Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Sanders unsuccessfully leads effort to cut off Israel

THE HILL Senate rejects Sanders-backed proposals to block arms sales to Israel Andrew Bolton November 20, 2024 The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to reject three resolutions sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to block the sale of certain offensive weapons … Continue reading

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Lipson: “How the revolution that brought Jews to elite campuses turned against them”

SAPIR The Rise and Fall of Jews on Campus Charles Lipson November 17, 2024 …In the 1960s, elite universities were pressured to do away with long-standing discrimination in admissions and hiring. To diversify their student bodies and faculties, they opened … Continue reading

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Goldberg-Polin shared that the journey was a mix of emotions, saying “Every single second that I was fighting for Hersh, I was terrified because I knew he was suffering”

JPOST ‘Weeping for her children’: Rachel Goldberg-Polin reflects on her fight for Hersh Corey Tusak November 14, 2024 “We have no choice,” other than to “be hopeful,” said Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of slain hostage Hersh, sharing how she copes with the death … Continue reading

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“The oft-cited exit poll pushed by CNN, NBC and others asserting that the Jewish vote went 79% to Harris did not include New York, New Jersey and California, which have some of the largest Jewish populations in the country”

TABLET MAG Who Won the Jewish Vote?: The answer depends in part on what you mean by ‘Jewish’ Armin Rosen November 14, 2024 …Earlier this week, a survey sponsored by the Teach Coalition, the Orthodox Union-affiliated group that advocates on … Continue reading

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In order to avoid WW III, Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth will need to overhaul the bureaucracy and cut waste

WALL STREET JOURNAL Pentagon Has Two Years to Prevent World War III Mike Gallagher November 13, 2024 Xi Jinping has ordered the People’s Liberation Army to be ready to seize Taiwan by 2027. Whether he launches an invasion may depend … Continue reading

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Tehran recalculates planned strikes against Israel as Trump gains political momentum. Removal of current leadership would cut financial lifelines to anti-Israel proxies

ISRAEL HAYOM Trump team preparing plans to topple Iran regime, Israeli sources say Shirit Avitan Cohen November 14, 2024 High-level Israeli sources have revealed to Israel Hayom that the Trump circle is formulating strategic plans targeting Iran’s current regime, marking … Continue reading

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President-elect Trump’s associates have delivered an explicit promise that as soon as he enters the White House, he will remove all restrictions on the supply of military equipment and ammunition to Israel

ARUTZ SHEVA Trump’s first promise to Israel November 15, 2024 US President-elect Donald Trump’s associates have promised Israel that on his first day in office, immediately after the inauguration ceremony on Capitol Hill, he will lift any delays and any … Continue reading

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As small but growing numbers of Haredi men enlist in the Israeli military, attitudes in their strictly observant communities start to shift

TABLET MAG The IDF’s New Recruits Hillel Kutler November 13, 2024 Haim Traitel reclined in bed in a third-floor room at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on a late-October afternoon. During a two-hour interview, he discussed the battle injury he … Continue reading

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Murray: “Thursday’s mob in Amsterdam, which viciously attacked Israeli soccer fans, is a reminder of how little has changed in two decades and what must be done”

FREE PRESS Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the ‘Strange Death’ of Europe Douglas Murray November 10, 2024 …I remember the atmosphere back then [2004], and the way Dutch politicians and other elites seemed to blame the likes of Fortuyn [murdered], van … Continue reading

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“Their founding collective and advisory board is a who’s who of professional antisemites — comprised of people who literally make their living spreading lies about Israel and Jews”

CANARY MISSION Antisemitism Posing as Academia An Expose on The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism November 13, 2024 A collective of activist professors have started an institute dedicated to delegitimizing Zionism, Zionists and the State of Israel after … Continue reading

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