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Knesset Member Ayman Odeh tells Arab police serving in East Jerusalem they are ‘humiliating’ their people and should throw down their weapons, calls for Palestinian flag to fly over Jerusalem

TIMES OF ISRAEL Joint List leader urges Arab Israeli cops to quit force, is accused of incitement April 11, 2022 The head of the Joint List party Ayman Odeh caused outrage on Sunday when he said Arab Israelis serving in … Continue reading

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BDS-supporting scientist grapples with metaphors…and loses

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR Nobel Prize Winner Tries to Make the Case for BDS — And Fails Spectacularly A.J. Caschetta April 5, 2022 Last year I asked if scientists were more valuable to the anti-Israel BDS movement than Middle East studies and … Continue reading

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#LeonardCohen: Five decades later, on Spotify and in synagogue, you can still hear the echo of the Yom Kippur War. What happened in the Sinai desert in October 1973?

COMMON SENSE The Israeli War That Made Leonard Cohen Matti Friedman April 10, 2022 Some of the men on the sand look up at the visitor with his guitar. Others look down at their dirty knees and boots. Cigarettes glow … Continue reading

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“EasyJet apparently was unaware” the Holocaust might not be a good topic to incorporate into an ad campaign

NEW YORK POST EasyJet apologizes for ‘Holocaust-themed’ ad post Ariel Zilber April 11, 2022 EasyJet, the low-cost British airline, ignited a social media firestorm over the weekend after it posted a Holocaust-themed ad on its official social media account featuring … Continue reading

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How has a book condemned by countless leading authorities sold over 11 million copies, been translated into 57 languages, and become one of the most widely read Holocaust resources?

KVELLER ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ Set Holocaust Education Back by Decades. Now It’s Getting a Sequel. Ally Goldberg April 5, 2022 It’s hard to imagine a worse response to a piece of Holocaust fiction than a public denouncement … Continue reading

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Pesach 5782: A lesson from the past about choosing freedom over servitude

TABLET MAG The Jews Who Didn’t Leave Egypt Alana Newhouse April 14, 2022 This weekend, millions of people will sit around Seder tables and memorialize the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. Guided by the Haggadah, or Passover text—one of … Continue reading

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France has a grim recent history of deadly attacks on Jews. This looks like the latest.

GUARDIAN French presidential rivals seize on death of Jewish man as ‘antisemitic attack’ Angelique Chrisafis April 5, 2022 The death of a young Jewish man in Bobigny, north of Paris, has shocked France and sparked outrage among French presidential candidates, … Continue reading

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Zelensky said his country will emerge from the rubble a ‘big Israel.’ What did he mean?

COMMON SENSE WITH BARI WEISS Ukraine Learns the Israel Lesson Lahav Harkov April 7, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky declared Tuesday that, when the war is finally over, Ukraine would emerge from the rubble a “big Israel.” He meant that … Continue reading

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“At Negev Summit, US Secretary of State Blinken demonstrates what it currently means to be a Western progressive: supporting people who murder Israelis and empowering others who want to wipe out Israel”

JNS Blinken’s obscene Western ‘progressive’ agenda Melanie Phillips March 31, 2022 …Coming in the midst of the past week’s atrocities against Israelis, Blinken’s remarks were obscene. “Settlement expansion” only increases tensions because people like Blinken make this so by continuing … Continue reading

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Preaching to the margins: Chicago synagogue adopts anti-Zionism as a ‘core value’

FORWARD Chicago synagogue officially designates itself ‘anti-Zionist’ Arno Rosenfeld March 31, 2022 Tzedek Chicago was founded seven years ago, in part, to create a Jewish community free from a strong attachment to Israel. The congregation went beyond its original “non-Zionism” … Continue reading

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