Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

#SNL helps promote libel that Israel withholds vaccine from #Palestinians

BREITBART ‘Saturday Night Live‘ Blasted for Antisemitic Joke About Israel and Coronavirus Vaccines by Joel B. Pollak February 21, 2021 Saturday Night Live is being criticized for a joke by Michael Che during the show’s most recent broadcast that suggested … Continue reading

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Former Israeli senior defense officials express support for Biden’s position not to lift Iran sanctions unless it returns to 2015 deal

JERUSALEM POST Ex-IDF generals, top Mossad officials urge Biden to return to Iran deal by Staff February 22, 2021 A group of former top officials from Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, the IDF and the Mossad sent a letter on Monday … Continue reading

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#SNL “The comedian revealed something important about today’s left. The sooner we get the joke, the better”

TABLET MAG Thank You, Michael Che! by Liel Leibovitz February 22, 2021 …Sadly, too many of us hear “I hate you” and translate it into “let’s talk about this.” which is why so many smart Jews who ought to know … Continue reading

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“BDS has made life worse for Palestinian Arabs, the very people they falsely claim to help”

GATESTONE The Duped Generation that Supports BDS by Richard Kemp February 23, 2021 Yet again we approach the depths of the annual Jew Hate Week around the world. Its organizers know better than to call it what it is. They … Continue reading

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Israel ‘Green Pass’ will allow vaccinated and recovered access to sport and culture events

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel reopens stores, malls, gyms Sunday in major easing of COVID restrictions by Staff February 20, 2021 Israel is set to roll back some of the major restrictions imposed in late December as part of a third … Continue reading

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“Israel believes that going back to the old agreement will pave Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal”

JERUSALEM POST Israel: US paving path to Iranian nuclear bomb with push to rejoin JCPOA by Tovah Lazaroff, Reuters February 19, 2021 Israel warned that the United States was helping Iran develop a nuclear weapons arsenal with its decision late … Continue reading

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Israeli woman freed by Syria while Israel returned two shepherds to the Syria-controlled side of the Golan Heights

AL JAZEERA Israel and Syria conclude Russia-mediated prisoner swap February 19, 2021 Syria released an Israeli woman after Israel returned two shepherds to the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights amid a Russian-mediated prisoner swap. The woman, who has not … Continue reading

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“A Holocaust survivor tells a fellow shopper she only eats that jam because company’s owners saved her family from the Nazis, but secretive French family isn’t commenting”

FORWARD Is Bonne Maman the anti-Nazi jam? The internet wants to think so by Gabe Friedman and Philissa Cramer February 18, 2021 The heartwarming story has been hard to miss: A law professor is shopping at his local grocery store … Continue reading

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“For a people who have been subject to centuries of extraordinary persecution grounded in raw-Jew-hatred, many have no doubt that the extra attention and criticism heaped on Israel is grounded in antisemitism”

JEWISH JOURNAL Jews, Beware of Double Standards for Political Points by Micha Danzig February 17, 2021 For the approximately 90% of the Jews in the world who support and love the state of Israel, it is no mystery that Israel, the Jewish people’s … Continue reading

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“Limbaugh popularized conservatism with wicked and sometimes abusive humor. Is abhorrence of his worst comments more important than support for Israel? Or is this really about partisanship?”

JNS The Jewish debate about Rush Limbaugh by Jonathan Tobin February 18, 2021 In this most partisan moment in living memory, everything— including and perhaps most especially—the deaths of famous people, are perceived through a political lens and provide fodder … Continue reading

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