Most Clicked This Week
- Son of Democrat Congressman Mel Levine: "Coming out as Republican worse than coming out gay"
- UCLA Student Council: Omer Shem Tov event was “selective platforming” of an Israeli voice — with no Palestinian counterpart — that would “legitimize and normalize” Israel’s war in Gaza and bombings of Lebanon”
- AAA, profiting from so-called Occupation, bites the hand that feeds it. We're sure they'll want to return all that tainted money
- #SouthernPovertyLawCenter’s political “hate” and “extremist” lists being used to damage internet freedom and free speech
- "The Fatah-Hamas rift that has continued for the last 13 years has been constantly used as the excuse for the absence of elections"
- "Moving Israel to the Pentagon’s Middle East command could lead to progress on the Abraham Accords, experts say"
- When calls are made to unite to combat global Islamic terrorism, as in the aftermath of the Paris massacres, Israel, which is on the front lines of the battle, is simply ignored
- "According to Hebrew media reports on Monday, Israeli officials believe the release of Issachar from Russian prison is all but agreed upon"
Category Archives: Islam
“It will start without warning. And the consequences are likely to be enormous”
TABLET MAG The Next Lebanon War by Matti Friedman September 9, 2021 …What’s different this summer is that some of the important changes on the Lebanese side have become easier to see. Lebanon has long been a husk of a … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hezbollah, Lebanon, Matti Friedman
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“The U.S. has abandoned Kabul, but America’s former client in Islamabad still holds leverage over the superpower it helped defeat”
BLOOMBERG How Pakistan Won the War in Afghanistan by Eli Lake September 9, 2021 For much of the war on terror that began after 9/11, Pakistan played a double game. It occasionally helped track and detain al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Haqqani, Pakistan, Taliban
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Guarantees on paper, as diplomatically wordsmithed as they may be, have proved meaningless
JNS As Afghanistan collapses, Israel learns the value of international ‘security guarantees’ by Amir Avivi and Or Yissachar September 12, 2021 …Further still, guarantees on paper, as diplomatically wordsmithed as they may be, were given to both the Afghani and … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Afghanistan, Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon
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“Latest release in AJC’s “About the Jews” video series, “Is Israel Only for Jews?”challenges the common Arab notion that Israelis are all Jewish or that Arabs in the Jewish state are oppressed”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Arabic-language video challenges anti-Israel views by ILH Staff September 15, 2021 A new Arabic-language video about diversity and coexistence in Israel, produced as part of the American Jewish Committee’s “An al-Yahud” (About the Jews) series, … Continue reading
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EVENT Live Conference: Fight Racism, Not Jews: The United Nations & The Durban Deceit
Fight Racism: Not Jews The United Nations and the Durban Deceit Sunday, September 19, 2021 9:00 am – 6:00 pm EDT First broadcast ever. Leading international experts and human rights voices from around the world will be heard addressing the … Continue reading
“The ADL’s apology for its former director’s opposition to a Ground Zero mosque is one more way the anniversary is being used to change the narrative about the attack”
JNS The real lesson of 9/11 isn’t a story about Islamophobia by Jonathan Tobin September 10, 2021 One of the strangest aspects of post-9/11 America has been the compulsion of so many to change the narrative about the attacks that … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged 9/11, ADL, Islamophobia
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According to Canary Mission, UIC branch of Students for Justice in Palestine stepped up its efforts in 2020-21, even attacking the wider Chicago Jewish community
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) New report finds ‘disturbing’ levels of antisemitic activity at Univ. of Illinois Chicago by Meira Svirsky and JNS September 3, 2021 Last week, the University of Illinois at Chicago welcomed students back to campus. … Continue reading
Counterterrorism expert says Palestinian ally of bin Laden unwittingly revealed 2002 plan to kill hundreds at nightclubs, enabling thwarting of attacks ‘at the last moment’
TIMES OF ISRAEL Al-Qaeda plotted multiple terror attacks in Israel after 9/11, FBI agent says by Staff September 4, 2021 Al-Qaeda planned to carry out massive terrorist attacks on Israeli nightclubs in 2002 and was in the final stages of … Continue reading
Israel’s rising stature as a military power in the region is clearly a by-product of the new US policy decision to reduce its own military presence in the Mideast
GATESTONE Israel: Still the ‘Strong Horse’ by Lawrence A. Franklin September 4, 2021 Israel — no longer diplomatically isolated — appears to be assuming a more prominent political and military role in the Middle East. Following Israel’s generous peace terms … Continue reading
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“While a covert campaign to make critical race theory part and parcel of school curricula has been the most visible part of the activist educators’ efforts to corrupt teaching of America’s children, not far behind has been a troubling, pernicious campaign to demonize Israel and Zionism”
FRONT PAGE MAG Public School Educators’ Obsessive Hatred of Israel by Richard L. Cravatts September 2, 2021 …It is inexcusable that educators in America’s public schools have decided to become pro-Palestinian activists; that they have decided it is appropriate and … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Palestinians
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