Video: Douglas Murray on Israel and a nuclear Iran

Douglas Kear Murray is a British writer and commentator.  He was the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion from 2007 until 2011, and is currently an associate director of the Henry Jackson Society. Murray appears regularly in the British broadcast media, commentating on issues from a conservative standpoint, and he is often critical of…

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Winning the campus battlefield

On the 26th of February, campuses across America will begin their eighth annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).  The stated aim of IAW is “to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system.”  They believe that by doing so they will exert “urgent pressure on Israel to alter its current structure and practices…

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Netanyahu: Khamenei's Words Remind Us of Where We Live

BY ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delieverd a terse retort Sunday to the threats issued Friday by Iran’s “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and tied it to events in Syria. “We have received a reminder about what kind of a neighborhood we live in,” Netanyahu said at the start of the Cabinet session.…

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Israeli demonization week

BY MARK TAPSON, FRONTPAGEMAG— The title above may be a bit confusing, since the left and their media cohorts essentially treat every week as Israeli Demonization Week. So to be more precise: the official, organized, designated demonization of Israel known as Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is gearing up to launch later this month. IAW is…

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Obama: Israel hasn't made decision on Iran

BY REUTERS— President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Israel has not yet decided how to respond to concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and said there was no evidence that Iran has the “intentions or capabilities” to wage attacks on US soil. Asked in an NBC interview whether Israel was set to attack Iran, Obama…

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Fool me twice

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Former US congressman Robert Wexler is a man worth listening to. Wexler served as then-senator Barack Obama’s chief booster in the American Jewish community during the 2008 presidential campaign. He appeared everywhere and said anything to convince the American Jewish community that the same man who sat in the church pews…

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Gingrich vs. Romney On Israel

BY DAVID RUBIN— For those pro-Israel Americans who are still on the fence about which candidate to support in the Republican primaries, this particular American-Israeli would like to briefly scan some of the nuances on the campaign trail. With the notable exception of Congressman Ron Paul, who has harshly criticized Israel’s treatment of our Hamas-supporting…

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‘Panetta believes Israel will attack Iran this spring'

BY YAAKOV KATZ, JPOST— United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta believes that Israel will attack Iran in April, May or June, the Washington Post reported Thursday. According to the report, written by the paper’s senior opinion writer David Ignatius, Panetta is concerned that Israel will launch an attack before Iran enters the so-called “immunity…

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Dep. Foreign Minister: Peace Can't Cost Israel its Existence

BY ELAD BENARI, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said on Wednesday that Israel wants to achieve peace with its Arab neighbors, but stressed that peace cannot come at the price of Israel’s existence. Speaking with Arutz Sheva on the sidelines of the 12th Annual Herzliya Conference, Ayalon said, “We have to be…

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Jews Shift Toward GOP, Survey Claims

BY JOSH NATHAN-KAZIS, FORWARD— Jewish support for the Republican Party has grown dramatically since 2008 nationwide, a new survey out from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press suggests. The data, based on surveys of 330 Jews, found that shift in the GOP direction has been more significant than among the general…

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American Victims of Palestinian Terror Seek Justice

BY ERICK STAKELBECK, CBN NEWS— Over the years, Palestinian terror groups have slaughtered countless Israeli civilians. In the process, they’ve also killed and injured dozens of American citizens. Now there is a movement to have those Palestinians face justice here in the United States. But the hardest part may be getting the U.S. government to…

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Why Jews need Israel

BY DAVID SOLWAY, FRONTPAGEMAG— In a speech given to the Domestic Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag in June 2008 on the subject of a renascent antisemitism, journalist Henryk Broder distinguished between a prejudice and a resentment: “a prejudice concerns a person’s behavior; a resentment concerns that person’s very existence. Anti-semitism is a resentment. The…

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