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- I rarely post Al Jazeera, but this is worth a read: “Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded”
- Ted Cruz: "I would not make fighting same-sex marriage a top priority"
- Memo to #UNRWA: Lebanon census says 174,422 Palestinians live among them, but you say 449,987. Which is it?
- "Bernie is that Jew who has taken his people’s suffering and offered it entirely outward, in the service of other causes"
- "Some 75% of the Baltimore area’s Jews - around 100,000 people - live in 21215 and four other contiguous ZIP Codes"
- Kurds edge towards statehood, with Turkish, Israeli help
- Justin Trudeau just created a caste of economic untouchables. Can we stop this dystopian policy from taking hold in America?
- Countering the radical assault on Western history
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
Since October 7, ‘anti-Zionist’ activist groups targeting Jewish landlords have sprung up across Brooklyn
JEWISH CHRONICLE More than 30 years after Crown Heights riots, Orthodox Jews face a new threat from their ‘anti-Zionist’ neighbours Eliana Silver August 19, 2025 On a recent Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway in … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Brooklyn, New York
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“Korff’s connection to Israel spans several years, marked by his substantial charitable donations to various Israeli causes, including the IDF, medical institutions, and local community projects”
JPOST Billionaire behind Paramount mega-deal obtaining Israeli residency August 20, 2025 Brandon Korff, a Jewish-American billionaire renowned for orchestrating one of the media industry’s landmark deals, the $35 billion sale of Paramount, is in the process of securing Israeli residency. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Brandon Korff, Paramount, Sumner Redstone
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In this imagined essay, Anne Frank reflects on the Holocaust, the massacre of October 7, and why the State of Israel and a strong IDF are the only guarantee that “Never Again” is not an empty slogan.
JEWISH JOURNAL If I Had Lived: Anne Frank on Why Israel Must Always Defend the Jewish People Shmuley Botach August 21, 2025 …On October 7, 2023, Jews again saw what happens when their enemies believe they are weak. Hamas, heirs … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Anne Frank, Gaza, Hamas, Holocaust
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“How nice to pat yourself on the back for your aid to the implacable enemies who are starving Jewish hostages, thereby joining the ranks of useful Jewish idiots in every generation”
ARTUZ SHEVA UJA donates $1 million to Gaza: Insanity or worse? Ronn Torrosion …This is a despicable act by American Diaspora Jews of whom it can only be said seem today to be enemies of the Jewish state. When representatives … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Federation, Gaza, Palestinians, UJA
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A Health Ministry report described the systematic starvation, as well as physical and emotional torture, carried out by Hamas terrorists on hostages released from Gaza earlier this year
JPOST Gaza hostages face systematic starvation, constant abuse by Hamas, Israeli medical report finds Dr Itay Gal August 12, 2025 The lives of the remaining living hostages in Gaza captivity are under immediate threat due to physical and mental torture … Continue reading
Highland Park sets a new standard.
STANDWITHUS Highland Park Becomes First City in Illinois to Pass the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism into Law August 12, 2025 In an historic unanimous vote of 7-0 on August 11, the Highland Park City Council passed an ordinance that officially … Continue reading
“While support for Israel remains stable (and high) among Republicans, it has cratered among Democrats — just 8 percent of Democrats approve of Israel’s military action in Gaza, down from 36 percent just after the attacks”
POLITICO The new politics of Israel Charlie Mahtesian and Calder McHugh August 12, 2025 Would you have voted to oppose sending weapons to Israel (as more than half of Senate Democrats recently did)? How do you think the next administration … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Democrats, Illinois, JB Pritzker, Pete Buttigieg
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“It’s time to demand that Qatar put Hamas leaders on a plane and send them to Israel. Until Qatar does so, Qatar should be considered a state sponsor of terrorism”
DANIEL RUBENSTEIN SUBSTACK BLOG Qatar Told Hamas to Keep the Hostages August 7, 2025 …“How many of you know that on the afternoon of October 7, 2023, while Hamas’s massacre was ongoing, Qatar condemned Israel?” In a room of about … Continue reading
“Halacha would see neutralizing the Hamas power base in Gaza City not as an act of conquest for conquest’s sake, but as fulfilling a mitzvah to save life (pikuach nefesh)”
FUTURE OF JEWISH Jewish sources say a lot about conquering Gaza City Joshua Hoffman August 9, 2025 …The Torah recognizes that war is sometimes necessary, but never desirable. In the Book of Deuteronomy, we find laws distinguishing between a milchemet … Continue reading
“All while the actual Arab nations that initiated the war continue to hold most of these “refugees” in permanent limbo, denied citizenship and rights in their countries for more than 75 years”
ALGEMEINER The ‘Right of Return’ Isn’t a Right — It’s a Means to Attack Israel Micha Danzig August 8, 2025 …In the obsessive international discourse around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, “right of return” has become a sort of incantation. Palestinian officials … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Palestinian, Right of Return
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