Category Archives: Politics

“Ignoring San Remo Resolution is thus essential for those who perpetrate the lie that the Jews have usurped the Palestinian Arabs in their own land”

JNS From San Remo to its 72nd birthday, Israel survives the virus of political and moral collapse by Melanie Phillips April 23, 2020 One hundred years ago this Sunday, the four principal allied powers involved in World War I signed … Continue reading

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“So the good news, at the end of a dramatic week of twists and turns that would make Shakespeare blush, is that your Jewish News is back”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Jewish News is back, more energised and ambitious than ever by Richard Ferrer April 22, 2022 If like me, your sense of time is all over the place at the moment (is it April or May?), you’ll … Continue reading

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“Biden has brought into the mix two Jewish Democratic groups that otherwise spent much of the primary season reviling one another”

JWEEKLY These are Biden’s Jews by Ron Kampeas and Laura E. Adkins April 24, 2020 But there are new Jewish kids on the Biden block, too. They earned their Democratic cred without having come up through the traditional pro-Israel channels, … Continue reading

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“Health Ministry to file police complaint against passenger who flew United from Newark to Israel knowing he’d tested positive, didn’t notify crew”

TIMES OF ISRAEL US said to annul work visa of Israeli who took flight home knowing he had virus by Staff April 26, 2020 The US has suspended a work visa issued to an Israeli national who boarded a flight … Continue reading

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“At the rate the radical left is taking over major Jewish organizations, we can assume that within five years there will be a steep rise in the number of American Jewish groups that advocate on behalf of BDS”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) American Jewry’s Organizational Crack-Up by Caroline Glick April 24, 2020 …Lob’s selection came as a complete surprise to Conference insiders. She beat out two candidates with far more organizational experience and centrist credentials. But … Continue reading

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“Nursing home residents, the highest risk population, should be the most straightforward to systematically protect from infected people, given that they already live in confined places with highly restricted entry”

THE HILL The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation by Dr Scott W. Atlas April 22, 2020 The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase. Tens of thousands of … Continue reading

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Preventive medicine and public health specialist Dr. David Katz joins Bill Maher to discuss whether the fight against coronavirus is worse than the disease.

NEW YORK TIMES Dr David Katz: Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease? There may be more targeted ways to beat the pandemic.

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Gantz-Netanyahu deal ends 17-month political crisis; Gantz: “We prevented a fourth election”

JERUSALEM POST The deal is done: Netanyahu, Gantz ink coalition pact by Gil Hoffman April 21, 2020 Israel will soon have a new coalition government after an agreement was signed on Monday evening between Likud and Blue and White, putting … Continue reading

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“Initially, IKEA’s Ingvar Kamprad was happy to cooperate with Elisabeth Åsbrink’s book on his Jewish friend. Then she found a 1943 file showing he’d been a Swedish Nazi party member”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Letters reveal curious tie between Jewish refugee and Nazi-admiring IKEA founder by Renee Ghert-Zand April 20, 2020 A decade ago, Swedish investigative journalist and author Elisabeth Åsbrink was given an IKEA box containing more than 500 German-language … Continue reading

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Thomas Friedman “seldom missed an opportunity to highlight criticism of the Jewish state, especially from Israelis who insisted that its “occupation” was immoral”

JNS Thomas Friedman’s political fantasy by Jerold S. Auerbach April 17, 2020 In a recent New York Times column (April 7), Thomas Friedman listed his preferred choices for various posts in a Joe Biden administration. Among those serving in his fantasy … Continue reading

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