Category Archives: Politics

“Reasonable people, usually old-school liberals, still don’t understand the Left. And so they also don’t understand what happened to their movement, their party and their country”

GATESTONE The Domestic Terrorists of Tomorrow are Blocking Traffic Today Daniel Greenfield January 28, 2024 After Hamas supporters were caught screaming “shame on you” at children receiving cancer treatment at a Manhattan hospital (“make sure they hear you, they’re in the … Continue reading

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Survivors’ accounts, video evidence, and the interrogation recordings of apprehended Palestinians paint a damning picture of the complicity of Gazan civilians both in the Oct. 7 attack, in which more than 1,200 people were murdered and 240 people were abducted to Gaza, and its aftermath.

TABLET MAG Oct. 7 Was Worse Than a Terror Attack. It Was a Pogrom. Deborah Danan January 24, 2024 … It is one that has sparked a debate in Israel that challenges the inclination to draw distinctions between ordinary Palestinian civilians … Continue reading

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“Since Oct. 7, 2,000 Haredim have applied to join the IDF despite being exempt from service so they can study Torah full time”

COMMENTARY Israeli Patriotism in Full Bloom Seth Mandel January 24, 2024 …The Washington Post [They were ready to give up on Israel. Now they’re all in] documents a common trend of Israeli liberals thinking they’d had it with their country only … Continue reading

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Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting says his anti-Hamas protest song is a ‘moral message,’ and asks why ‘so many, particularly in the arts, remained deathly silent’

DAILY CALLER ‘We Are Not OK’: Grammy-Nominated Artist John Ondrasik Releases Pro-Israel Protest Song A.J. Amendola January 18, 2024 John Ondrasik, known professionally as the Grammy-nominated singer Five For Fighting, released a new song and accompanying music video in response … Continue reading

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South Africa: In the 1970s and 1980s they used to joke, “When the Jews go; it’s time to leave, when the Portuguese go; it’s too late.”

FUTURE OF JEWISH A South African Jew asks: Is it time to go? Howard Sackstein January 20, 2024 …A year ago, an American Jewish non-governmental organisation visited South Africa to see whether it should begin planning a mass evacuation for … Continue reading

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Occupied City: Amsterdam under the Nazis

LA TIMES Review: Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City’ is a masterful panorama of WWII-era Amsterdam Justin Chang January 4, 2024 One of the many stories we hear in “Occupied City,” Steve McQueen’s quietly staggering new documentary, charts the fate of an … Continue reading

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How Harvard’s ousting of Lawrence Summers led to the disgrace of Claudine Gay

COMMENTARY Harvard’s Tragic Journey Ruth R. Wisse February 2024 Forgive me for quoting myself, but there’s no other way to begin: “History rarely issues us a red alert. But the surrender by America’s premier university to its anti-intellectual assailants marked … Continue reading

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According to Israeli military planners, Hezbollah was supposed to carry out the same invasion, mass murder, and kidnapping that Hamas carried out alone under Iranian instruction

JPOST Iran’s Siamese twins: Hezbollah and Hamas’s massacre strategy Dan Diker January 10, 2024 …In fact, Israeli military planners assess that Hezbollah was to have undertaken the same invasion, mass murder, and kidnapping operation that Hamas ended up carrying out … Continue reading

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“There’s nowhere like Israel in the world,” Jehezkel told reporters. “I’m very happy to be here, and I couldn’t wait to arrive.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS Soccer player returns to warm welcome in Israel following detention in Turkey Suzan Fraser January 15, 2024 Israeli soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel returned to Israel on Monday evening to a cheering crowd, hours after he was briefly detained … Continue reading

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Iranian espionage operation included fake social media pages urging users to photograph homes of top officials and rallies for release of hostages, tried to gather intel via fake surveys

TIMES OF ISRAEL Shin Bet unveils Iranian plot to trick Israelis into giving info on defense officials Emanuel Fabian January 15, 2024 …According to the Shin Bet, Iranian operatives, using fake online profiles, tasked Israelis with photographing the residences of … Continue reading

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