Anti-Israel Views Lead to Anti-Semitic Actions

By DAVID LEV, ARUTZ 7 — Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, called on European leaders to act to prevent what he called a “tsunami of anti-Semitism” from engulfing Europe in the event of increased tensions in the Middle East. Kantor made the statement at a press conference Wednesday at the Kantor…

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Pita chips

After posting so many recipes on this site for dips and hummus, I realized that I should include a quick recipe for making homemade pita chips.  Ingredients 6 pitas ¼ cup olive oil ½ teaspoon salt Directions 1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees. 2) Cut each pita into 8 triangles and line them up on…

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Tourism to Israel hits all time high

BY ELISA L. MOED, TRAVELUJAH— Tourism to Israel has never been more popular.  Despite the Arab Spring, the uprising in Syria and  all the media speculation regarding a potential attack on Iran, people are continuing to travel to Israel on Holy Land Tours. During the first three months of the year, 752,000 tourists came to…

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Video: Fighting the spread of Islam

Fantastic speech by Melanie Phillips. Phillips is a journalist for the Daily Mail and author of several books, most recently World Turned Upside Down.  She defines herself as a liberal who has “been mugged by reality.”  In this short video, Phillips addresses the fact that “terrorism is not the biggest threat that we face.”  Philips…

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Scratch "Palestine" anywhere and you'll find Israel

BY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— In Rolf Hochuth’s play, The Representative, there is a line in Act 1, Scene 1, which goes as follows: “Cursed are the peacemakers.” Peace is a reality between states that are friendly towards each other. They, after all, do not need to make peace; it already exists through the…

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74 Democrats Join Soro's J Street in Urging Concessions

BY RACHEL HIRSHFELD, ARUTZ 7 — Seventy-four Democrats in the House of Representatives have joined the leftist J Street organization in supporting the Obama administration’s attempt to force Israel into making painful and possibly dangerous concessions to the Palestinian Authority. “In our view, support for a two-state resolution is inseparable from such support for Israel,…

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Israel: Obama’s secret dealings with Iran conflict with US-Israeli understandings

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report— The fundamental rift on Iran between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu burst into the open Monday, April 16 when high-ranking Israeli officials close to Netanyahu directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks between the six powers and Iran…

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Synopsis of Change

BY RON JAGER— In an almost desperate bid to counter the emerging historical trend, pro-Palestinian elements recently attempted to change direction and bring the Palestinian Arab issue back to the forefront of the world’s agenda. For the Palestinian leadership, the Arab world has once again abandoned and left the Palestinian Arabs high and dry. The…

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Hollywood against Israel

BY GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET— It doesn’t matter that Iran’s ayatollahs just hosted an international conference, attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, against “Hollywood and Satanism” and “Hollywoodism and Zionism.” It doesn’t matter that many blockbusters have been banned in Arab countries, including Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” all of Jane Fonda’s films, Paul Newman’s “Exodus” and the…

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Christian Zionism and social justice

By MALCOLM HEDDING, JPOST-Christian Edition— Certain segments of Evangelical Christianity are being drawn away from the movement’s traditional support for Israel by those claiming the moral high ground in advocating for “social justice.” Many of these liberal, anti-Israel Evangelicals showed up at the recent “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference in Bethlehem. They invariably view Israel…

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Rick Santorum on Jerusalem

BY CAROLINE GLICK— Senator Rick Santorum has an important oped in the New York Daily News today about how the Obama administration is breaking US law by not recognizing that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. As he writes:    It is actually not well known that the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 made it…

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Christian Zionism and social justice

By MALCOLM HEDDING, JPOST-Christian Edition— Certain segments of Evangelical Christianity are being drawn away from the movement’s traditional support for Israel by those claiming the moral high ground in advocating for “social justice.” Many of these liberal, anti-Israel Evangelicals showed up at the recent “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference in Bethlehem. They invariably view Israel…

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