Most Clicked This Week
- “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”
- ‘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
- 62% of Americans side with Israel in Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Democrat support for Israel increases
Category Archives: Politics
Dear Richard Gere: “The next time you take a stand, please study the material”
YNET An open letter to Richard Gere by Ben-Dror Yemini March 17, 2017 Hello, Richard Gere. You recently visited Hebron, guided by Breaking the Silence activists. They likely told you what they tell many other diplomats, journalists, parliament members and … Continue reading
Peter Beinart on Trump and anti-Semitism
THE ATLANTIC The Dangers of Blaming Trump for Anti-Semitism by Peter Beinart March 24, 2017 …If liberals have been too quick to blame Trump supporters for anti-Semitism, they’ve also been too quick to blame Trump’s advisors. Liberals frequently hurl the … Continue reading
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Deer in the headlights: StandWithUs prepares high school students for what they’ll find on America’s campuses
OBSERVER High School Students Armed to Fight Demonization of Israel by Lea Speyer March 30, 2017 In the fall of 2007, while a freshman at the University of California, Los Angeles, Miri Kornfeld stumbled upon an “apartheid wall” for the … Continue reading
Competing Visions for Israel: J Street and a Settler in Conversation [VIDEO]
TEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLS Competing Visions for Israel: J Street and a Settler in Conversation March 30, 2017 CLICK TO VIEW Yishai Fleisher, the spokesperson for the Hebron Jewish community, versus J Street’s Alan Elsner, on the future of Israel … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Alan Elsner, Two State Solution, Yishai Fleisher
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What Has #Yale Become? [VIDEO]
WE THE INTERNET Silence U Part 2: What Has Yale Become? Mar 22, 2017 In 2015, viral video of Yale’s “shrieking girl” screaming at professor Nicholas Christakis exploded across the internet. The cause was an email questioning Halloween costume guidelines … Continue reading
Yair Lapid, perhaps Israel’s next PM, on Palestinian peace process timing: “15-20 years, the main element of which is security arrangements” [VIDEO]
JNS Stop denying the Israeli consensus on the Palestinians by Jonathan S. Tobin March 30, 2017 Yair Lapid is the current favorite to become prime minister the next time the Israeli people go to the polls to elect a new … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinians, Peace Process, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid
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#UK does the right thing: “Today we are putting the Human Rights Council on notice. If things do not change, in the future we will adopt a policy of voting against all resolutions concerning Israel’s conduct…”
UNWATCH UK breaks with EU at U.N., changes stance on Israel, adopts UN Watch statistics March 28, 2017 In an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Theresa May’s government changed the UK’s vote on Friday at the U.N. Human Rights Council on … Continue reading
On the subject of Nikki Haley: “That’s the next president’ said a man next to me, reflecting the adulation as Trump’s UN ambassador left the stage to the event’s biggest ovation by far” [VIDEOS]
TIMES OF ISRAEL Nikki Haley, personable, serious, and the undisputed star of AIPAC’s conference by David Horovitz March 28, 2017 Fourteen minutes. That’s how long Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, spent in conversation with interviewer Dan … Continue reading
Among #Trump opponents, “Imagine the disappointment at the fact that the two arrests made so far have been an African-American and a young Israeli Jew”
ISRAEL HAYOM Political narratives collapse by Richard Baehr March 28, 2017 The past week had more than its share of big political stories — a London terror attack, the collapse (for now anyway) of the Obamacare repeal and replace effort, … Continue reading
ArchitectGuy on Israel 