Category Archives: Politics

Biden’s new press secretary: “AIPAC’s policies are not progressive policies”

JTA Karine Jean-Pierre, who endorsed AIPAC boycott, to be next White House press secretary Ron Kampeas May 5, 2022 President Joe Biden named as his next press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, a former official of the activist MoveOn group who endorsed … Continue reading

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“I once asked her why she married him [her first husband], and she said, quite succinctly and enigmatically, “because he made me feel like shit”

COMMENTARY A Son’s Eulogy for Midge Decter (1927-2022) John Podhoretz May 12, 2022 Where did she come from? That’s what we were asking ourselves, my sister and my father and I, after she left us and this world on the … Continue reading

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“A Kremlin readout of the phone call made no mention of an apology, rather stressing that Russia and Israel shared the same commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust’

ALGEMEINER Putin Apologizes for Lavrov’s Holocaust Comments, Israeli PM’s Office Says Ben Cohen May 5, 2022 Israel said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had apologized to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the widely-panned comments of his foreign minister, … Continue reading

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Bipartisan Senate measure calls for addressing a wider range of Iranian activity and opposes removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ terror designation

JEWISH INSIDER 62 senators, including 16 Democrats, vote to oppose nuclear-only Iran deal Marc Rod May 4, 2022 A majority of senators, including 16 Democrats, voted on Wednesday night in favor of a non-binding Senate measure that opposes entering into … Continue reading

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“But integral as The Crimson has been, I am first and foremost a Jew; and in light of the role Israel plays in my people’s history as our homeland and haven from persecution, I am a Zionist, and I stand with Israel”

HARVARD CRIMSON I Am a Crimson Editor and I Stand with Israel Natalie L. Kahn May 3, 2022 On April 29, I woke up to a flurry of messages from students, alumni, and journalists regarding a new piece published by … Continue reading

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The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned Saturday of attacks on synagogues if Israeli forces carry out another raid on the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque in annexed east Jerusalem.

FRANCE 24 Hamas warns of synagogue attacks in case of new Al-Aqsa raid April 30, 2022 “Whoever takes the decision to repeat this scene (of a deployment inside the mosque) will be taking the decision to destroy thousands of synagogues … Continue reading

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A new documentary about the making of #FiddlerOnTheRoof evokes wonder at our idealization of a past that wasn’t very nice

TABLET MAG Nostalgia for the Slaughterhouse Phyllis Chesler April 27, 2022 …Remember the wedding scene in Fiddler? Tevye is warned by a friendly, local official that he was ordered to disrupt, make a little trouble, nothing too serious … but … Continue reading

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“Biden administration continues to court Iran and seems poised to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations even as the IRGC has deployed cells to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former national security advisor John Bolton”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) No one to talk to in Washington Caroline Glick April 29, 2022 …The [Biden] administration green-lighted the transfer to Tehran of billions of dollars of Iranian government funds frozen under US sanctions imposed by … Continue reading

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The embrace of woke ideology is at odds with basic American values of equality. It also means all government departments will implement toxic intersectional and critical race theory ideas.

JNS Biden’s ‘equity’ agenda hurts Israel and American Jews Jonathan Tobin April 29, 2022 …The notion that our goal should be equity rather than equality of opportunity is a fundamental aspect of critical race theory and the entire mindset of … Continue reading

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“Jordan has demanded that Israel relinquish more control over Temple Mount to the Wakf following the recent terror wave and Temple Mount conflicts”

JERUSALEM POST Jordan’s attitude towards Temple Mount is antisemitic and hypocritical Lahav Harkov April 28, 2022 Thousands of men shouted “Khaybar, Khaybar ya Yahoud” – a call to massacre the Jews – outside al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday night, while at … Continue reading

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