By Amy Zewe— The recent, historic, and largely overlooked news story of Aug 2020 is the peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Of course, when the announcement came out, Jews, Zionists, Christians, and many others including many Arabs, blew up social media with positive reaction—mostly because mainstream American news organizations did not…
By Amy Zewe— I have reported in the past that Canada, who has a long history and reputation of being friendly, free loving, accepting, and welcoming as shown some colors that are not consistent with this assumption. And, I have many Canadians friends who are the epitome of what I just described. I am praying…
By Amy Zewe— Late in July, Twitter’s community standards’ mechanism banned the use of the Star of David in posts, claiming it was a symbol of hate speech. This resulted in many Jewish or Zionist supporters’ accounts to be shut down or locked out. This all while many a Twitter account holder tweets and retweets…
By Amy Zewe— The issue of apartheid in South Africa is a painful history that just about the entire civilized world condemned during its application and all rightfully celebrated when it was defeated. Desmond Tutu was a just hero in combating this unjust practice that was as clear an example systemic racism against people with…
Recently I have had several meetings and exchange of vantage points with Christians, Jews, folks in Israel, folks in rural America, folks in Europe, and folks in North American Cities. Antisemitism has clearly been a problem for millennia and I have been reporting on alarming trends for nearly 10 years. And yet the recent…
By Shelley Neese– In addition to the general statement that Israel today sits on the forefront of cures, treatments and prevention of Parkinson’s, various cancers, Alzheimer’s, cardiac conditions, and more, let’s add the latest ailment, Corona virus. Let’s examine what specific contributions Israelis and/or Jews contributed to modern society that touch our everyday lives; and…
By Amy Zewe— Each week I discuss various forms of antisemitism: its rise, its players, its pushback—All in an effort to educate and allow for viewers to prayerfully combat antisemitism and do what they can in their own communicates and networks to continue the war on antisemitism, which has been around since recorded history. The…
By Amy Zewe— The ongoing civil unrest and social media bombardment of race relations and social justice has since drowned out the leading headlines of COVID-19 we all endured since March. But, in this shift of topics, the Jews and Israel somehow remain a center target of blame. This absolutely stuns me. Alan Dershowitz—prominent Harvard…
Notes By Amy Zewe— Recently I have come across a few communiques from pro-Israel organizations offering some tangible steps we can keep on hand to combat antisemitism from our very own homes! So I am stealing them to share with you here: 1. Support Social Media Accuracy: This is for social media posts that you…
Sometimes we speak of antisemitism as systemic, a wide-reaching “thing” or “concept” that affects a group as a whole, rather than a series of events that affects various people individually. Sometimes the press or powers that be will dismiss what they think is an isolated display of poor judgement for what is a display of…