Category Archives: Politics

Replacement #NYT editor “Strasser helped push #BariWeiss out the door”

ALGEMEINER Meet Max Strasser, Israel Critic on Ascent at Post-Bari Weiss New York Times by Ira Stoll July 23, 2020 With the departure of outspoken Zionist Bari Weiss from The New York Times editorial page staff, the go-to-editor on Israel-related … Continue reading

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#PeterBeinart declaration “that he has joined the jackals came as no surprise to those who had been paying attention”

NEWSWEEK The Predicament of Liberal American Jews by Caroline Glick July 23, 2020 In under a week, two events happened at The New York Times—the arbiter of liberal news and opinion—which highlight the growing precariousness of the American Jewish community’s … Continue reading

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WSJ: “The ruin of major liberal cities by progressive policies is a significant political event”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Progressives to Cities: Drop Dead by Daniel Henninger July 22, 2020 …Outside wartime, with bombardments turning blocks into rubble, I’m hard put to think of any precedent for what is happening to these U.S. cities now. The … Continue reading

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Poll shows “American voters have overwhelmingly positive attitudes toward Israel and are strongly supportive of the US-Israel alliance”

ALGEMEINER Two-Thirds of US Voters View Themselves as Pro-Israel, New Poll Finds by Staff July 20, 2020 Around two-thirds of US voters describe themselves as pro-Israel and oppose reducing American security aid to the Jewish state, according to a new … Continue reading

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China and Iran cut a deal: “For Iran, China is a life raft saving it from total economic collapse under the weight of US economic sanctions”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel and the Sino-Iranian alliance by Caroline Glick July 17, 2020 …Following weeks of feverish rumors, Iran and China have concluded a strategic accord. Last weekend, the New York Times reported on the contents … Continue reading

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Stoudemire, who is Black and Jewish: “There’s more similarities with the African Americans and Jewish people than there are differences”

TMZ SPORTS Amar’e Stoudemire Cites Lack of Black Leadership for Rise In Anti-Semitic Rhetoric July 17, 2020 Pro basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire is both Black and Jewish — and says he’s uniquely positioned to help “bridge the gap” between the … Continue reading

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“How the globalist financier’s desire to escape his Jewish identity fuels his Jew-hate”

FRONT PAGE MAG George Soros’s Multi-Front War Against Israel by Kenneth Levin July 17, 2020 …And support for Israel, like that provided by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), has been an explicit target of his seeking to silence … Continue reading

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“The increasingly mainstreamed BDS-BLM narrative poses a grave danger to the U.S. and European progressive and liberal Jewish communities”

JNS The BDS-BLM alignment: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry by Dan Diker July 19, 2020 …Despite universal Jewish support for BLM, it failed to prevent a surge of anti-Semitic violence across the United States in the aftermath of the … Continue reading

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Black Columbia University professor savages “White Fragility” which “aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people” and teaches us “how to be racist in a whole new way”

THE ATLANTIC The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility by Professor John McWhorter July 15, 2020 I must admit that I had not gotten around to actually reading Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility until recently. But it was time to jump in. … Continue reading

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“While China does business with Israel’s #1 enemy, Israel is doing business with China”

JERUSLAEM POST After the China-Iran deal, why is Israel still working with Beijing? by Yaakov Katz July 16, 2020 In six weeks, at the end of August, a number of international construction groups will submit their offers for an estimated … Continue reading

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