News | Antisemitism Watch

The IHRA does not include Holocaust inversion (saying Israel is acting like Nazis) in its definition of Holocaust distortion. Why the hell not?

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Politics | Politics

‘Jews Don’t Count:’ Former New York Times Editor Bari Weiss Breaks Down Antisemitism on Left and Right in Megyn Kelly Interview

Bari Weiss on ‘The View.’ Photo: Screenshot. “Right now, Jews are in a very precarious and strange position,” said author …

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Describing Jews as 'Privileged,' California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Sparks Backlash

The latest draft of a state-mandated public school curriculum is generating concerns among Jewish groups, who say California's proposed ethnic studies agenda raises troubling questions about the treatment of Jews compared with other minorities. The draft

This is absurd, as we are the most targeted religious community in the United States, we are also, according to these people, “privileged.”

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Torah: What to Tell Yourself When Things Go Wrong

In the meantime, it’s dark, confusing, and difficult. That’s only because the process of getting to a deeper place can give space for negative consequences. But just around the bend is a time, a space that is even deeper and greater, that it will make thi

Miscellaneous | Chabad

He Came to Fix a Freezer. Little Did He Know . . .

My wife, Esti, and I co-direct the Chabad Jewish Student Centre in Vancouver, Canada. As you can imagine, we serve a lot of food. So our freezer, which is filled with lots of kosher meat, chicken and other kosher items, is very important to us.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

3D Kabbalah #5: The Art of Balance - 3D Kabbalah: How G-d Creates the World

God's names are expressions of one single Entity, reflecting Him and how He interacts with the reality He creates.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Sheldon Adelson, Iconic Jewish Philanthropist and Political Donor, Dies at 87

FILE PHOTO: Gambling giant Las Vegas Sands Corp’s Chief Executive Sheldon Adelson speaks during a news conference in Macau, China …

Sheldon Adelson was a giant and he will be missed. He is irreplaceable. B”H one day I will have the resources to try to fill a tiny part of the philanthropic void he left.

News | News

Twitter CEO house blasted with Holocaust denial tweets by Jewish fighters

“Why does Jack Dorsey continue to give Holocaust deniers and Jew-haters a bigger platform today than Hitler had in his time?”

I wish I had been there with them. This is excellent.

News | Antisemitism Watch

‘I Don’t Deliver to Jews:’ French Fast Food Delivery Company Faces Legal Action for Driver’s Antisemitic Declaration

A cyclist from online delivery company Deliveroo is seen in Paris during the March 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. Photo: Reuters/Hans Lucas …

Ah France, the sewer of Europe.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Stop using Jews as pawns to score political points, .@TedCruz and .@AOC.

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I am posting this with the caveat that I believe that Ted Cruz is a good man who sincerely wants the US to continue to ally with Israel. AOC is a rancid antisemite who truly hates Jews while exploiting antisemitism at every opportunity. I think it is wrong to draw an equivalency between the two. But I want people to see the AOC tweets.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins threatened to fail pro-Israel students

While the university has not issued a formal statement on the incident, Sunil Kumar, from the university’s provost office, said in an email to StandWithUs that it is “aware of the incident.”

As usual-the usual organizations will write the usual letters and columns, “leaders” will express “outrage” and “condemn” this - and then nothing will happen.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Elder Of Ziyon: Hey, if Jew-baiters aren't white nationalist, it isn't antisemitism, right?

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News | Israel & The Jewish Community

University of California Denounces Professor’s Anti-Semitic Tweets. But He’s Still Employed.

A University of California, Merced professor is facing disciplinary action for a range of anti-Semitic tweets that praised violent terror groups, advocated the destruction of Israel, and mocked the Holocaust, according to a full dossier of the instructor’

The “denouncing” is a show. If they were serious, he would have been fired. But like USC, and all of the UC schools: antisemitism isn’t just accepted, it’s trendy.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Maker of Gold's horseradish, Fox's U-Bet syrups to shutter LI plant

The maker of Gold's horseradish and Fox's U-Bet syrups plans to shutter its Hempstead plant and lay off 48 employees, according to a state filing. Gold's Pure Foods LLC will sell its equipment and vac

This is not good. Another venerable company destroyed by Covid. My dad grew up in Brooklyn in the 30s/40s. At one point he worked at a soda fountain. He always told us that it wasn’t a real egg cream without Fox’s U-bet.

News | News

UNPACKED – Tikkun Olam: Is it Jewish?

UNPACKED – Tikkun Olam: Is it Jewish? Tikkun Olam might literally mean “fixing the world,” but it’s commonly understood as “Jewish Social Justice.” But what’s so Jewish about the idea of fixing the world and when did people decide it was

News | Antisemitism Watch

Pitchfork Magazine Normalizes Jay Electronica’s Antisemitic Lyrics | CAMERA

When mainstream publications award accolades to antisemitic materials, they contribute to the normalization of antisemitism.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Judaism: Darkness is a lie. There is only light.

Darkness lurks ubiquitously, mockingly, as though it is the sober truth—that all is empty, for there is no meaning.

Miscellaneous | Chabad

Discovering a Personal G-d on My Trip to the Ohel - The Ohel

I had decided to visit the Ohel, the Rebbe’s gravesite in Queens, N.Y., a place I hadn’t been in more than 16 years and a place I actually thought I wouldn’t ever be again.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

New York is investigating a health network serving Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods for vaccinating people against Covid-19

ParCare is cooperating with the investigation.

News | Jewish Community

Chief Rabbis Honor Rabbi Jonathan Sacks by Teaching His Work on the Rebbe’s Talks

Excerpt from Sacks’s Torah Studies Taught in Six Languages as Part of Worldwide Project

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Judaism: Perseverance Vs. Perfection - Vayigash

The Joseph-Judah relationship and the points at which their paths converge continue throughout history. From the sale of Joseph onward, Judah and Joseph constantly interact with each other, and their relationship continues in various forms. Here, in Parsh

News | News

Media Freedom NGOs and Jewish Groups Express Outrage at Release of Daniel Pearl's Killers

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (c) is surrounded by armed police as he leaves a court in Karachi, Pakistan, on March …

This is outrageous.

News | News

UPDATED: “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP): What the Media is Concealing | CAMERA

What is 'Jewish Voice for Peace'? It is an anti-Semitic hate group that masquerades as a Jewish social justice, peace-promoting organization and the mainstream

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Bob Dylan’s ‘Neighborhood Bully’ Gets Memory-Holed

Me, I romp and stomp/Thankful as I romp/Without freedom of speech/I might be in the swamp

I as at sure of this should go in “Music,” “Social Media,” or in this Topic. “Neighborhood Bully” is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs and I loved it when it came out when I was in high school. It is one of the few examples of anJewish musician bravely, and proudly, announcing his love for Israel. More than gang, he was telling the truth about the world’s attitude toward Israel. Now pride in Israel, and honesty about it, is labeled “hate speech.” Which is exactly why used to play it when I (occasionally) DJ I play it. I live that it would offend the Israel haters. If it offended people-that made me live it even more.


And of course YouTube, a major advocate, and culprit, for censorship is only to happy to push the far left’s antisemitic attitude toward the Jewish state. That kind of censor his only one of the reasons why we started Moptu. That kind of censorship will never happen here. If you’ve never heard “Neighborhood Bully,” I encourage you to listen to it and find the lyrics.

Politics | Politics

The dangerous logic of anti-racism

If racism is about prejudice and power, where does that leave high-achieving minorities?

Politics | Politics

'Esther was murdered with monstrous cruelty' - Inside Israel - Israel National News

52-year-old mother of six Esther Horgan, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist while jogging, will be laid to rest this morning.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Can I Use Vaccines Made From Fetal Tissue or Non-Kosher Animals? - Ethics & Morality

We will start off with the question of non-kosher ingredients and work our way to vaccine made with fetal tissue.

Politics | Judea & Samaria

‘Who Could Do Such a Thing?’: Family and Friends Mourn Death of Esther Horgen, Israeli Mother Found Murdered in Forest Near Home

Esther Horgen, the Israeli mother of six killed in a suspected terror attack near her Tal Menashe home. Photo: Courtesy …

Politics | Judea & Samaria

Murder in Samaria: 'She was a woman full of life, full of light' - Israel National News

Elazar Roth, head of Tel Menashe's first-response team, describes searches for missing mother of six who was found murdered.

Why do we still allow these vile monsters to murder our people?

News | News

12/18 Links Pt2: Columbia professor : Israel 'fabricated' Jewish refugees; Why the cultural elite truly despises Hanukkah; What Raphael Warnock Believes About Israel

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

Politics | Politics

This Chanukah Had An Antisemitic Attack For Each Day Of The Holiday - Jew In The City

As we publicized the miracle of Chanukah this week, there was, unfortunately, an antisemitic attack to number each day of the holiday. As our enemies rise up to destroy us, may we find renewed commitment to our heritage and pride.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

‘You Are Not Welcome Here’: European Union Court Ruling Against Kosher Meat Production Threatens Foundations of Jewish Life

The European Court of Justice, in Luxembourg. Photo: Wikimedia Commons via Cédric Puisney from Brussels, Belgium. The basic rights of …

Europe is a cesspool. It always has been and always will be.

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Dutch court rejects bid to reclaim Kandinsky painting

Dutch court throws out case brought by heirs of  Jewish art collector to reclaim painting by Wassily Kandinsky sold during World War II.

News | News

Bones of Hashmoneans were being destroyed by the Palestinian Authority; remains saved and re-interred during Chanukah

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

I hate the damned Palestinians and no decent person on earth should approve if anything they do.

Politics | Politics

Why the cultural elite truly despises Hanukkah

Well, because Hanukkah is about as out of step with the contemporary elite consensus as any religious tradition can be.

Miscellaneous | Chanukah

Chanukah: The Eternal Light - Daily Dose of Wisdom

The flames of the Temple Menorah have been dark for many centuries, but the flames of the Chanukah menorah can never be extinguished.

Politics | Politics

Misguided American Jews hiding in plain sight - Opeds - Israel National News

Dear American Progressive Jews, do not cower. Do not cling to your enemies. Hiding in plain sight, “passing,” will not save us. Opinion.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Anne Frank memorial in Boise, Idaho, vandalized with swastikas

The memorial, until recently the only statue of Anne Frank in the United States, was toppled by vandals in 2007 and vandalized again in 2017.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Growing ignorance: Anti-Semitism is not a punchline. This is America.

On the first night of Hanukkah, we take pause to never forget the past, so we can all move forward.

“Sixty-three percent of millennials and Gen Zers don't know that 6 million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust, according to a September survey commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Almost half could not name one concentration camp. In New York, where I live, almost 20% of millennials and Gen Zers incorrectly believe that Jews caused the Holocaust.”

News | Antisemitism Watch

Chinese Jews celebrate Hanukkah in secret amid gov't crackdowns

The Kaifeng Jewish community reportedly consists of just 100 practicing Jews among 1,000 who claim ancestry, but their history goes back over a thousand years.

Somehow the world is always silent when it’s our heritage which is being erased.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

A Deeper Look at the Menorah Blessings - Chanukah, 5743

The three blessing we recite before kindeling the menorah carry deep inside them the timeless Chanukah lessons for our service of God, specifically in our times.

Politics | Opinion

How the Trump administration banished the ghosts blocking the path to peace

Trump administration banished the ghosts blocking the path to peace.

Politics | Politics

Trump Administration Plans to Release List of BDS Groups

Signs at a pro-BDS protest in New York. Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri. JNS.org – The Trump administration plans to …

Politics | BDS

BDS's Latest Tool: Anti-Cop Sentiment

The anti-Israel movement is capitalizing on anti-police sentiment to expand its boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against the state of Israel.

History | History

Germany sorry for snubbing William Cooper and Australian Aborigines' League's protest at Nazi persecution of Jews

The German government has apologised after its consulate in Melbourne refused in 1938 to accept a letter of protest from the Australian Aborigines' League about Nazi attacks.

I had no idea that this had happened! I have net respect for Australia’s Aborigines.

Politics | Covid 19

De Blasio Threatens To Shut Down Non-Compliant Orthodox Synagogue ‘Once And For All’

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio warned an Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn on Tuesday that he will shut them down "once and for all" if they continue to flout his lockdown orders.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Modern Maccabees: Scope of Jewish resistance to Nazis highly underestimated

Display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library from December 8 reveals often underestimate rescue efforts and armed uprisings, as Jews fought back against their persecutors

I’ve never understood why these stories aren’t better known. We get movies like “Schindler’s List” about non-Jews saving Jewish lives, but very little, aside from “Defiance” and a few TV movies many years ago, about the many many examples of Jewish resistance. Schindler, and those like him, was a hero. But the perception that Jews went to their deaths without fighting back is wrong.

Politics | Politics

NYT and CNN Pundit Defends Rep. Rashida Tlaib's Genocidal Tweet

  Where openly anti-Israel rhetoric is aired by woke politicians, media elites all too often are close behind to follow up and justify their words.

Politics | Campus Watch

Elder Of Ziyon - Harvard University website refers to Israeli cities as being in "occupied Palestine"

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News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

‘Goodbye to Hannukah,’ Says a Headline in the Post-Judaism New York Times

US Interior Secretary David Bernhardt (center) helps light the shamash (“helper candle”) of the National Menorah on the Ellipse near …

This is disgusting. Of course, they would never have done anything similar with Kwanzaa or Ramadan.

Politics | Politics

Georgia Democrats Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock Campaign With Man Who Compared Jews To ‘Termites’

Georgia Democrat Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock reportedly campaigned over the weekend with a politician who compared Jews to "termites"

Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous

13 Hanukkah Facts Every Jew Should Know

Become an expert on this widely celebrated but barely understood Jewish festival.

Politics | Politics

Elder Of Ziyon - Peter Beinart's dishonest defense of Rashida Tlaib's hate

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News | Israel & The Jewish Community

DC Accidentally Made Batman Jewish (But Doesn't Talk About It)

When DC introduced Batman's Jewish cousin, Kate Kane, they inadvertently made Bruce Wayne Jewish as well, according to religious tradition.

Ok, a few caveats about this:

1. Even he converted, Bruce Wayne would be Jewish. There is no “converting away” in Judaism. Once you are halachically Jewish (Jewish according to Jewish law), there is no way to change that status.

2. It’s absurd (and pathetic that the writer needed to make this case) that Bruce Wayne is “white” (whatever that means) because he hasn’t faced adversity. There are millions of white people who face every form of adversity. Discrimination, poverty, addiction are part of the experience of every race/ethnicity and have zero to do with race (which is itself an outmoded and primitive idea).

3. Jews, and I am Jewish, are NOT white. All of us, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi originate at some point in the Middle East. The only exception would be converts that have no genetically Jewish ancestors. So it’s the height of absurdity to claim that Arabs, for example, are not white, or that some Jews are not white, and that other Jews are. Finally, Jews have been harassed, attacked, and murdered for millennia for not being “white.” We didn’t suddenly become white because pretending we’re white is a convenient political narrative for some quarters of the political culture. If you don’t think it’s absurd, a Jew from Mexico, with an identical Jewish immigrant background to me, would be considered a “Hispanic Jew,” while I, from across the border, am white.” If that makes sense to you, your logic skills are not fully developed.

Politics | Politics

Democrat Rashida Tlaib Promotes Slogan Associated With Calling For Elimination Of Israel

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) promoted a tweet on her Twitter account on Sunday that contained a phrase that is associated with calling for the elimination of

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Justice (and anti-Semitism) you shall pursue

  Over the past week or so we have been witnessing the emergence of a new sort of anti-Semitism in

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Israel: Obama’s revisionist ‘Promised Land’

In his new memoir, the former U.S. president misleads readers in a way that will forever shape their negative perspective of the Jewish state.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Elder Of Ziyon - The deliberate lie of conflating BDS/Anti-Zionism with "criticism of Israel"

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

Politics | Opinion

Obama, Netanyahu, AIPAC and the Jews

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with then-US President Barack Obama, at the Mount Herzl national cemetery, in Jerusalem, …

Obama is a classic antisemite. He has extremely patriarchal and stereotypical views about Jews, and he refuses to change those views. He also showed absolutely no empathy for the many terrorist attacks on Jews, including American citizens, during his tenure. Not to mention allowing them most antisemitic of all UN anti-Israel resolution as he was leaving office.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Outrage Erupts at Antisemitism Panel Featuring Noted Antisemites

And advertisement for an upcoming panel co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace. Photo: screenshot. Outrage erupted on Twitter over the …

JVP is as Jewish as a pork sandwich in a church. You can’t have a panel on antisemitism in which the panelists are themselves antisemites. This is typical though. Immune for me high schools, Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, just held an “anti-racism” panel with antisemites on it. You have to be absolutely delusional to not see the massive hypocrisy.

Politics | Opinion

Trump’s core righteousness shines through Pompeo's anti-BDS and pro-Jews in Yesha speech - Israel National News

For no conceivable political gain, post-elections, Trump sent Mike Pompeo, to the Mideast with special tasks.And now Pollard. Op-ed.

Politics | BDS

Pompeo: US to take action against BDS movement

  The US government will take action against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement and groups that support it, US

It’s disgusting that liberals continue to call this administration “antisemitic.” This will all end if Biden becomes president. The people who voted for Biden while believing they support Israel are incredibly naive.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority

Utter depravity: Palestinian media celebrates anniversary of murder of four rabbis in Har Nof synagogue

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Miscellaneous | Judaism

Contemporary Voices: Do You Really Think G-d Speaks to Us?

“How can I know what
G‑d wants me to do?” a woman once asked the Rebbe.

Politics | Politics

Democrats, Media Stand On The Graves Of European Jews To Hit Trump

The Left’s exhausting and obscene obsession with comparing conservatives to Nazis reached inexcusable lows this week after Donald Trump and his

News | Antisemitism Watch

Jews Top Target of Hate Crimes in 2019

American Jews were the religious group most targeted by hate crimes in 2019, the FBI reported Monday, facing more than 60 percent of anti-religious bias incidents.

And the vast majority carried out by thugs in New York. People need to understand that the cliche of “white supremacists” as the main perpetrators of antisemitic attacks is false. We are stocked by both sides now, but, easily, the great majority of antisemitic activity, both in rhetoric and behavior, comes from the leftist today. That is true no matter how much liberals wish and hope otherwise.

History | History

Special vessels show Jewish continuity in Israel after Roman destruction

The use of chalkstones vessels did not stop with the destruction of city in the second century CE as previously thought, but continued in the Galilee for at least two more centuries.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

An encounter with Rabbi Sacks, a Jewish leader who inspired a generation

My spiritual and intellectual development were very much crystallized by his words and perspectives.

History | History

Obituary: Moshe Taube, renowned cantor and Schindler’s list survivor

Squirrel Hill resident was a ‘giant in the community,’ a leading cantor and prominent witness to Holocaust  

News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - What was Joe Biden's role in pushing UNSC 2234?

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

Joe Biden was responsible for the most vicious act of American backstabbing of both Israel and the Jewish people since WWII. He is NO friend of Jews or Israel.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Yale professor says Hitler improved lives of his followers, unlike Trump

Lee later deleted the tweet, due to backlash, but then defended her comparison.

The left hates Jews. What will it take to get more people to get that?

Politics | Politics

I was a Never Trumper. I couldn’t have been more wrong

Four years ago, I wrote here that a win by Trump, courting white supremacists, meant 'the ascendancy of hate.' But my fears about his presidency endangering Jews were hyperbolic nonsense

Politics | Politics

If you care about Israel, you have to vote for Donald Trump - The Jerusalem Post

Given Trump’s track record on Israel and the Middle East, if you truly care about the state of Israel, you need to vote for Donald Trump.

Miscellaneous | Chabad

'Deep Fear' as Second Arson in Three Months Strikes Delaware Chabad Center

Firefighters tackling the blaze started by an arsonist at the University of Delaware’s Chabad Center for Jewish Life. Photo: Aetna …

Politics | Politics

Elder Of Ziyon - When The Media Extols Evil: Hitler, Farrakhan and Ahlam Tamimi

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

Politics | Opinion

Heads Up, Liberal Jews––Don’t be Jews with trembling knees

Democrat Senator Joe Biden confronted Israeli PM Menachem Begin in 1982, threatening to cut off aid to Israel. How did Begin respond? Op-ed

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

‘It’s Very Scary’ — Florida Jewish High School Student Expresses Fear Over Reinstatement of Principal in Holocaust Denial Scandal

William Latson, the Florida high school principal who told a parent, ‘not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.’ Photo: Screenshot. The …

Of course they’re scared. Antisemitism, and Holocaust denial is absolutely a manifestation of antisemitism, is quickly and dramatically becoming normalized across the nation. Both my formal high school and university openly tolerate hatred of Jews.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Why Halloween Is Not Consistent With Jewish Values

Halloween's history and theology make it problematic for Jews on many levels.

It may spoil the fun, but: there is nothing about Halloween that is consistent with Jewish values.

Politics | Campus Watch

SFSU professor Rabab Abdulhadi goes on an antisemitic rant about a ‘Jewish caucus’ being ‘Islamophobic’ for opposing terrorist speech

San Francisco State University Professor Rabab Abdulhadi said in an interview that students who expressed concern and outrage over her decision to host known terrorist hijacker Leila Khaled were part of a “Jewish caucus” and “a Zionist agenda."

News | News

Bahrain accepts that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism, that Jews are a people (not only a religion,) and that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people. THIS IS HUGE.

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

Miscellaneous | Chabad

Chabad-Lubavitch Announces Emissary to the United Arab Emirates

Appointment comes amidst growth of Jewish life and six years of serving as the only rabbi in UAE

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

We have a list’: NYC inspectors target non-operational Orthodox Jewish schools in ‘shocking and chilling’ footage [video]

"WTF is @NYGovCuomo doing?"

They “have a list.” Chilling.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

If Anything Sustains the Arab-Israeli Conflict, It Will Be Progressives’ Antisemitism

{Reposted from the BESA website}
The Arab-Israeli conflict, as we have come to know it for more than half a century, is slowly being relegated to the annals of history. After decades of war and intense political struggles that subsumed Arab politics, the

Politics | Opinion

Jews backing Biden are the real 'freiers' - opinion - The Jerusalem Post

Biden/Harris administration is likely to be more even more anti-Israel and antisemitic than the Obama/Biden administration was.