Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

“I parted from my wife and the community and most of my family left me”

ARUTZ SHEVA Satmar Rebbe’s great-grandson becomes IDF officer by Tzvi Lev October 26, 2017 … Chaim Meisels, the great-grandson of one of two Satmar Rebbes who lay claim to the hasidic dynasty, was drafted into the IDF in 2014 after … Continue reading

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“An Anti-Semitic Caricature of Me Generates No Criticism from Berkeley Hard Left”

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Cal’s student newspaper apologizes for cartoon after backlash by Nanette Asimov October 26, 2017 … Staff artist Joel Mayorga’s cartoon, titled “The Liberal Case for Israel,” depicts a grinning Dershowitz with an elongated nose and exaggerated lips … Continue reading

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“Christianity is under unprecedented assault in those ancient lands where it first grew”

NEWSWEEK Mike Pence vows to end “unprecedented assault on Christianity” in Middle East by Jack Moore October 27, 2017 Vice President Mike Pence has pledged that the Trump administration will come to the rescue of Christians in the Middle East, … Continue reading

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“Move the Embassy to Jerusalem and Promote Peace”

ALGEMEINER Trump Must Fulfill His Promise, and Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem by Joshua Block October 24, 2017 …Trump seems to have fallen victim to the persistent myth that the chances for peace would be undermined by affirming Israel’s … Continue reading

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‘My Jewish identity was now public and a target was placed squarely upon me by the McGill BDS movement’

NATIONAL POST McGill student council again in turmoil after Jewish student removed over BDS issue by Joshua Brean October 25, 2017 As it tries to implement a ban on the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions protest movement, student government at … Continue reading

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“Israel has been the only country to openly support Kurdish independence”

DAILY MAIL Netanyahu: world should take care of Kurds’ future by AFP October 24, 2017 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel had “great sympathy” for Kurdish aspirations and that the world should concern itself with their wellbeing. Netanyahu … Continue reading

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“Those — like Jewish Voice for Peace — who deny the right of the Jewish people to a state and its right of self-defense are on the wrong side of the line”

JEWISH WEEK The Importance Of Drawing Lines by Jonathan Tobin October 24, 2017 There’s nothing that offends contemporary American Jewry more than a demand to draw a line that will define who is in and who is outside of the … Continue reading

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Though Turkish Airlines has great fares, Jews and Israelis may not want to risk connecting through Turkey. Two good reasons.

ARUTZ SHEVA Israeli judo team not allowed to fly to Turkey by Gary Willig October 23, 2017 The Israeli judo team, which was supposed to fly to the United Arab Emirates via Istanbul for the Grand Slam event, was stranded … Continue reading

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The author’s “claim where Israel is the personification of whatever is fashionably evil at the moment are not only tenuous – they are fictional”

ELDER OF ZIYON Jasbir Puar’s intersectional anti-Israel academic gibberish October 20, 2017 …It is, as always, an amazing coincidence that such a high percentage of so-called “academics” somehow manage to find Israel to be the paradigm of whatever evil they … Continue reading

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Kathy Griffin “culturally appropriates” an Islamist executioner, yet there’s no outcry from the left

DAILY CALLER Kathy Griffin Needs To Check Her Infidel Privilege by A.J Caschetta October 19, 2017 …[Kathy] Griffin’s defiant lack of contrition for her cultural appropriation of a time-honored radical Islamic tradition is appalling. Not unlike a white guy selling … Continue reading

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