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- Iran does not want to escalate tensions ahead of Israel's elections, and Trump does not want an escalation ahead of the US midterms. Yet one thing is clear: Something dramatic is unfolding between Washington and Jerusalem.
- University of Chicago: Palestinian on campus shouted down for supporting Israel [VIDEO]
- ‘NAZA: The Real Story’ by Israeli director Roi Danino rebuts narrative from filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, producer Jonathan Glazer
- Israel ranked fourth best place to raise children in global index
- After 2,000 years of persecution, pogroms, and genocide, a peculiar breed of Jew has concluded that Jewish history's greatest mistake was finally acquiring the power to defend themselves
- Chicagoan Jonathan Burstyn, 27, works at a nursing home during the week, guards his synagogue on Saturdays, and teaches Jewish gun owners about their firearms on Sundays [VIDEO]
- Double Standards: ZOA condemns Representative Ilhan Omar for the hypocrisy of her respective stances on sanctions against Iran and sanctions against Israel
- "President Trump and Senator McConnell may be tempted to tell the Democratic states, like Illinois, to get lost. Mr. Stoll offers an alternative approach — using the sudden federal financial leverage “to demand policy reforms that would diminish the long-term structural dysfunctionality” of the mendicant states"
Tag Archives: Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Chicago is ground zero of the BDS movement
THE ISRAEL PROJECT Officials in “leadership positions within the American BDS campaign” came from organizations linked to Hamas funding by Omri Ceren April 19, 2016 A “significant contingent” of the former leadership of “three organizations that were designated or shut … Continue reading
“From Abbas’s standpoint, this is his way of both thwarting his rivals in Hamas and securing his Fatah party’s hold on the Palestinian Authority once he is gone”
REUTERS With new decree, Palestinian leader tightens grip by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta April 11, 2016 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has quietly established a constitutional court that analysts say concentrates more power in his hands and may allow him … Continue reading
The Little Think Tank That Could
John B. Judis, the author of this Slate article, was profiled last year in The Tower by Joshua Muravchik in connection with Judis’ Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. According to Muravchik, Judis thinks Zionism was “inherently … Continue reading
It Just Got Easier for Iran to Fund Terrorism
FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES by Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz July 17, 2015 The more than $100 billion in sanctions relief is just one reason Tehran agreed to the nuclear deal. Its readmission into an obscure financial network is the … Continue reading
Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference focuses on our “frenemies”
Last week I was in DC for the two-day Foundation for Defense of Democracy conference. For such a young organization their range of accomplishments is very impressive. FDD analysts are tops in their fields and testify regularly before Congress, are consulted by the White … Continue reading
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