, “Clean Your Room” became a meme

NATIONAL REVIEW An Introduction to Jordan Peterson by Kyle Smith October 30, 2019 Built around interviews with Peterson, his family, his friends, and his detractors (there is some overlap among these groups), the documentary The Rise of Jordan Peterson is a … Continue reading

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“Israeli Foreign and Defense ministries unite in long-simmering dispute with Treasury over bid to retroactively cut envoys’ expense stipends; no consular services for Israelis abroad”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israeli embassies around the world shut as diplomats, military attachés strike by Staff October 30, 2019 All Israeli embassies and consulates around the world shut down early Wednesday as diplomats and military attachés went on strike in … Continue reading

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American Jews aren’t threatened by their synagogues turning into fortresses, they’re threatened by armed anti-Semites walking in through open doors

TABLET MAG It’s Time to Lock Your Synagogue’s Doors by Jacob Siegel October 29, 2019 …Rather than looking for metaphors to express or quell their anxieties, American Jews might stop fetishizing open doors and acknowledge the less dramatic and more … Continue reading

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“There is no case we can find anywhere in the democratic world where positive coverage has ever been considered a potential bribe”

JEWISH PRESS Netanyahu Won’t Be The Only Victim by Caroline B. Glick October 27, 2019 The ongoing criminal probes against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are reaching their climax. By the end of the month, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit will reportedly … Continue reading

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ADL: “Yet another example of SJP’s antisemitic practice of marginalizing Jews and reducing their identity to their connection to Israel”

JEWISH JOURNAL ADL Condemns Benedictine SJP Member for Urging Holocaust Survivor to Denounce Israel by Aaron Bandler Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt condemned a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Benedictine University for asking a Holocaust survivor … Continue reading

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Nikki Haley: Just when you thought Bernie Sanders couldn’t get any more radical, he outdid himself

ARUTZ SHEVA Haley: Sanders wants to give Israel’s money to terrorists by Elad Benari October 29, 2019 Nikki Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, on Monday fired back after Senator Bernie Sanders called the Israeli government “racist” and … Continue reading

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“Iran’s Islamic Penal Code allows girls as young as 9 and boys as young as 15 to be executed”

GATESTONE EU Supports Iran – World’s Leading Executioner of Children by Majid Rafizadeh October 28, 2019 …European leaders, of course, who seem never to tire of sanctimoniously posturing on behalf of human rights, are meanwhile pursuing appeasement policies with a government … Continue reading

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NYT’s Michelle Goldberg at J Street conference: “Some Democratic candidates are so pro-Israel as to be considered “far Right”

ELDER OF ZIYON Even J-Streeters realize that being pro-Israel nowadays is associated with the Right and Leftists are anti-Israel October 27, 2019 J-Street likes to pretend that it is pro-Israel and that the people on the Right who claim to … Continue reading

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