Unfortunately, this is unsurprising news: The California Department of Education is facing backlash after permitting a host of anti-Israel activists to build a statewide educational curriculum that demonizes the Jewish state and is said to be fostering hatred of Jewish … Continue reading →
The UNRWA is the United Nations’ relief agency for Palestine, a huge agency since the 1948 war. Trump had cut off US funding for the UNRWA back in August of 2018 to the usual disapproval from the left: “The United … Continue reading →
No Joke: the U.N. just condemned Israel as the world's only violator of women's rights, backed by votes of council members Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan & Yemen.https://t.co/s94KsS50gH — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 24, 2019 This speaks for itself. The UN … Continue reading →
Quite a few people have observed that the Democratic House was quick to condemn Trump for a “racism” not actually contained in his tweets, and yet have not condemned Ilhan Omar for her anti-Semitic remarks. It’s unsurprising; double standards are … Continue reading →
I’m not too keen on parliamentary systems in general. Too many small parties are given power. The one good thing about parliamentary systems, IMHO, is that they are more responsive than ours and elections can be called if there’s no … Continue reading →
That’s the title of Victor Davis Hanson’s latest. My own opinion is that progressives have been anti-Semitic for a long long time. Anti-Semitism is both ancient and widespread, and what’s more it occurs among various groups and for a wide … Continue reading →
Rashida Tlaib has been getting a lot of flak, and rightly so, for some remarks she made recently about Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust. The context was a question about the one-state solution, and this is the part of … Continue reading →
A lot. Read the whole thing, but particularly note this: Hamas and Iranian-controlled Islamic Jihad launched over 600 rockets killing several Israeli civilians. The rockets were launched mostly from civilian locations in Gaza towards civilian locations in Israel. Israel retaliated … Continue reading →
…that by claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian, she is underlining the idea that the Jews were the original inhabitants of the land now called “Palestine”? Because—and this certainly isn’t breaking news—Jesus was a Jew. No, of course she doesn’t. … Continue reading →
When the international version of the NY Times decided to publish an anti-Semitic cartoon by the Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Moreira Antunes, it was just following a long-established European post-WWII tradition. Antunes has been in the anti-Semitic image business for decades, … Continue reading →
You think I exaggerate? Not much. Take a look for yourself: The cartoon, apparently by a Portuguese artist named Antonio Espresso, depicted a blind Donald Trump, resplendent in the kippah he wears at all times except when the cameras are … Continue reading →
Here’s how USA Today covers the Netanyahu election: The outcome would also affirm Israel’s continued tilt to the political right and further cast doubt on hopes of a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, partly because of Netanyahu’s close relationship … Continue reading →