Most Clicked This Week
- ‘Party’ to showcase 1000 Hangings in Iran Held at NYU by Human Rights Group
- "Driving on Shabbat, eating out, gay marriage and more: For more than half a century, the Conservative movement has been...just a movement that can’t say no"
- "The ADL is becoming a threat to Jews"
- "How support for a Jewish state is eminently compatible with American patriotism"
- French Islamists had Jewish store 'hit list' and nuclear bomb manual
- 'Those who choose to boycott the State of Israel should show some self-respect and boycott all the services of the State of Israel'
- BBC to Corbyn: “Eighty percent of Jews think that you're antisemitic. That's quite a lot of British Jews”
- #SNL "The comedian revealed something important about today’s left. The sooner we get the joke, the better"
Category Archives: Politics
“The mayor’s targeting of Jews as pandemic scofflaws was outrageous, yet it shows the way the virus brings out the dictator in some politicians”
JNS What’s behind de Blasio’s anti-Semitic outburst? The authoritarian impulse by Jonathan Tobin April 30, 2020 …Nor is there any way to treat this as a simple misunderstanding. As numerous observers immediately pointed out, it’s impossible to imagine de Blasio’s … Continue reading
Boris Johnson’s Ottoman roots
ALGEMEINER Why Was Boris Johnson’s Ottoman Great-Grandfather Murdered? by Uzay Bulut April 28, 2020 On April 10, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter to Boris Johnson, prime minister of the United Kingdom, informing him that Turkey “would like to … Continue reading
Pope Pius XII: His failure to denounce the Holocaust publicly earned him the title of “Hitler’s pope”
I24NEWS Pope Pius XII knew about massacres of Jews during WWII, newly opened Vatican archive reveals May 1, 2020 German researchers investigating the recently opened Vatican archives of war-time Pope Pius XII reveal that he was aware of mass killings … Continue reading
Yossi Klein Halevi: “In this pandemic, the nation’s citizens face a crisis that is finally bringing us together”
THE ATLANTIC Israel’s Arab Moment by Yossi Klein Halevi April 30, 2020 …Israeli media regularly feature stories of Arab-Jewish intimacy in the quarantine wards. The newspaper Yediot Aharonot published a four-page photo essay of Arab and Jewish nurses—the first time in … Continue reading
Saudi TV: “The episode represents one of the first times a Saudi cultural project has shown Israel in a good light”
ALGEMEINER Episode of New Saudi TV Series Presents Positive View of Israel by Benjamin Kerstein April 28, 2020 A new Ramadan television series is making waves in the Arab world, arousing controversy for taking a relatively positive view of Israel. … Continue reading
This virus is still evolving
THE SPECTATOR Could the lockdown have side-effects no one has considered? by Dr John Lee May 2, 2020 …Think about the lockdown. We have substantially reduced the number of people circulating in the community. If lockdown is working, and stopping … Continue reading
“The new coalition handcuffs its rival blocks into near paralysis. Perhaps this will usefully restrain Israel’s raging political fevers”
JERUSALEM POST Can Netanyahu, Gantz work together in a straightjacket government? by David M. Weinberg April 24, 2020 The Israeli “emergency” and “unity” government that will supposedly be confirmed by the Knesset sometime in May is the screwiest doohickey ever … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Likud
Leave a comment
“As we mark Israeli independence this year, let us cast off the contrived U.N. narrative in which Israel was born into the inevitability of two states”
JNS San Remo: The original ‘deal of the century’ by Yishai Fleisher April 26, 2020 …For those who wish to see a “two-state solution” implemented, the idea that Israel was created through the U.N. partition vote is an indispensable narrative. … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Partition Plan, San Remo Agreement, United Nations, Yishai Fleisher
Leave a comment
“Frank left the neo-Nazi movement and now works with youth to prevent violent extremism”
CLARION PROJECT Frank Meeink loved the feeling of power and community. It was an easy process for him to become radicalized and he quickly found a home with a neo-Nazi group in Philly. After being caught by police on a … Continue reading
“Decoupling from China is a costly, difficult undertaking, and one sure to prompt pushback from Western corporations”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS A China-U.S. Cold War? by Charles Lipson April 27, 2020 …If China’s access is squeezed, it will respond ferociously. Beijing would demand foreign companies leave production in China if they want to sell there. It would leverage … Continue reading
ArchitectGuy on Israel 