Media: Israel Must Be Denigrated for Its World-Beating Vaccination Programme

By Richard Kemp, Gatestone Institute— Prejudice against the Jewish state is so intense in the Western media that praiseworthy actions guaranteed to hit the headlines if attributable to any other country are frequently ignored, diminished or denigrated when it comes to Israel. When there is a disaster anywhere in the world, for example, Israel is…

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Hezbollah: Narco-Terror and Crime in Latin America

By Emanuele Ottolenghi, Jewish Policy Center— Will the Biden administration go after Hezbollah’s drug trafficking and money laundering networks? Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the drug trade is well documented, ongoing, and a threat to U.S national interests. The Biden administration needs to build on the past four years and pursue Hezbollah’s money laundering and drug…

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Worldwide Religious Persecution: Where Does Israel Stand

By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— As we enter a new year, religious persecution will undoubtedly continue to impact millions across the globe, with such atrocities as Nigeria’s Christians being massacred, China’s Muslim Uighurs enslaved, and Jews murdered in their synagogues. For three years, an organization called Church in Need tracked Christian persecution in particular…

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Should Israel’s political parties be splitting up or uniting?

By Jerusalem Post— Something very strange is happening in the Israeli political scene, and it’s not good. As the country gears up for the fourth election in two years, instead of learning from the past and doing everything to avoid previous mistakes, would-be political leaders are establishing ever-more new parties and lists. This is the…

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Red Alert: A War with Words?

By Amy Zewe— In our continued effort to expose BDS, the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement, is designed to delegitimize and demonize the state of Israel and as such, BDS demonstrates it root inspiration of antisemitism under a cloak of anti-Zionism. The BDS movement claims to be about buzz wordssuch as social justice, occupiers, oppressors…

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Turkey and Israel: Premature Optimism for Normalization

By Burak Bekdil, Gatestone Institute— It has been more than a decade since Turkey and Israel, once strategic partners, broke up badly, with an angry Ankara passionately vowing to isolate Israel internationally. It has also been exactly four years since the two countries decided to give peace a chance once more and appointed ambassadors. They…

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UN adopts $3.2 billion budget over US and Israel objections

By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press— After down-to-the-wire negotiations, United Nations members have adopted a budget for 2021 that was higher than Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed and was strongly opposed by the Trump administration for including money to commemorate the outcome of a 2001 conference in South Africa that it called anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. The…

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Pollard and the Great Jewish Divide

By Caroline Glick, JPost— The rift between Israeli and American Jews is palpable almost everywhere you turn today. The most glaring disparity surrounds how they view President Donald Trump. The vast majority of Israelis adore Trump. The vast majority of American Jews despise him. But Trump isn’t the only thing or even the main thing…

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O Come, O Come Emmanuel

The Advent season is upon us. In my family, we celebrate advent with a regular lighting of candles, carols, and family devotions. Like all family worship with young kids, sometimes it is a really sweet moment that our family separates the sacred from the profane. Other times, it is chaotic and dissolves quickly. And in…

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Red Alert: Who is Attacking the Menorah?

By Amy Zewe— With Chanukah having just finished eight days of celebration, Christmas Eve just one day way, a new year about to begin, and the world optimistic as COVID-19 Vaccines are rolling out for distribution. One would think some level of good will and cheer would manifest in every corner of society. But, the…

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Netanyahu plans full closure of air travel into Israel

By Hezki Baruch, Israel National News— Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pushed Monday morning for a total ban on the entry of foreign nationals to Israel, citing recent outbreaks abroad of a fast-spreading strain of the coronavirus. Speaking at the opening of a meeting of the Coronavirus Cabinet, Netanyahu said the government was keeping a…

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