By ERIC MANDEL, JPOST— Last week I was privileged to speak to two very different audiences about the Middle East and Israel. Though the talks had the same title, “Understanding the Middle East: Iran, the Sunni-Shi’ite War, the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism and the Delegitimization of Israel,” the reasons I was invited, and the questions…
By World Jewish Congress— Appearing on behalf of WJC – representing more than 100 Jewish communities worldwide – before the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, Lauder said: “In order to defeat this new flame of radical Islamic terror and survive, the United States must lead.…
By ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli journalists and other Jewish activists made headlines last month after they walked the streets of Paris, London and other European cities while wearing a kippah (Jewish head covering). Click Here to Watch Video In every instance, the Jewish man was insulted, harassed and even threatened numerous times. A young Arabic-speaking Israeli…
By ARI YASHAR, ARUTZ 7— “Hamas has taken over UC Davis” wrote a student senator, after anti-Israel activists at the University of California, Davis, shouted “Allahu akbar” (Allah is greater) at Jewish students during a vote to boycott Israel that passed last Thursday evening. The Jewish students took part in an attempt to counter the…
By DAVID PARSONS and HOWARD FLOWER, ICEJ— The dramatic events in Paris have served as a sobering wake-up call to the world about the dangerous resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. But for Jews in France and all across the continent, it was more a crushing reminder of the harsh reality they have known about already…
By RICHARD L. CRAVATTS, AMERICAN THINKER— “What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken…
By ANNE BAYEFSKY, GATESTONE— The UN is not having a conference on the threat that global antisemitism poses to international peace and security. This is lunch-time. The courageous organizer, assisted by the principled representatives of the small state of Palau, is independent of the UN. The facilities are not free. But why couldn’t the UN,…
By DROR EYDAR, ISRAEL HAYOM— The Jewish Diaspora is, for the most part, on the eve of a huge migration, similar to what we experienced with the collapse of the Iron Curtain in the early 90s and even at the end of the 19th century. Not just in Eastern Europe, also in the West. In…
By JONATHAN TOBIN— President Obama was in Los Angeles this week to hobnob with some of his biggest fans in Hollywood. He gave his usual stump speech blaming the Republicans for all the country’s ills at a private fundraiser where he rubbed elbows with Barbra Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg. After that, he attended a gala…
By JORDAN SCHACHTEL, BREITBART— A Jewish synagogue was reportedly firebombed over the weekend in the Ukrainian city of Nikolayeve, a Black Sea port city with an estimated population of 500,000. At this time, neither the identities of the perpetrators nor what side they are aligned with in the ongoing regional conflict has been established. Luckily,…