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Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
John Cusack: “I thought I was endorsing a pro Palestinian justice retweet”
THE HILL John Cusack deletes tweet after being accused of anti-Semitism by Zack Budryk June 17, 2019 Actor John Cusack deleted a tweet containing an anti-Semitic image Monday, blaming the initial post on a “bot.” The image Cusack posted depicted … Continue reading
Berlin’s “Jewish” Museum: “Under these circumstances, one has to consider whether the name ‘Jewish’ is still appropriate”
ALGEMEINER Berlin Jewish Museum Director Quits Over BDS Tweet June 14, 2019 The director of Berlin’s showcase Jewish Museum resigned from his post on Friday following outrage over a tweet by the museum’s team earlier this week that was supportive … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Berlin, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Germany, Jewish Museum, Peter Schaefer
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“Yossi Klein Halevi wrote a book of ‘Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.’ Here’s what happened when Mohammed Dajani, a hardliner who later took his students to Auschwitz, wrote back”
TIMES OF ISRAEL When an ex-Fatah Palestinian ‘neighbor’ took up a Zionist author’s challenge by David Horovitz June 12, 2019 …Now, a year later, the paperback edition of “Letters” is being published and, lo and behold, it includes an epilogue … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Mohammed Dajani, Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, Palestinian, Yossi Klein Halevi
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“There are people who regard Natan Sharansky as one of the great figures of the age”
NATIONAL REVIEW A Chat with Sharansky by Jay Nordlinger June 17, 2019 …I remember well that Sharansky argued against an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, on the grounds that it would be very bad for Israelis and perhaps worse … Continue reading
“How Britain’s Labour Party was transformed, and how to stop it from happening here”
COMMENTARY Is Corbynization the Democratic Party’s Future? by Robert Philbot June 2019 …In the 2017 election, 69 percent of Britain’s Jews voted for the Conservative Party—a stunning number, considering that Labour was the same kind of home for Jews that … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Democratic Party, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party
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Senate unanimously passes resolution by Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Kaine condemning all forms of anti-Semitism
JERUSALEM POST U.S. Senate passes resolutions condemning ‘all forms of antisemitism’ by Ilanit Chernick June 15, 2019 The United States Senate has passed two resolutions on Thursday against antisemitism, one unanimously condemning “all forms of antisemitism.” The Bipartisan Cruz-Kaine Resolution, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Ted Cruz, Tim Kaine, US Senate
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“After Nelson’s book, no one should be able to take the work of the BDS professors seriously, given their reliance on propagandistic lies”
TABLET MAG The Big Lie by David Mikics June 5, 2019 Fiercely anti-Zionist students have become a fixture on American college campuses. They depend on professors for their doctrine, and the professors are spreading disinformation, as Cary Nelson, president of the American … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Judith Butler, Steven Salaita
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“Palestine” is a fiction “a concept that refers to an imaginary entity, not real but socially constructed”
ARUTZ SHEVA I stand by what I wrote on “Palestine” by Phyllis Chesler June 12, 2019 I dare to say, at the risk of being shamed and shunned for telling the truth, that “Palestine” is a fiction, a concept that … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Palestine, Phyllis Chesler
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Chernobyl survivors in Israel: “A 2001 law promised housing and medical care to this group of heroes, but scandalously has never been implemented”
TIMES OF ISRAEL 1,500 Chernobyl ‘liquidators’ live in Israel. They are appallingly mistreated by Ksenia Svetlova June 13, 2019 The much-discussed new TV series, “Chernobyl,” which focuses on the worst nuclear disaster of the twentieth century, has reminded the world … Continue reading
ArchitectGuy on Israel 