Category Archives: Islam

The Nakba story, “perhaps the most persistent big lie of the past 75 years”

COMMENTARY The Truth Behind the Palestinian ‘Catastrophe’ Sol Stern March 2023 Israel will soon celebrate the 75th anniversary of its independence. Around the same time, Palestinians will stage their annual Nakba Day, the official commemoration held every year on May … Continue reading

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Foreign Ministry denies report that United Hatzalah team sent to provide disaster relief to Turkey left early following a verified security threat

JERUSALEM POST IDF to conclude Operation Olive Branch after saving 19 lives in Turkey Staff February 12, 2023 Israel’s Operation Olive Branch delegation will conclude its rescue operations in Turkey and return to Israel in the coming days, according to a … Continue reading

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Mazzig: “There is nothing more inconvenient to the political mobilization against Israel than the discovery that the Jewish state actually is made up of a majority of Jews of color who were refugees from murderous Arab regimes”

JEWISH CHICAGO ‘Wrong Kind of Jew,’ right kind of book Aaron B. Cohen January/February 2023 Many who oppose Jewish self-determination distort and seek to delegitimize Jewish memory, history, and identity by calling Israel a white, European, colonial, settler state. The … Continue reading

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Saudi news site quotes unnamed Israeli military official saying any move by Tehran to ‘take advantage of tragic situation’ will be met with military response ‘without hesitation’

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel warns Iran against sending arms to Syria under guise of quake aid Emanuel Fabian February 9, 2023 The Saudi-owned Elaph news site on Thursday cited an Israeli military official as saying if Iran ships weapons to … Continue reading

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Why is Israel under threat from a terrorist group for allowing Jews to pray at Judaism’s holiest site? Why is it okay for everyone else to pray there and not for Jews? And why do these Palestinian groups get away with making such threats?

COMMENTARY Moshe Dayan’s Tragic Blunder Meir Y. Soloveichik February 2023 …The current contretemps, like all others concerning the Temple Mount, reveals that [Moshe] Dayan’s original decision was a terrible mistake, the worst in Israel’s history. Rather than pacifying Jewish–Muslim relations, … Continue reading

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The Twitter account Omanis Against Normalization described the event as a “betrayal of the Palestinian cause and support for the tourist office of the occupying country”

JERUSALEM POST Omani blogger visits Israel, causing an uproar in the Arab world Maariv Online February 5, 2023 Arab social networks are in turmoil after the visit of the Omani blogger Asmaa Al-Shehhi to Israel. The blogger, who lives in … Continue reading

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CAMERA: “Along with moral equivalence, an additional means of softening coverage of Palestinian terrorism is slapping on a headline using the euphemistic passive voice, thereby obscuring the perpetrator”

CAMERA Terror in Jerusalem, Counter-Terror in Jenin, and False Moral Equivalency Tamar Sternthal January 29, 2023 One pathetic trick for covering up the morally indefensible nature of a fatal terror attack is to draw a false equivalence to deadly counter-terror … Continue reading

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The OIC’s influence at the UN is evident not only in its obsession with delegitimizing the State of Israel at every turn, but also in how it has harnessed the UN’s agencies to further a general Islamic fundamentalist agenda

GATESTONE How ‘The Collective Voice of the Muslim World’ Weaponizes the UN against Israel Bassam Tawil February 6, 2023 It is already a tired truism to say that the United Nations has a distinctly anti-Israel bias. The US became exasperated … Continue reading

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Congressional resolution: “Representative Omar, by her own words, has disqualified herself from serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs”

REUTERS Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from high-profile U.S. House committee Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan February 2, 2023 U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as antisemitic, two … Continue reading

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Netanyahu: ‘I call on citizens not to take the law into their own hands – for that we have an army and police’

JERUSALEM POST Seven killed, three injured in Jerusalem synagogue massacre Gadi Zaig, Yonah Jeremy Bob January 27, 2023 In the worst murderous rampage Israel has known in years, seven people were killed in a shooting attack outside a synagogue in … Continue reading

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