Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

“Forty years after the Islamic Revolution, substantial numbers of Iranians are finally rejecting the priorities of their masters”

THE HILL Iranian Protests Were Not about the Price of Gas by A.J. Caschetta December 2, 2019 Anyone who thinks that the recent protests in 100 cities throughout Iran were about gas prices did not pay attention to what the … Continue reading

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“Jews are ‘colonialists’ and ‘occupiers’ who only arrived in Israel in 1948, the academics claimed on Palestinian TV”

JERUSALEM POST Palestinian academics deny archaelogical evidence of Jews in Israel by Donna Rachel Edmunds December 1, 2019 The Palestinian Authority is continuing with its propaganda mission to deny Jewish links to the land of Israel by placing on television … Continue reading

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“The draw of Israelis to physical culture & embodiment began with early Zionist thinkers who sought out to become the “muscle jew” and to flex the muscles of physical survival instead of spiritual faith”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Gal Gadot, Zionism and The ‘New’ Jewish Body by Kinneret Kim Dubowitz November 30, 2019 …While the fitness craze has ignited people in many countries, and especially those inhabiting warmer climates, this trend towards physical fitness among … Continue reading

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Representatives from 15 Arab countries meet in London to oppose #BDS

JEWISH JOURNAL Newly Formed Arab Council Publicly Decries BDS and Seeks Reconciliation with Israel by Jenni Frazer November 27, 2019 …Thirty people from all walks of civil society, from 15 Arab countries, took part in the creation of a new … Continue reading

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“To its credit, the ADL has been all over the problem of anti-Semitism on the far-right.” On the left, not so much.

JNS Who can speak for American Jews against anti-Semitism? Not the ADL by Jonathan S. Tobin November 27, 2019 …Anti-Semitic trends that couldn’t be connected to Trump by even the most rabid liberal were swept under the rug. Its belated … Continue reading

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Canada concurs with the United Nations: The Western Wall, the Temple Mount and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City are occupied Palestinian land to which Israel and Jews have no claim

ALGEMEINER More Than 11,000 People Urge Canada to Reverse UN Vote Calling Western Wall ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’ by Staff November 25, 2019 More than 11,000 people have signed a petition urging the Canadian government to reverse its vote in favor … Continue reading

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“Poverty, hardship and a sense of hopelessness are driving protesters into the streets in Iran, where they have been met with brutality by the Revolutionary Guard”

SPIEGEL ONLINE Eyewitnesses on the Unrest in Iran by Susanne Koelbl November 28, 2019 Thousands have been protesting against the government and revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei in dozens of Iranian cities for more than a week now. The security forces … Continue reading

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“Jewish refugees from the Middle East know the truth: Only a sovereign people seen as invincible and indestructible are secure in this region”

JNS Israel will only attain peace through victory by Nave Dromi November 24, 2019 Ever since the Muslim conquest, occupation and colonization of the Middle East and North Africa in the seventh century, Jews, among others, lived under a dhimmi … Continue reading

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“Feminists denounce the Western “patriarchy,” but say nothing against the Muslim treatment of women as chattel; gays denounce Christian bakeries, but say nothing against the Muslim execution of gays”

AMERICAN THINKER Understanding the Islam/West Narrative by Raymond Ibrahim November 26, 2019 Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world is eye-opening, to say the very least. In the first century of its existence (between … Continue reading

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BBC to Corbyn: “Eighty percent of Jews think that you’re antisemitic. That’s quite a lot of British Jews”

JERUSALEM POST Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘train-wreck’ interview on antisemitism by Ezra Taylor, Reuters November 27, 2019 UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn did little to quell accusations of antisemitism in an interview on the BBC on Tuesday. In an interview with the … Continue reading

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