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#BDSFail “The decision came in response to a complaint from Shurat HaDin, an Israeli advocacy group that files lawsuits around the world against Israel’s foes”

ASSOCIATED PRESS US fundraising site suspends Palestinian boycott account by Josef Federman December 21, 2018 A U.S. software company [Donorbox] said Friday it blocked the fundraising account of the Palestinian-led boycott [BDS] movement against Israel following a complaint by a … Continue reading

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“How pressure campaigns by criminal suspects can collapse the journalistic ideal of boldly-defiant truth-telling”

MIDDLE EAST FORUM ‪Reflections on How Islamist Lawfare Has Succeeded by Todd Bensman December 21, 2018 The 10-year anniversary of the “Holy Land Foundation Five” trial in a Dallas federal courtroom has quietly arrived.  In November of 2008 federal prosecutors convicted five … Continue reading

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“It’s hard to think of a time when an American president has so publicly stripped his most senior advisers of their credibility”

THE ATLANTIC ‪Trump Delivers a Victory to Iran‬ by Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht December 24, 2018 …Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, concurrently with his intention to drastically reduce the number of American soldiers in Afghanistan … Continue reading

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“Now J Street is on a second phase of its campaign – to undermine the Birthright program because it serves the “right-wing annexationist agenda””

JNS Is J Street still pro-Israel? by David M. Weinberg December 23, 2018 When it was founded 11 years ago, J Street claimed to be a pro-Israel and pro-peace organization…Since then, alas, J Street has become something else altogether: an … Continue reading

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“A staggering series of events took Mosab Hassan Yousef from the home of the terror group’s co-founder, to a decade as a Shin Bet agent, to speaking on behalf of Magen David Adom”

TIMES OF ISRAEL ‘Just trying to save lives’: 5 surreal days in Florida with the ‘Son of Hamas’ by David Horovitz December 17, 2018 …Actually, his transformation was far more than crazy, way beyond improbable. “Collaborating with Israel is worse … Continue reading

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The honor crime of choosing Judaism over Islam

ELDER OF ZIYON Arabs upset at latest “normalization” as a a Jew raised as a Palestinian marries a Jewish woman December 23, 2018 Israel’s Channel 20 has the story of Daniel Dabash, who grew up in the Arab village of … Continue reading

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Atlantic “Jewish peace camp” writer observes Bibi was right: “The Middle East is not democratizing. And this means any peace Israel makes will be made with strongmen, and must be guaranteed by them, in a region the West no longer controls”

THE ATLANTIC Bibi Was Right: The arc of history has bent toward authoritarianism by Ben Judah December 18, 2018 …Taking my lead from the late David Landau, the former editor in chief of the newspaper Haaretz, I believed that unless … Continue reading

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“According to the terms of the understanding, Russia will continue to give Israel the freedom to strike Hezbollah and Iranian targets and weaponry that threaten the “balance of power” in Syria”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia join forces against Iran by Daniel Siryoti, Yoni Hersch, Ariel Kahana, Eldad Beck, Erez Linn and Israel Hayom Staff December 21, 2018 The Russian forces currently in Syria will take … Continue reading

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“On its face, Trump’s announcement that he is pulling US forces out of Syria seems like an unfriendly act toward Israel. But it isn’t”

JERUSALEM POST Trump’s decision to pull forces out of Syria has upsides by Caroline Glick December 21, 2018 …By leaving Syria, the US is abandoning Obama’s pro-Iranian policy once and for all. Further indication that this is part of a … Continue reading

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“Any Israeli woman of child-bearing age who is struggling to conceive, Arab or Jew, is eligible for nearly full state funding of in-vitro fertilization treatment”

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Israel booms with babies as developed world’s birthrates plummet. Here’s why. by Dina Kraft December 14, 2018 …The importance of having children is a focus in Israel as it is in most parts of the world, but … Continue reading

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