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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.

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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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Concept of Palestinian state employed for purpose of destroying Israel

The "Palestine liberation" movement is not a revolution.

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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.

More pro-Palestinian terrorism from the United States government.

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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

“So if we Jews will start building our relationship with the world on the basis of what they did to us, we should move to another planet.”

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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.

I DESPISE Jimmy Carter and the early revisionism about this horrible person is revolting.

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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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Elder Of Ziyon - Judicial Reform Would Allow the Israeli People to Get What They Voted for: Right Wing Legislation

"Large" protests notwithstanding, the debate over judicial reform in Israel has been ongoing for decades.

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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.

The US may be, sometimes, an American ally, but the CIA certainly never has been. So add it to the FBI, and most of American security agencies that do anything but protect freedom.

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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.

Progressives and (the majority of) blacks hate Jews. Until the majority of Jews accept that, and find the will to change who they views as leaders, Jew hatred, and attacks on our people, will continue to grow.

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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.

The Forward is consistently assimilationist, cowardly, leftist garbage. They represent every possible bad instinct. If it has the potential (G-d forbid) to endanger the Jewish people - The Forward is always for it.

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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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The undeniable link between antisemitism and America’s decline

It Starts With The Jews But Never Ends With The Jews.

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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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Caroline Glick: The ‘woke’ West is assaulting Jews for embracing their heritage

The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guest Richard Landes.

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The Real Reasons for Europe's Demonization of Netanyahu

He's too far right, and too Jewish.

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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.

“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 and appreciate, how far we have progressed since a low point in modern Israel’s short history, the Gaza “disengagement” in 2005. We still have much to work on, but we must internalize how blessed to be where we are today.”

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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.

I agree with every word of this and have been saying almost all of it for decades. However, I wish he didn’t play into the hands of the left by absurdly capitalizing “black,” while “white” (which should also not be capitalized) remains lower case. It’s silly and inconsistent.

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Happy inclusive holidays! - Melanie Phillips

Seasonal greetings should not resort to euphemisms

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For The New York Times and The Washington Post, even the World Cup is about the Palestinians

The papers simply can’t let their obsession go.

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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.

Amazing given that Charlamagne the Jackass is an antisemite and a fan of Farrakhan.

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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