Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

BLM cofounder who called for Israel’s destruction to be UCLA keynote speaker

JEWISH JOURNAL UCLA Confirms BLM Co-founder Who Called to End “Project That’s Called Israel” Will Be Commencement Speaker by Aaron Bandler June 10, 2021 The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs confirmed to the Journal that Black Lives Matter (BLM) … Continue reading

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“Established in 1929 in the city’s central business district, the Chicago Loop Synagogue has primarily served office workers for much of its history”

THE ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER With commuter congregation waning, the Chicago Loop Synagogue faces an uncertain future by Aaron Smithson June 8, 2021 …According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Chicago Loop Synagogue’s membership has shrunk markedly in the last thirty years, … Continue reading

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“The incidents in Iran lead to questions about whether Israel has overseen a wide-ranging campaign of attacks and sabotage against Iran”

NEWSWEEK Is Iran Suffering From ‘Simple Sabotage?’ by Seth J. Frantzman June 8, 2021 Iran has suffered a series of mysterious explosions and fires over the past year. While some of them have targeted sensitive sites, such as the Natanz … Continue reading

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Scientific American article writers “are mostly young, Palestinian BDS activists who are clearly far more passionately involved in anti-Israel incitement than in promoting good healthcare and medicine”

CAMERA BLOG Scientific American Breaks 176-Year Legacy to Shill for Terrorists and Promote BDS by Ricki Hollander June 4, 2021 …On June 2, 2021, the newspaper published an “analysis article” that is being circulated as a petition by anti-Israel BDS … Continue reading

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Projection 101: America and Israel are being accused of imperialism and colonialism by medieval Islamic imperialists and colonialists

FRONT PAGE MAG Why Pro-Israel Hasbara Fails by Daniel Greenfield June 10, 2021 …The typical campaign shows that Israel is diverse, a country with a tech industry and beaches, gay pride parades and soldiers in bikinis, minority doctors and coffee … Continue reading

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“The easiest way to figure out which side is telling the truth would be to read the coalition agreements signed by the parties set to join the Lapid-Bennett government”

ISRAEL HAYOM ( by agreement with JNS) What sort of government are Lapid and Bennett forming? by Caroline Glick June 6, 2021 The storm of controversy now engulfing Israel revolves around one question. What sort of government do Yair Lapid … Continue reading

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Understanding Israel’s Destruction of Hamas’ “Metro” and Who won?

JERUSALEM POST Israel or Hamas: Who won? by Daniel Pipes June 7, 2021 Who won the recent round of fighting between Hamas and Israel? The war of words that followed the air battles finds pro-Israel voices deeply divided and anti-Israel … Continue reading

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Israel bans sale of fur to fashion industry, first country to do so; “loophole exempts ultra-Orthodox Jews, who often wear cake-shaped sable hats known as shtreimels”

TIMES OF ISRAEL PETA hails Israel as first country to ban fur, but major exceptions remain by Staff June 9, 2021 Animal rights group PETA on Wednesday hailed Israel as “the first country in the world to ban the sale … Continue reading

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Bal Harbor Mayor: The Honeymoon Period for the Jewish Diaspora is Over

JNS For American Jews, the honeymoon is over by Gabriel Groisman June 4, 2021 Unfortunately, we’ve also allowed this era to soften us as a people. We let our collective guard down. We began intellectualizing away our identity in an … Continue reading

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“Jewish pride has replaced the humiliated Jew of history, but where Israelis are entrenched in the trappings of Jewish identity, American Jews must choose”

TIMES OF ISRAEL American Jews, how ‘Jewish’ are you? by Yedidia Z. Stern June 6, 2021 …What attributes make one Jewish in the eyes of American Jews? Along with the memory of the Holocaust (76%) and caring about the State … Continue reading

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