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- "Already a de-facto state, Gaza should be the anchor for a free, independent and sovereign Palestinian state, contiguous into the Sinai Peninsula, along the coastal plain, to El-Arish"
- "Moving Israel from U.S. European Command responsibilty to CENTCOM was once a non-starter because of long-simmering tensions between Israel and its regional neighbors, who have been CENTCOM’s allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere"
- On Holocaust Remembrace Day, a conversation with a man who has paid a heavy personal price for working to eradicate Jew-hate and to promote peace between Muslims and Jews
- Spencer: “I see a correlation between those who believe absurd claims like dogs were trained to rape Palestinians and those who insist Israel committed genocide in Gaza”
Category Archives: Politics
“Jews must stop being dependent on others for our safety. By turning our communal centers into well-fortified bunkers, we’re teaching our children that it is normal to associate Jewish life and identity with anxiety, with insecurity, with lack of confidence in ourselves and in our neighbors”
TABLET MAG Armed Guards Aren’t the Answer Liel Leibovitz April 28, 2026 On a recent Sunday in New York City, my family and I went on a walk that turned from a nice neighborhood stroll into a survey of our … Continue reading
Politico establishes a red line on Israel
JEWISH INSIDER Politico’s owner, Axel Springer, doubles down on corporate principles Matthew Kassel April 28, 2026 Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Politico’s parent company, Axel Springer, doubled down in defense of the German publishing giant’s corporate values while addressing criticism … Continue reading
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”
LA TIMES UC Regent Jay Sures condemns UCLA student government for criticizing Israeli hostage event Jaweed Kaleem April 24, 2026 In a rare rebuke, UC Regent Jay Sures is speaking out in a blistering criticism of UCLA student government leaders … Continue reading
Tennessee General Assembly votes to change all official references to the region to “Judea and Samaria”
WPLN.ORG Tennessee bans the name ‘West Bank’ from official documents Marianna Bacallao April 13, 2026 Tennessee will no longer recognize the Middle Eastern region known as the West Bank in official state documents. The General Assembly voted to change all official … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Judea, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, Samaria, Tennessee, West Bank
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“The strategic paradigms that governed the Middle East for decades have shifted. Not all of them. Not fully. But the shift is real, larger than is yet fully understood, and Israel drove it”
MIRYAM INSTITUTE Is Israel Safer Today? John Spencer April 21, 2026 It is hard to call any war’s outcome while it is still happening. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either not paying attention or not being straight with you. … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, John Spencer, Lebanon
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“By ignoring the ideological reality of Hamas and Hezbollah, Klein treats Israelis and Palestinians as props in a Western morality play rather than actors in a high-stakes struggle for survival”
FREE PRESS Ezra Klein Doesn’t Understand Israel Haviv Rettig Gur April 17, 2026 …Because [Klein] misses the central point that any Westerner concerned for Palestinians must deal with: Any Israeli withdrawal from significant parts of the West Bank will almost … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Ezra Klein, Gaza, Palestinians, West Bank
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Dershowitz: “I first registered as a Democrat in 1959. The party’s hostility to Israel is too much”
WALL STREET JOURNAL Why I’m Becoming a Republican Alan M. Dershowitz April 20, 2026 …I still disagree strongly with the GOP on abortion, the separation of church and state, immigration, healthcare and taxes, among other things. Yet I’ve decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Democrats, Republicans
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“Fishback has raised little money and is polling poorly, but his campaign appearances are attracting crowds of antizionist bigots openly hostile to Jews on college campuses across Florida”
AFTER OCTOBER 7 After Jewish Students Were Blocked From His Event at USF, Antizionist Gubernatorial Candidate James Fishback Set for FAU Appearance Kevin Deutsch April 17, 2026 James Fishback, the anti-Jewish, anti-Israel Florida gubernatorial candidate whose campaign has been defined … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, antizionism, Florida, James Fishback
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A Yom Hazikaron Reflection with Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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“‘Lox and Loaded’ partnership comes as anxieties fuel interest in firearms”
THE FORWARD A Jewish gun club teams up with the NRA, in pursuit of self-defense Louis Keene April 17, 2026 Capitalizing on heightened anxieties and surging Jewish interest in gun ownership, the National Rifle Association this week announced a partnership … Continue reading
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