Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Biden repeats Obama’s 2016 backstabbing at the UN: Hamas was certain that the West would save them from defeat in Gaza. The administration has now confirmed that they were right

NATIONAL REVIEW Biden’s Shameful Betrayal of Israel at the United Nations Editors March 26, 2024 By allowing the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution demanding an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza while Hamas remains in power and still holds 130 hostages, … Continue reading

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Joe Lieberman was almost U.S. vice president. But his real distinction was as a politician who stuck to his principles and showed how to be a faithful Jew in the public square

JNS A politician who was also a role model Jonathan S. Tobin March 28, 2024 …And what made that truly remarkable was that it was also reflected in the public observance of his faith. By the time Lieberman was first … Continue reading

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Foreign Minister Israel Katz: “The historic ban on US funding to UNRWA that passed today with overwhelming bipartisan support, demonstrates what we knew all along: UNRWA is part of the problem and can not be part of the solution.”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel lauds US ban on UNRWA financing until 2025 under new government funding bill Jacob Magid March 23, 2024 The US Congress passed a massive appropriations package early Saturday including a one-year ban on US funding to … Continue reading

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Hamas caught fabricating stories of rape at Shifa Hospital

I24NEWS Hamas admits women not raped by IDF at Shifa hospital, following deleted Al Jazeera report March 25, 2024 Al Jazeera columnist and former managing director Yasser Abuhilalah acknowledged “through Hamas investigations” that a story which the Qatari broadcaster aired … Continue reading

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A new type of “cancel culture” targets Jews

DEADLINE Jewish Reggae Artist Matisyahu Has Chicago House Of Blues Cancel Performance Over Protest Fears By Bruce Haring March 8, 2024 Reggae artist Matisyahu has had the House of Blues in Chicago cancel his scheduled performance Friday because of the … Continue reading

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Unpacking Douglas Murray’s Masterclass Debating Al Jazeera, Anti-Israel (but I repeat myself) Journalist

SPECTATOR UK Douglas Murray schools Al Jazeera journalist on Israel-Gaza conflict Steerpike 22 March 2024 When you’re interviewing an expert, it never hurts to come prepared. But when Al Jazeera journalist Jane Dutton quizzed Douglas Murray on the conflict in … Continue reading

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UC Berkeley: “It is crucial to me that no speaker—Jewish or Muslim or Palestinian or Israeli—be barred from speaking”

JNS Professor ends ‘sleep-in’ protest of Jew-hatred after Berkeley agrees to requests Melissa Langsam Brsunstein March 21, 2024 Ron Hassner, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has attracted national coverage by sleeping in his office to protest … Continue reading

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Dermer: “Israel will enter Rafah even if entire world turns on us, including the US”

REUTERS Israel determined to take Rafah despite ‘potential breach’ with U.S. Dan Williams March 21, 2024 Israel will take control of Rafah even if it causes a rift with the United States, a senior Israeli official [Ron Dermer] said on … Continue reading

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Glick: “If the government remains politically stable, if the military continues its brilliant fight in Gaza and if U.S. opinion remains supportive, Jerusalem can flip Hamas’s machinations on its head.”

JNS Israel’s strategic game of survival Caroline Glick March 16, 2024 Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s obscene call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster from power on the Senate floor on Thursday was the latest sign that Hamas’s strategy … Continue reading

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A question for Senator Schumer: “Do you think that calling for the overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Israel will help you and your political party with radically anti-Israel and anti-American Jew hating voters located in certain districts in Michigan, Minnesota and other potential swing states?”

JEWISH PRESS Schumer’s Rabbi Rachel Demands Israelis Dump Netanyahu or Face the Consequences David Israel March 17, 2024 Rachel Timoner, the clergy at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spends Yom Kippur and where … Continue reading

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