By Jerusalem Post— Something very strange is happening in the Israeli political scene, and it’s not good. As the country gears up for the fourth election in two years, instead of learning from the past and doing everything to avoid previous mistakes, would-be political leaders are establishing ever-more new parties and lists. This is the…
By Shelley Neese I know that 2021 is technically only a number change on the Gregorian calendar. Perhaps it is naïve of me, but I can’t help feeling hopeful that this new year will bring with its new blessings and revelations. With the start of the pandemic, I asked our friends and supporters to…
By Amy Zewe— In our continued effort to expose BDS, the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement, is designed to delegitimize and demonize the state of Israel and as such, BDS demonstrates it root inspiration of antisemitism under a cloak of anti-Zionism. The BDS movement claims to be about buzz wordssuch as social justice, occupiers, oppressors…
By Burak Bekdil, Gatestone Institute— It has been more than a decade since Turkey and Israel, once strategic partners, broke up badly, with an angry Ankara passionately vowing to isolate Israel internationally. It has also been exactly four years since the two countries decided to give peace a chance once more and appointed ambassadors. They…
By Times of Israel Staff— Amid fears of Iranian revenge attacks on American and Israeli targets for the killing a year ago of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, authorities in the United Arab Emirates have reportedly arrested a number of Iranians in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the past few days on suspicion that…
By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press— After down-to-the-wire negotiations, United Nations members have adopted a budget for 2021 that was higher than Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed and was strongly opposed by the Trump administration for including money to commemorate the outcome of a 2001 conference in South Africa that it called anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. The…
By Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post— Two former Mossad chiefs and a former national security council chief all said on Sunday that Iran had failed to avenge the assassination of one of its most senior officials in 2020 and likely would not do so prior to US President-Elect Joe Biden taking office. However, they all…
By Caroline Glick, JPost— The rift between Israeli and American Jews is palpable almost everywhere you turn today. The most glaring disparity surrounds how they view President Donald Trump. The vast majority of Israelis adore Trump. The vast majority of American Jews despise him. But Trump isn’t the only thing or even the main thing…