Most Clicked This Week
- "Those experiences gave Thomas the fortitude to do something truly courageous: risk her friendships, face her misconceptions, and change her mind"
- EVENT 2nd Annual Kosher Chicago BBQ Festival Competition to benefit Maot Chitim
- 6 European countries join forces to do business with Iran (and throw Israel under the bus)
- "President Joe Biden's Iran policy was conceived and is being implemented by the same people who negotiated the JCPOA under Obama, who argued in favor of empowering Iran"
- "Israel-US dialogue is necessary about Iran’s nuclear program, since a good agreement with Iran is a clear Israeli interest. But Israel must be prepared with a military option against Iran, as a last resort"
- "Military, defense minister believe a credible threat of an Israeli attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities is only way US will be able to negotiate better deal with Islamic Republic"
- EVENT Israel Bonds Chicago with The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
- Heard in Jerusalem: "Hasbara" has become something resembling a dirty word
Tag Archives: Zionism
My #NYU classmates talk about the ‘#Zionist grip on the media’ and tweet ‘death to Israel.’
COMMON SENSE To the Antisemites Who Sit Next to Me at School Tal Fortgang April 24, 2022 …All of you have done more than I ever could to convince my fellow Jews that the left doesn’t just have a Corbyn … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged anti-Zionism, antisemitism, New York University, Zionism
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Historian Eliezer Tauber explores how Palestinian propaganda backfired by turning a bloody battle into a fateful blood libel
TABLET MAG Remember Deir Yassin! by Gil Troy January 20, 2022 Deir Yassin. For decades it was the main count in the Palestinian indictment against Zionism and Israel. In the 1970s, when Palestinian terrorists butchered schoolkids and Olympic athletes, they … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Deir Yassin, Palestinians, Zionism
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It’s kind of a “1619 Project” but for Jews: NEH grant funds “large-scale collaborative project to rewrite the histories, narratives, and memories of and by Jews in the Middle East in the 19th-21st centuries”
JEWISH PRESS National Endowment for the Humanities Spends $250K to Fund a ‘1619 Project’ for Israel by Daniel Greenfield December 7, 2021 Last year, Lior Sternfeld and Michelle Campos signed the so-called Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism which argued that calling … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged anti-Zionism, Zionism
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Your only two choices are Zionism and anti-Zionism. Pick wisely
TABLET MAG Us and Them by Liel Leibovitz May 25, 2021 We’ve lived through skirmishes between Israelis and Palestinians before, but May 2021 felt different. It’s not only that the number of rockets lobbed at Israel, 4,360, marks an all-time … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Hamas, Palestinians, Zionism
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Professor Gil Troy: “Why I am a Zionist”
UNPACKED Professor Gil Troy’s essay “Why I am a Zionist”
“There are two sources for Israel’s claim to the West Bank. The first, and the most important, is the Mandate for Palestine, set up by the League of Nations in 1922, for the sole purpose of creating the Jewish National Home”
FRONT PAGE MAG Israel’s Claim Under International Law to the ‘Occupied Territories’ by Hugh Fitzgerald April 8, 2021 The Biden Administration seems to think that the way to bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians is to push Israel back within … Continue reading
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Tagged Joe Biden, Judea, Palestinians, West Bank, Zionism
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“The more years of education people have, the more likely that they will hate Jews”
ELDER OF ZIYON Evidence that campus anti-Zionist propaganda makes students antisemitic April 2, 2021 Tablet magazine has a most disturbing article that shows that antisemitism is positively correlated with education… We found that respondents with higher education levels are markedly … Continue reading
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For #BlackLivesMatter “antisemitism isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. Hatred of Israel and the Jews is part of its DNA”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) The Silent American Jews by Caroline Glick June 26, 2020 …The media’s refusal to cover the [Los Angeles anti-Jewish] pogrom makes clear that most US media outlets have accepted the limits on freedom of … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Black Lives Matter, Caroline Glick, Los Angeles, Zionism
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“Europe today is post-God, post-nationalism, post-family and post-Holocaust—and is therefore understandably at odds with the very concept of Israel”
JNS Why young Europeans can’t understand Israeli settlers by Yishai Fleisher February 13, 2020 …In my experience, this incomprehension of Jewish yearning for the land of Israel is a recurring phenomenon with young Europeans—the standard answers about Zionism simply do … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Europe, Germany, Yishai Fleisher, Zionism
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Liberal Jewish seminaries that become woker-than-thou workshops risk losing their defining missions tomorrow – and will continue alienating Jews-in-the-pews today
JERUSALEM POST Are rabbinical schools becoming anti-Israel pulpits? by Gil Troy February 5, 2020 In 2011, when Rabbi Daniel Gordis highlighted “how lonely it can be for an unapologetically pro-Israel student at some of today’s rabbinical schools,” his Conservative and … Continue reading
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