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Elder Of Ziyon - The anti-Israel Left makes up new laws, and ignores international law, when it comes to Israel

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

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Progressives for jihad

The woke set’s sympathy for Palestinian Islamic Jihad is deranged.

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The 'forever war' against the West

  Just under a year ago, President Biden asked this question: “What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this

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Identifying with the invisible residents of southern Israel

The government in Jerusalem constantly calls for unity. What might help in this virtually impossible endeavor would be a heavy dose of empathy for those bearing the brunt of the enemy’s will—and repeated attempts—to annihilate the entire Jewish state.

I downloaded the “Red Alert” app years ago: EXACTLY for this reason.

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Gaza: The Usual Suspects Condemn Israel

Commenting on the killing of Zawahiri, UN Secretary General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the UN was "committed to fighting against terrorism and strengthening international cooperation in countering that threat". Of course it was a different story

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Operation Breaking Dawn was a long time in the making

Operation Breaking Dawn so far seems to have more in common with Operation Black Belt in which Al-Ata was killed and Hamas chose not to get openly involved.

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As Biden is applauded, we're left wondering

From the blog of Frimet Roth at The Times of Israel

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Elder Of Ziyon - Whoopi Goldberg Really Needs to Stop Talking about the Holocaust and All Things Related (Judean Rose)

Whoopi puts her foot in it again, calling TPUSA participants complicit with neo-Nazi protesters.

Whoopi Goldberg is such a stupid person. So of course, liberals love her. Never mind that she is a racist and a Jew hater.

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Dershowitz: ‘Nothing Jewish’ About Left-Wing Jewish Democratic Council of America

There is nothing particularly Jewish about the Jewish Democratic Council of America, which speaks neither for Jews nor Democrats.

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How the ‘awokening’ of the media erased the working class and the Jews

A recent book details how a moral panic about race solidified journalists’ contempt for non-elites, as well as helps perpetuate economic suffering and anti-Semitism.

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Putting Netanyahu back in office can save Israel’s democracy

A majority of voters in Israel and a large majority of Jewish voters consider Netanyahu the most fitting candidate to lead the lone Jewish state.

I couldn’t agree more with this.

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The killing of Zawahiri: Twenty years too late

Al Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed twenty years too late, he should have been neutralized long ago, but he kept getting away with his deeds.

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Why won’t the UK recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital?

The opening of talks on a UK-Israel free-trade agreement (FTA) is a welcome development for both countries. The negotiations, launched by Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan in a meeting with Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely on Wednesday, follow a bilat

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How the Abraham Accords are helping the Middle East come to terms with Israel’s existence

Both Israel and its regional partners would do well to emphasize through its diverse citizenry that it’s not some colonial aberration but very much of the region — culturally, religiously and socially.

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The urgent need for Jewish leadership - Melanie Phillips

It's time Jews told their diaspora leaders to wake up

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DISPATCH FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: How To Get Away with Killing Americans In Terrorist Attacks: One Father’s Chilling Story

Listen now (13 min) | “The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself.” - James E. Faust It is every parent’s worst, most unimaginable nightmare. August 9, 2001.

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Israelis or Palestinians: Who’s More Tolerant?

According to the left, “oppressor Israel” bad; “oppressed Palestinians” good. So you would expect, under this formula, that the Palestinians would be very…

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Why is the Flawed Palestinian Cause So Prominent on the Hard Left?

Why does the Palestinian cause get so much attention, when there are much more compelling causes around the world such as those of the Kurds, Uyghurs, and other stateless and oppressed people? There are more demonstrations on university campuses against

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Elder Of Ziyon - Jews Building Homes: If the Thought Makes You Nuts, Congrats! You’re an Antisemite

A letter from 29 Democratic congressman demands that Biden stop Jews from building homes.

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The Israeli Moment

If anyone is going derail the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, Israel is really the only local counterweight that counts.

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Zionists Don’t Need To Justify Their Existence

Why would I need to justify where I live or the policies of my government? I’ve never seen a similar talk given by people who live in other countries unless they were an official spokesperson of the

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Israel Is the Least-Stolen Land

To the Editor: In "'Native Land Acknowledgments' Are the Latest Woke Ritual" (op-ed, June 11), Eugene Kontorovich elegantly ridicules the budding leftist requirement that public statements be prefaced by a ceremonial nod to the peoples who once inhabited

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Condemning the 'mapping project' isn't enough

  On the face of it, the “Mapping Project” undertaken by Boston BDS was a disaster for the anti-Semitic movement.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Who Killed Abu Akleh and the Bullet they Wont Let Us See

The truth is important, but the hidden bullet already tells us what we need to know about who killed Abu Akleh.

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Terror-finance rulings the Supremes must strike down, despite Biden's pleas

The Supreme Court is set to decide if it will consider two important terror-financing cases centering on the ability of Americans who have been harmed in terrorist attacks to seek redress.

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'UN must recognize Jews from Middle East countries as refugees’

  The Abraham Accords, as well as being a cause for celebration, also raised the issue of Jews from Arab

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Israel: The Opposite Reaction To The Killing Of Schoolchildren

There is perhaps nothing as shocking and horrible as the murder of young children at school. The United States has seen and mourned the tragedy too often, most recently at Uvalde, TX where an 18-year old killed 19 students and two teachers. Ten people wer

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The Soviet origins of left-wing anti-Zionism

Today’s haters of Israel are heirs to one of the longest and most effective anti-Semitic propaganda campaigns in modern history. Op-ed.

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Liberating our Jerusalem

Confronting the forgotten history of Muslim occupation of Israel.

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Shavuot, the Six-Day War and the Sorry ‘Status Quo’ on the Temple Mount

Palestinians shout slogans at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as …

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Why the US won't stop appeasing the Palestinians

  The Biden administration’s obsession with boosting the Palestinian cause at the expense of Israel continues apace. Follow Israel Hayom

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Is It Time to Rethink the Relationship Between Jews and Elite Universities?

NYU Stern School of Business. Photo: Wikipedia commons. In recent years, antisemitic incidents, including the decision by Ben & Jerry’s …

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What if Israel treated America as America treats Israel?

Consider news reports that sound significantly different.

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The 'Jews are defiling Al Aqsa' narrative is inciting antisemitism

While I visited the Temple Mount this week, I had one persistent thought: how can the mere presence of a Jew cause defilement?

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Op-Ed: The U.S. State Department and Antisemitism

Despite earlier criticisms, the U.S. State Department has decided to treat Amnesty International as a credible source. And as CAMERA told the Algemeiner, it

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The Temple Mount: ‘These Stones Are Not Silent’ - Meir Y. Soloveichik

On May 6, 2022, Israel’s Independence Day, the Temple Mount was opened to Jews for the first time in 11 days. Jewish visitors, calmly and proudly walking

“In 1942, Menachem Begin arrived in British Mandate Palestine. At that time, only a narrow alley in front of the Western Wall was available for Jewish prayer, but even then certain rituals were banned. And at the conclusion of Yom Kippur, the British would arrest—and club—Jews who sought to sound the shofar or sing “Ha Tikvah.” To Begin this was intolerable.”

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Why do young Americans give Israel the cold shoulder?

  It turns out that most Americans have no idea what the controversy over the antisemitic BDS movement is about.

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We should restore the sounds of holiness to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

How much more will we allow this to happen before we wake up and change the music?

1000%!

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Why It Is More Likely the IDF Did Not Kill Shireen Abu Aqleh

How the available evidence casts serious doubts on the idea that the IDF fired the shots that killed Abu Aqleh

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As Israelis, we should march proudly in our capital

  Someone has to stop the insanity. Just like every other capital around the world, Jerusalem hosts mass marches. Of

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Israel's refusal to Jewish claims on Temple Mount encourages Islamists

It is the un-Jewish “status quo” that Jordan, with American backing and Israeli acquiescence, is seeking to force on us all.

Israel’s unbelievably weak stance on the Temple Mount began almost immediately after Jewish control of it was reasserted after the Six Day War. In allowing Arabs to control it, they created a situation in which 1. Israel utterly failed to really secure the promise of a “Jewish state.” It’s not Jewish if Jews aren’t safe when praying at the holiest place in our religion. It’s also increasingly unsafe at the second holiest place, the Western Wall, and the third, The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. 2. Arabs have made it exceedingly clear that they view all of Israel as Muslim, just as they view all of the Temple Mount, and The Western Wall as “Al Aqsa.” This is a problem that has only gotten worse over the last 55 years. Israel has a chance now, because of the recent Israeli Supreme Court decision allowing Jews to pray in the Temple Mount, to finally assert some level of Jewishness in the most Jewish place on planet earth. Will they be strong enough to do it? Based on the situation since 1967 - no. I love Israel, and I love Israelis, but the government has always been run by cowards.

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Tlaib and her crocodile tears

A Palestinian-American, Azzam Muslih was murdered, but, strangely, Rashida Tlaib had nothing to say about it. Op-ed.

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Elder Of Ziyon - The obvious truth the world doesn't accept: Palestinians are responsible for Palestinian violence

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

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Who is really responsible for Palestinian suffering?

  Resolutions proposed in the US House of Representatives mean nothing. They give members an opportunity to pay lip service

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The world made Israel necessary by refusing to help Jews in WWII

The Evian Conference in 1938 acknowledged that there was a Jewish refugee problem, but none of the countries participating agreed to take them in.

Jews are the the indigenous people of Israel. So Israel doesn’t need a justification to exist. However, the point is that without it, Jews had no place to go when things got bad in the rest of the world.

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Did Abraham use a smartphone?

One anachronistic untruth is the same as any other. If ancient Hebron can baldly be called "Palestinian", any claim can be accepted. Op-ed.

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Israel is losing sovereignty over east Jerusalem

There are certain neighborhoods in east Jerusalem that would be life-threatening for Jews to step into.

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Big Lies, Blood Libels, and anti-Zionist narrative | Israel National News

A day in the cognitive war against the Jews, perhaps the hottest war, one which will determine the outcome of much else.Op-ed

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Elder Of Ziyon - 05/18 Links Pt2: Denying Jewish Identity Is the Epitome of Anti-Semitism; How the Guardian's anti-Israel bias colours everything

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

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Why Israel's Arabs Are Its Biggest Threat

Israeli decision-makers are consumed with the lethal threat posed by Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, but a no less insidious threat has gone virtually unnoticed: the Israeli Arabs' growing rejection of Israel's Jewish nature and their systematic

Israelis are far too blind to this obvious reality. The influence of American liberalism in the name of (false) “Jewish values,” and Israeli leftism are both major factors for their inability to deal with the more general Arab threat and the direct threat posed by millions of citizens (with full rights) committed to the destruction of your country.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Bullet math - it is more likely that Palestinian bullets killed Shireen Abu Akleh

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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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)

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

100%. There is only one solution to the problem of Arab terrorism in Israel. How many kore Jewish lives do we lose (G-d forbid) because the government is afraid to do what, very obviously, has to be done.

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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...