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Jews, never give up!

In every generation, they rise against us, but in a generation where everyone seems to be rising against us, what must we do?

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Palestinian activism demands checking your liberalism at the door

Can you be truly committed to liberal values and be an full-throated supporter of the Palestinian cause? We ask this question partly in response to recent co

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Bibi’s Seven Presidents

Benjamin Netanyahu was elected the prime minister of Israel for a sixth time in November 2022—and by the time Labor Day rolled around in 2023, he had yet to

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Palestinian Authority: The enabling policy of impunity

A primer in how not to react to wrongdoing.

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Op-Ed: The Palestinians Set Israel's Own System Against Itself

Israel's Civil Administration is well aware of the hostile takeover of its land but is choosing not to enforce its legal mandate.

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IHRA and only IHRA

The Biden administration’s credibility in the fight against antisemitism is on the line.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Tucker Carlson and the Jews Who Need Proof (Judean Rose)

Some insist on proof that antisemites are antisemites, to their peril.

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For the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, “Human Rights” Is a Tool to Manipulate the West

Currently consisting of 56 states in addition to the Palestinian Authority, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) began with an effort in 1969 to blame Israel and “Zionists”—falsely—for setting fire to al-Aqsa Mosque.

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Tel Aviv Riot: How Intra-Communal Eritrean Violence Was Used To Malign Israel

Why did some news outlets and social media commentators make an intra-Eritrean conflict all about the Israeli response?

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Zionism is a model for indigenous people - opinion

Many New Zealanders view Israel through the lens of our own settler colonialist history: the Jews, like the British, are seen as white European colonizers; the Palestinians as the indigenous Māori.

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The Oslo disaster 30 years on

Thirty years after its euphoric launch, the ‘Oslo peace process’ between Israel and the PLO stands as the worst calamity to have afflicted Israelis and Palestinians since the 1948 war, and the most...

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Palestine and the Holocaust: What If?

I was scanning the news (a common Jewish activity), when a recent article by Marwan Bishara in Al Jazeera (Aug 18, 2022) caught my eye. The article, titled “The Palestinian misuse, and Zionist abuse, of the Holocaust,” was written after Palestinian leader

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Should Israel refer to Australia as occupied Aboriginal territory?

Australia’s Labor Party government ought to take a look in the mirror before hurling false and insulting accusations at Israel.

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Remember the lessons of the Sbarro bombing

Islamist terror fed at the teat of Western appeasement. It's happening again. Op-ed.

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World Indigenous Day: Recognizing Jews' ties to the Land of Israel

It is crucial that we have a deep understanding of our own identity so that we can proudly declare, “I am a Jew, and I am indigenous to the Land of Israel.”

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Israel's leadership never cared about the Sbarro bombing victims

This dismissive attitude toward the victims of terror has persisted over the years as the following events illustrate.

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Conservative values can unite a divided Israel

This is the path forward for Israel, a path that respects the diverse identities of its citizens while upholding the principles of a Jewish and democratic state.

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Don't let the Palestinians erase the Jewish history of Israel

Joshua’s battle over Jericho is ancient history but there is an important battle to fight today – combating the replacement of Jewish history by the Palestinian narrative in UNESCO

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'Shut Up or Else!' The True Link between Islam and the Left

Despite their many outward differences, Islamic authoritarianism and leftist liberalism are, in fact, very similar, especially in that they brook no dissent. Here, I'd like to offer a more focused look into their similar modes of operation, especially

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Israel: Time to Stop Toeing the Line

U.S. military aid is making IDF generals place Washington’s interests above Israel’s

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Israel: Who is actually doing the burning?

  What is arguably the most often cited lesson of Jewish history can be boiled down to two words: sinat chinam or

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Elder Of Ziyon - RFK Jr.’s Antisemitism: A Legacy from Grandpa Joe? (Judean Rose)

RFK Jr's attitudes toward the Jewish people may be a legacy from his grandfather, Joseph P. Kennedy.

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Are We Seeing BLM 2.0 in Israel?

I’m in Jerusalem, where it’s 10:30 p.m., and I am seeing what looks like the early BLM demonstrations version 2.0 outside my window.
At 9 p.m., Ben Yehuda Street was beautiful and joyous. The area tha...

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Ignore President Biden, Here's What Is Really Happening In Israel

The alleged authoritarian 'backsliding' by Israel's 'far-right' government would actually make the country far more democratic.

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Herzog’s lamentable performance

Israel needs to deliver an entirely different message to its two-faced U.S. ally.

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Disingenuous indigenous virtue signaling

B&J’s misguided indigenous campaign is not grounded in historical fact or law. Op-ed.

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Israel is Not a Racist State, in Theory or in Practice

U.S. Representative Pramilla Jayapal’s recent statement that Israel is a “racist state” is both false and dangerous.

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Biden’s Bibi hatred endangers national security

The 75th anniversary of the strong, historically unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel is being celebrated this year.

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Biden, Netanyahu and the Anti-Israel Democrats

The President has a change of heart on meeting Israel’s Prime Minister, sort of.

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Boycotting Israeli science harms everybody

  As Israelis further test the enduring stamina of their democratic principles this week on the issue of judicial reform,

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Just say no to ‘Palestine’

The potential emergence of a Palestinian terrorist rocket brigade in Judea and Samaria serves to underline just how foolhardy it would be to establish a Palestinian state in the area.

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Britain's current transparency approach is morally wrong - editorial

The British government is refusing to disclose whether it has safeguards in place to ensure that its aid to the PA is not underwriting the obscene “pay to slay” policy.

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There's no real debating with reform opponents

  You are a nice person, but you don't really understand the judicial reform, Lt. Col. (res.) Oren Shvil told

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Israel is playing pretend as multi-front conflagration looms

  Israel might soon face the same challenges it did in the spring, as the terror wave in Judea and

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The Jenin Operation Showed That Israel Preserves Life

Over the past week, the unfolding of the Jenin operation has sparked concerns about potential violence near Israel’s populated areas. Thankfully, the IDF achieved an exceptional level of success, accompanied by an unusually low casualty rate. Official rep

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Surge in Palestinian terror is a preview of a two-state ‘solution’

Allowing Jenin to remain a base for attacks would be a replay of Israel’s Gaza disaster. So why are Biden and liberal Jews still fixated on turning that nightmare into reality?

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The Centrality Of Terrorism To Palestinian Authority Ideology

The centrality of Antisemitism to PA ideology - PMW Director Marcus explains PA political and religious Antisemitism

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American vs. Israeli Patriotism

The 4th of July is a time to reflect on what Israel can teach America about love of country.

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Giving ‘progressive’ antisemites the benefit of the doubt

Both mainstream Jewish groups and their allies in the Biden administration are determined to avoid taking on left-wing Jew-haters and the ideas that drive them.

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Biden’s Plan to Combat Anti-Semitism May Have You Singing in Russian

Like Lenin, Joe Biden is now using condemnation of anti-Semitism for his own political reasons having nothing to do with honest opposition.

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What's behind the escalating Palestinian terror offensive

The four factors pushing the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to escalate their terror assault on Israel.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Sides Now: When Officials Lump Terrorists Together with their Jewish Victims

The moral equivalence drawn between terrorist and Jewish victim is especially abhorrent when it's drawn by US officials.

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The New U.S. National Strategy To Counter Antisemitism Reveals Ignorance About The Reality Of Antisemitism In America

On May 25, 2023, the Biden administration published the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism,[1] a 60-page document full of calls to Congress and "Whole-of-Society" calls to action. Notably, the strategy includes several instances of

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The United Nations' Jihad Against Israel

The UN, ostensibly dedicated to protecting human rights, and has, in fact, devolved into hurling bogus, tabloid-style allegations as it joins other blood-libel false charges by considering the addition of Israel to its list of blacklisted entities in its

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Why can’t we talk about Ukrainian antisemitism?

Nazi imagery prevalent among Kyiv’s soldiers points to a horrific past and problematic present. Noting this doesn’t justify Putin. But silence about it won’t defend freedom.

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Trashing nationalism isn’t a defense of the Jews

Demonizing those who march with Israeli flags on “Jerusalem Day” and conservatives who push back against the Marxist war on the West is equally disingenuous and wrong.

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Israel Under Fire and The West's Pusillanimous Response

Neither Ukraine nor Israel has any territorial ambitions or aggressive intent against their attackers — both Ukraine and Israel are fighting purely defensive wars to protect their civilian populations. There is another common factor. Islamic Jihad in

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As Gaza’s rockets are fired at Israel, so are media missiles

Behind Western hostility to Israel and indifference towards Iran lies a baleful explanation.

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Islamist antisemitism is flying under the Jewish communal radar

New report details how Muslim hate groups have rebranded themselves as intersectional allies to Jewish left-wingers.

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Why the Palestinians have failed to create a state

  Over the last 75 years, since Israel’s founding, the Palestinians have achieved the dubious distinction of being among the

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Enemies wage an ‘unconventional’ legal war against Israel

Amid a lecture tour at U.S. law schools, the former Knesset member discusses attempts to censor her and her message for the next generation of attorneys.

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Military Aid to Israel Offers Very Valuable Returns

The partnership between the United States and Israel is now being threatened by a few fringe members of Congress calling on President Biden to restrict military aid.

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1,660 Israelis dead since Palestinians’ promise to end terror

If you believe in peace, history has proven nothing can be achieved without putting a permanent stop to Palestinian terror.

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It's Not ‘pro-Palestinian’ to Justify Killing Israeli Civilians

The European Left and Human Rights Groups Fail to Deal Seriously With Their Bad Apples Who Legitimize Targeting Israeli Jews, Whether They’re Settlers or Not. Instead, Those Voices Build Their Social Clout by Claiming That They’re Being Silenced, Smeared

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Israel's Miraculous 75th Birthday

This week, as the State of Israel celebrates 75 years of independence, sovereignty, and liberation, we ought to indeed marvel at the miracle that is the modern Jewish state.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Is Tucker Carlson a Covert Antisemite? (Judean Rose)

Tucker Carlson is popular with Jewish conservatives. Are they right to insist that Carlson is not an antisemite? The evidence says otherwise.

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The price Israel pays for its existence

Too few in the west grasp why this terrible toll continues to rise

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Diane Abbott and the deranged left

Abbott’s mad letter sums up everything that’s wrong with identity politics.

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Israel is Fighting the World’s War

Memorial Day in Israel has important lessons for all of us.

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Israel’s protests cross sacred red lines

The battle is existential and reflects a similar struggle in the west

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Antisemites are those who hate Israel, not those who love it

The IfNotNow group’s attack on Ron DeSantis is part of a left-wing effort to smear conservative Zionists while defending those who aid Jew-haters like George Soros.

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Another problem with ESG investing: Anti-Israel bias

The truth about environmental, social, and governance investing began coming into focus last year. A report commissioned by Chicago-based investment research firm Morningstar revealed anti-Israel bias in the ESG ratings of Sustainalytics, Morningstar’s ES

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The problem with Israel’s protests

This movement is defending the power of an unaccountable judiciary.

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Israel's protesters are enemies, not heroes, of democracy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu announced Monday night he was temporarily pausing his government’s judicial-reform efforts.

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Netanyahu’s Shameful Surrender to the Left

The Left bet that with enough pressure they could shut down democratic judicial reform in Israel.

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The Real Meaning Of 'Pro-Palestinian'

Inviting Hamas and PIJ officials to participate in such events shows that the real aim of the so-called pro-Palestinian groups is not to help the Palestinians, but to incite and spread hate and libels against the only democracy in the Middle East: Israel

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A ‘resistance’ coup just defeated Israeli democracy | ערוץ 7

A false narrative about Netanyahu’s “judicial coup” may achieve its goal of toppling him. But more than that, the consequences for future governments and U.S.-Israel relations are ominous. Op-ed.

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Don’t believe the Jimmy Carter revisionists

Despite the natural sympathy for a dying man, the revisionist attempt to erase his failures and their consequences should not prevail.

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Israel’s two-faced allies - Melanie Phillips

Cognitive dissonance in America and Britain undermines their key Middle East asset

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“Extreme, insufferable, close-minded”: Allison Josephs criticises media outlets’ depiction of Orthodox Jews

Allison Josephs, the Founder and Executive Director of Jew In The City, a non-profit organisation that seeks to change negative perceptions of religious Jews, appeared on the most recent episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism where she spoke of the often

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The ADL’s woke war on the right won’t stop antisemitism

The group’s hyping of statistics about hate downplays the threat from the left while attacking conservatives on issues that have nothing to do with its mission.

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Democrats should stop meddling in Israeli democracy

The Biden foreign-policy team is just the latest Democratic administration that has sought to interfere with the politics of the Jewish state to undermine Benjamin Netanyahu.

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What the rioting left fails to see

The attempted criminalization of Israel and Jews will continue even if the judiciary’s power is limited.

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The Huwara Riot Was No ‘Pogrom’

Anti-Palestinian violence comes from the margins of Israeli society. Anti-Jewish violence comes from the Palestinian mainstream.

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Terror-supporting Palestinian school built by USAID spotlights worldwide problem for agency

A fundamental shift is needed in which the agency is incentivized to pay more attention to where its money is going, says Middle East Forum Washington project director.

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The real ones to blame for the rioting in Huwara

The ones who must do a severe cheshbon hanefesh — introspection — are those in Likud. They wring their hands and do nothing. Op-ed.

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How Can Jews Support Ukraine After the Holocaust?

An exchange between Bernard-Henri Lévy and Natan Sharansky, from the recent Tablet event in partnership with the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine

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Golda Meir would agree with Netanyahu on this one

Helen Mirren is a wonderful actress, but her claim that she understands Golda’s “world” or the contemporary debate about Israel’s Supreme Court is pure bunk.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Jimmy Carter, antisemite.

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Intifada Intel: What the IDF Knew in July 2000 (Judean Rose)

In which the common myth that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount provoked the Second Intifada, is busted

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Israel’s Supreme Court debate: Let’s start with the facts

  Writing in the Tablet on Feb. 22, an Israeli scholar of the American political system claims that the proposed

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There is no alternative to Israeli victory

Our enemies believe time is on their side, we must prove them wrong.

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Why keep pretending that Jews building homes prevents peace?

Palestinian terrorism and disinterest in a two-state solution ensure that peace is impossible. But the United States and its allies prefer to focus on Israeli housing starts.

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Jews and the myth of greed

The evolution of the Jewish stereotype -from the Middle Ages to Joe Rogan, Ilhan Omar, Kanye, and more.

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Intersectional Antisemitism in America

The internet has brought jihadists, neo-Nazis, and anarchists together through their shared hatred of Jews

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Burns’ CIA resumes war on Israel

The current director, Bill Burns, a longtime employee of the State Department, brought his ill-informed and destructive views to the CIA.

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The anti-Bibi resistance wants Americans to thwart Israeli democracy

Some well-known writers and publications aren’t just gaslighting the world about judicial reform. They’re also playing into the hands of their country’s foes.

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There Are No Two Sides Here

The cycle of violence does not need to be stopped, the violence belongs entirely to the side that chooses to educate its children to feel hatred and anti-Semitism. The Israeli war on terror is necessary and justified, even if some lunatics give it excuses

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Ousting Ilhan Omar cause for reflection, not celebration

Reluctance to favor expelling Ilhan Omar highlights the challenges associated with celebrating the political rise of American Jewry.

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The entrenchment of Western Jew-hatred

As the age of reason skids off the road, diaspora Jews are rabbits in the headlights

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Elder Of Ziyon - It’s Not a “Terror Attack.” It’s a Terror Attack

Why would journalists put "terror attack" in scare quotes when describing the Neve Ya'akov synagogue shooting?

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Terror in Jerusalem, Counter-Terror in Jenin, and False Moral Equivalency

While coming from different starting points, two journalistic misdeeds— drawing a false moral equivalency and applying a double standard — end up with the

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Who was really behind the Jerusalem terror attack

This isn’t random terrorism, it’s carefully calculated terrorism.

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Israel’s critics continue to hold the Jewish state responsible for Palestinian terror

The anti-Bibi resistance at home is helping foes abroad blame the Netanyahu government, not the terrorists, for the Jerusalem massacre.

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Sickening reaction over Israeli massacre

The west's liberal hypocrites have Jewish blood on their hands

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Why American Jewish politicians have rushed to defend Ilhan Omar

If Jewish leaders won’t stand up to a powerful antisemite, they should be replaced.

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The ‘cycle of violence’ dehumanizing cliches after Jerusalem massacre

Though Jerusalem was on the receiving end of violence, the global community still turns the narrative against the victim state.

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Russian–Ukraine war escalates threat to Israel's security

  For the last 11 months, Israel has sought to signal its opposition to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine while

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Jerusalem's Jewish majority has been restored after 100 years

Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish national and spiritual existence since time immemorial.

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The unhinged reaction to the new Israeli government

The shallowness of progressive Jews is creating a crisis for the Jewish world

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Elder Of Ziyon - Forward op-ed: Zionists complaining about death threats are "snowflakes"

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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Moshe Dayan’s Tragic Blunder - Meir Y. Soloveichik

Whenever Israel’s Temple Mount is in the news, one is reminded of the old joke in which two Americans, touring England, pay a visit to Runnymede. “It was

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Even the PLO knows the Jews are indigenous to Israel

PLO knew they could not erase history, so they chose instead to rewrite history.

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Why ban the PLO - and Confederate - flags? | Israel National News

Flags have power and it can be negative. Think Nazi Germany's swastika flag or the USSR's hammer and sickle. Op-ed.

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Jews are the owners of the Temple Mount

No other nation shares this history, no other nation has had the same capital for 3,000 years and has never had another one, and Jerusalem was never the capital of any other nation.

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‘Pro-Palestinian’ Means No Such Thing

Palestinians in Jenin at the funeral of gunman Youssef Salah who was killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli …

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A letter to our Jewish brethren in Europe

  1. Brothers and sisters in Europe, some of you have published an appeal – another in an endless series

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Why Palestinians Want to Slaughter Jewish Worshippers

The Palestinian Authority, which is in charge of security in Nablus, has -- despite official agreements in the Oslo Accords -- nevertheless refused to fulfill its commitment to protect and ensure free access to Joseph's Tomb. So far, no one has called

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Netanyahu must defend Israel against ‘wokeism’

The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guest Yoram Hazony.

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From Jew vilification to the delegitimization of Israel

Why do so many people dislike the Jewish state? Is it because we Israelis are a bit loud on planes? Is it the genuine challenge to find an Israeli who doesn't cut in line? What is the correct answer?

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The Jewish People are Winning - Looking back at how far we have come

As the most proud and nationalist Jewish government ever was just sworn in Jerusalem yesterday, I wanted to take us all back to how things were just 16 years ago to understand.

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Why Israel Can’t Send The “Iron Dome” To Ukraine

The war in Ukraine has forced countries to clearly identify their national interests.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Whoopi Goldberg's perverted mindset is a manifestation of the larger phenomenon of Black antisemitism

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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The Palestinian issue is about supremacy, not justice

Privilege and supremacy are usually associated with white Europeans and Americans and not the seemingly poor and oppressed Palestinians.

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Is talk of globalism an antisemitic dog whistle?

The ADL and other liberals mistakenly believe critiques of efforts to undermine national sovereignty and pushing woke leftist policies are always about Jew-hatred.

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Why Leftists Embrace Islamist Ideas about the West

Richard Landes, chair of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and author of Can the "Whole World" Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, was interviewed in a December 5th Middle East Forum Webinar (video) by Dexter Van

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A tale of two narratives | Israel National News

Since the Zionist narrative has demonstrable validity over the irreconcilable, mutually-exclusive counter-narrative of the Palestinian-Arabs, it is the Zionist narrative that must prevail, Op-ed.

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The Palestinians’ World Cup propaganda victory

The embrace of the Palestinian cause by Morocco’s team and many Arab fans shows the gap between their governments’ appreciation of Israel and popular opinion.

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'Black People are the real Jews'

The Jewish presence in the civil right movements has been erased from black history. Liberal Jews have erased their own history. Op-ed

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Every Time You Wish Someone 'Happy Hanukkah' You Acknowledge The Historic Jewish Claim On Jerusalem

The Festival of Lights is just another reminder that the Jews have a singular, millennia-long relationship with Jerusalem.

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It sucks to be a Jew on the left

As Hadley Freeman leaves the Guardian for the Sunday Times, she opens up about her Jewish experience

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Trivializing antisemitism based on politics

  After news broke that former President Donald Trump carelessly dined with both Ye and avowed holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

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The FBI should investigate the attack on US citizen in Jerusalem bombing

The FBI announced that it will be investigating the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh but was silent when an American was injured in a bombing.

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Israel does not need anyone’s permission to exist

We must hold our heads up high and say ‘hinenu,’ we are here.

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Qatar’s farcical World Cup begins

Qatar’s censorship on behalf of its Iranian ally aligns with the sly, underhanded manner through which it used its wealth and influence for the purpose of bribing FIFA into awarding Doha the 2022 World Cup, an outcome that former FIFA President Sepp Blatt

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It’s time for Israel to untie the American apron strings

Deep changes in American society are a security risk for Israel.

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How not to fight Antisemitism | Israel National News

Jewish organizations want to fight antisemitism but have they isolated themselves from the people they claim to represent. Op-ed.

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No More ADL - Tablet Magazine

When it comes to Jews, the organization now does more harm than good

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The Holocaust Is Not Your Metaphor

"A production of Romeo and Juliet for non-binary performers"

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Biden shouldn’t try to ‘save’ Israeli democracy from election victors

Democrats don’t want Netanyahu or a right-wing/religious government in Jerusalem. But what they really don’t want is for the Jewish state’s voters to determine their own fate.

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Israel: Jewish sovereignty is on the ballot

The real issue dividing Israeli society isn’t former premier Benjamin Netanyahu or the economy, but something far more basic: Israeli society is being torn apart by the issue of national sovereignty.

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Hysteria greets British PM Liz Truss’s embassy move proposal

Britain’s elites loathe Israel on a scale that just doesn’t exist in America. Op-ed.

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Middle East: How to Lose Friends and Influence Over People

A decade of Obama-Biden foreign policy has broken the Middle East and America’s security order

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Israel walked into a Lebanese trap

  Give Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid credit for belatedly understanding just how dangerous the off-shore gas deal he thought

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Why "progressives" can’t deal with antisemitism

The war against the Jews is also the war against western civilisation

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Combatting anti-Semitism must include emancipating Zionism

Knowing the real-world harm that excludes Zionists from equal access and participation—in university book clubs, in support groups for victims of sexual harassment, in class, etc.—is an unacceptable reality.

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Israel's 'Peace Partner' Is Slaughtering Israelis

These two bodies [Palestinian Authority (PA) and its ruling faction, Fatah] are headed by one man: Mahmoud Abbas, who has zero compunction about his loyalists murdering and wounding Israelis. On the contrary, he encourages it and pays generously for it

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Why Haven’t Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib Even Mentioned Iran’s Hijab Protests?

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in August 2018. Photo: Rashida Tlaib via Twitter. As of this writing, heartbreakingly brave Iranian …

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We Must Always Remember the Extraordinary Gift of Israel

Performers play musical instruments near Dung Gate, close to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen …

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The slaughter of Shulamit Ovadia and the myth of ‘lone wolf’ terrorism

Israeli security officials, politicians need to realize: There is no such thing as a “lone wolf” terrorist. It’s not TikTok and Twitter that breed and cultivate such monsters; it’s the PA.

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Fighting for social justice while ignoring Arab slave masters

  The hypocrisy of those purporting to believe in social justice and ranting about white privilege and colonialism is well

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What has the game-changing Abraham Accords accomplished after two years?

For one thing, the dialogue has shifted from security to collaboration.

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The “State of Palestine” is just a stepping-stone to the destruction of Israel

The “State of Palestine” is just a stepping-stone to the destruction of Israel

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Tearing Up the Rules of Engagement Between Israel and America

A photo of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in the West Bank city of Jenin on …

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The unlearned lessons of 9/11

A short memory may be helpful as a coping mechanism, but it is deadly in matters of foreign policy.