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Category Archives: Politics
Arab Likud candidate praises Netanyahu as strong leader and “brushes aside criticism of the party’s spearheading of the recently-passed Nation State law”
i24 NEWS Muslim woman running for Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party shunned by family January 10, 2019 A Muslim Arab woman running as a candidate for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party defended her decision in an interview with i24NEWS … Continue reading
“Israel’s ostensible peace partner, the Palestinian Authority, educates its people to an almost pathological hatred of Israel”
COMMENTARY Peace: The Missing Israeli Election Issue by Evelyn Gordon January 10, 2019 Israel’s election campaign has only just begun, but one key issue is already notable by its absence: peace with the Palestinians. To many Americans—especially American Jews, who … Continue reading
Israel boycott ban is not about free speech
CAMERA BLOG Reuters Misrepresents New Congress’ Anti-BDS Bill by Tamar Sternthal January 10, 2019 Reuters’ article yesterday on the “Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act,” a bill which stalled Tuesday in the Senate, opens with a misleading and ominous … Continue reading
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Lessons from Argentina: “Buenos Aires is a European city encircled by a country that remains very Third World”
WASHINGTON TIMES A plaintive cry for Argentina by Clifford D. May January 8, 2019 Why isn’t Argentina as wealthy as Canada? For that matter, why are all the countries of Latin America, without exception, so much less prosperous than their neighbors to the … Continue reading
“Rubio is alleging that some Senate Democrats oppose the anti-BDS legislation on substance because of the supposedly growing popularity of the boycott movement within the Democratic Party”
TABLET MAG Anti-BDS Bill Battles Up Senate Hill by Armin Rosen January 7, 2019 …While there is disagreement on the Hill over the extent of internal Democratic opposition to the anti-BDS bill, sources from both parties confirmed to Tablet that … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, BDS, Marco Rubio
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“A freshman congresswoman hostile to Zionism is attacking a bipartisan effort to legislate against Israel boycotts in her first week on the job, accusing advocates of the bill of dual loyalty”
JERUSALEM POST Tlaib starts term in Congress accusing Israel advocates of ‘dual loyalty’ by Michael Wilner January 7, 2019 …Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan and a Palestinian-American, took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize the “Strengthening America’s Security in … Continue reading
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Bibi on Israel’s New Right Party “It will break the right into slivers of slivers. Parties won’t make it past the electoral threshold”
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON The Gamble of Israel’s ‘New Right’ by David Isaac January 6, 2019 “Boom!” read the headline of a supplement in Israeli weekly Makor Rishon, after two leading politicians, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayelet Shaked, Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, New Right Party
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Caroline Glick: “Every once in a while, over the past year or two, I found myself wondering whether I should throw my hat into the ring and enter politics”
JERUSALEM POST Caroline Glick speaks out about her decision to join Shaked, Bennett by Caroline B. Glick January 4, 2019 …This brings me to my decision this week to move to a new stop on my Zionist journey. This week … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayelet Shaked, Caroline Glick, Hayamin Hehadash, Knesset, Naftali Bennett, New Right
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#BDS “Anti-Israel divestment resolutions are just a charade, a put-on used to generate hostility toward the Jewish state and its supporters in the US”
ALGEMEINER BDS Charade: United Church of Christ’s ‘Divestment’ from Israel by Dexter Van Zile January 3, 2019 It was a charade — nearly every last word of it. A few years ago, the United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline … Continue reading
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Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Dexter Van Zile, United Church of Christ
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“U.S. commanders planning the Syria withdrawal are recommending that YPG fighters battling Islamic State be allowed to keep U.S.-supplied weapons…likely to anger Turkey”
REUTERS Trump gives no timetable for Syria exit; wants to protect Kurds by Jeff Mason January 2, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States would get out of Syria slowly “over a period of time” and … Continue reading
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