Category Archives: Islam

Young Jewish Swedish Leader: ‘All My Friends Are Getting Death Threats’

ALGEMEINER by Dave Bender August 19, 2014 Death threats, daily anti-Semitic attacks, and harassment are causing many young Swedish Jews of the shrinking 20,000-member community to say “enough,” and seek to establish their futures elsewhere, according to a report by … Continue reading

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In failing to stop the Islamic State, U.S. ignores the lessons of Auschwitz

WASHINGTON POST by Marc Thiessen August 17, 2014 OSWIECIM, Poland Walking among the starvation cells and gas chambers where more than a million souls perished, it is hard to explain to my 12-year-old son how the free world allowed this … Continue reading

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Video shows ISIL beheading of American photojournalist James Foley

POLITICO by Hadas Gold August 19, 2014 Men claiming to be part of terrorist group ISIL posted a video allegedly showing the beheading of freelance photojournalist James Wright Foley, who disappeared in northwest Syria on November 22, 2012. The White House … Continue reading

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Israel says it foiled Hamas plan for massive attacks on Israel, coup against Palestinian Authority

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Mitch Ginsburg August 18, 2014 93 arrests made, Shin Bet says, thwarting Hamas preparations for third intifada, terror strikes at Temple Mt. and other Israeli targets, ouster of Abbas Israel’s Shin Bet security service said Monday … Continue reading

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A Letter to the New York Times re Israelis and Kidneys

The New York Times excels at exploring creative angles from which to demonize the Jewish State. This nasty above-the-fold article in the Sunday NYT profiling Israeli transplant brokers recalls the Blood Libel and the 2009 Aftonbladet article which alleged Israelis were kidnapping Palestinians … Continue reading

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How the U.S.-favored Kurds Abandoned the Yazidis when ISIS Attacked

DAILY BEAST by Christine Van Den Toorn August 17, 2014 Interviews with witnesses show the Kurds who are now getting weapons and air support from Washington left the Yazidis defenseless earlier this month. DOHUK, Iraq — Not the least of … Continue reading

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In Chicago, Holocaust Imagery, Anti-Semitic Stereotypes Punctuate Anti-Israel Rally

AMERICAN THINKER by Paul Miller August 13, 2014 Chicago – It was a scene “straight out of Istanbul or Amsterdam,” remarked one observer. Dr. Arie Friedman wasn’t sure if the Twitter feed he was reading was “coming from Paris or … Continue reading

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Busting the Media’s ISIS Myths

FRONT PAGE MAG by Daniel Greenfield August 14, 2014 Know your enemy. To know what ISIS is, we have to clear away the media myths about ISIS. ISIS is not a new phenomenon. Wahhabi armies have been attacking Iraq in … Continue reading

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Hamas admits intimidating foreign press who reported wrong ‘message’ [CLICK FOR VIDEO]

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Staff August 15, 2014 We got to those whose work was ‘immoral’ and made them change ‘one way or another,’ says spokeswoman, also acknowledging booting out journalists who sought to ‘film places where missiles were launched’ … Continue reading

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The New Romantics, or “Being Fair” to Terrorist Groups

GATESTONE by Denis MacEoin August 14, 2014 ……What sort of pink-tinted spectacles do you need to march while chanting, “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas”?…..Hitler was not a good-looking man, not tall, not prepossessing, not particularly intelligent, not a great … Continue reading

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