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The alleged distress of “pro-Palestinian” individuals and pressure groups has nothing to do with a genuine concern for the Palestinians — and everything to do with a racist hatred of Jews

GATESTONE A Cry for Help from Palestinians Bassam Tawil August 4, 2023 On July 30, thousands of Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip took to the streets to protest harsh living conditions and a shortage of power and gas. The … Continue reading

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Obamas former white girlfriend: “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism”

TABLET MAGAZINE The Obama Factor: A Q&A with historian David Garrow David Samuels August 2, 2023 There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account … Continue reading

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Pittsburgh synagogue shooter ordered to die by execution, more than 4½ years after he killed 11 in Squirrel Hill

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE ‘The joy you took away will be reclaimed’: Relatives of the 11 synagogue shooting victims confront gunman as he’s sentenced to death Megan Guza August 3, 2023 One by one, they filed to the front of the fifth-floor … Continue reading

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The downfall of the White House’s favorite Iran whisperer is a mystery wrapped inside a cover-up

TABLET MAG What Happened to Robert Malley? Lee Smith July 23, 2023 In late June, reports started circulating that White House heavy Robert Malley had been suspended from his job in the Joe Biden administration. That was surprising. Before he … Continue reading

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Biden is trying to make it appear that a normalization deal will happen if the Jewish state pays for it in concessions to the Palestinians. Netanyahu should see it as a trap, not a favor.

JNS Is a US-Saudi-Israel deal really in the works? Jonathan Tobin August 2, 2023 According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favor. That would involve the … Continue reading

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“The Israeli government must give up on any further judicial reforms”

JNS ‘Dai,’ enough, stop it, let it go Benjamin Kerstein July 30, 2023 The word dai, best known from the dayenu of the Passover service, has a simple and assertive meaning in modern Hebrew: Enough, stop it, let it go. … Continue reading

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Israel must show that it treats Palestinians who hold a US passport the same as it treats all US citizens

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Over 2000 Palestinian Americans enter country so far under visa waiver trial Reuters and ILH Staff August 2, 2023 More than 2,000 Palestinian Americans have traveled into or through Israel since it eased conditions … Continue reading

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The common policy of the last three administrations tacitly assumes that the costs to the United States, to the Middle East, and to the world of a nuclear-armed Iran, while certainly unwelcome, would be manageable

THE JERUSALEM STRATEGIC TRIBUNE The United States, Iran, and the Lessons of the Last War Michael Mandelbaum July 2023 …The present policy rests on the conviction that confronting Iran with the threat of war would likely lead to war, and … Continue reading

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A beloved educator was branded as a bigot in a series of DEI sessions and it destroyed his life

FREE PRESS A Racist Smear. A Tarnished Career. And the Suicide of Richard Bilkszto Rupa Subramanya and Ari Blaff August 3, 2023 Kike Ojo-Thompson, a diversity trainer in Toronto, was explaining to her class of 200 or so public school … Continue reading

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DeSantis went wrong almost immediately by choosing the wrong strategy

REAL CLEAR POLITICS DeSantis Has Only One Path Back From Failed Launch Charles Lipson August 1, 2023 Two decades before “Mad Men”-era advertising executives downed their martinis and bedded their secretaries, a brilliant predecessor came up with a powerful idea … Continue reading

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