Category Archives: Jewish

The Intercept–which hasn’t seen an anti-Israel article it doesn’t like–assesses loss of Ohio progressive Nina Turner to incumbent Rep Shontel Brown

THE INTERCEPT Progressives, “Massively Outgunned,” Ditched Nina Turner Akela Lacy May 3, 2022 Justice Democrats, the group that has launched several progressive members of Congress, said it’s being “massively outgunned” by Republican donors giving millions to attack progressive candidates in … Continue reading

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“Britain, instead of lecturing Israel, ought to be taking notes from her about how to become a better country”

SAPA JOURNAL What Britain Can Learn from Israel Andrew Roberts September 2022 Great Britain loves nothing more than to lecture Israel on her supposed failings, adopting an unfailingly patronizing de haut en bas attitude. Whether the Foreign Office is constantly … Continue reading

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Biden’s new press secretary: “AIPAC’s policies are not progressive policies”

JTA Karine Jean-Pierre, who endorsed AIPAC boycott, to be next White House press secretary Ron Kampeas May 5, 2022 President Joe Biden named as his next press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, a former official of the activist MoveOn group who endorsed … Continue reading

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“I once asked her why she married him [her first husband], and she said, quite succinctly and enigmatically, “because he made me feel like shit”

COMMENTARY A Son’s Eulogy for Midge Decter (1927-2022) John Podhoretz May 12, 2022 Where did she come from? That’s what we were asking ourselves, my sister and my father and I, after she left us and this world on the … Continue reading

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“A Kremlin readout of the phone call made no mention of an apology, rather stressing that Russia and Israel shared the same commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust’

ALGEMEINER Putin Apologizes for Lavrov’s Holocaust Comments, Israeli PM’s Office Says Ben Cohen May 5, 2022 Israel said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had apologized to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the widely-panned comments of his foreign minister, … Continue reading

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“But integral as The Crimson has been, I am first and foremost a Jew; and in light of the role Israel plays in my people’s history as our homeland and haven from persecution, I am a Zionist, and I stand with Israel”

HARVARD CRIMSON I Am a Crimson Editor and I Stand with Israel Natalie L. Kahn May 3, 2022 On April 29, I woke up to a flurry of messages from students, alumni, and journalists regarding a new piece published by … Continue reading

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A new documentary about the making of #FiddlerOnTheRoof evokes wonder at our idealization of a past that wasn’t very nice

TABLET MAG Nostalgia for the Slaughterhouse Phyllis Chesler April 27, 2022 …Remember the wedding scene in Fiddler? Tevye is warned by a friendly, local official that he was ordered to disrupt, make a little trouble, nothing too serious … but … Continue reading

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The embrace of woke ideology is at odds with basic American values of equality. It also means all government departments will implement toxic intersectional and critical race theory ideas.

JNS Biden’s ‘equity’ agenda hurts Israel and American Jews Jonathan Tobin April 29, 2022 …The notion that our goal should be equity rather than equality of opportunity is a fundamental aspect of critical race theory and the entire mindset of … Continue reading

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“April 25, 1920 was truly a remarkable day in modern Jewish history, perhaps even a modern miracle”

JNS Celebrate San Remo Day Steve Feldman April 25, 2022 George Santayana is credited with observing that “those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” He was referring to negative and tragic events of the past, and … Continue reading

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My #NYU classmates talk about the ‘#Zionist grip on the media’ and tweet ‘death to Israel.’

COMMON SENSE To the Antisemites Who Sit Next to Me at School Tal Fortgang April 24, 2022 …All of you have done more than I ever could to convince my fellow Jews that the left doesn’t just have a Corbyn … Continue reading

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