Category Archives: Jewish

The West’s “self-asphyxiation leads naturally to a decadence that opens the way to new barbaric civilizations”

GATESTONE France Slowly Sinking into Chaos by Guy Millière August 3, 2019 …President Macron looks like an authoritarian leader when he faces the disgruntled poor. He never says he is sorry for those who have lost an eye or a … Continue reading

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“Hoping for AOC repeat, progressive challengers target Jewish Democrats Lowey, Nadler and Engel”

NY JEWISH WEEK Gunning For Pro-Israel House Reps. by Shira Hanau 31 July 2019 Between the three of them, Reps. Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey and Jerry Nadler have 87 years of experience in Congress, three powerful committee chair positions — … Continue reading

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“Even rightist Israeli governments used to subconsciously regard them as potentially temporary, settler leaders say. Now, they claim, that’s all changed. Next stop: Full integration”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Goodbye withdrawal, hello sovereignty: The triumph of the settlers by David Horovitz August 4, 2019 …Over the last few years, though, that quest for Israeli legitimacy seems to have made unprecedented progress. Traumatized by the strategic onslaught … Continue reading

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Canary Mission: IfNotNow and American Muslims for Palestine are partners in campaign against Israel

JNS New report highlights ties between IfNotNow and anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian group by Eliana Rudee July 30, 2019 …“The Jewish community should find the AMP and IfNotNow partnership particularly worrying,” according to Canary Mission. “IfNotNow is not a youthful Jewish organization, … Continue reading

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“How the congresswoman from Maine, who’s never shown any interest in the Middle East, turned against Israel”

TABLET MAG Forget the Squad, Politicians Like Chellie Pingree Represent the Real Threat to Israel by K.C. Johnson July 31, 2019 …Most coverage of the [anti-BDS] vote focused on Rashida Tlaib, who used the debate to analogize BDS to unsuccessful … Continue reading

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J Street-supported congresswoman conjectures why Republicans focus on antisemitism

FREE BEACON Slotkin (D): GOP Only Opposes Anti-Semitism for Money by Nic Rowan July 31, 2019 Freshman representative Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich) said at a Jewish Democratic summer conference that Republicans only oppose anti-Semitism because they want money from Jewish … Continue reading

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Rep Cummings (D-MD) “established fellowship that seeks to bridge gaps between African-Americans and Jews in his Baltimore district”

JTA Elijah Cummings started a program that brings African-American teens to Israel by Josefin Dolsten August 1, 2019 Eight years ago Aaliyah Cuthrell knew little about the Jewish community, beyond what she had seen on a visit to her local … Continue reading

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Ukraine’s president actor-turned-politician: “Mr Zelensky is Jewish – the only Jewish head of state in the world today (outside Israel, of course) and his election comes at a time of rising antisemitism almost everywhere”

WASHINGTON TIMES Life imitates art in Ukraine by Clifford May July 31, 2019 …Just over a year ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was a comic actor. His popularity soared thanks to a TV show called “Servant of the People” in which he … Continue reading

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Will Brexit crisis sink Boris Johnson and “bring to power Labour’s far-left, venomously anti-Israel leader Jeremy Corbyn”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Is Boris Johnson good for the Jews? by Melanie Phillips July 27, 2019 …A rather more accurate assessment, although hardly less unsettling, may be that although he does have genuinely warm feelings towards Jews … Continue reading

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“It’s not European. And it doesn’t divide into right and left, religious and secular. Matti Friedman, author of a new book about Mizrahi spies, on why Israel baffles and infuriates”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Nobody hijacked Israel. It’s just not what its pioneers thought they’d created by David Horovitz July 29, 2019 …I came from the West, with the European stories of Israel — the kibbutz, the Holocaust… The longer you’re … Continue reading

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