By Izchak Sonnenschein, Israel Hayom— I grew up in Bnei Brak in the early 1960s, in a standard tenement apartment for those who had arrived from Eastern Europe, before the neighborhood became ultra-Orthodox. I still remember my neighbors and relatives through my childish eyes; they seemed so old. It was hard for me to believe…
By Caroline Glick— To defeat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, it is first necessary to understand it. The BDS campaign is an extraordinary phenomenon. Activists from US coast to coast robotically parrot the same lies, employ the same tactics of bullying, intimidating and silencing pro-Israel activists and speakers on campus after campus.…
By Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report— Passover While Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” – partially based on the teachings of Moses, Judge Gideon and Prophet Samuel – cemented the 1776 American Revolution against the British crown, the Passover legacy cemented the Jewish Revolution (against the Egyptian crown), Jewish nationhood and the Jewish state. The Passover legacy contributed…
By Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations— Yesterday, Israel was assaulted twice: once by terrorists, and once by the Vice President of the United States. The physical attack was in Jerusalem, where a bomb injured 21 people in a bus, several of them seriously. On the very same day, the VP addressed the group called…
by Khaled Abu Toameh, GateStone institute— The obsession with settlements is certain to divert attention from core issues, such as Palestinian recognition of a Jewish Israel. Many Palestinians continue to regard Israel as one big settlement that needs to be removed from the Middle East. Even those who say they have accepted the two-state solution…
By Manfred Gerstenfeld and Jamie Berk, Gate Stone Institute— False moral equivalence is one of a series of major fallacies. False moral equivalence comparing Israel’s actions to those of the Nazis was used by several prominent social-democratic politicians, including French President François Mitterrand, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Another…
By Shadi Khalloul, Gatestone Institute— Christians in Israel, as well as all other minorities, understand today that serving in the Israeli military is essential. Many Christians and other minorities in Israel share the same fears: they understand that in this region, Israel is the only island of safety that allows them freedom and democratic rights.…
By JTA, JPOST— Relations between Turkey and Israel hit a new low following Israel’s deadly raid in 2010 of a Turkish ship attempting to breach its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Jewish leaders in Washington reportedly to smooth ties as Turkey and Israel seek to reconcile. Jewish groups…
By Katie Engelhart, Vice News— On a recent afternoon, a large white van pulled up to a red brick building on the outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk, a city in eastern Ukraine. A woman with a plump face and dark eyes stepped out. She smiled hesitantly, looking out at one of several newly built transit centres for…
By RONALD S. LAUDER, JPOST— I wish there wasn’t a worldwide effort to isolate Israel. To undermine Israel. To destroy Israel. But there is, and it is called the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. I was in Buenos Aires two weeks ago for a plenary meeting of the World Jewish Congress, the organization I…