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Elder Of Ziyon - Bullet math - it is more likely that Palestinian bullets killed Shireen Abu Akleh
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Harvard, BDS and the Nazis
The editors of Harvard’s student newspaper have just urged a boycott of the Jewish state and praised a campus
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Palestinians Lie to Murder Jews; The U.S. Rewards Them
The terrorists and their families are saying that they actually believe the lies of the Palestinian leaders that the mosque is being attacked, violated and desecrated by Jews. They are saying that this is the reason they are sending Palestinians to
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The Palestinian death cult - worshipping the murder of Jews
At its core, the anti-Israel movement is a death cult, a movement that denies truth, craves bloodshed, glorifies violence, and worships death.
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The DeSantis affair The disgraceful politicization of Jewish Institutions
By refusing to allow a conference to be held in its building where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a speaker, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage declared itself a partisan institution.Op-ed.
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Progressively Sliding into Antisemitism
From the blog of Rachel Wahba at The Times of Israel
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Nakba Day: Annual Reminder that Palestinians Learned Nothing from History
The Jews accepted the Partition Plan whereas the Arabs rejected it. In other words, the Jews chose compromise, and the Arabs gambled on war-and lost.
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Israel is not a shtetl, Messrs. Putin and Lavrov | Israel National News
Israel cannot be pushed around, as it was with the Jews in the good old days. At 74, it is a strong, vibrant country-and a democracy. Op-ed.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Proud to be a Zionist - 5782
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How ready is Saudi Arabia for potential normalization with Israel?
The subject of Israeli-Saudi ties has caught the media headlines in Israel again following an Israel Hayom interview with President Isaac
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Why the Left went from being pro-Israel, Zionism to opposing them
Solidarity with the struggle of the long-persecuted Jews for national freedom was seen as an integral element in an anti-fascist, anti-colonialist, and anti-racist worldview.
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Jordan's attitude towards Temple Mount is antisemitic and hypocritical
Jordan has demanded that Israel relinquish more control over Temple Mount to the Wakf following the recent terror wave and Temple Mount conflicts.
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Elder Of Ziyon - You Say Nakba, We Say You Fled, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Judean Rose)
The real "Nakba" was a disaster of Arab making
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What have we really learned from Yom Ha’Shoah? | Israel National News
Yom Ha’Shoah comes to teach, to remind, to educate and to wake up a sleeping nation. Even in Israel, a major wake-up call is needed.Opinion.
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America’s biblical roots | Israel National News
Do Jews betray a “dual loyalty” when they support Israel? Absolutely not. Jews who support Israel stand for the very best of our American heritage and our American values.Op-ed.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Should the Performance of the Korban Pesach be Illegal in the Jewish State? (Judean Rose)
Every year, Temple Mount activists prepare to perform the Passover offering. Every year, they are arrested.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Let's drop the pretense that Jordan is moderate and wants peace. It is a major and official driver of antisemitic incitement.
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In Every Generation They Rise Up to Destroy Us
There is a word for violent, unprovoked attacks against innocent Jews going about their ordinary lives: pogrom.
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We progress, the Palestinians regress, and so the world turns
There's no point in searching for a reason or an immediate explanation behind the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv,
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In the 21st century, anti-Zionism means antisemitism
How many deadly terrorist attacks must take place inside of Israel before it starts being called another intifada? Thursday’s
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The endless ignorance of tying Ukraine needs to Israel’s Iron Dome
Israel couldn’t supply Iron Dome to Ukraine, because Israel has never supplied the system abroad, except to the US.
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Debunking liberal assumptions about Jewish security in Europe
According to most of the international media, democracy was defeated in this week’s Hungarian election. The victory of incumbent
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Don’t reward Palestinians for a new wave of terror
The Biden administration tried to sabotage an Israeli-Arab summit by raising the Palestinian issue. It shouldn’t use terrorism as an excuse to resurrect the failed policies of the past.
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Elder Of Ziyon - How to Survive in the Middle East (Vic Rosenthal)
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The Lesson of Ukraine
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden talk as they arrive at NATO …
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Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
The reaction to aggression against each country plays very differently in the anti-Semitic West. Opinion.
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Becoming the strong tribe of the Middle East
In an interview with Fox News, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the fight he led against the
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What Zelenskyy got wrong about Israel
In Israel, one of the most-shared videos in recent weeks shows a Ukrainian soldier named Alex revealing the contents of his military backpack. After waving his night-vision goggles at the camera, he pulls out a Ukrainian-language translation of Golda, a 2009 biography of Kyiv-born former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
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Nationalism goes back into fashion with certain exceptions
All of a sudden, nationalism is back in fashion. The world isn’t just cheering the heroic efforts of Ukrainians
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Biden’s Unconscionable Empowerment of Both Russia and Iran
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Winter Meeting in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2022. …
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Morality propaganda: Ukrainian refugees, Israel, and money
Over the years I have learned to smell propaganda. Being an Israeli means being under constant attack – both overt and covert. We are threatened with physical violence, terrorism, and war. We are also threatened by more sophisticated and elegant methods s
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Why anti-Zionists lie and exaggerate about Israel
Anti-Zionists twist facts and use antisemitism to make Israel look bad.
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Israel & Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: The False Narrative of Israeli Neutrality
The pernicious message that Israel is neutral or silent in this war just because it doesn’t sound the same as the U.S. is simply false.
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Biden Blames the Jews for His Ukraine Policy
The president and his people try to seal a new Iran deal by hanging their appeasement of Putin on Israel
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Amnesty International is no longer a human-rights group, it’s just another ‘progressive’ lobby
If you had any doubts that Amnesty International opposes the very existence of Israel, its executive director just made it crystal-clear: Addressing the...
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The Winner in Ukraine Won't Be Russia or America. It Will Be China. - Tablet Magazine
A seat at the European table won't be too much to ask for the man who saves Europe from nuclear war
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The West is selling out to Iran to lower gas prices
Like politics, wars can make for strange bedfellows. In the Second World War, even a staunch anti-Communist like Winston
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Washington's betrayal has only just begun
On Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers are actively plotting to murder former
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Russia’s Invasion Is a Wake-Up Call for Israel and the West
Destroyed Russian tanks are seen, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in the Sumy region, Ukraine, March 7, 2022. Irina Rybakova/Press …
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Elder Of Ziyon - Of Ukraine Hero Worship and the Jews (Judean Rose)
Some Jews feel for Ukraine, even as they cannot forget history.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Jewish American Privilege and Ukraine (Forest Rain)
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Future of Democrats and the mainstreaming of antisemitism
The future of the Democratic Party was summed up in two things that happened this week. One was the
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For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine
Putin claims his aim is "de-Nazification", but it's Putin who's unleashing neo-Nazism
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Elder Of Ziyon - Politically incorrect thoughts about the Russia/Ukraine war
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Ukraine Demonstrates Why Nationalism Can Be A Force For Good
What Ukraine has shown, and Europe may be starting to understand, is that nationalism can be a force for good and democracy.
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The lessons for Israel from Russia’s war on Ukraine
Self-reliance is the key to security. Israelis must understand that they should avoid being put in a position where, like the Ukrainians, they must rely on fickle international sympathy.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: The Ukrainians are Coming--or Not (Judean Rose, UPDATED)
The Ukrainian ambassador to Israel tells a whopper.
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New Zealand’s Jewish problem
What is wrong with this far-away island country? Whence the anti-Israel animus? Op-ed.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Where are the stories of Ukrainian civilian victims?
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Pollak: Ukraine Invasion Means Israel Likelier to Launch Preemptive Strike on Iran
The Russian invasion of Ukraine will have effects beyond Europe, and could push Israel to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran.
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Ukraine crisis shows Israel the international community won't rescue you
Even though Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria is fully supported by history and international law, and Russia illegally occupies large parts of Ukraine, accusations against Israel will continue.
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For Israel, victory gives us a future | Israel National News
We are loathe to hit the enemy hard enough to break its will to continue fighting and so have only another war to look forward to. Op-ed.
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The Naqba dynamic: A sobering analysis of Arab-Jewish relations
The fundamental Arab goal is complete de-Zionization of Israel, meaning canceling the Law of Return and the Jewish Nation-State Law.Op-ed
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Jewish history is under attack
The Jewish heritage been committed to remember our past, treasure our traditions, and pass them on to future generations. When we remember, we can ensure the world the world never forgets.
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America’s future depends on our relationship with Israel
Opinion: "I’m an unapologetic believer in the promises God has laid out in Scripture," writes Dr. David Jeremiah.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Here is what the "progressive" opponents of the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021 actually oppose
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Whoopi Goldberg Said What Progressives – Including ADL – Are Thinking About Racism
When Whoopi Goldberg said the Holocaust wasn’t about race, because Nazis and Jews were both white, she voiced what has become unquestioned truth in today’s progressive circles. The ADL, an organization founded to fight Jew-hatred, is complicit.
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Why We Lied to Ourselves About Whoopi Goldberg and Antisemitism
Whoopi Goldberg speaks during the WorldPride 2019 Opening Ceremony, a combined celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall …
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To Combat Antisemitism, We Must Oppose Anti-Zionism—at Home and Abroad
Jew-hate will never be snuffed out in an environment in which anti-Zionism is tolerated and condoned.
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The Surge in Holocaust Revisionism
The leader of Holocaust revisionism today is not Whoopi Goldberg but the current Polish government. Opinion.
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My father Elie Wiesel would have been ashamed of Beijing Olympics
Most of the world didn’t seem to know, or care, that the host country is hosting a pageant of “peace and friendship” while simultaneously terrorizing its Uyghur minority.
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Why race isn’t about skin color
At what point did the Jews become so white that the likes of Whoopi Goldberg don’t believe the Holocaust was about race?
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Whoops, Whoopi: the Holocaust was all about race
The celebrity's ignorance reflects the twisted views of an alarming number of people
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Where are the real journalists? 15 questions for Amnesty
Where are the real journalists? Here are fifteen questions for Amnesty International that I would ask. Why is almost nobody else asking them?
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When Israel Can’t Be Blamed, No One Cares About ‘Human Rights’
Israeli security forces prepare to arrest suspects in the Dec. 19 terror attack in Homesh, in the West Bank. Photo: …
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Whoopi Goldberg's gaffe proves that woke 'anti-racism' can all too easily slip into anti-Semitism
Critical Race Theory is constructed so that it can only ever end up landing Jews in the role of the despised
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Whoopi Goldberg Says Holocaust Wasn’t About Targeting Jews. Here’s Why That Matters.
The asininity of Whoopi Goldberg's remarks cannot be overstated here. It is absolutely clear that the Nazis targeted Jews as a race.
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Why Palestinians Dream of a Genocidal Victory
The use of tropes and the appropriation of history have frequently been used by totalitarian regimes to inspire their people to strive for victory. The Nazis often used medieval Norse imagery and mythology, as well as the construction of the idea that
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Amnesty's 'apartheid Israel' calumny
The allegation is unjustified and malicious -- deeply harmful to Israel for those who take it at face value; damaging to Amnesty's credibility for those who know better
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Whoopi Goldberg isn’t the only one who doesn’t understand antisemitism
Of course the Holocaust was about race. But it’s no longer surprising that there’s some dispute about that.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day proves everyone loves dead Jews
It was a great day for Israeli diplomacy. For the first time, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution sponsored
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History Lessons: America’s New Antisemitism Begins with Cultural Erasure of American Jews
As a Muslim woman committed to combating radical Islam, also known as Islamism, I research contemporary antisemitism, particularly Islamist antisemitism.
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American Jews Will Not Cower
A law enforcement vehicle is parked at a school in the area where a man believed to have taken people …
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US Ambassador Thomas Nide's refusal to visit Judea-Samaria Jews - opinion
Nides’s statements are a painful indication that the ambassador wishes to appease the PA’s terrorist dictatorship, radical Islamists and radical leftists.
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The real lesson of the Texas synagogue attack
Few understand the crucial role of antisemitism in Islamist extremism
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I watched the FBI become so woke it can’t call out terrorism
The FBI has made a sea change in defining criminal suspects since the Obama administration and its attorney general, Eric Holder, set out to transform the justice system. Post-Obama, law enforcement hesitates to describe criminal suspects’ race for fear o
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Emily Schrader: BDS is a colonialist movement
BDS self-identifies as a progressive human rights cause, but its goal is to destroy the State of Israel.
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Being Jewish in an Unraveling America - Common Sense
The bad guy was killed. The good guys were saved. But the reaction to the hostage-taking in Colleyville, Texas, should alarm American Jews.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Let's help out the FBI in figuring out why a Muslim terrorist sympathizer might attack synagogues
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Is the US Holding Israel’s Iron Dome Hostage to an Iran Nuke Deal?
While President Biden, Senate, and Congress slow-walk and bicker over replenishing Jerusalem's dwindling defensive missile shield supplies, PM Bennett says his country won't be bound to any rickety renewed nuke deal - nor stand idly by to Iran's increasingly genocidal threats
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A Jewish majority is insufficient to protect Israel
After their claim to be the peace camp exploded into a million pieces in a hundred suicide bombings, Israel’s
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How the term ‘Arab Jew’ distorts history and slanders Zionism
Not only are Mizrahi Jews simply not Arabs, but they are also, in fact, the embodiment of resistance to colonization. They shine as a beacon of light across the Middle East and North Africa. Opinion.
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UN’s war on Jewish Jerusalem: A denial of indigenous rights
The UN’s attack on Jewish Jerusalem is simply part of its wider anti-Israel strategy seeking to undermine and delegitimize the only Jewish state in the world.
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In practice, ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ boils down to leftist dogma, including hatred of Israel
Kudos to the Heritage Foundation workers who pinned down crystal-clear evidence of ugly bias among those pushing “diversity, equity and inclusion,” or DEI.
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Are Palestinians an indigenous people?
Arabs who call themselves Palestinians—derived from the word “Philistines,” an invading force from the Aegean Sea—use the word “indigenous” to legitimatize their efforts to carry out their struggle against Israel’s existence.
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Mainstream Jewish Groups Need to Understand That Interfaith Dialogue Legitimized CAIR
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations (San Francisco) addresses the audience during a panel discussion titled ‘Dismantling …
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Holocaust Education and “The Elephant as the Table”
Interview with Master Holocaust Teacher Dorene Schwartz-Weitz on the need for mandatory Holocaust education.
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Biden is paving the way for a dangerous ideology
Democratic members of the US House of Representatives passed legislation last week to create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia worldwide. The bill was sponsored by Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, and her Jewish colleague Rep. Jan S
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Holocaust manipulation: Do not defile their memory
“She gave my dad life and then he gave me life and now I’m helping her to survive,” said Toronto physician Dr. Jordana Sacks.
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Double standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact.Opinion.
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The Arab Apartheid No One Talks About
"Not all of the professions will be opened to Palestinians under the new decree...." — L'Orient Today, December 8, 2021. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon "are socially marginalized, have very limited civil, social, political and economic rights, including
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Opinion: Don’t be fooled. Zionism is an Indigenous rights movement and being anti-Zionist is antisemitic.
Danzig served in the Israeli Army and is a former police officer with the New York Police Department.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Myth of the Good German
Some Holocaust movies are embellishing history to impart the wrong lesson.
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Is it Islamophobic to call out Ilhan Omar for antisemitism?
As far as congressional Democrats are concerned, another right-wing nut job needs to be disciplined. The newest target of
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The Most Legitimate State on Earth - Tablet Magazine
Israel is the model for the nation-state idea on which the current global order was founded. That's why opponents of the idea see it as a target.
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The Other War – Jewish Policy Center
The Hamas terror attack on three Israelis in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, and the death of one, received little attention in the American press. The victims were Jews who had just visited the Western Wall to pray, and the deceased was planning to
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Israel needs a narrative strategy. This is why.
A fascinating BBC TV series has explored the way in which Britain’s former Labour prime ministers, Tony Blair and
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Richard Gere et al, thanks for the reminder to bless Israel
Richard Gere and more than 100 other movie notables signed a letter not to bless, but to curse the precious land and its holy people. Op-ed.
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Fighting Anti-Semitism: Lessons From Kristallnacht
We must recognize that racial hatred is not a uniquely Jewish problem, and that what starts with the Jews, seldom ever ends with the Jews.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel haters (and the woke altogether) use classic brainwashing techniques
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Hating Jews is Becoming a Leftist Purity Test
The Jewish groups that failed to fight campus anti-Semitism are about to live under it.
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Jerusalem Consulate: A Nail in the Coffin of Peace
This may seem like just another diplomatic facility to issue visas, promote trade and take care of US citizens, with no greater consequence than the US consulate in Edinburgh, UK. But it is far more than a mere office for paper-shuffling diplomats. It
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Is Mayim Bialik too Jewish for 'Jeopardy!'?
It may turn out that a lot of Americans are devoting as much thought to the question of who
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Why are Jews so quick to defend our enemies?
Jewish schools must not teach their pupils a one-sided narrative of Palestinian victimhood
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The cost of Kamala validating 'Israeli genocide' speech
US VP Kamala Harris validated a student who accused Israel of ethnic genocide.
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Is it ever okay to praise antisemitic blood libel?
Does it matter if politicians let lies told by people they meet publicly go unanswered? That’s the question that
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AOC's tears, Schumer's silence, Kamala's ignorance
Does VP Harris really believe Israel is perpetrating ethnic genocide? Does AOC think Israeli civilians should be killed by rockets? Op-ed.
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Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America?
There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in the event of a Nazi-like outbreak. I don’t know if young Jews think about this, but nearly all Jews who grew up in the decade
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The Left's embrace of violence against Jews
Why the Left seems to think it’s perfectly acceptable for Jews to die in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Op-ed.
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Twenty Years After Durban, What We Still Get Wrong About Left-Wing Antisemitism
Supporters of the antisemitic BDS movement in South Africa have issued a cautious ‘apology’ for demanding the expulsion of Jewish …
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When you vote to let terrorists kill Jews, that is antisemitism
In blocking funding for Israel's Iron Dome system, the Squad and others have gone from slurs to real-world consequences
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Israel: Progressives Hand Democrats Another Embarrassment
With majority Democrats locked in a bitter internecine struggle over just how much of Joe Biden’s domestic agenda they can pass in one fell swoop, the
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Assessing the twin disasters of September 2001
We have a tendency to forget that two historical events occurred in early September 2001. No one needs to
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Can the West be honest about the Islamist threat?
It was only two months ago that the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, boasted on Twitter about flying a
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You can't be 'pro-Israel' if you defend anti-Zionists
It appears that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) may have finally gone a bit too far even for some of
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For Anti-Zionists, 'Palestine' Does Not Stop at the Green Line
In the aftermath of the recent uproar over the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company announcing it would boycott the
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Boycotting the Western Wall
We need to stop pretending that the Ben & Jerry’s argument is over a handful of wild-eyed “settlers” on remote hilltops. This is a fight over boycotting the Western Wall. Op-ed.
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AOC: Agent of chaos
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fomenting chaos through the fabrication and dissemination of half-truths and the promotion of ruinous policy.
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A Response to ‘Rolling Stone’: Many Young Jews Like Me Support Israel
An antisemitic banner on display outside Clifton Hookah in Paterson, NJ. Photo: courtesy of ‘Stop Antisemitism.’ Marisa Kabas frames her …
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Elder Of Ziyon - Keeping the Jewish State Jewish
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Deconstructing the Jerusalem flag march
It took participants to say that whatever clothes the “Emperor Hamas” did or did not have, there’s nothing it could do or say to deter their assertion of love for Israel and ineffable tie to the Holy City.
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Ilhan Omar is a wakeup call for American Jews
A new generation is upon us; people who know and care nothing about Judeo/Christian values. They keep coming and are getting elected.Op-ed
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Anti-Israel rhetoric has always been about the Jews
In the hate business, antisemitism was always an easy sell and business is really good now
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Elder Of Ziyon - Jerusalem Flag March? I Vote Yes! (Judean Rose)
Why is the Jerusalem flag march, the Rikudgalim, so important?
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Faced with a tsunami of anti-Semitism, Diaspora Jews still cling to their bubble
A neo-pogrom is being facilitated by Western elites who, if they aren’t taking part in this war against the Jewish people either on the streets or in the media, are piously wringing their hands but not taking the necessary action to stop it. Op-ed.
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Israel Has Set a New Standard for the Ethics of War
Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike, amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza City May 17, 2021. Photo: …
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Elder Of Ziyon - The Poisoning of American Jewry is Complete (Judean Rose)
An encounter with the author's relative underscores the schism between American and Israeli Jews.
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The International Community is Encouraging Hamas to Attack Israel Again — and Again
Rockets are launched by Palestinian terrorists into Israel, in Gaza May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa This headline says it …
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If you side with Hamas, your antisemitism is showing
For the past two weeks, rockets have been fired into civilian areas of Israel by the terrorist group Hamas.
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As Pogromists Activate, Chuck Schumer Cowers - John Podhoretz, Commentary Magazine
On 47th Street in Manhattan, the famous "Diamond District" where so many Jews work, someone set off an incendiary device this afternoon. A car caravan
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ZOA: Concerns Raised that Israel, Under Pressure, Agrees to Ceasefire with Hamas
Israel’s announcement that Israel had accepted an “unconditional ceasefire” commencing at 2 a.m. Israel time, brokered by the U.S. and Egypt, raises concerns.
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Playing American Race Politics in the Middle East - Tablet Magazine
New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman and others are grafting a domestic psychodrama onto a foreign region—and endangering American Jews in the process
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Why does the hard left glorify the Palestinians? | TheHill
In a world in which massive violations of human rights have, tragically, become the norm, why has the hard left focused on one of the least compelling of those causes?
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Elder Of Ziyon - What to Answer Anti-Israel Idiots (but it won’t help) (Judean Rose)
If you dare to enter the fray and debate the Israel-haters, some suggested responses to questions.
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The Squad Is Rooting for Hamas
Hamas has a booster club in one of our political parties, and no major Democrat dares criticize it.
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Lies, incitement and irresponsibility - the western betrayal of Israel
Politicians are media have lost their moral compass. What we are witnessing is a total betrayal of the truth, of Israel and of the Jews.
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With Israel under Attack, Watch for Progressive Anti-Semitism
Not only does history's oldest virus—anti-Semitism—today receive 24/7 assistance from social media, but it metastasizes as quickly as deadly new strains of COVID-19, spawning Jew-hatred and hate
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Progressivism's Moral Atrocity in the Middle East
If you spent the last several years ignoring events in the Middle East and you’re just now tuning in, the images on your television screen might suggest to
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Why victory in Gaza runs through Jerusalem
The IDF has had some nice successes in the military sphere. Some 50 terrorists have already been killed, among
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Cobra Kai and the Jewish State
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Israel: Until we assert ourselves, projecting actual power and deterrence, we will be picked apart
We live with a functional absurdity, in which the most powerful army in the world hamstrings itself irrationally. Op-ed.
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When Will it End? When They Pave Gaza and They Put Up A Parking Lot (Judean Rose)
What is the ultimate solution to the rockets on Israel from Gaza?
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US has plunged its relations with Israel into crisis
In light of the reactions from Washington to the Hamas and Fatah-inspired Arab violence in Jerusalem, it is hard
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For Progressives Netanyahu isn't the problem, Israel is
Just a few years ago, Senator Elizabeth Warren was a bit of joke. With her views placing her at
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Accusations ZOA supports white supremacy is undeserved abuse
ZOA defamed for defending the Jewish people with absurd accusations of ‘elevating white supremacist voices’
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Has anti-Israel discourse taken over the United States?
History will not be favorable to our current American political leaders unless they promptly correct the strong perception that they abandoned Israel and Jews.
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Biden Just Threw Israeli-Palestinian Peace Under the Bus | Opinion
At a time when the Abraham Accords finally mark acceptance by some Arabs of Israel's belonging and permanence in the region, the Biden administration is refinancing an agency that provides
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We recognize Haman. But where are Mordechai and Esther?
This week’s festival of Purim provided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an irresistible analogy. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook
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Is Joe Biden Looking to Take Obama's Place as the Most Anti-Israel President in History?
Barack Obama’s antipathy toward Israel during his two terms was unprecedented at the time, but it looks like Joe Biden is going to give him a run for his money....
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American Jews Voted for This: The Story of a Nation, Amcha (Judean Rose)
A one-woman mantra campaign that aims to drive home the import of the Jewish vote for Biden.
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Only an Israel victory over Palestinian Lawfare will stop the ICC process
The Palestinian Authority has taken off its gloves, if it ever even had them on. Israel should do likewise. Op-ed.
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The moral obligation for Israel vaccinating its citizens ahead of Palestinians
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No, ‘Jewish Supremacism’ Does Not Define Israel
Earlier this month, the organization B’Tselem issued an eight-page paper that declares the Jewish state guilty of apartheid. It’s absurd.
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Elder Of Ziyon - Stop using Jews as pawns to score political points, .@TedCruz and .@AOC.
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The dangerous logic of anti-racism
If racism is about prejudice and power, where does that leave high-achieving minorities?
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Stop Playing Down the Significance of Morocco and Sudan Normalization Deals
A general view shows an empty street following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Casablanca, Morocco, March 20, …
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Misguided American Jews hiding in plain sight - Opeds - Israel National News
Dear American Progressive Jews, do not cower. Do not cling to your enemies. Hiding in plain sight, “passing,” will not save us. Opinion.
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The Torah Versus the Left
Question: What book is the opposite of the left? Answer: the Torah. The Torah is the Hebrew name of the first five books of the Bible, the “Five Books of Moses.” The Torah is the foundation of the rest of the Bible and the rock on which both Judaism a
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How the Trump administration banished the ghosts blocking the path to peace
Trump administration banished the ghosts blocking the path to peace.
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The agenda that undermines America’s bond with the Jews - Melanie Phillips
The Trump interlude is clearly viewed as an irritating setback to be reversed
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Israel: Obama’s revisionist ‘Promised Land’
In his new memoir, the former U.S. president misleads readers in a way that will forever shape their negative perspective of the Jewish state.
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How Trump can expose biggest lie in Middle East: Palestinian ‘refugee’ myth
The Trump administration may be on its way out, but it can still advance American interests between now and January.
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Obama, Netanyahu, AIPAC and the Jews
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with then-US President Barack Obama, at the Mount Herzl national cemetery, in Jerusalem, …
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Trump’s core righteousness shines through Pompeo's anti-BDS and pro-Jews in Yesha speech - Israel National News
For no conceivable political gain, post-elections, Trump sent Mike Pompeo, to the Mideast with special tasks.And now Pollard. Op-ed.
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Blaming the victim: Theo van Gogh, Charlie Hebdo, and the end of Free Speech
While Muslim extremists slice the throats of those at prayer, the NYT and others accuse the French of failing Muslim immigrants. Op-ed.
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If you care about Israel, you have to vote for Donald Trump - The Jerusalem Post
Given Trump’s track record on Israel and the Middle East, if you truly care about the state of Israel, you need to vote for Donald Trump.
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Heads Up, Liberal Jews––Don’t be Jews with trembling knees
Democrat Senator Joe Biden confronted Israeli PM Menachem Begin in 1982, threatening to cut off aid to Israel. How did Begin respond? Op-ed
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Israel-Sudan Deal Seals Trump's Mideast Legacy
The U.S. president’s methods may be controversial, but a President Biden would need to respect the clout his predecessor has built in the region.
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Jews backing Biden are the real 'freiers' - opinion - The Jerusalem Post
Biden/Harris administration is likely to be more even more anti-Israel and antisemitic than the Obama/Biden administration was.
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Trump’s Middle East Metamorphosis - WSJ
Arab leaders fear a President Biden may spurn Israel and cozy up to Turkey and Iran.
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The Wonder of the Abraham Accords - Meir Y. Soloveichik
Three days before Rosh Hashanah, I heard the most unexpectedly stirring sermon of the High Holy Day season. The pulpit from which it was delivered might have
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Joe Biden is not a friend of Israel - Israel National News
Biden implemented Obama's foreign policy because he agreed with it. His presidency would be a third Obama term. Opinion.
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Trivializing the true evil of Nazism - Opeds - Israel National News
Democrats, including Jewish ones, call Trump a Nazi, distorting the meaning of Nazism and turning it into an empty political smear. Op-ed.