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- The Betrayal of the Intellectual
- Anti-Israel activists lead push to repeal Illinois anti-BDS laws
- "The University of Chicago has always been usefully out of step with its peers in higher education...and takes perverse pride in its reputation as the place where fun goes to die"
- “Baranes is a repeated donor to Democratic candidates who has openly advocated against one of Trump’s signature policies, his efforts to limit refugee admissions”
- Kurds edge towards statehood, with Turkish, Israeli help
- Spanish Rototom Sunsplash Festival Backtracks on Decision to Cancel Matisyahu Gig, Apologizes to Star
- One of the faculty signers remarked "because I'm deeply alarmed by the rise of intolerance on college campuses, especially because that intolerance comes from one direction only, from the left"
- “As careers are ruined for often-wrongful accusations of racism, Ilhan Omar remains untouchable, despite her anti-Semitism. The same will be true for Chelsea Handler”
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
Likud minister warns that unless Likud and Blue and White agree on new working relationship, Israel will be ‘on the expressway toward the voting booth’
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Election seems closer than ever as government infighting reaches new high by Yehuda Shlezinger, Gideon Allon and ILH Staff July 22, 2020 The fragile coalition between Likud and Blue and White that brought an … Continue reading
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“How the globalist financier’s desire to escape his Jewish identity fuels his Jew-hate”
FRONT PAGE MAG George Soros’s Multi-Front War Against Israel by Kenneth Levin July 17, 2020 …And support for Israel, like that provided by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), has been an explicit target of his seeking to silence … Continue reading
“The increasingly mainstreamed BDS-BLM narrative poses a grave danger to the U.S. and European progressive and liberal Jewish communities”
JNS The BDS-BLM alignment: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry by Dan Diker July 19, 2020 …Despite universal Jewish support for BLM, it failed to prevent a surge of anti-Semitic violence across the United States in the aftermath of the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boycott Divest Sanctions, George Floyd
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“While China does business with Israel’s #1 enemy, Israel is doing business with China”
JERUSLAEM POST After the China-Iran deal, why is Israel still working with Beijing? by Yaakov Katz July 16, 2020 In six weeks, at the end of August, a number of international construction groups will submit their offers for an estimated … Continue reading
“We work together side by side, Jewish and Arab doctors, friends, colleagues. It’s time that the political system takes up this model”
FDD Coronavirus: Arab countries, Palestinian and Israeli cooperation must be welcomed by Toby Dershowitz and Talia Katz July 17, 2020 Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, good news is hard to come by. However, historical foes in the Middle East have teamed … Continue reading
Yishai Fleisher: “Many Arabs want Israeli residency, as opposed to full voting citizenship, and much prefer life in a Jewish Israel to a Palestine that is both jihadist and corrupt”
NEWSWEEK A Jewish State Beats Peter Beinart’s Bi-Nationalism by Yishai Fleisher July 17, 2020 The good news is that even Peter Beinart understands that the two-state solution is dead. The progressive public intellectual recently penned a New York Times op-ed … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Judea, Palestinians, Samaria, Yishai Fleisher
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Biden’s Democratic Party Israel platform: “U.S. embassy, which Trump moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May 2018, five months after recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, should remain there”
JNS Democratic Party advances platform, including language on Israel July 16, 2020 Members of the drafting committee voted to approve the language of the Democratic Party’s 2020 platform in a virtual meeting on Wednesday ahead of the July 27 vote … Continue reading
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Tagged Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, Jerusalem, Joe Biden
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Black Lives Matter SC founder agrees with Nick Cannon when he observed white people “had to be savages” adding that he was referring to “Jewish people, white people, Europeans”
ABC NEWS COLUMBIA Founder of BLM SC defends controversial comments made by Nick Cannon by Rob Dew July 15, 2020 The face of the local Black Lives Matter group has drawn criticism for supporting and reiterating comments made by Nick … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, Nick Cannon
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“Mocking, critical theory’s ideas and methods, as I have done continually in this space, is therefore out of sync with the values of Vox Media”
NEW YORK MAGAZINE See You Next Friday: A Farewell Letter by Andrew Sullivan July 17, 2020 The good news is that my last column in this space is not about “cancel culture.” Well, almost. I agree with some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Critical Theory, New York Magazine
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