PM at Holocaust Remembrance ceremony: ‘Incitement preceded annihilation’

By Herb Keinon, JPOST— For the first time in years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address at Yad Vashem to start Holocaust Remembrance Day did not focus on Iran and its nuclear program. Rather, the core message of his speech Wednesday evening was the danger of the spread of anti-Semitic lies that is making odd bedfellows…

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Wars and Rumors of Wars

By Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. (Matthew 24:6) Rumors regarding the imminent coming of Messiah are bountiful today. The latest among them is that of the Riminov Rebbe (pictured), a Hassidic rabbi living in New York. Visiting his…

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From Holocaust to Resurrection

Israel Today— Six million brothers – by Yair Engel of blessed memory. They look down on us from above, Six million brothers. They look down on us from above crying or laughing, and we’re down here, not understanding at all sitting on another planet, crying and embarrassed. How can a person get up in the…

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Why Palestinians Do Not Want Cameras on the Temple Mount

By Khaled Abu Toameh, GateStone Institute—- The Palestinian Authority (PA) will continue to work against having cameras in the hope of preventing the world from seeing what is really happening at the site and undermining Jordan’s “custodianship” over Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem. Another reason the Palestinians oppose King Abdullah’s idea is their fear that…

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Shattering the tidal wave of anti-Semitism

By Avner Boskey, Final Frontiers— World anti-Semitism is on the increase in numerous areas – Islamist jihadi terrorist attacks (Sunni and Shi’ite) against Jews and Israelis Riotous demonstrations in Western cities which attempt to catalyze public economic and political warfare against the Jewish state Coordinated international political moves to isolate, weaken and divide both the…

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The end of Holocaust remembrance

By Jeff Jacoby, Jewish World Review— Long before the Holocaust had run its course, there was already a desperate urge to keep it from being forgotten. In hiding and on the run, amid the shadows of gas chambers and the smoke of crematoria, Jews frantically sought ways to bear witness to the enormities of the Nazis.…

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Our survivors, our heroes

By Izchak Sonnenschein, Israel Hayom— I grew up in Bnei Brak in the early 1960s, in a standard tenement apartment for those who had arrived from Eastern Europe, before the neighborhood became ultra-Orthodox. I still remember my neighbors and relatives through my childish eyes; they seemed so old. It was hard for me to believe…

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UNESCO Lies About Jerusalem’s Holiness to Jews

By: Lee S. Bender, ZOA— For Jews, the Temple Mount (site of Solomon’s Temple and the Second Temple is the holiest place on earth. The adjacent Kotel (the Western Wall) is the second holiest site to Jews. A recent decision by UNESCO (the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization), however, shamefully distorts, deletes and denies…

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Defeating Hamas in America

By Caroline Glick— To defeat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, it is first necessary to understand it. The BDS campaign is an extraordinary phenomenon. Activists from US coast to coast robotically parrot the same lies, employ the same tactics of bullying, intimidating and silencing pro-Israel activists and speakers on campus after campus.…

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Palestinians Furious After Eurovision Bans Their Flag

By Israel Today Staff, Israel Today— Call it not just a BDS failure, but a total reversal. The official broadcasters of the upcoming Eurovision song contest have banned the audience from waving Palestinian flags, along with the flags of ISIS, Kosovo and the Basque movement. Eurovision is wildly popular across the continent, as well as…

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