Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Biden honors two Israel critics with USHMM appointment

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA Rescind Biden’s Appointment to Holocaust Museum’s Board Hostile-to-Israel Kimberly Emerson and Alan Solomont Morton Klein June 13, 2023 ZOA and I, Morton Klein, as a child of Holocaust survivors who lost most of my family to … Continue reading

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The agreement taking shape between Washington and Tehran will bolster Iran’s hegemonic ambitions, bringing closer a clash with Israel, experts tell

JNS What to expect the day after a new US-Iran deal Israel Kasnett June 15, 2023 Washington and Tehran are engaged in indirect negotiations to close a deal with regard to its illicit nuclear program that will effectively bring Iran … Continue reading

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Israel and Russia agree on new Jerusalem embassy branch

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Russia to open embassy branch office in Jerusalem following deal with city Ariel Kahana June 16, 2023 Some five years after the US opened its embassy in Jerusalem, Russia is set to build a … Continue reading

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Palestinian survey: 66% believe Israel will not celebrate its 100th anniversary and 80% want Mahmoud Abbas to resign

JERUSALEM POST Most Palestinians support ‘armed struggle’ against Israel Khaled Abu Toameh June 15, 2023 The establishment of radical Islamic groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and their participation in the armed struggle against Israel, was the best thing … Continue reading

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“When the left began its anti-government campaign, the public expectation was that violent lawbreakers would be treated the same way as their right-wing counterparts had in the past. That has not been the case”

JNS The Israeli left threatens murder and incites civil war Caroline Glick June 9, 2023 On Sunday, retired Brig. Gen. Nehemiah Dagan, one of the heads of the left’s anti-government campaign, published a post on his Facebook that included an … Continue reading

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“Netanyahu’s voters are typically darker-skinned Mizrahi Jews, and so Israel’s progressives often play on ethnic and racial stereotypes to express their scorn for the right”

TABLET MAG Israel’s Civil Rights Movement Gadi Taub June 7, 2023 …Israel’s “resistance” movement is not a popular revolt. It is the revolt of Israel’s elites, out to protect Israel’s peculiar oligarchic structure of government. The Supreme Court, which holds … Continue reading

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“The Iran regime may believe the world isn’t watching as it terrorizes citizens into silence. We all must support those who stand by the Iranian people in the face of this brutality.”

GATESTONE ‘No Joke’: The Baffling Silence by The Biden Administration, UN and EU on Iran’s Human Rights Abuses Majid Rafizadeh June 10, 2023 Not only have the Biden Administration, the EU, and the UN have been silent in the face … Continue reading

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CUNY Chancellor Matos Rodriguez has strategically replaced Jewish leaders with individuals that spew harmful antisemitic rhetoric

STOP ANTISEMITISM Antisemite of the Week: CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez June 10, 2023 In 2019, Felix Matos Rodriguez was promoted as Chancellor of The City University of New York (CUNY), leading the nation’s largest urban university and overseeing its … Continue reading

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US Secretary of State Blinken vows “to stand with J Street,” also that J Street is “now more needed than ever”

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ZOA Condemns Secy Blinken’s Extraordinarily Hostile-to-Israel & Jews AIPAC Speech Morton A. Klein June 14, 2023 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s speech to the June 5, 2023 AIPAC Policy Summit shamefully reiterated and promoted Biden … Continue reading

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The IDF said that during the first week, the 91st Territorial Division carried out exercises that simulated “defense scenarios in large numbers along the Lebanese front” and “wide-ranging offensive scenarios”

TIMES OF ISRAEL IDF wraps up major drill focused on multi-front war with Iran, Middle East proxies Emanuel Fabian June 8, 2023 The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday wrapped up a two-week drill focused on a potential multi-front war with … Continue reading

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