Category Archives: Politics

Missouri Black Lives Matter activist wins primary, defeating another anti-Israel candidate

BREITBART Cori Bush Is Latest Anti-Israel Democrat to Win a Primary by Joel B. Pollak August 5, 2020 Cori Bush, the “progressive” Black Lives Matter activist who defeated ten-term incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) in the Missouri primary on … Continue reading

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“Yes, suburbanites, Democrats plan to destroy your community”

SPECTATOR Wrecking the American Dream by Robert Stacy McCain August 3, 2020 …The one question the media don’t want Americans to contemplate is what will happen if indeed Landslide Joe is elected. Because the Left — that is to say, … Continue reading

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“How coverage of the Jewish state became a signifier of the ideological activism that now permeates Western culture”

TABLET MAG Israel Was Ground Zero for the New Woke Religion by Matti Friedman July 27, 2020 …Anyone following the doings of the past few months won’t need a recap of the attempted “cancellations” of scholars and scientists for heresies, … Continue reading

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Memo to Abbas: “The fact is, no other refugee population exists from the 1940s. They have all moved on to build their lives in the places to which they fled or in other countries”

FORWARD The real killer of the two-state solution? The Palestinian right of return Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf July 30, 2020 …The overriding Palestinian demand, more important than the explicit demand of statehood, has always been the innocuous sounding right … Continue reading

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Knesset member: “Wow. Twitter just admitted that tweets calling genocide against Jews by Iranian leaders DON’T violate its policy! This is a double standard. This is anti-Semitism”

CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS Knesset makes effort to confront anti-Israel, anti-Jewish posts, hate speech online by Israel Kasnett August 1, 2020 …On July 29, the Israeli Knesset held a hearing concerning the growing concern of anti-Semitism found on social media….At the … Continue reading

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Young Turks want to leave Turkey, irrespective of their political leanings

GATESTONE INSTITUTE Turkey’s Brain Drain: Why Youths See No Future There by Burak Bekdil August 1, 2020 Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, once declared his political mission as “raising devout (Muslim) generations.” Research in recent years has shown that … Continue reading

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#SethRogen’s opinions about Israel “are increasingly popular among young progressives who have replaced traditional Jewish religious and moral values with a menu of cultural Marxist ideas regrading race, victimhood, and power”

NATIONAL REVIEW Why Seth Rogen’s Anti-Israel Rant Matters by David Harsanyi July 29, 2020 You probably won’t be surprised to learn that Seth Rogen has, at best, a facile understanding of basic history, faith, or politics. We shouldn’t expect anything … Continue reading

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“Just as Pelosi and colleagues demonize law enforcement officers trying to restore order and safety in places like Portland, Seattle, and Chicago, the media and Netanyahu’s opponents in Knesset condemn the police for any effort to arrest demonstrators”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Riots and Protests from Portland to Jerusalem by Caroline Glick July 31, 2020 Over the past several years, public discourse in the United States has seen a lot of new lows. It saw another … Continue reading

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Ami Horowitz talks with Portland protesters, gets attacked

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DNC 2020 platform expresses “opposition to “any effort to unfairly single out and delegitimize Israel, including at the UN or through the BDS movement”

JNS DNC platform will not condition US aid to Israel on sovereignty, but will seek return to Iran deal by Jackson Richman July 28, 2020 In a move that bodes well for Israel, the Democratic National Committee’s platform committee voted … Continue reading

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