Category Archives: Jewish

“The death in Jerusalem of the 86-year-old leader has robbed the Jewish world of one of its towering figures at a time when it is particularly ill-equipped for such a loss”

JNS The moral courage of Isi Leibler by Melanie Phillips April 15, 2021 The death in Jerusalem of Isi Leibler at the age of 86 has robbed the Jewish world of one of its towering figures at a time when … Continue reading

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Progressive Democrat takes to House floor with speech honoring Israel on its 73rd birthday

ALGEMEINER Israel Reminds Us That It Is Possible to Overcome’: Ritchie Torres Gives Israeli Independence Day Speech From House Floor by Staff April 16, 2021 US Congressman Ritchie Torres took to the floor of the US House of Representatives Thursday … Continue reading

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Professor Gil Troy: “Why I am a Zionist”

UNPACKED Professor Gil Troy’s essay “Why I am a Zionist”

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“Alas, as president, Joe Biden has shown that his words as vice president condemning Palestinian terrorism were mere empty gestures. The Martyrs Fund has not gone away. “Pay for slay” lives on”

NEWSWEEK Biden’s Taylor Force Betrayal by A.J. Caschetta April 12, 2021 Joe Biden’s recent gift of $235 million in aid to the Palestinians violates the spirit of the Taylor Force Act and betrays the memory of Taylor Force himself. Any … Continue reading

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Israel’s Jewish percentage dropping; “In 1948, the Jewish percentage of the population stood at 82.1%, while today it stands at only 73.9%”

JERUSALEM POST Jewish population at lowest percentage since founding of Israel by Moshe Cohen April 12, 2021 The proportion of Jews in Israel’s population fell below the threshold of 74% for the first time this year, data from the Central … Continue reading

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Noa Tishby makes the case for a ‘misunderstood’ Israel

One-one with Israeli actress, activist and author Noa Tishby

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“Israel has become the answer to centuries of powerlessness, pogroms, expulsions, inquisitions, ghettos, yellow stars, and crematoria directed at the Jewish people”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel at 73 by David Harris April 11, 2021 Modern Israel celebrates its 73rd birthday this week. Let me put my cards on the table. I’m not dispassionate when it comes to the country. For nearly 1,900 … Continue reading

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“An analysis of photographs sold at a Jerusalem auction house offers new insight into the role of foreign accomplices in Hitler’s Final Solution”

TABLET MAG Photographic Evidence Shows Palestinian Leader Amin al-Husseini at a Nazi Concentration Camp by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz April 7, 2021 In 2017, Jerusalem’s Kedem auction house posted three of six previously unknown photos on the internet, in which the … Continue reading

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Prince Philip came under attack in the 1960s for speaking to pro-Israel groups, and, famously impervious to criticism, ignored the attacks

JTA Prince Philip, who opposed Nazis and was first British royal to visit Israel, dies at 99 by Cnaan Lipshiz and Ron Kampeas April 9, 2021 Prince Philip, perhaps the closest member of the British royal family to Jews and … Continue reading

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“There are two sources for Israel’s claim to the West Bank. The first, and the most important, is the Mandate for Palestine, set up by the League of Nations in 1922, for the sole purpose of creating the Jewish National Home”

FRONT PAGE MAG Israel’s Claim Under International Law to the ‘Occupied Territories’ by Hugh Fitzgerald April 8, 2021 The Biden Administration seems to think that the way to bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians is to push Israel back within … Continue reading

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