Category Archives: Politics

Saudi Arabia decision “not specific to Israel, but rather part of a larger arrangement to open its skies to everyone, even those countries such as Israel with whom it does not have relations”

JERUSALEM POST Saudi Arabia to open its airspace to Israel in nod to Middle East peace by Tovah Lazaroff, Omri Nahmias September 2, 2020 Saudi Arabia announced it would allow Israeli flights to the United Arab Emirates to cross its … Continue reading

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#BrookeGoldstein asks “Why have American Jews “focused our efforts on pro-Israel advocacy, instead of launching a great civil rights movement?”

NEWSWEEK The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement by Brooke Goldstein August 31, 2020 …Instead, the Jewish Left is organizing for LGBTQ rights, Black lives, women’s rights and against President Trump. They write op-eds demanding we march … Continue reading

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#CovertCash What US universities don’t want you to know about their foreign funding

Clarion Project’s latest film, Covert Cash: What American universities don’t want you to know about their foreign funding, seeks to expose those hidden billions and investigate the demands and trickle-down effects it has on America’s future leaders. Why would American … Continue reading

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$155 million suit against Hamas terrorist organization aims to end payments it receives from the PA

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Families of murdered Israeli teens file ‘unprecedented’ lawsuit against Hamas by Yair Altman August 30, 2020 The families of three Israeli teenage boys who were abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists in Judea and … Continue reading

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ZOA: “This is another example of the far-left’s “cancel culture” aimed at “undermining ZOA’s strong defense of Israel and the Jewish people”

JNS Several left-wing Jewish groups seek to oust ZOA from Boston JCRC over opposition to Black Lives Matter movement by Sean Savage August 31, 2020 Several left-wing Jewish groups have filed a petition to initiate the removal of the Zionist … Continue reading

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“Some brave liberals will soon be waging war on the very institutions they so recently controlled”

QUILLETTE The Challenge of Marxism by Yoram Hazony August 16, 2020 For a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, most Americans and Europeans regarded Marxism as an enemy that had been defeated once and for all. … Continue reading

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Chicago residents in affluent neighborhoods downtown, and on the North Side, “no longer feel safe in the city’s epicenter and are looking to move away”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE ‘I’ve never had to think about my own safety in this way before’: Shaken by summer looting in affluent neighborhoods, some Chicagoans are moving away. by Christen A. Johnson August 26, 2020 They understand why protesters and rioters … Continue reading

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#BDSFail UAE issues decree formally ending Israel boycott

ASSOCIATED PRESS UAE formally ends Israel boycott amid US-brokered deal by Jon Gambrell August 29, 2020 The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree Saturday formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize … Continue reading

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Arafat’s widow tells Israeli TV says she’s been branded a traitor for warm remarks to Abu Dhabi, indicates she has dirt on top officials which she won’t hesitate to expose

TIMES OF ISRAEL Suha Arafat says she’s being attacked by PA for defending UAE on its Israel deal by Staff August 28, 2020 The widow of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat told an Israeli TV station that she is under … Continue reading

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“Netanyahu has shattered the myth of the centrality of the “Palestinian question,” maintained for several decades not only by the Arab League, but also by the OIC, the EU and the UN”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) The triumph of the Netanyahu Doctrine by Pierre Lurcat August 28, 2020 …The normalization of ties with Sunni Arab countries is illustrative of the second part of the Netanyahu Doctrine vis-à-vis Iran and its … Continue reading

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