By Abra Forman, Breaking Israel News— The Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) will sue Palestinian TV for its blatant incitement to violence and murder against Jews and Israelis, announced the firm’s founder, attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, on Wednesday. Shurat HaDin, a non-governmental organization (NGO), is committed to “fighting terrorism and safeguarding Jewish rights worldwide” through legal…
By Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute— Sabeel’s theology distorts the Old Testament by denying Jews any ongoing connection with the land of their origin, and treating them as a people abandoned by God. There is also repeated disparagement of Judaism as “tribal,” “primitive,” and “exclusionary.” Where most modern churches have left the anti-Semitism of the past…
By Yossi Kuperwasser, JCPA— The Israeli center-left is slowly sobering-up from the dream of a Palestinian partner. Although many of its leaders and thinkers have already recognized the fact that there is no partner for real peace, they continue to blame Israel for the dead-end the diplomatic process has reached. And the others still refuse to…
By Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor— Egyptian parliament member and TV talk show host Tawfiq Okasha let the genie out of the bottle. Even though a shoe was thrown in his face by Kamel Ahmed, another parliament member, and despite the savage attacks directed at him in the Egyptian media and public forum in recent days, the…
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the attorney general to approve deporting relatives of terrorists from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. “I believe that this will dramatically reduce terrorist activities against Israel, its citizens and its residents,” Netanyahu wrote Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Wednesday. Netanyahu wrote that terrorists with…
By Caroline Glick— The government has clearly awakened to the threat of the BDS movement; but our leaders still don’t seem to recognize that the answer to hatred isn’t inclusion. At a certain point, you just have to know when draw a line in the sand. Sloan and Guy Rachmuth, Jewish parents in Durham, North…
“Beloved is man for he was created in God’s image. Still greater was the love shown him in that it was made known to him that he was created in God’s image.”—-Rabbi Akiva
By Uri Wilensky, Huffington Post— Which religious group is the victim of the most hate crimes in the United States? According to the hate crime statistics kept by the FBI, Jews are the primary victims of religious hate crimes. More than 50% of all hate crimes (57% in 2014) are committed against them. For a…
By Andrew Silow-Carroll, Times of Israel— Two of my favorite television shows are about what I think it’s fair to call the “New America.” In Master of None, on Netflix, Indian-American comedian Aziz Ansari plays a struggling actor in a very real and diverse New York. His best friend is the son of Chinese immigrants.…