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The essence of the Palestinian heritage

UNESCO's decision to declare Tel Jericho a 'heritage site in Palestine' contributes to a great lie and the erasure of Jewish history. Op Ed

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We must shun California's radical ethnic studies

The greatest danger of Jewish proponents of radical ethnic studies is that they end up supporting outrageous political positions completely at odds with traditional Jewish interests.

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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.

Abbas is total slime, he is a terrorist, and the United States continues to treat him like a legitimate leader. That policy MUST change.

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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.

In addition to all of this, Tucker has NEVER taken Israel’s side in a conflict, once called Roger Waters (a disgusting antisemite) a “great man,” and sat, totally silent, while Kanye West unleashed his antisemitic tirade ON TUCKER’S SHOW. He has also, for years, had shows where he targets Jew after Jew after Jew.

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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.

This has always been the case.

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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?

Here is what you do: KICK them all out. Why is Israel tolerating this at all???

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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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Exposed: 30 Years Ago, Israel’s Left Illegally Established a Palestinian State with the Oslo Accords

Israelis would soon face a new concept: “The Victims of Peace.”

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The End Of Self Rule In Judea: The Interloper's Prey & Lessons For Today

From the blog of Leonard Grunstein at Jewish Standard

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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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The West’s Long Demonization of Israel

Shameful moral idiocy and cowardice.

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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.”

Jews are Judeans: we ARE the indigenous people of 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.

Israel’s leaders have, unfortunately, always been lax on terrorism. Israel has always been at war with the Arabs. The government understands that, but cares more often about politics than making the very tough choices that would save Israeli lives.

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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

I’m sorry to say, I agree with this.

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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.

This is a VERY GOOD article. It is extremely disappointing that so many conservatives are defending Kennedy. He is an antisemite. His comments ARE ON FILM. So the claim, which he and others keep making, that he is being victimized for political reasons-is a lie.

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The real coup against Israel's democracy

For once, Ha'aretz has stated an important truth

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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,

Democrats literally would rather have people die (G-d forbid) than show any true support to Israel.

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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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Elder Of Ziyon - Comparing 1921 Zionists with 1994 Palestinians

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

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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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Elder Of Ziyon - The world sends a message: Israel should just accept Jews being murdered

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

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The Unpredictable Consequences of Dodging a Bullet

From the blog of Leonard Grunstein at Jewish Standard

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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.

Left-leaning Jewish organizations like the Jewish Federations Of North America (I was the Marketing Director for one Federation, so understand JFNA from the inside) disgust me. Left-wing American Jewish “leaders” either seem to have learned exactly nothing from the Shoah, or understand those lessons and are placing their political ideology over Jewish lives.

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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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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel's position on artificial intelligence in battle is more moral than that of Human Rights Watch (update)

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

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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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The Cost of Obama’s Foreign Policy

His worldview conduced to American decline.

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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.

Palestinians, and their enablers, have never wanted peace. It’s only idiot American leftists (and leftists everywhere) who believe their lies. They are incapable of understanding that Arab Muslim culture has nothing in common with their naïveté infused world outlook. The Arabs know this and use it to constantly manipulate them.

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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.

I am a conservative. But, it’s been obvious for years that Carlson is an antisemite.

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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.

Black nationalists are every bit as bad as neo-Nazis and the Islamists who are the direct ideological descendants of actual Nazis.

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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

Secularism is poison.

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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.

I have lost almost all respect for Netanyahu. But, then again, no Israeli government seems to have any actual courage.

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Why critical race theory could be dangerous for America's faith-based communities

We need to build alliances between Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus.

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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.

The left destroys anything it touches.

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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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The Case For Netanyahu: Unelected judges should rule… Seriously?

Melanie Phillip makes the case for Netanyahu's reforms

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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

No one is more maligned in this country than Orthodox Jews. Having been very involved in the orthodox world, for many years, I can tell you first hand that the average person’s view, and virtually everything media depiction of them, is as as the most racist depictions of other ethnicities in the past.

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Elder Of Ziyon - To China, Israel must be marginalized

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

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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.