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Shattering the Myth that Holocaust Denial is More Prevelant on the Right

 Is Holocaust denial a disease of the right or the left? The mainstream media would have you believe that denying the Holocaust is akin to white supremacy and, therefore, a problem of the extreme right.

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Rape Denial + "Free Speech"

“Those who don't have truth on their side, turn to dishonesty.” It was apt that Katharine Brodsky tweeted this yesterday morning. What’s going on right now in the Israel-Hamas war is bigger than life. It should stop every serious person dead in their trac

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Muslim Lives Matter. Jewish Lives Don’t.

Attacks on Muslims and Jews are treated very differently.

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Charging Jews with genocide is to (falsely) declare them guilty of precisely what was done to them

Israel’s response to the 7 October Hamas attacks has emboldened many to say the once unsayable

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Kissinger's Final Interview: Forget a Palestinian State, Let Jordan Rule

Kissinger said in October that Hamas's terror attack October 7 had killed the two-state solution, and Jordan should rule the West Bank.

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Victor Davis Hanson: Weimar America

Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity…

People should be listening to analysts like Victor Davis Hanson, who is, as always, brilliant here.

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The Jew-Movers Are Back

"We put 'em in the wrong place, so let's move 'em again!"

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Cruel Irony of Falsely Accusing Israel of Genocide as It Battles Genocidal Hamas

Falsely accusing Israel of the horrible crime of genocide in its defensive war with evil Hamas is a particularly cruel and odious blood libel.

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The Road to a Second Kristallnacht

I’ve always been fond of a line from George Orwell: “To see what’s in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” It sums up ...

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The brutal truth about 'Never Again'

Don’t be fooled by the temporary Israel-Hamas ceasefire

I agree with a lot of this, but I don’t think it’s a “tragedy of the highest order” at all that thousands of Palestinians will die-when 3/4 of them support Hamas, and undoubtedly the other 1/4 have an extremely high percentage that still hate Jews. We need to get over this nonsense that there is some sizable hidden group of innocent Palestinians. There is no such group of people.

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The infernal choice behind the hostage deal

Israel is in this terrible situation principally because of America.

I am embarrassed to be an American. I never thought I would feel that way. However, the America I was raised in, wouldn’t allow lawlessness in the streets, open antisemitism, and continue to elect a party infused with antisemites who do everything possible to weaken Israel.

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America shouldn’t let Hamas bargain its way to victory

Israel had no choice but to accept a deal to release some hostages. But Washington shouldn’t pressure Jerusalem to let the terrorists run out the clock on a just war.

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Why can’t ‘intersectional feminists’ condemn Hamas’s misogyny?

A disturbing number of women’s groups have downplayed the rape of Israeli women.

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How To Rescue All The Hostages Quickly – And Protect The West From The Islamic Terrorism Of The Crime Family That Rules Qatar

This article was first published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv on November 21, 2023. In the struggle to obtain the release of the hostages held by Hamas, there is a vitally important path to rescuing them – and it is a path that the Israeli media and th

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Al-Shifa Hospital and the pathological distrust of Israel

From CNN to the radical left, why won’t people accept the truth about Hamas’s horrors at al-Shifa?

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Israeli women were raped during Hamas attack. Where’s the outcry?

The organizations meant to stand for the prevention and eradication of such attacks have been eerily silent since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. And this silence has been deafening.

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What do the Palestinians want?

Westerners assume that the Palestinians seek a future of prosperity and freedom and peace because that is what they aspire to preserve for themselves. But this isn’t the case.

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How dangerous are the anti-Israel conservatives?

Unlike most Republicans and their voters, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and friends are defending antisemites in the wake of Oct. 7. Do they have Trump’s ear?

I’m not worried that these antisemites will change Trump’s pro-Israel stance, but I am worried that they will have a negative influence on other conservatives. Candace Owens was ALWAYS an antisemite, and so are the rest of them talked about here.

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Replace American Jewish Communal Leadership

Look around at the disarray and the betrayal of Jews by alleged friends and allies, and you’ll see a bitter truth: Our leadership has gone bad

I’ve been saying this for more than a decade.

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The future of the Democrats lobbies for Hamas

Revolts among Biden’s State Department and congressional staffers against support for the Jewish state are a harbinger of the collapse of a bipartisan pro-Israel consensus.

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Britain's civilisational emergency - Melanie Phillips

I spoke about this broader crisis on my recent trip to America

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Elder Of Ziyon - Rallies: Do They Make a Difference (Judean Rose)

Rallies are proliferating outside of Israel in the wake of October 7th. What do they accomplish?

I agree with all of this, except that we shouldn’t go to rallies or shut because there it may be risky. We can’t be afraid and have to prove to our enemies that they CANNOT intimidate us. That is ESPECIALLY true for going to shul. We should be doing that now more than ever!

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Sorry, Obama: 'We' Aren't Complicit. It's You Who Has Blood on Your Hands

Maybe we can finally see Obama for what he truly is: The man who set the world on fire.

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Footage of Hamas barbarism shows why ceasefire is not an option

Israelis take steps to avoid civilian casualties; Hamas revels in their slaughter

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Sanctioning Jew-hatred doesn’t conflict with the First Amendment

Rep. Rashida Tlaib and those cheering for Hamas have the right to say what they want. But institutions should treat them the same way they would neo-Nazis or Klan members.

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Great Britain: Goodbye to all that

As Remembrance Weekend approaches, Britain mourns the passing of more than its military heroes

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The absolution of Hamas

How the West’s woke radicals became Hamas’s moral spindoctors.

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Victor Davis Hanson: Take Them At Their Word

From Hamas to Iran to Turkey, when our enemies tell us what they're going to do, we need to listen.

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Israel is more committed to protecting civilians in Gaza than Hamas is 

In stark contrast to Israel's efforts to protect Palestinian civilians, Hamas shows a complete disregard for the safety of its own population.

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How Britain appeased Islamic extremism

Its supine policies sowed an evil wind. Now it's reaping the whirlwind

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We ask ourselves how ordinary Germans could stand idly by in the 1940s. Today, we must ask: How can so many stand idly by and applaud?

HOWARD JACOBSON: Sometimes it's the smaller acts of violence that tell you most about man's inhumanity to man. For many, many there is no such thing as an innocent Jew.

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Make Gaza Israel again

Aside from toppling Hamas and freeing the hostages, let’s rebuild the Jewish communities of Gush Katif that were uprooted 18 years ago and restore a civilian Jewish presence in Gaza.

I fully agree with this.

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Stop blaming the West for the Arab world’s anti-Semitism

The rampant anti-Semitism in the Middle East is rooted in a theology and a history that deems Jews inferior to Arabs.

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Yad Vashem is wrong about Hamas and the Holocaust

The museum’s bizarre opposition to comparing the crimes of today’s Islamist killers to the Nazis is a betrayal of its mandate to preserve Jewish history.

It’s frustrating that Israeli politicians so often seem so concerned with world opinion that they forget that their ONLY priority should be to protect Jews.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Follow the Money: The Dirty Trail that Led to October 7th

How much money flowed to Iran from Presidents Obama and Biden, and why it funded the October 7th Massacre.

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Liberal Jews Have No Reason To Be Surprised By Progressive Antisemitism

Sooner or later radical leftists were going to be emboldened and find themselves in positions of power. Sooner is now.

Liberal Jews are, I hope, waking up. Any support of the left puts every Jew on earth at risk.

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Feminists Are Consenting to Hamas' Rape Culture

And they're doing it proudly, on campuses and capitals around the world

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The West’s monster within

Liberal society contains the seeds of its own destruction.

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Hamas, its supporters and prevarications about international law

‘Occupation’ and ‘proportionality’ do not mean what pro-terrorism propagandists claim they mean.

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The Nazi case for Hamas

The false equivalence with Nazi origins.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Who Paid for the Simchat Torah Massacre?

Joe Biden says that the unfrozen $6b did not fund the Simchat Torah Massacre. Logic suggests that may not be true.

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Gaza: The "humanitarian" fallacy

Pressure on Israel to allow aid into Gaza is pressure to allow aid to Hamas

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My Fellow Conservatives: We, Too, Have an Antisemitism Problem

I'm just asking you to recognize that truly caring about Jews means not abandoning us the second there is a bit of difficulty.

I’ve been dismayed by this too. Just like with the leftists, I knew this existed, obviously, I just never expected there to be this many conservatives who have a yard atrociously. Although some of them, like Tucker Carlson, have always been antisemites-and that’s been obvious. He doesn’t mention her here, but Candace Owens is another one.

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The ‘Two-State Solution’ is Terrorism

Giving terrorists a state only leads to more terrorism.

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Israel & Biden’s Three Nos

President Joe Biden's visit to Israel elicited a collective sigh of relief. The show of friendship and the strong statements of support, peppered with some Yiddishisms, gave Israelis a feeling that the U.S. truly has their back. The dispatch of two Americ

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The Islamo-left is a menace to Jews and decency

The Western left’s failure to denounce Hamas confirms its abandonment of secularism and reason.

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Jewish Progressives: The Day the Delusions (Hopefully) Died

A lot of people woke up on October 7 as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed?

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When We Said “Never Again,” We Meant It

← Biden’s Bear Hug
When We Said “Never Again,” We Meant It
Posted on October 21, 2023 by Victor Rosenthal
My heart is breaking. What I surmised yesterday, but was afraid to write has turned out to be true. I have never wanted to be wrong more than I do this morning. But I can’t pretend that “it will be OK,” as Israelis like to say.

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Elder Of Ziyon - The most moral army in the world needs to fulfill the promise of Never Again

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

This is excellent and I wish I had written it.

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The only choice Israel has

  "A War of Annihilation" – this is how James Mattis, who served as the US Secretary of Defense in

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A new generation of hate rises in America

There are some buildings where the penthouse floors look spectacular. But the foundations and the lower floors are rotten. It feels like that at the moment when looking at the US-Israel relationship.

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Why a ceasefire would normalise the pogrom

Cary Nelson argues that those calling for a ceasefire ignore, are ignorant of, or are unconcerned by the need for a decisive defeat of Hamas. Such a defeat, Nelson argues, is vital for Israel's deterr...

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Courage in an age of moral degeneracy

As we reel from both evil and its facilitators, we salute those who publicly call this out

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The Biden administration must face it: Terrorism works

Secretary of State Antony Blinken ordered his Office of Palestinian Affairs to delete the statement as soon as journalists began calling. “Terror and violence solve nothing,” it read. It was the usual State Department pabulum. Most statements nowadays are

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The West’s fifth columnists

Media outlets are enabling anti-Jewish evil in a time of war.

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Drinking a cup of Starbucks is drinking a cup of Jewish blood

It is with a heavy heart that the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, along with our esteemed partners, calls for a widespread boycott of Starbucks. Opinion.

I’m never going to Starbucks again.

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Why won’t the Jews just let themselves be killed?

Nothing better captures the moral decay of our woke elites than their haughty disdain for the State of Israel.

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It's Only a War Crime if Israel Is Doing It

Once again self-proclaimed international law experts are throwing around terms that they do not understand to accuse Israel of atrocities as it responds to a vicious attack from the terrorist group

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Hey AOC, There Is No Moral Equivalency Between Hamas and Israel

(This column is Part 2 of a series of articles explaining the fallacies that have led to the world’s leftists supporting Palestine, Gaza, and Hamas’ horrors.)
The concepts of “Palestine” and “Palestin...

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Hamas Uses Western Morality as a Weapon Against Israel

Hamas wants these human shields—especially children, women, and the elderly—to remain in harm's way.

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Hamas did it because we are Jews

"We must tell the world that Hamas, Hezbollah, and other enemies of Israel have genocidal ambitions."

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Why won’t the Jews just let themselves be killed?

Nothing better captures the moral decay of our woke elites than their haughty disdain for the State of Israel.

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Our cities and streets are full of hate

The said never again. And then when 1300+ Jews were slaughtered in a single day - they all took to the streets to rejoice.

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The cruelty of the Left

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so," Ronald Reagan once quipped of his political opponents.

They are the worst people on earth. Hamas, BLM, and all American leftists are ALL part of the same ideology.

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Once, I Was a Peace Advocate. Now, I Have No Idealism Left.

After terrorists killed my cousin Daniel Pearl, my family called for peace. But after the worldwide celebration of our people’s slaughter, my hope for peace is dead.

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Decent liberals may do more harm than pro-Hamas demonstrators

Those who decry the crimes of Hamas while opposing efforts to destroy the terrorists are a greater threat to Israel than those openly cheering for Nazi-like atrocities.

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Now, it’s personal: We’re seeing exactly who believes that Jewish lives matter

The usual pundits bloviate about a “cycle of violence,” equating the arsonists of Hamas with the Israeli firefighters. They pontificate about ending the “occupation” and implementing a two-state solution. They are lunatics.

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An existential evil: Israel's battle is a war for civilisation against barbarism

Israel's battle is a war for civilisation against barbarism

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Hamas atrocities explode the two-state myth

The United States may finally be prepared to let Israel defeat the Islamist terror group. But that shouldn’t lead to a push for a Palestinian state after that is accomplished.

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The women-hating women who support Hamas

These American and European women are cheering for the rape, torture, public humiliation and murder of Israeli women and children.

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Vengeance After a Pogrom - John Podhoretz

I don't know how many 9/11s this is for Israel—one, or 10, or 20—but there's one way in which it is exactly like 9/11, which is to say, the people of

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The Hamas pogrom is the result of the West's refusal to accept the idea of evil

Every aggressive cause is thought to be amenable to compromise

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What have the Palestinian Arabs ever done to deserve concessions?

Why are they always treated like children from whom less is demanded than fron adults? Op-ed

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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???