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AAUP: “Campus free-speech legislation is one piece of a much larger well-funded, right-wing effort to disempower public higher education in the United States”

CAMPUS REFORM AAUP calls campus free speech bills a ‘right-wing’ conspiracy by Toni Airaksinen July 10, 2018 The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is urging its thousands of members to challenge campus free speech legislation, which it calls “problematic” … Continue reading

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“The Palestinian national movement denies Israel’s legitimacy, and Israel in turn denies the Palestinians’ national sovereignty. A new book insists on accommodating both”

NATIONAL REVIEW Both Sides Now: A Review of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Brian Stewart July 7, 2018 …Yossi Klein Halevi is the author of the new book Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. In it, he offers a heartfelt … Continue reading

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Dershowitz shunned on Martha’s Vineyard

THE HILL Maxine Waters does not speak for Democrats or liberals by Alan Dershowitz June 27, 2018 …Waters does not speak for all Democrats or liberals. Nor do those who threw Sarah Huckabee Sanders out of the Red Hen restaurant. … Continue reading

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Conservative Radio Host Joe Walsh: Trump’s misbehavior is “met with tolerance or even sycophancy from the right, from the vice president to the House speaker to fellow media personalities”

WEEKLY STANDARD Is Joe Walsh Really ‘Woke’? by Chris Deaton June 27, 2018 …What makes Joe Walsh a unicorn on the right is that he roasts and praises Trump with equal intensity. He says he’s “not a Trumpist,” which is … Continue reading

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BDS activist Ariel Gold: “I am in the Tel Aviv airport getting deported”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel denies entry to Jewish-American boycott ‎activist by Shimon Yaish, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff July 2, 2018 Israel on Monday denied entry to a Jewish-American ‎activist for advocating the boycott of the … Continue reading

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“#Netanyahu’s gifts were apparent very early on. Intelligent, preternaturally serious, he had an immense capacity for hard work, always seeming older than his age”

MOSAIC A First Draft of the Life of Benjamin Netanyahu by Neil Rogachevsky July 2, 2018 …No one can deny that Bibi is indeed a bit of a fish out of water in contemporary Israel. He is more comfortable with American-born … Continue reading

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Democrats and Republicans unite to oppose BDS

THE TOWER Congressional Committee Unanimously Passes Bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott by Staff June 29, 2018 The influential House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott Act sending it to the full House of Representatives for a vote, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The bill would … Continue reading

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The Trump Plan: “The U.S. will tell the Palestinians to take it or leave it”

BLOOMBERG Trump’s New Deal for the Middle East by Zev Chafets June 25, 2018 During Jared Kushner’s recent round of Middle East diplomacy, he refrained from spelling out the details of the Trump plan for an Israeli-Palestinian deal…“The world has … Continue reading

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Washington Post “Portraying Palestinian terrorists as protesters is emblematic of The Post’s tendency to minimize the threats faced by the Jewish state”

ALGEMEINER For The Washington Post, Jewish Blood Isn’t Cheap — It’s Just Not Worth the Ink by Sean Durns June 25, 2018 …Media coverage of the Hamas-led operation, however, was uniformly awful — as CAMERA has documented. And The Washington Post was among the worst. The … Continue reading

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#WalkAway This video explains why I left the Democratic Party

PJ MEDIA #WalkAway Campaign Urges Fed-Up Democrats to Leave the Party by Debra Heine June 24, 2018 A new grassroots movement is urging Democrats who are fed up with the ugly direction the party has taken in recent years — … Continue reading

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