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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”
- Susan Rice Exposes Administration Failings On Iran At AIPAC
- "How did Israel, a country not yet even 70 years old, become a superpower with one of the most technologically advanced militaries in the world that is changing the way modern wars are fought?"
- BDS efforts to curb Israel travel have failed badly
- BDS Blacklist: Israeli Foreign Minister Katz slams UN Human Rights, brands issuing of report “shameful surrender to pressure by countries and organizations that are interested in harming Israel"
- Khaled Salem, a pro-Israel Arab Democrat in primary to unseat Chuck Schumer
- Why I Miss George W. Bush
- Palestinians lay out (at least) four conditions for peace
Category Archives: Politics
“Itay Milner, Israel’s Deputy Consul General in Chicago, left his office and decided to take an Uber home.” It did not go well.
TABLET MAG Israeli Deputy Consul General in Chicago Kicked Out of Uber for Speaking Hebrew by Gretchen Rachel Hammond May 4, 2018 …“I was just sitting in the back seat,” he told Tablet. “We had been driving for about ten minutes … Continue reading
“An anti-regime alliance of rich and poor could be the key to ending clerical rule in Iran”
FOREIGN POLICY The United States Should Seize on Iran’s Currency Crisis by Saeed Ghasseminejad, Richard Goldberg May 4, 2018 While the debate over the future of the Iran nuclear deal and U.S. military strategy in Syria rages in Washington, policymakers … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hassan Rouhani, Iran, John Bolton
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Swarthmore College after “careful consideration and research,” will continue to offer Sabra hummus, but will also provide alternative brand [VIDEO]
CAMPUS REFORM Swarthmore rejects SJP demand to stop selling Sabra hummus by Adam Sabes May 2, 2018 Swarthmore College has rejected student demands that it stop selling Sabra hummus on campus because of the company’s ties to Israel. As Campus Reform previously … Continue reading
Looking out their office windows, editors and writers now see a massive billboard that reads: “The New York Times At it AGAIN: Defaming Israel with distorted ‘news.’ Stop the bias”
JNS.ORG New billboard campaign targets New York Times’ ongoing coverage on Israel May 2, 2018 The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) unveiled a giant billboard this week outside the offices of The New York Times, … Continue reading
Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory: ADL is an organization “dedicated to constantly attacking black and brown people.”
TABLET MAG The ADL Kicked Out of Leading Starbucks’ Diversity Training by Liel Leibovitz April 30, 2018 The Anti-Defamation League will no longer help lead diversity training in Starbucks stores across America. After two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks earlier this … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish, Politics
Tagged ADL, Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, Starbucks
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MIT celebrates Israel’s 70th…”Of the six academic speakers who were invited to participate, not one depicted the creation of Israel as anything other than a moral calamity”
COMMENTARY Haidt’s Theory Vindicated at MIT by Jonah Cohen April 27, 2018 …Last Monday, several social scientists from prestigious universities gathered in a state-of-the-art theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for MIT’s conference on Israel’s 70th anniversary. While enjoying trays of free cookies and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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For those of you who look to Middle East savant John Oliver for your Iran coverage
THE TOWER Dismantling the Myths of John Oliver’s Pro-Iran Deal Speech by Julie Lenarz April 25, 2018 The deadline for President Donald Trump to re-certify the Iran nuclear deal is looming on May 12th. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Iran, Iran Deal, JCPOA, John Oliver, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Mike Pompeo, The Israel Project
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Natalie Portman’s “initial reason for concern was the clashes in Gaza”
FREE BEACON Natalie Portman’s Evolving Excuse for Refusing Israeli Genesis Prize by Brent Scher April 24, 2018 …The Genesis Foundation “went out of its way to accommodate Portman’s concerns about Netanyahu,” according to JewishInsider, which says the foundation told Portman … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Genesis Foundation, Natalie Portman
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Chicago’s own Louis Farrakhan is “quite possibly the most popular anti-Semite in America”
FORWARD Louis Farrakhan Doesn’t Just Have An Anti-Semitism Problem — He Has A Slavery Problem by Charles Jacobs April 24, 2018 …While neo-Nazis and white supremacists drummed up a mere few hundred people at their “national” rally in Charlottesville, Farrakhan’s recent … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged ADL, Anti-Defamation League, Chicago, Islamophobia, Louis Farrakhan, Women's March
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AIPAC and J Street conferences “reflect starkly different interpretations of this moment in the US-Israel relationship” [VIDEO]
TIMES OF ISRAEL At AIPAC, a Trump-Netanyahu marriage made in heaven. At J Street, in hell by Eric Cortellessa 19 April 2018 Held a little more than a month apart, the recent AIPAC and J Street conferences represented two wildly … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged AIPAC, AIPAC Policy Conference, Bernie Sanders, J Street
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