Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Physical assaults on writers “part of the Palestinian Authority’s continued effort to silence critics and intimidate journalists who fail to “toe the line”

GATESTONE INSTITUTE Palestinians Beat Female Journalists; World “Sees No Evil” by Bassam Tawil July 3, 2018 Two female Palestinian journalists were beaten during protests in the West Bank in the past week. The two women, Lara Kan’an and Majdoleen Hassona, … Continue reading

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BDS activist Ariel Gold: “I am in the Tel Aviv airport getting deported”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel denies entry to Jewish-American boycott ‎activist by Shimon Yaish, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff July 2, 2018 Israel on Monday denied entry to a Jewish-American ‎activist for advocating the boycott of the … Continue reading

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“The future UK monarch’s historic trip boosted Israel’s international legitimacy, but also underlined the world’s ongoing discomfort with Jewish sovereignty throughout Jerusalem”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Prince William’s visit a PR coup for Israel, with some royal pain amid the gain by Raphael Ahren June 28, 2018 … The importance of his tour lies mainly in the fact that a member of the … Continue reading

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Ami Horowitz channels Borat with Hamas Commander

DAILY WIRE Ami Horowitz Speaks With Senior Hamas Leader In Wild Interview by James Barrett June 28, 2018 In a never-before-released interview, journalist and activist filmmaker Ami Horowitz journeys to the West Bank to meet with a high-ranking Hamas leader … Continue reading

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Prospects for West Bank Annexation

JERUSALEM POST UN Expert: Israel Moving Closer to Formal West Bank Annexation by Tovah Lazaroff July 2, 2018 Israel has taken steps that could lead to the formal annexation of the West Bank, UN legal expert Michael Lynk said in … Continue reading

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“#Netanyahu’s gifts were apparent very early on. Intelligent, preternaturally serious, he had an immense capacity for hard work, always seeming older than his age”

MOSAIC A First Draft of the Life of Benjamin Netanyahu by Neil Rogachevsky July 2, 2018 …No one can deny that Bibi is indeed a bit of a fish out of water in contemporary Israel. He is more comfortable with American-born … Continue reading

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Democrats and Republicans unite to oppose BDS

THE TOWER Congressional Committee Unanimously Passes Bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott by Staff June 29, 2018 The influential House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott Act sending it to the full House of Representatives for a vote, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The bill would … Continue reading

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Here’s a Birthright Trip Michael Chabon could get behind

JERUSALEM POST Left-wing NGO crashes Birthright group to spread ‘anti-Occupation’ info by Jeremy Sharon June 28, 2018 A group of five activists from the far-left IfNotNow Jewish organization infiltrated a Birthright group currently in Israel this week, and offered a tour … Continue reading

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The Trump Plan: “The U.S. will tell the Palestinians to take it or leave it”

BLOOMBERG Trump’s New Deal for the Middle East by Zev Chafets June 25, 2018 During Jared Kushner’s recent round of Middle East diplomacy, he refrained from spelling out the details of the Trump plan for an Israeli-Palestinian deal…“The world has … Continue reading

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Washington Post “Portraying Palestinian terrorists as protesters is emblematic of The Post’s tendency to minimize the threats faced by the Jewish state”

ALGEMEINER For The Washington Post, Jewish Blood Isn’t Cheap — It’s Just Not Worth the Ink by Sean Durns June 25, 2018 …Media coverage of the Hamas-led operation, however, was uniformly awful — as CAMERA has documented. And The Washington Post was among the worst. The … Continue reading

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