Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Republican primary challenger Greg Raths says the ‘Jewish community’ uses ‘money’ to ‘control a lot of’ politicians

FREE BEACON California Republican Goes Full Ilhan Omar in Anti-Semitic Rant Collin Anderson May 26, 2022 California’s upcoming primary elections could deliver Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) an unlikely foreign policy ally—Republican Greg Raths, who last week said the “Jewish … Continue reading

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Conversion: Understanding how to join the nation of Israel, then and now

TABLET MAG The Rules of Conversion Richard Hidary May 31, 2022 What does it mean to join the people of Israel? This question takes on pressing urgency now as the State of Israel takes in tens of thousands of refugees … Continue reading

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Billoo declared to an audience of Muslims that they need to pay attention to the Jewish Federation and the “Zionist Synagogues” for their support of Israel and that “polite Zionists are not your friends”

ISLAMISM NEWS Minnesota Politicians Join with Sex Slavery Advocate Dexter Van Zile May 26, 2022 U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison are scheduled to attend a conference in Baltimore this weekend featuring talks by Islamists who … Continue reading

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A new book chronicles a mostly forgotten episode in Leonard Cohen’s long career

CITY JOURNAL The Dark Night of Leonard Cohen Katya Sedgwick June 2, 2022 …In Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, journalist Matti Friedman zeroes in on a mostly forgotten chapter of Cohen’s career: his performances for Israeli Defense … Continue reading

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“A senior member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in his car by two alleged Israeli assassins on a motorcycle”

JERUSALEM POST Assassination of IRGC official shows Israel has shifted gears Anna Ahronheim May 23, 2022 A senior member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Hassan Sayad Khodayari was killed in his car by five bullets fired by two … Continue reading

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“Congressman Levin only turned down PAC money after ‘his hypocrisy was exposed,’ Stevens alleged”

JEWISH INSIDER Stevens and Levin trade barbs over AIPAC, PAC funding Marc Rod May 25, 2022 Reps. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Andy Levin (D-MI) exchanged attacks over campaign funding and support from AIPAC and corporate PAC groups in their second primary … Continue reading

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“During monthlong ‘Chariots of Fire’ exercise, air force will conduct maneuvers simulating attack on Iranian nuclear facilities; military ramps up list of wartime targets using AI”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israeli military to hold large-scale drill simulating widescale strike on Iran Emanuel Fabian May 17, 2022 For the first time, the Israeli Air Force will practice for a widescale strike in Iran later this month, during the … Continue reading

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“In keeping with the language and themes that feature in the UN’s ritual denunciations of Israel, the resolution portrays the Jewish state as an incorrigible colonizer”

ALGEMEINER ‘Ideology of Rage’ Comes to Congress Ben Cohen May 22, 2022 It is the sort of resolution one would expect to be tabled before the UN General Assembly or even Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, but not the US Congress. … Continue reading

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Muslim pushes 90 year-old Jew from his 17th floor apartment but police say not antisemitism. Nothing to see here.

ARUTZ SHEVA France: 90-year-old Jewish man pushed to his death in Lyon Elad Benari May 20, 2022 A dispute between neighbors in France ended with the death of a 90-year-old Jewish man, and police do not suspect an antisemitic motive, … Continue reading

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“Malley also announced new sanctions will be imposed on an “international smuggling and money-laundering network” that he said provides hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force”

THE HILL Biden’s Iran envoy says return to nuclear deal ‘tenuous’ Laura Kelly May 25, 2022 President Biden’s lead negotiator on nuclear talks with Iran on Wednesday gave a dim outlook for prospects of a return to the deal, telling … Continue reading

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