Category Archives: Politics

The quintessential difference between #JStreet and #AIPAC

JPOST Who tried to block US funding for Iron Dome? Lenny Ben-David August 17, 2022 …By mid-June 2021, opposition to replenishing the essential defensive materiel to Israel was emerging in Washington among a squad of members of Congress, anti-Israel progressive … Continue reading

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From my pal Yishai Fleisher, Fireworks in Hebron for the Children of Abraham

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Morningstar has said repeatedly through statements that it “does not support the anti-Israel BDS campaign”

JNS 18 states join Missouri in probe of Morningstar’s alleged biased anti-Israel ratings Mike Wagenheim August 19, 2022 Following a JNS report on a growing list of state agencies investigating the investment firm Morningstar for potential anti-Israel practices, Reuters reported this week that 18 … Continue reading

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“The Inquirer portrays Abulhawa as being fired for purely being “pro-Palestinian.” The newspaper posits her dismissal as being part of a dastardly plot to silence “pro-Palestinian” voices”

ALGEMEINER The Philadelphia Inquirer Hides Antisemitism — Again Sean Durns August 24, 2022 Antisemitism, The Philadelphia Inquirer warned in 2018, is “rising.” But the newspaper is doing its best to hide what it once acknowledged was a growing problem. Indeed, … Continue reading

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“As both senators Johnson and Cruz must know, only about 2,000 of the IRS’s 75,000 employees carry a firearm — and for good reason”

THE HILL Stop the dangerous rhetoric: The truth about IRS funding David F. Eisner August 24, 2022 …On the Democratic side, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) recently asserted that “[t]he Trump administration did a despicable thing. They didn’t audit … Continue reading

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Israel and Turkey withdrew their respective ambassadors in 2010, after Israeli forces stormed a Gaza-bound flotilla that defied orders to dock at an Israeli port. The incident resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish activists

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel, Turkey to exchange ambassadors in diplomatic reset AP August 17, 2022 Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic relations and dispatch ambassadors for the first time in years, the latest step in months … Continue reading

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“The families have threatened to boycott next month’s ceremony commemorating 50 years since the 1972 terror attack in which 11 Israeli Olympic athletes were murdered”

TIMES OF ISRAEL German president mulling Israel visit amid Munich 50th anniversary boycott Ash Obel August 18, 2022 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is considering flying to Israel in a bid to convince the families of the Munich massacre victims to … Continue reading

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Words are not violence. Violence is violence.

COMMON SENSE We Ignored Salman Rushdie’s Warning Bari Weiss August 13, 2022 We live in a culture in which many of the most celebrated people occupying the highest perches believe that words are violence. In this, they have much in … Continue reading

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Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?

TABLET MAG Totalitarians Inc. Emanuele Ottolenghi August 11, 2022 Are Russia and Iran forging a strategic alliance? Vladimir Putin’s recent trip to Tehran for a trilateral summit with Iranian leaders and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggests so. As does … Continue reading

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“The field of research into the US-Israel relationship is likewise skewed, according to Mead, by writers who are convinced that Jews have been at the center of the decision-making”

ELDER OF ZIYON Book review: The Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell Mead August 14, 2022 The Arc of a Covenant is a well-researched book about the history of the US-Israel relationship. And it destroys many myths in the … Continue reading

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