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New York Times uncovers new information, devastating testimony, on systemic targeting of women and girls, use of sexual assault and mutilation during savage Hamas onslaught in Israel

TIMES OF ISRAEL In harrowing detail, NYT reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7 December 29, 2023 In a comprehensive, horrifying exposé published on Thursday, The New York Times detailed the systematic sexual violence against Israeli women … Continue reading

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Why an historic massacre of Jews, even before the Israeli response got underway, triggered a powerful wave of hostility not toward the attackers—but toward Jews

THE FREE PRESS The Wisdom of Hamas Matti Friedman December 28, 2023 In the days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, triggering the current war in Gaza, many believed that Hamas had erred. The word “miscalculation” recurred in … Continue reading

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After 2023, surely no one will deny that Western civilisation is under threat from without and within

SPIKED ONLINE The unholy alliance between wokeism and barbarism Brendan O’Neill December 29, 2023 My favourite story about Spinoza concerns the time he lost his cool. A philosopher, a Jew and history’s finest defender of Enlightenment, Spinoza was normally a … Continue reading

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If UNRWA were not there, Hamas would have been forced to fill the vacuum and, for example, build hospitals and schools and find solutions to economic hardship, including unemployment and poverty

GATESTONE How UNWRA Grooms Terrorists Bassam Tawil December 26, 2023 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was originally a small agency mandated to provide basic humanitarian relief for Palestinians, including a vote for renewal every three years. Seventy-three … Continue reading

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Iris Haim conveyed a message to the soldiers who shot her son that she loves and appreciates them, she has no anger or guilt, and she supports them and understands the complex situation they were in

JERUSALEM POST Mother of killed hostage to IDF soldiers: It’s not your fault Maariv Online December 21, 2023 Iris Haim, the mother of Yotam Haim, one of the abductees who was shot dead by IDF fire in the tragic incident in … Continue reading

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“The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers”

TABLET MAG The Global Empire of Palestine Lee Smith December 19, 2023 …The protesters’ goal is hardly a two-state solution or any other dispensation likely to bring peace to both peoples. Rather, the cease-fire they’re calling for is a tactic … Continue reading

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The day after the game, five days after Harvard President Claudine Gay’s disastrous testimony before Congress, I decided to walk the campus to reminisce about my time at Harvard and reflect about what had gone wrong at this once-great university

WALL STREET JOURNAL An Antisemitic Occupation of Harvard’s Widener Library US Senator Dan Sullivan December 15, 2023 …When I walked upstairs to the famous Widener Reading Room, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Nearly every student in the packed room was … Continue reading

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From pre-K lessons on ‘ethnic noses’ to lectures on Israel as an apartheid state, students are learning that Jews are the enemy

THE FREE PRESS How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism Francesca Block December 19, 2023 …But the ideology fueling these demonstrations isn’t limited to the college campus. It now begins in public high schools and even elementary schools as early as … Continue reading

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“Yet it is impossible to want for the Palestinians what they do not want for themselves (an independent state alongside Israel as a Jewish one)”

THE FUTURE OF JEWISH The So-Called ‘Uninvolved’ Palestinians Joshua Hoffman December 14, 2023 Batya, a resident of a kibbutz called Kfar Aza, is a photographer and peace activist. In recent years, she struck a friendship with Mahmoud, a Palestinian photographer … Continue reading

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Richard Goldberg: “Big ideas for Gaza’s future are being cooked up behind closed doors in Washington. Task forces and blue-ribbon commissions are sure to follow.”

COMMENTARY After Hamas is destroyed, here are the five things that must not happen in Gaza Richard Goldberg January 2024 …If Washington and Jerusalem share an end-state objective of a Gaza that can never again pose a terror threat to … Continue reading

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