By CLIFFORE MAY, Moment Magazine — In one of his many magnificent books, Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis notes that in 641 C.E., the Caliph Umar “decreed that Jews and Christians should be removed from all but the southern and eastern fringes of Arabia, in fulfillment of an injunction of the Prophet uttered on his…
By MICHAEL ANBAR, PhD, Professor Emeritus at Un. of Buffalo — The Muslim Student Association (MSA) at the University at Buffalo (UB) is sponsoring a talk by Norman Finkelstein, the notorious Jewish-born, anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli Holocaust denier, who was denied a tenured academic appointment at DePaul University in 2007, after having been fired by NYU…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Over the past year or so, American Jewish opponents of Israel like writer and activist Peter Beinart have sought to intimidate and demoralize Israelis by telling us that American Jews either no longer support us or will stop supporting us if we don’t give in to all the Arabs’ demands. But…
By DANIEL GOLDSTEIN, Israel Today — More than 50 mortar shells fell in the southern part of Israel as Hamas sought to maim and kill innocent Jews. This assault on civilians in Israel took place on Saturday, the Sabbath day when most Israelis are resting, and hours before the celebration of Purim was to begin.…
BY PAUL WILKINSON– For many years we have been concerned about the growing opposition within the Evangelical Church towards the modern state of Israel. This opposition is rooted in an interpretation of the Bible which views the Church as having replaced (or ‘fulfilled’) Israel in God’s prophetic purposes. In recent years this theology of replacement…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST Ruth Fogel was in the bathroom when the Palestinian terrorists pounced on her husband Udi and their three-month-old daughter Hadas, slitting their throats as they lay in bed on Friday night in their home in Itamar. The terrorists stabbed Ruth to death as she came out of the bathroom. With both…
AFP — Israel said Sunday it has okayed hundreds of new settler homes after a gruesome weekend attack in which five Israelis, three of them children, were murdered in their beds in the West Bank. The ministerial committee for settlements, which met late on Saturday, approved construction of several hundred units across in Gush Etzion,…
By RYAN JONES, Israel Today — A Palestinian terrorist on Friday night quietly slipped into a home in the Samarian Jewish community of Itamar and butchered five members of the family living there as they slept. The terrorist broke in through a living room window. He missed eight-year-old Roi Fogel, who was sleeping on the…
By RABBI YECHIEL ECKSTEIN, International Fellowship of Christians & Jews — This week, an astonishing event has been taking place in universities around the world. The aim of this event, “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW), is, according to its organizers, to “educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system.” Apartheid, of course, was the oppressive…
DAVID HOROWITZ, Front Page — I was not looking forward to my speech at Brooklyn College last night during “Israel Apartheid Week.” The campus atmosphere was so hostile to Jews that no student organization was willing to host my appearance, not even the Jewish organizations – and with 3,500 Jewish students on campus, there were…