Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

“#AmericanStudiesAssociation boycotted the Jewish state. It wasn’t by popular demand”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Anti-Israel Activists Subvert a Scholarly Group by Jesse M. Fried and Eugene Kontorovich December 3, 2017 Emails unearthed in a federal lawsuit appear to show that the American Studies Association’s decision to boycott Israel was orchestrated by a small cadre … Continue reading

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“Israeli expectations for normal inter-state and people-to-people interactions with Egypt were not realized”

MIDDLE EAST FORUM The Future of Israel’s Peace Treaty with Egypt by Efraim Inbar November 27, 2017 …Unfortunately, Israeli expectations for normal inter-state and people-to-people interactions were not realized. The rooted cultural and religious barriers to having good relations with … Continue reading

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Just another week at the anti-Israel and ill-informed United Nations: “Only six countries out of 193 UN member states fully supported Israel’s ties to Jerusalem: Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, the United States and Israel itself”

JERUSALEM POST 151 UN states vote to disavow Israeli ties to Jerusalem by Tovah Lazaroff December 1, 2017 The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to disavow Israeli ties to Jerusalem as part of six anti-Israel resolutions it approved on Thursday … Continue reading

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The Flynn-Kushner-Israel footnote “Israel was lobbying furiously against the UN resolution and Trump team spoke up–post election–on behalf of the Jewish state”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Kushner reportedly told Flynn to contact Russians over anti-Israel UN resolution by Staff and Agencies December 2, 2017 US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East peace envoy Jared Kushner directed then-adviser Michael Flynn to contact Russian … Continue reading

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Rafah Egypt-Gaza border crossing “track record conclusively disproves the widespread fallacy that Hamas is primarily concerned with the Palestinian cause rather than the cause of global jihad”

COMMENTARY Gaza’s Latest Lesson in Self-Inflicted Misery by Evelyn Gordon November 29, 2017 Observing developments since Hamas and Fatah signed their latest reconciliation deal in October is an object lesson in just how much of the Palestinians’ misery is self-inflicted–or … Continue reading

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BDS Lies: “There are many countries and movements throughout the world that treat women as second-class citizens…but Israel is not among them”

THE TOWER Why Did The Forward Give a Platform to an Anti-Zionist, Terror Sympathizer? by Julie Lenarz December 1, 2017 Let’s play a game for a moment. Write down individuals least qualified to share their views on Zionism, the belief … Continue reading

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“This is the untold story of the Jewish forgotten refugees. These Jews, who survived ethnic cleansing and were systematically expelled, were now forgotten” [VIDEO]

JERUSALEM POST Remembering the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East’s Jews by Tzahi Gavrieli November 29, 2017 My family was expelled from Iraq in 1951. My grandfather Haim owned a successful business with several trucks, while my grandmother Gazelle ran … Continue reading

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Progressives: “With the launch of Zioness, I found thousands of Americans just like me”

THE FORWARD Zioness Is Here To Stay, So Get Used To Us by Amanda Berman November 27, 2017 You know a three-month old movement is doing something right when it’s been maligned by both neo-Nazis and far-left anti-Semites. Since we … Continue reading

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“Today, the US government pours $65.1 million annually into various regional studies centers run by staffers who overwhelmingly possess strong anti-American and anti-Western biases, which they are communicating to their students”

JNS.ORG Who is finding their way into American students’ minds? by Sarah N. Stern November 28, 2017 …The Middle Eastern Studies programs widely use a supplementary curriculum guide by Audrey Shabbas, called “The Arab World Studies Notebook”—a joint publication by … Continue reading

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Michael Oren: “I personally feel Iran Deal was the collapse of American credibility in the Middle East”

JERUSALEM POST MK Oren: John Kerry has ‘Acrid & Obsessive’ Place in his heart for Israel by Herb Keinon November 29, 2017 Former US Secretary of State John Kerry seems to have an “acrid and obsessive” place in his heart … Continue reading

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