Category Archives: Politics

Israel Studies confab gives Canadian university new [positive] narrative on Jewish state

JNS.ORG by Bradley Martin June 22, 2015 In 2002, Montreal’s Concordia University was home to infamous riots preventing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from speaking. In 2015, the same university hosted the largest annual international academic gathering for the field … Continue reading

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Obama declares racism inhabits Americans’ DNA

INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY by Andrew Malcolm June 23, 2015 Barack Obama made a revealing — and disappointing — observation in a podcast interview the other day. The interview with a comedian named Marc Maron received extensive news coverage because Obama used … Continue reading

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Par for the Course: EU- & NIF-Funded NGO’s Central to UNHRC Lawfare Attack

NGO MONITOR by Staff June 22, 2015 More NGO Cut and Paste – Preliminary Response to UN Gaza Report The report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the 2014 Gaza War, headed by William Schabas and then Mary McGowan … Continue reading

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Chanting ‘Death to America,’ Iran MPs vote to bar military inspectors

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Associated Press June 21, 2015 With some lawmakers chanting “Death to the America,” Iran’s parliament voted Sunday to ban access to military sites, documents and scientists as part of a future deal with world powers over … Continue reading

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What the Obama worshippers missed

ISRAEL HAYOM by Richard Baehr June 21, 2015 It is not surprising that former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren is now in the sights of the Obama Defenders Corps, a collection of U.S. administration officials, sycophantic journalists and … Continue reading

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‘We’re On Our Own’

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON by Matthew Continetti June 19, 2015 Michael Oren reveals how Barack Obama tore apart the U.S.-Israel alliance …Oren’s credentials and relationships make him hard to dismiss. “The Obama administration was problematic because of its worldview: Unprecedented support … Continue reading

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The ‘Court Jew’ Controversy Re-Erupts

TABLET MAG by Lee Smith June 16, 2015 ….At the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on June 7, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew offered a stirring defense of the White House’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran—and was nearly booed off … Continue reading

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From Clooney to Clinton: 20 revelations from Michael Oren’s new book

TIMES OF ISRAEL by David Horovitz June 17, 2015 How Yuval Steinitz initiated the deal on Assad’s chemical weapons, Netanyahu’s Turkish mistake, and 18 other disclosures in ex-US envoy’s ‘Ally’ Michael Oren’s new book “Ally,” to be published next week, … Continue reading

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An Inside Look At How Obama Killed The U.S.-Israel Relationship

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON by Adam Kredo June 19, 2015 In his new memoir, former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren documents the rapid dissolution of the historically close U.S.-Israel alliance under President Barack Obama. Oren recounts being threatened and intimidated at multiple … Continue reading

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New York State Assembly passes anti-BDS bill #BDSFail

JNS.ORG June 18, 2015 The New York State Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday rejecting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, becoming the latest state government to condemn the anti-Israel movement.  The resolution, which was introduced by Assemblyman Walter … Continue reading

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