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- UCLA Student Council: Omer Shem Tov event was “selective platforming” of an Israeli voice — with no Palestinian counterpart — that would “legitimize and normalize” Israel’s war in Gaza and bombings of Lebanon”
- Jew-Washing BDS
- "No doubt, Hebrew Union College expected an edgy talk from Chabon"
- “Divisions over safety of restarting services have resulted in ‘rogue’ minyans"
- "Military, defense minister believe a credible threat of an Israeli attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities is only way US will be able to negotiate better deal with Islamic Republic"
- Something Is Rotten at Foggy Bottom. Double Standards Abound.
- ZOA: Judea and Samaria are not Arab lands
- John Bolton was the UN point man “in the campaign that won repeal of the Zionism-is-racism resolution. That’s something for which the many on the left will never forgive him”
Category Archives: Politics
Executive order to protects Jewish students “will effectively interpret Judaism as a race or nationality, not just a religion” but J Street opposes it
WASHINGTON POST Trump’s expected executive order on campus anti-Semitism draws praise and concern by Laura Meckler, Julie Zauzmer and Ashley Parker December 11, 2019 President Trump plans to sign an executive order Wednesday that defines the Jewish people as a … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Donald Trump, Title VI
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“The global surge in Jew-hatred barely registers in the West”
NEW YORK TIMES Inconvenient Murders by Bari Weiss December 5, 2019 Two years ago, a 27-year-old man named Kobili Traoré walked into the Paris apartment of a 65-year-old kindergarten teacher named Sarah Halimi. Mr. Traoré beat Ms. Halimi and stabbed … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged ADL, Anti-Defamation League, antisemitism, Europe, France, Paris, Sarah Halimi
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“The Fatah-Hamas rift that has continued for the last 13 years has been constantly used as the excuse for the absence of elections”
JERUSALEM POST Why Israel will be blamed for the absence of PA elections by Maurice Hirsch December 4, 2019 …There is zero reason to believe that either of the two potential candidates who eventually will become Israel’s prime minister, will … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian Authority
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J Street and Palestinian Authority praise Democratic-led resolution which supports Two-State Solution and condemns proposed West Bank annexations
JERUSALEM POST Palestinian Authority Welcomes House Resolution Backing Two-State Solution by Khaled Abu Toameh December 7, 2019 The Palestinian Authority on Saturday welcomed a United States House of Representatives resolution that expresses support for the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian … Continue reading
“When people start branding anything they object to as “illegal,” they turn the law into just another player on the political battlefield”
JNS Legalizing politics and politicizing the law by Evelyn Gordon November 27, 2019 One of the modern era’s most dangerous problems is the conflation of politics with law. Political questions are increasingly treated as legal ones, which inevitably results in … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Judea, Samaria, Settlements, West Bank
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Imagine, if Iran does this to their own people, how would they deal with the Jews? Yet the world stands silent.
CNBC Iran’s brutality is getting another pass from Europe by Jake Novak December 4, 2019 …But over the last few weeks, the Iranian government’s brutality has been refocused on its own people. The regime’s decision to scrap gasoline subsidies sparked … Continue reading
The Dreyfus Affair: Why the filmmaker’s depiction of early-20th-century anti-Semitism in ‘J’accuse’ is, with reservations, ‘important and beautiful’
TABLET MAGAZINE Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus by Bernard Henri-Levy December 3, 2019 I would like to talk here not about Roman Polanski but about Roman Polanski’s new film, J’accuse (An Officer and a Spy), which he dedicates to that key moment in French … Continue reading
Netanyahu on proposed US-Israel defense pact, something “we could only dream about, but which now we have the opportunity to implement”
JERUSALEM POST JINSA to ‘Post’: Defense pact wouldn’t restrict Israel freedom of movement by Omri Nahmias December 4, 2019 A mutual defense treaty between the US and Israel would not restrict Israel’s freedom of operation, Michael Makovsky, president and CEO … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, JINSA, Lindsey Graham, Ron Dermer
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“With a week to go before general election, as Labour trails Johnson in polls but starts to close the gap, two surveys show Brits’ attitudes to Jews vis-à-vis their politics”
TIMES OF ISRAEL UK’s Corbyn is the ‘politician of choice for anti-Semites,’ new report claims by Robert Philpot December 5, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn is the most popular political leader among Britons who hold anti-Semitic views, a report released this week … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, United Kingdom
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Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Jonathan Kay about why so many intellectuals and young people loathe the culture of the West
QUILLETTE Benedict Beckeld-Jonathan Kay Interview December 1, 2019 Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Oikophobia—the knee-jerk dislike of your own culture. Click here to listen to podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1vynMFVrQ2pP1R3EON8rp2
Posted in Politics
Tagged Benedict Beckeld, Jonathan Kay, Oikophobia
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 