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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”
- Bill Maher spends nearly 10 minutes discussing recent conflict, takes aim at celebrities such as Bella Hadid: ‘You can’t learn history from Instagram’
- ‘A Sheer Inferno of Unbearable Torture’: Saudi Blogger in Danger of 950 Lashes After Sentence Upheld
- "Gulf Arab state voices support for Israel, following Iranian attack and Israeli retaliation. 'Israel has right to defend itself.'
- French Judge: If you smoke pot before killing a Jew, you're not criminally liable
- "According to the survey by US-based Zogby Analytics, 59% of Jordanians and Saudis, along with 58% of Egyptians and 56% of the residents of the UAE support normalization with Israel, while 61% of Palestinians oppose it"
- "The role of Turkey and Qatar — two leading Hamas sponsors — in postwar Gaza has added to the sense of anxiety about the sustainability of the deal for Israelis"
- The New World Disorder
Category Archives: Politics
#CulturalAppropriation: “These days our mongrel culture is at risk of being erased by an increasingly strident left”
NEW YORK TIMES Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation by Bari Weiss August 30, 2017 …Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of “cultural appropriation” is overwhelmingly being used as an objection to … Continue reading
American rabbis blowing off Trump at the High Holidays: “An immoral form of grandstanding at the expense of the Jewish community”
JERUSALEM POST Rabbis boycotting Trump are ignorant of their own history by Abraham H. Miller August 31, 2017 …In America, even minority religions have access to the corridors of power, and some of these political relationships are informally institutionalized. The … Continue reading
Highland Park’s Max’s Deli gets political with its diners
SKOKIE PATCH Nazi Salutes Jewish Deli Menu by Jonah Meadows August 31, 2017 A North Shore deli’s catering menu for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur was adorned with caricatures of a Nazi and a Sasquatch in response to the hate … Continue reading
Berkeley: “You’d have thought from the avalanche of alarmist walk-up stories that Gibson and friends would be dancing in a “Springtime for Hitler” kick line”
WEEKLY STANDARD A Beating in Berkeley by Matt Labash September 11, 2017 As white supremacists go, Joey Gibson makes for a lousy one. For starters, he’s half Japanese. “I don’t feel like I’m Caucasian at all,” he says. Not to … Continue reading
#Sarsour connects #Kaepernick controversy with ‘Right-Wing Zionists’
FREE BEACON Linda Sarsour Calls for People to Rise Up Against ‘Right-Wing Zionists’ by Rachel Frommer August 25, 2017 American-Palestinian anti-Israel activist and Women’s March co-organizer Linda Sarsour called for people to rise up against “right-wing Zionists,” during her speech … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Colin Kaepernick, Linda Sarsour, Zionism
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One of the faculty signers remarked “because I’m deeply alarmed by the rise of intolerance on college campuses, especially because that intolerance comes from one direction only, from the left”
FREE BEACON Faculty from Top Universities Sign Letter Urging Students to Reject ‘Vice of Conformism by Rachel Frommer August 29, 2017 Faculty from Princeton, Harvard, and Yale have signed an open letter to incoming university students, begging them to reject … Continue reading
State Dept confirms US opposition to United Nations-issued Israel blacklist
WASHINGTON POSTU.S. pushing to quash U.N. ‘blacklist’ of firms doing business in Israeli settlementsby Anne GearanAugust 21, 2017 The Trump administration is urging the United Nations not to publish what it calls a “blacklist” of international firms that do business … Continue reading
Palestinian authorities in West Bank and Gaza Strip “using police state tactics to silence critical media and arbitrarily block people’s access to information”
GATESTONE Palestinians: Taking Journalists Hostage by Khaled Abu Toameh August 23, 2017 Palestinian journalists have once again fallen victim to the continuing power struggle between the Palestinian Authority (PA), which has jurisdiction over parts of the West Bank, and Hamas, … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority
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Sec’y of State Rex Tillerson’s recent statements “highly disconcerting and ominously reminiscent of the Obama era”; Democrats chide Trump on 2-state solution policy
JERUSALEM POST The never-ending peace process farce by Isi Leibler August 24, 2017 Unless the U.S. is willing to bite the bullet and finally confront Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, the forthcoming mission to the region by U.S. representatives … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Donald Trump, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians, Rex Tillerson
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#SouthernPovertyLawCenter’s political “hate” and “extremist” lists being used to damage internet freedom and free speech
NEW YORK TIMES Why Is the Southern Poverty Law Center Targeting Liberals? by Ayaan Hirsi Ali August 24, 2017 Since the violence in Charlottesville 10 days ago, when white supremacists left one young woman dead and 19 others injured, the … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish, Politics
Tagged anti-Semitism, Charlottesville, Southern Poverty Law Center
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