by Caroline Glick Last month I was invited to South Africa by the South African Zionist Federation. The visit, my first to the country, opened my eyes to the daunting challenges facing the country and its dwindling Jewish community of 70,000 16 years after the end of the apartheid regime. South Africa is a country…
At a recent Catholic Bishops Synod in the Vatican, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop Cyril Bustros said: “The original promises made by God to the children of Israel were nullified by Christ. There is no longer a chosen people.’” …”The theme of the Promised Land cannot be used as a basis to justify the return…
by JPost In the name of radical Islamic-inspired nationalism, Mideast Christians of all denominations, including Catholics, have faced devastating persecution for their religious convictions. From the Gaza Strip and Egypt to Iraq to Turkey, Christians have been murdered, had their churches burned to the ground and their holy books destroyed, and have been demoted to…
by Victor Sharpe Edmond Burke, British statesman and philosopher, known for his famous aphorism, “… all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” also uttered other words of wisdom. Reflecting on the parlous condition of the stateless Jews in his time he was moved to…
Think on this: “There is a certain people dispersed and scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom whose customs are different from those of all other people and who do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the kings’s best interest to tolerate them. If it pleases the king.…
by Gil Ronen, Israelnationalnews.com Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called for the formation of a united front to fight against the vilification of Israel worldwide. Ayalon spoke Thursday at the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI) conference on the issue of the de-legitimization of the State of Israel and the Jewish People. In a panel…
by The New York Sun It will be some time before a major public figure confronts the question of anti-Semitism in a speech as to the point as that delivered last night by Rupert Murdoch to the annual banquet of the Anti-Defamation League in New York. The honoree of the evening, he noted that the…
by Caroline Glick, Jpost A striking aspect of the so-called building freeze in Judea and Samaria that expired last week is that an enormous amount of construction went on throughout the last 10 months. The Arabs of Judea and Samaria were not only building without restrictions, the US, Europe and the Arab states of the…
by Bret Stephens, WSJ If you’re a reader of a certain age, you might understand the headline. In May 1977, when Menachem Begin was elected Israel’s prime minister, Time magazine set out to describe the man, beginning with the correct pronunciation of his last name: “Rhymes with Fagin,” the editors explained, invoking the character from…
by Gil Ronen, Arutz Sheva Grover, the charismatically blue character from the classic televised children’s show Sesame Street, seems to be playing both sides of the Israeli-Arab conflict of late. The furry ‘muppet’ is hosting a new version of Jewish-themed Shalom Sesame to be aired on Hanukkah – but has also been heard declaring “We’re…