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Russian-speakers struggle to adjust to Israel – this org. helps -opinion - The Jerusalem Post

Shishi Shabbat specializes in aiding olim from former Soviet countries and takes a unique and innovative approach to empowering and strengthening this vulnerable segment of Israel’s population.

Politics | The Left

The Cult of ‘Antizionism’

American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call ‘Zionism.’ To fight them, we need to understand the origins of their beliefs in the Soviet academic propaganda apparatus.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Elder Of Ziyon - Even Selichot prove you cannot separate Judaism from love of Zion

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Politics | Opinion

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.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Jews need to protect themselves against modern antisemitism

Current antisemitism claims that, unlike any of the other peoples of the world, Jews should not be allowed a country in which they are a majority, even in their indigenous land.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Nazis put an academic face on Jew-hatred. Now their heirs have "The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism."

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Politics | Judea & Samaria

Samaria leader presents plan to boost Jewish population

Yossi Dagan called on PM Netanyahu to adopt his plan as a way to resolve the "national crisis of overcrowding in the center of the country."

Politics | Opinion

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

History | History

Israelis Commemorate Exodus 1947, The ‘ship That Launched A Nation’

On July 18, 1947, some 4,550 refugees - survivors of the Holocaust - set off across the Mediterranean Sea, just two years removed from the destruction of Europe - Click the link for more details.

Politics | Opinion

American vs. Israeli Patriotism

The 4th of July is a time to reflect on what Israel can teach America about love of country.

Politics | POLITICS

How not to combat antisemitism

  In a private letter to US antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt, Israeli President Isaac Herzog last week called the Biden

"Charlottesville" appears four times in President Joe Biden's two-page cover letter, including in the first sentence. "Judaism" appears seven times in the strategy document and "Zionism" does not appear at all. The acronym "LGBTQI+" appears seven times, "gender" seven times, "equity" 10 times, and "Islamophobia" 21 times.

Politics | American Politics

The Democratic Party's anti-Zionist wing is growing. Here's how

Israel supporters should look carefully at the New York political scene – and they should be alarmed. Very alarmed.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Arab writer says the quiet part out loud: opposing Israel was never about defending "Palestine”

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News | Antisemitism Watch

Don’t call promoting anti-Zionism to Jewish youth ‘dialogue’

Organizing Zoom programs for Jewish students and those seeking Israel’s destruction is anti-Israel activism, not giving youth the information they’re being denied elsewhere.

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Who are the Palestinian Arabs? | ערוץ 7

Palestinian Arab nationalism originated in Zionism, as a tool to fight Israel's existence. It has no historical or ethnic past. Op-ed..

“Furthermore, if Palestine was their ancient homeland, asked Michael Medved radio show host and political commentator, what did the Palestinian Arabs produce throughout the period? Who was the most eminent of all their kings, prime ministers or other prominent leaders? Which Palestinian Arab poet, author or intellectual affected humanity with their moving words and stimulating philosophies? Which eminent Palestinian Arab scientist, inventor, musician, physician or artist achieved worldwide or even regional prominence? There were none, because as has been noted there never existed an Arab or Palestinian state in this region.”

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Elder Of Ziyon - A couple of old maps of Israel to answer the idiots

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Politics | Debunking Lies

Just where on earth was 'Palestine'?

Exposing the media myth: Palestine - a land of authentic 'splendour' filled with indigenous Palestinians. Or was it? Have a read inside.

Politics | Opinion

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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Elder Of Ziyon - Every time anti-Israel activists sing "lo yisa goy" it is a self-own

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This is so great.

History | History

First Came the Zionists, THEN Came the Palestinians...

The Palestinians like to tell everyone they lived in "Palestine" since dinosaur times then the bad Zionists came from Europe and displaced them. This is a ve...

Politics | American Politics

The Ilhan Omar vote is a turning point for American Jews

Partisan split on booting the congresswoman from committees is more than a symptom of political civil war. It illustrates the normalization of anti-Zionism.

Politics | Debunking Lies

No! The Jews were not 'living happily' in Arab lands

Those that say Jews used to live in harmony in Arab lands are rewriting history and denying a brutal persecution that went on for centuries.

Politics | Campus Watch

Club Z: A titanium dome for Jewish youth

Helping to defend against the corrosive political missiles fired every day from college campuses.

Let’s hope that this org actually has some courage and isn’t just another weak mainstream organization.

“Recent studies show an intensifying campaign of coordinated attacks on Jewish identity at over 60% of American colleges that are popular with Jews, 2,000 incidents intended to harm Jewish students since 2015 and a shocking proportion of students experiencing antisemitic attacks, with many feeling the need to hide their Jewish identity.”

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - To understand today's antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism, look to the past

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Politics | Campus Watch

A College Class Made Me Anti-Israel: The Threat Is Real

An anti-Israel ‘apartheid wall’ on display at Columbia University during Apartheid Week in 2017. Photo: Facebook. When I was in …

News | Antisemitism Watch

Elder Of Ziyon - Anti-Zionism is antisemitism: Israel haters upset UAE schools will teach about the Holocaust

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History | History

Israel at 75: The ancient love story between the Jewish people and their homeland

History has not always been kind to the Jewish people, but the ongoing Israel adventure feels downright miraculous, writes Gil Troy

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - If anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism, why did Arabs recruit Nazis in 1948?

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Barry Shaw – Drifting Misled Jews! Return to the Light!

Barry Shaw – Drifting Misled Jews! Return to the Light! To our lost liberal fellow Jews, Chanukah is an awkward time. They twist themselves into a pretzel trying to reimagine the Menorah as some symbol of light that unites all the victims of humanit

Politics | Opinion

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.

History | History

Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.

“The failures of journalism that Landes examines did not begin in 2000 with the Second Intifada. The idea of Israel as oppressor and colonialist interloper and the Palestinians as innocent victims have been central to Arab and Palestinian Arab political culture since the 1940s. In the early 1950s, the Soviet Union, the support of which during 1947–49 was so important to the establishment of the Jewish state, joined Israel’s enemies in maintaining that first Zionists and then the state of Israel were to blame for the conflict. From the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, an anti-Israeli consensus emerged in the United Nations General Assembly. The Soviet bloc, communist China and other communist regimes joined Islamic states, many Third World nations, and the Arab states in denouncing Zionism as a form of racism and Israel as a practitioner of cruelty and aggression.”

News | Antisemitism Watch

Candace Owens Compares The ADL to BLM While Retweeting Well Known Antisemite

Candace Owns shared a tweet accusing the ADL of drumming up insecurity about antisemitism to further the "Zionist enterprise."

This woman is a fraud. That’s always been obvious to me. She is a grifter and a race hustler. Apparently, antisemitism is such a draw for her that she can’t keep her obnoxious mouth closed long enough to hide her own ignorance/disdain for Jews.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Yes, extremist rhetoric can normalize violence - and that includes "anti-Zionist" rhetoric

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News | Antisemitism Watch

Hatred of Israel drags us back to the Middle Ages

Today, Israel and the West are aligned against an axis of “medievalists” that we must face down.

Politics | Campus Watch

Hijacked: The Capture of America's Middle East Studies Centers

In the 1950s, a constellation of philanthropic foundations, multinational corporations, interested scholars, and the U.S. government established the first Mi...

Politics | Campus Watch

Elder Of Ziyon - A small example of how academic Jewish studies has been taken over by anti-Zionist politics

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News | Antisemitism Watch

The false distinction between anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing

Such lethal myopia now stretches from Australia to a London theater.

Politics | Opinion

Combatting anti-Semitism must include emancipating Zionism

Knowing the real-world harm that excludes Zionists from equal access and participation—in university book clubs, in support groups for victims of sexual harassment, in class, etc.—is an unacceptable reality.

Politics | Campus Watch

Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones

Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism.

When will liberal Jews understand that the left despises them? STOP supporting them. They will never be on your side. Liberalism and leftism are no longer the same things. When you support today’s Democratic Party, you are supporting antisemites.

Politics | "Apartheid" State?

Anti-Zionists advocate a global apartheid

Those who accuse Israel of apartheid want to make the Jews second-class citizens of the world.

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Yair Lapid: I am a Zionist – 2009

Yair Lapid: I am a Zionist – 2009 Yair Lapid says he belongs to tiny minority that influenced world more than any other nation. An opinion piece in Ynet News from Jan. 2009. H/T to Bob Kook I believe that the Jewish people established itself in the

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UNPACKED – Are Israelis White? | Zionism Revisited

UNPACKED – Are Israelis White? | Zionism Revisited Throughout history, people have traveled from across the world to make Israel their home. This has created a fundamental Israeli value to encourage and support immigrant absorption. Immigration to I

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Elder Of Ziyon - .@Amnesty T-shirts that prove anti-Zionism is antisemitism

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History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - As the Mufti forbade selling land to Jews, Transjordanian sheikhs WANTED Jews to buy their land

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News | Antisemitism Watch

Elder Of Ziyon - Is shooting religious Jewish worshipers at Joseph's Tomb just "anti-Zionism," too?

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Politics | Opinion

Zionists Don’t Need To Justify Their Existence

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

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UNPACKED: The Great Kibbutz Experiment | Zionism Revisited

UNPACKED: The Great Kibbutz Experiment | Zionism Revisited In 1909 when young Jews founded the first Kibbutz, they had no idea that they would be forming a symbol of Israel’s rebirth. These agricultural communities innovated the communal experience as a

Politics | Opinion

Israel Is the Least-Stolen Land

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

Politics | Opinion

Condemning the 'mapping project' isn't enough

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

History | History

100 Years Ago This Month: When Congress Embraced Zionism—Unanimously

One hundred years ago this week, the United States Congress unanimously embraced Zionism.

Politics | Opinion

The Soviet origins of left-wing anti-Zionism

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

Politics | Opinion

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

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

Politics | Debunking Lies

Elder Of Ziyon - Peter Beinart's dishonesty on Ben Gurion and "transfer"

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Elder Of Ziyon - 05/10 Links Pt2: Zionism Remains a Freedom Struggle; Cary Nelson: The Anti-Israel Politicisation of the US Academy; Caroline Glick: Harvard stands with the terrorists. Who do the Jews stand with?

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Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Proud to be a Zionist - 5782

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Politics | Opinion

Why the Left went from being pro-Israel, Zionism to opposing them

Solidarity with the struggle of the long-persecuted Jews for national freedom was seen as an integral element in an anti-fascist, anti-colonialist, and anti-racist worldview. 

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TAU: Making history: the achievements of Zionism studied in the UAE

TAU: Making history: the achievements of Zionism studied in the UAE A book by Israeli Islam researchers was published in Abu Dhabi For the first time since the signing of the Abraham Accords, an Israeli research book was published in Abu Dhabi. The UAE

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UNPACKED – Modern Zionism: 2000 years in the making

UNPACKED – Modern Zionism: 2000 years in the making While the State of Israel is barely 75 years old, the origins of Zionism actually go back a lot further than one might think. In fact, Zionism was born at three distinct moments in history that all

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EMILY SCHRADER – 2021 Proves that Antisemitism Manifests as anti-Zionism

EMILY SCHRADER – 2021 Proves that Antisemitism Manifests as anti-Zionism Re-post by permission. originally posted at Jpost The year 2021 proved unquestionably that modern antisemitism is often manifested in anti-Zionism and anti-Israel hatred.  

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Why anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inextricably linked

  For centuries, Jews have debated who belongs to our community. While embracing a more inclusive Jewish world is an

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Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen: The Ingathering of the Exiles Is Not Over

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen: The Ingathering of the Exiles Is Not Over BESA: The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai’s claim that it is not his job to encourage aliya to Israel negates the ver

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Victor Rosenthal – Zionism and Democracy & Identity and Reality

Victor Rosenthal – Zionism and Democracy & Identity and Reality Zionism and Democracy Gideon Levy, the hateful Ha’aretz writer who reaches new depths of loathing for the state that protects and nurtures him with every column he writes, has gotten

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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Front-Line Zionism

Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Front-Line Zionism It’s hard to explain to many of my American friends why Israel is such a great country on a personal level (its mighty achievements, everyone knows). The following true story provides insight; indeed, m

News | Israel

Jerusalem During the War of Independence—Now in Color!

The blockade of Jerusalem began during the first few days of the War of Independence, spreading from the Old City's Jewish Quarter to the rest of Jerusalem. These color photos from 1948 show us what life was like in the city that was cut off from the rest

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UNPACKED: Watch Zionism: New Goals & Old Struggles – Prof. Gil Troy

UNPACKED: Watch Zionism: New Goals & Old Struggles – Prof. Gil Troy In celebration of Israel’s 73rd Independence Day — Yom Ha’atzmaut — we are sharing professor Gil Troy’s essay “Why I am a Zionist.” Twenty years ago he wrote this affi

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UNPACKED – Zionism: The Backstory: Was Zionism a Form of Colonialism? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context

UNPACKED – Zionism: The Backstory: Was Zionism a Form of Colonialism? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context This week on Unpacked, we are moving on to part two of our new six-part series The Israeli-Palestinian Context. In this episode we trace the rich

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Now the Israel Haters Turn on Facebook

Linda Sarsour. Photo: Festival of Faiths via Wikimedia Commons. You can say you don’t like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, …

Social media makes it apparent just how acceptable antisemitism is to many people. Often the same people who claim to be “fighting” racism. Jews are the most attacked ethnic group in human history and the most attacked religious minority in the United States. That doesn’t stop these people from spewing their hypocritical hate.

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Tsvi Bisk - Polishism & Zionism: the Ironies of History

Tsvi Bisk – Polishism & Zionism: the Ironies of History Many early Zionists were Jews from Poland and Polish speaking Belarus. They were greatly influenced by Polish Nationalism, which had constituent parts similar to Zionism and which developed in

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Zionist.

  Via Emunah: To Linda Sarsour, who once angrily  proclaimed that  you cannot be a feminist if you are a Zionist , meet  our fearless Jewish...

She was a hero for her willingness to be a proud Jew and proud Zionist.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Why Seth Rogen’s Anti-Israel Rant Matters

Seth Rogan told Marc Maron that support for Israel is outdated thinking. His opinion rests on a deep ignorance of the history of Israel and the Jewish people.

Seth Rogan’s total ignorance is typical of what results form the typical non-religious Jewish “education” in the United States. I know that because I grew up in that world. To put it in secular terms, it would be like if we took the comments of someone who has a kindergarten education seriously who was speaking about physics. Rogan (obviously) knows NOTHING. Which explains the entire generation of American, progressive, millennials with similar views about Israel. They know even less than even my anemically Jewishly educated generation.

This article makes that case incredibly well.

History | History

Zionism | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

Zionism, Jewish nationalist movement that originated in eastern and central Europe in the latter part of the 19th century that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jews. Learn mo

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Sheri Oz - Who are the strongest least apologetic Zionist voices in Israel today?

Sheri Oz – Who are the strongest least apologetic Zionist voices in Israel today? It seems some of the strongest Zionist voices are those belonging to a Druze man from Daliat el-Carmel, an Arabic-speaking Christian from Haifa and an Aramaic Christia

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Top Sanders Surrogate: Zionism is a 'Racist' Ideology

A top surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I., Vt.) presidential campaign claimed Zionism is a “racist” ideology even though the Zionism censure was revoked by the United Nations in 1991.

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Zionist Ideas with Gil Troy Interviewed By Adam Scott Bellos and David Hazony

Zionist Ideas with Gil Troy Interviewed By Adam Scott Bellos and David Hazony In this episode of “In the Blue Corner,” TIIF CEO and Executive Director Adam Scott Bellos and David Hazony sit with historian and author Gil Troy to discuss Zionist identit

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Daniel Yeluashvili - How a Former Non-Zionist Became a Supporter of Israel

Daniel Yeluashvili – How a Former Non-Zionist Became a Supporter of Israel Algemeiner News As a progressive, I’ve been involved in social activism for as long as I can remember. From beach cleanups in middle school to protests in high school to ph

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Why the Left won't tolerate liberal Zionists

The Columbia Journalism Review touts itself as “the voice of journalism.” While the magazine, which is published by the Columbia

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Why there is no separating anti-Zionist agitation from Jew-hatred

Forward opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon got a shock last week when she discovered while taking part in a conference at

None of us even slightly surprising. We see repeatedly that anti-Zionism is identical to Antisemitism in its execution, strategy, and cause as pure Antisemitism. The claim that it’s about Jews and not Israel is only believable to the ignorant and antisemitic. It’s actually absolutely absurd. This incident is just the latest example. Jews need to wake up. Antisemitism never declined-it just became less socially acceptable. Now it’s not only acceptable, but lauded by some to the point that it’s even “hip” among certain groups to hate Jews.

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UNPACKED - What is Zionism?

UNPACKED – What is Zionism? If you’ve ever been to a Passover seder or seen a nervous groom stamp on a glass at a wedding, you know that longing for Jerusalem is at the heart of soooo many Jewish traditions. Today we call it Zionism, but what is a

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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel July 21 2019

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 21 2019 Israel performed brilliantly on the world stage last week. It won international awards; it received US & European approval, funds and partnerships for Israeli innovations, it was recognized for redu

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Former CNN Commentator Marc Lamont Hill Tells Progressive Gathering That Major US News Outlets Are 'Zionist' Organizations

Marc Lamont Hill. Photo: Karga Fantasma. Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill, who has made remarks widely considered antisemitic in …

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UNPACKED - Coming Home: The Law of Return

UNPACKED – Coming Home: The Law of Return This week, we’re looking at one of Israel’s founding principles – the Law of Return. This law, which dates back to the earliest days of the State of Israel, grants legal permission for any Jew, fro

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Victor Rosenthal - Take your Zionism Seriously

Victor Rosenthal – Take your Zionism Seriously As my readers probably know, I don’t see a lot of difference between antisemitism and misoziony.* The difference is that the former focuses irrational hatred on the Jewish people as a group or as indi

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Victor Rosenthal - Tikkunism Begets Misoziony

Victor Rosenthal – Tikkunism Begets Misoziony הְיוֹת עַם חָפְשִׁי בְּאַרְצֵנוּאֶרֶץ צִיּוֹן וִירוּשָׁלַיִם To be a free nation in our land The land of Zion and Jerusalem Hatikvah, the national a

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Two Powerhouse Jewish Women Inspire a Generation

Nadia Matar & Yehudit Katzover just received the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism at the 12th annual Prize ceremony in Jerusalem.

The sovereignty movement for Judea & Samaria is today political a reality thanks to these two women who created the national awareness for it! Modern day Zionist leaders!!!

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Why Neo-Nazis Love The BDS Movement So Much

'Stop Zionism!' 'Israel is our misfortune!' Who said it: 'progressive' supporters of the boycott Israel movement – or U.S. white supremacists and German neo-Nazis?

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Anti-Zionists are Jew haters. This is why.

From the blog of David Meir at The Times of Israel