Category Archives: Jewish

From Asian Games to Israel: We like your software but your athletes, not so much

TIMES OF ISRAEL No Israeli athletes allowed, but Moovit app chosen for Asian Games in Indonesia by Shoshanna Solomon August 13, 2018 Even though Israel has been banned from the Asian Games since 1981, an Israeli transit app will help … Continue reading

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“Meanwhile, our newspapers are silent, ignoring what is one of the greatest stories of our time, the new French anti-Semitism”

ARUTZ SHEVA I do not want to live in a Europe where Jews flee by Giulio Meotti August 11, 2018 …We have imported from the Middle East, here in our once beautiful Europe, the anti-Semitic Islamic hatred, leaving a supremacist … Continue reading

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With the birth of Israel “suddenly the Jews, about whose inordinate power bigots had fantasized for 2,000 years, had some real power to defend themselves”

THE FORWARD Sorry, Liberals: Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic by Petra Marquardt-Bigman August 7, 2018 …The truth is, there is no difference between the two. For anti-Semitism did not stop evolving with the Nazis. Jew-haters everywhere consider Israel to be the Jew of nations, representing all … Continue reading

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AMCHA Study: “Suppressing speech and ostracizing and excluding Jewish and pro-Israel students from campus life were the most common features of Israel-related anti-Semitic incidents”

SAN DIEGO JEWISH WORLD Anti- Israel protests create hostile campuses for Jews August 8, 2018 In its annual report on anti-Semitic activity on U.S. campuses, released today, AMCHA Initiative found that Israel-related anti-Semitic incidents were considerably more likely to contribute … Continue reading

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New Nation State Law’s “principal damage has been to stir up negative public discourse — in Israel and abroad”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Why this former Israeli military intelligence chief stands with the Druze by Amos Yadlin August 7, 2018 Israel’s new “nation-state” law, which is widely viewed here as clumsy, unnecessary and unwise, must be amended. That’s why I … Continue reading

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Chomsky “may be intelligent when it comes to linguistics, but his statements regarding Israel, Russia, and the Holocaust are simply counter-factual”

GATESTONE Chomsky Calls Russian Interference a Joke – Blames Guess Who? by Alan M. Dershowitz August 3, 2018 Noam Chomsky has gone off the deep end once again. This time he claims that in “most of the world” the issue … Continue reading

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Contrary to what you’ve been told Tikkun Olam “isn’t the province of man at all; it is instead the work of G-d”

MOSAIC How American Jews Came to Believe That Tikkun Olam Was at the Core of Their Tradition Michael Weingrad August 1, 2018 …Tikkun olam is often translated as “repairing [or healing] the world.” For American Jews it refers more particularly … Continue reading

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who is America?’ show has duped a number of U.S. politicians, but not Lee Zeldin

NEW YORK POST Congressman avoids becoming Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest fool by Marisa Schultz August 1, 2018 Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin could have been the next victim of prankster Sacha Baron Cohen — but his alert congressional staff smelled … Continue reading

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“All this noise about the new nation-state law proves that the Jewish national identity is under attack”

ARUTZ SHEVA No Druze live better and freer than the Druze citizens of Israel by Atta Farhat August 3, 2018 There are no Druze in the world who can claim a better and freer life than the Druze citizens of … Continue reading

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#BDS is “targeting the most politically liberal wing of American Judaism, which already feels slighted over its treatment by Israeli rabbinate and government”

ALGEMEINER BDS Advocates Try to Split the Jewish Community From Israel by Alexander Joffe August 1, 2018 …Despite the recent incidents, Birthright officials have announced that they will not vet applicants. This decision also demonstrates the impossible dilemmas that BDS creates … Continue reading

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