Apartheid? Not in Israel

By RABBI YECHIEL ECKSTEIN, International Fellowship of Christians & Jews — This week, an astonishing event has been taking place in universities around the world. The aim of this event, “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW), is, according to its organizers, to “educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system.” Apartheid, of course, was the oppressive…

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It’s Time for the Jews to Stand Up for Themselves

DAVID HOROWITZ, Front Page — I was not looking forward to my speech at Brooklyn College last night during “Israel Apartheid Week.” The campus atmosphere was so hostile to Jews that no student organization was willing to host my appearance, not even the Jewish organizations – and with 3,500 Jewish students on campus, there were…

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How Netanyahu can out-maneuver Obama’s latest threat to Israel

CAROLINE GLICK, Jewish World Reveiw, — The most effective way to defend Israel against Obama is to boldly assert, defend and implement a unilateral Israeli plan. Here it is. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is stuck between a diplomatic rock and a political hard place. And his chosen means of extricating himself from the double bind…

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Israeli Apartheid Week: Political Theater at Its Worst

PHYLLIS CHESLER, Front Page.com — The mob roars its hoarse, ear-splitting chants. “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Zionism,” “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free.” Keffiyas abound: On heads, over faces, around shoulders.  The Arab “street” is on the move—in Toronto, Montreal, Amherst, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, St. Louis, Houston, Berkeley, and…

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"The implications of the upheaval in Arab countries

YORAM ETTINGER, in Israel Today —   Revolution in Egypt, the Tunisian government has fallen, and there is speculation that Jordan could be next. On top of it all, Lebanon is more fully under the thumb of Hezbollah and Iran than ever before. The regional upheaval has enormous implications for Israel. Israel Today reporter Ryan Jones…

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Cross the bridge with God on our side

DAVID PARSONS, JPost, Christian Edition — ‘The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not be resolved until this Islamist mentality changes.’ Hot on the heels of the documentary With God On Our Side, another new anti-Israel film funded and produced by Evangelicals is making the rounds. Little Town of Bethlehem features three protagonists “ a Palestinian Muslim, a…

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An End to the Blood Libel

EDITORIAL, Investor’s Business Daily —   Leadership: In recent weeks, one of humanity’s ugliest scourges has seen an unwelcome resurgence. We’re talking of course about anti-Semitism. We’re happy to see that at least one world leader recognizes it. Amid an outbreak of sometimes borderline and sometimes outright anti-Semitism among Hollywood stars and politicians, we’re starting to…

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From Exodus by Leon Uris, the descent to The Promise by Peter Kosminsky

BY VICTOR SHARPE— It is uncertain when the first vestiges of Jewish life in the British Isles occurred. Ancient Phoenicia, which lay along the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the north of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel was a seafaring nation and its fleets may well have voyaged as far as Britain and possibly with crews…

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