Israel, terror

UN Resolution Against Israel Supported by 90 Countries

UN United Nations

UN resolutions against Israel are a dime a dozen and also meaningless because they have no force of law. Resolutions are statements. This time, the resolution is a demand that Israel drop the sanctions the Netanyahu administration levied on the PA, due to terror. While not all of them voted in favor of the resolution, …

antisemitism, campus antisemitism

Biden Delays Implementation of Executive Order on Combatting Antisemitism

President Biden hosts Hanukkah reception

Kenneth Marcus, Chairman, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law, has a piece in Newsweek about the postponement on implementing the Executive Order on Combating Antisemitism, originally signed by Trump in 2019. “This order had been a major milestone, codifying important rules under which Jewish students receive civil rights protections in American …

antisemitism, Israel

Official UK Education Union Publication Spreads Lies About Israel

arab with dead boar

According to media watchdog Honest Resporting, Britain’s National Education Union (NEU) is spreading lies and disinformation about Israel through its official magazine “Educate,” the NEU’s bimonthly magazine. In its most recent issue, the magazine lends credibility to one of the craziest antisemitic conspiracy theories around: that Israeli settlers train wild boars to frighten and attack …

Israel, terror

Israeli Arab Confesses to Twin Jerusalem Bus bombings

Jerusalem Bus bombing

Israeli Arab Aslam Farouk has confessed to carrying out two Jerusalem bus bombings that occurred in short succession and killed two Israelis, Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma’ada and Arye Shechopek. Farouk is a supporter of ISIS who lives in Jerusalem, in Kafr Aqab. The confessed terrorist just completed his engineering studies, but also spent time online …

American Jewry, World Politics

Why Does the Left Embrace Islamist Leftists Embrace Islamist Positions?

Richard Landes with documentary film Pallywood

Richard Landes, chair of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) has just written a book, Can the “Whole World” Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad. As per the title and premise of the book, it’s a good question. Why is it part of the left’s zeitgeist to throw in their lot …

Israel, Israeli Politics

Israel’s New “Extremist” Government

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The entire world is freaking out that finally, FINALLY, Israel has a right wing government. Attorney Stephen Flatow, father of Alisa Flatow, murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995 showed why the fears of extremism are unfounded in a recent op-ed for the Jerusalem Post. In his piece, Flatow goes down the list …

Israel, World Politics

Foreign Minister Revokes Australian Recognition of Jerusalem as Capital of Israel.

Penny Wong press release reversal of recognition of west jerusalem

Australia Foreign Minister Penny Wong released a statement to the press yesterday, revoking recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The press release, entitled Reversal of recognition of West Jerusalem, states, “Today the Government has reaffirmed Australia’s previous and longstanding position that Jerusalem is a final status issue that should be resolved as part of any …

antisemitism, Business, Israel

Ben & Jerry’s Founders Say Unilever Sale to Israeli Violates Acquisition Agreement

Ben and Jerrys shop israel

Ben & Jerry’s founders say the Unilever sale of its ice cream franchise to Israeli licensee Avi Zinger, violates its acquisition agreement with the company. Zinger is, at present, free to market the ice cream to both Jews and Arabs in all parts of Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, didn’t want …