Category Archives: Jewish

Brilliant unpacking of Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”

COMMENTARY The Enduring Outrage of Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ by Ruth R. Wisse February 16, 2018 …When it became known that Hannah Arendt would be covering the trial for the New Yorker, there was great anticipation. “A foolproof choice,” wrote Marie … Continue reading

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Abbas: “I’m writing off Washington”; Haley: “I will not shut up” [VIDEO]

WASHINGTON POST Abbas, Haley exchange strong criticism over Middle East at U.N. Security Council by Anne Gearan February 20, 2018 With President Trump’s Middle East peace envoys looking on, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused the Trump administration … Continue reading

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#Obama’s #IranDeal: “an instrument used to rebalance U.S. interests, downgrading traditional allies like Israel, as well as Saudi Arabia, and upgrading Iran”

TABLET MAG The Iran Deal Is Now Officially a Disaster. So Where Were You? by Lee Smith February 20, 2018 “Since the Obama administration and its negotiating partners struck the deal with Iran in July 2015,” Joshua Keating recently wrote in Slate, … Continue reading

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16 Things I learned in Israel this week

I’m just completing a week of off-the-record meetings in Israel with the CAMERA board . As usual, we met with various people inside and outside the government, IDF, journalists, opinion makers and think-tankers. We also caught up with our Jerusalem … Continue reading

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Al Jazeera notifies AIPAC, the Israel Project, Zionist Organization of America and the Algemeiner “you will likely be featured in an upcoming documentary “concerning the role of pro-Israel advocacy groups in the United States”

TABLET MAG Qatar and American Jews by Armin Rosen February 13, 2018 On Feb. 2, Philip Rees, a Doha-based Manager of Investigations at Al Jazeera, sent letters to several U.S.-based Jewish and pro-Israel organizations—along with various current and former employees … Continue reading

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“Frankfurt Mayor Becker congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party on the legislation that determines BDS is an anti-Semitic expression”

JEWISH PRESS Israeli Supreme Court President: BDS Not Entitled to Freedom of Speech by JNi.Media February 12, 2018 Supreme Court President Esther Hayut told an international conference on BDS that any public call for a cultural, academic or economic boycott … Continue reading

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“Israel’s policy is legal and justified. Citizens’ well-being must come before that of illegal immigrants”

JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Israel is not deporting refugees by Dr Emmanuel Navon February 3, 2018 Israel’s decision to expel illegal immigrants (and to redirect some of them to third countries) has aroused fierce criticism both in Israel and … Continue reading

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Winston Churchill had a fault: “He was too fond of Jews”

COMMENTARY Winston Spencer Maccabee by Meir Y. Soloveichik January 18, 2018 …If, as one British wag put it, an anti-Semite is one who hates the Jews more than is strictly necessary, Churchill was believed to admire the Jews more than … Continue reading

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Norwegian MP to Israel: Drop Dead

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Leader of Norway’s far-left party nominates BDS movement for Nobel Peace Prize by Michael Daventry February 7, 2018 Israeli activists have attacked a Norwegian parliamentarian’s decision to nominate the BDS boycott movement for this year’s Nobel Peace … Continue reading

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“Journalist Zvi Yehezkeli feared for his life, tells The Jerusalem Post his biggest revelations on the Muslim Brotherhood were in the US”

JERUSALEM POST False Identity: The Jewish-Israeli reporter who went undercover as a Sheikh by Amy Spiro February 5, 2018 Zvi Yehezkeli is a fairly well known face around Israel. For more than 15 years, the journalist and religious father of … Continue reading

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