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- “Long before the 20th century, ancient Jewish texts recognized what much of the modern West still refuses to accept: Not every enemy can be reasoned with”
- 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”
- Jewish voters waking up to GOP’s appeal
- Israel and the Jewish diaspora make progressive pieties look silly
- Son of Democrat Congressman Mel Levine: "Coming out as Republican worse than coming out gay"
- "Retreating and abandoning allies may not be the optimum strategy"
- The GOP platform document also references Iron Dome, the missile defense system slated for development during Trump's term
- From Judaism Unpacked: What Jews Know About Rest That We Forgot
Category Archives: Politics
Nearly 3,000 Jews, Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and international guests break the fast together in a show of coexistence at Negev-based SodaStream
ISRAEL 21C Israelis, Palestinians share Ramadan meal at SodaStream by Naama Barak May 29, 2019 Jews, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians walk into a carbonation-machine factory in the desert. This is not the beginning of a joke, but the daily reality … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Daniel Birnbaum, SodaStream
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Israel, “an oasis for LGBT rights in a desert of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate and oppression”
HURRY UP HARRY Israeli Pinkwashing? Gurl bye. by Ben Maxwell Freeman May 27, 2019 …You may have heard of accusations that Israel engages in “Pinkwashing”. Pinkwashing is the claim that Israel deflects attention from its conflict with Palestine by exaggerating … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged LGBT, LGBTQ, pinkwashing, Tel Aviv
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America’s best diplomat is schooling the Germans again. This time, it’s about Jew hatred.
AMERICAN THINKER Grenell schools Germans about wearing the Jewish kippa by Monica Showalter May 26, 2019 …The US government’s most high-profile ambassador in Europe, Richard Grenell, said Jews in Germany should not conceal their religious identity and urged them to … Continue reading
“The Israeli media rarely address the threat to the nation’s democracy represented by a judicial and broader legal system”
JNS Why the Israeli left is still in power by Dr Kenneth Levin May 26, 2019 …[Israel’s] Supreme Court’s ideological bias has been rendered much more consequential by its activism. The court has assigned to itself the right to pass judgment … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Supreme Court, Kenneth Levin
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“No, Israel isn’t a country of privileged and powerful white Europeans”
TABLET MAG Who Gets to Speak for Mizrahi Jews? by Hen Mazzig May 24, 2019 Earlier this month, I wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times titled “No, Israel isn’t a country of privileged and powerful white Europeans.” I speak from experience: I … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Hen Mazzig, Marc Lamont Hill, Mizrahi
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Newly-minted NYU PhD (and future Northwestern University professor) takes podium at NYU graduation to attack Israel
FREE BEACON NYU Graduation Speaker Smears Trump, Israel by Mikhael Smits May 22, 2019 A graduation speaker at New York University called President Donald Trump a “fascist,” described Israel as an “apartheid” state, endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Northwestern University, NYU, Steven William Thrasher
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At the UN: World Health Organization dumps on Israel again while Brigitte Gabriel–a Lebanese woman wearing a Star of David–defends the Jewish state
JNS World Health Organization’s singling out Israel over health conditions in disputed territories a ‘fantastic lie’ by Eliana Rudee May 23, 2019 The 72nd assembly of the U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO) voted 96-11 this week for a resolution, co-sponsored … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hillel Neuer, UN Watch, United Nations, World Health Organization
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It would be far better if The New York Times waited until the plan was released and then commented on its specific provisions rather than stacking the deck against it by quoting only its most strident critics
GATESTONE Why is The New York Times Trying to Abort the Trump Peace Plan? by Alan M. Dershowitz May 24, 2019 …Every single expert quoted in the article predicted that it would not succeed. Many of these experts have been … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Donald Trump, New York Times, Trump Peace Plan
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Germany becomes first European country to pass landmark resolution designating BDS campaign against Israel as antisemitic
REUTERS Germany designates BDS Israel boycott movement as anti-Semitic by Joseph Nasr, Riham Alkousaa May 17, 2019 The German parliament voted on Friday to condemn as anti-Semitic a movement that calls for economic pressure on Israel to end the occupation … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Germany
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