Christopher Gacek and Lela Gilbert of Family Research Council have published a major paper detailing 100 Antisemitic events in the U.S. in the last fifteen months. Download the PDF here. Summary: There is no denying that we experienced an amazingly difficult year and more in 2020. With a global pandemic, an upsurge of racially charged…
By Amy Zewe I am delighted to let you all know that The Casualty of Contempt is now available! I authored a chapter called “When Compassion Goes Awry—Young Christian college students and professionals are abandoning their faith to join social justice causes: An Examination.” The pages of this book serve as a clarion call for…
By Anna Ahronheim, Jpost— It could have gone either way. Calm can return, or Israel would have found itself at war. Though the past week has seen hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli police officers and civilians injured, the defense establishment still thought that the situation could have returned to normal. But that was wishful thinking.…
By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe— It isn’t often that a hyphen, or the absence of one, draws attention. But when the Associated Press announced recently that it was changing the spelling of “anti-Semite” and “anti-Semitism” in its highly influential style guide to “antisemite” and “antisemitism,” it made news — and drew cheers from historians and…
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Israel365— This year, like most years, the month-long Muslim fast of Ramadan has been marked by extreme violence, most notably, though not limited to, Israel’s capital of Jerusalem. Dubbed the TikTok Intifada, the violence began last month when young Arabs began attacking Israelis, especially targeting the visibly religious, and posting videos…
By ILH Staff and News Agencies-— Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters at the Temple Mount compound Monday, the latest in a series of confrontations that is pushing the contested city to the brink of eruption. Despite a calm that set in around noon, the riots continued around 4:30 p.m. as hundreds of teens celebrated…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— The United Nations initiated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 after the Nazi genocide of six million Jews. Its words affirmed the dignity of all world citizens, regardless of who or what they were or where they lived. Indeed, it was a fine and desperately needed effort…
By Shelley Neese In February, I began to share some of Jim Hutchen’s commentary on the “One New Man,” a teaching that is especially important for us in these unprecedented times. You can see the other parts on our channel. But now I want to finish it up the One New Man teaching over the…
By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute—- While Israel is seeking to dissuade the Biden administration from rejoining the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran — currently the subject of indirect negotiations in Vienna — Tehran’s mullahs and their Lebanese Hezbollah terror proxy are busy drowning the Arab countries with drugs. Last week, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to…
By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, Israel Hayom— In a recently leaked recording, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was heard hurling a slew of insults at the world: “ China, Russia, America and all the Arabs.” Surprisingly, Israel was absent from the inclusive lineup. Abbas was also reported in early April to have refused a call from…
By Times of Israel Staff—- Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party said Wednesday that it would tell President Reuven Rivlin that it recommends that Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid form the next government, greatly increasing the opposition chief’s chances of being handed the mandate after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to muster a majority coalition…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel-— ‘All the Jews are Holocaust Survivors’ ‘To tell you the truth, all the Jews of the world are Holocaust survivors’ – said legendary Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, 83-year old, in his speech on the 76-th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. I always thought this way,…
By Amy Zewe— You may think that identity groups that receive the most hate crimes attacks (per capita) are Muslim, or LGBTQ members, or even Asians or African Americans based on the news reporting we hear. Any hate crime against any community member is unacceptable and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the…
By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute—- Arabs are growing increasingly concerned about Iran’s sinister intentions and deception as the Iranians and representatives of Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and China continue their negotiations in Vienna about reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the Trump administration abandoned in 2018. The deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive…
By Israel National News—- The mandate given by President Reuven Rivlin to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government following the elections to the 24th Knesset expired at midnight on Tuesday. Moments before the expiration of the mandate, the Likud released a statement indicating that the Prime Minister had returned the mandate to the…
By Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post— Some 2,000 years ago, an individual scribe wrote at least eight of the Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts, making him the most prolific scribe ever identified, a group of scholars have found out. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a corpus of some 25,000 fragments unearthed in caves on the shores of…
By Yair Altman, Israel Hayom— State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman announced Monday that he will launch a special review of the events leading to the April 30 disaster at Mount Meron. The tragedy saw 45 people killed and 150 wounded in a stampede that took place in a narrow passageway at the prayer compound, where over…
By Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— The Israel Defense Forces declared itself coronavirus-free on Sunday as it recorded zero active cases of the disease among its ranks for the first time since the outbreak of the virus. The military reported its first coronavirus case on March 2, 2020, when a soldier who worked part-time…