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Dr. Alex Grobman is the senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society and a member of the Council of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. He has an MA and PhD in contemporary Jewish history from The Hebrew university of Jerusalem. He lives in Jerusalem.
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Once the partition of Palestine was approved by the United Nations on November 29, 1947, the violence against the Jews intensified. The equivalent of a Red Cross medical convoy comprised of non-combatants, including doctors, nurses, and university faculty and students, was ambushed by Arabs in the Sheikh Jarrah section of Jerusalem.
The concept of exile and return to Zion dominates halakhah.
At American universities, denying antisemitism is not a new phenomenon
Dr. Fiamma Nirenstein reveals how the Oslo Accords and the Two State Solution are part of the attempt to undermine Israel.
Elie Weisel famously said: 'If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.' While antisemitism sweeps the globe, it is time to remember, act, and place our faith in G-d. A book that expresses those feelings in Holocaust survivors' own words.
The October 7th massacre has changed the thinking of a number of Israelis about the existential danger the Arab terrorist organizations pose to the Jewish State.
The need for a homeland where Jews could protect themselves was another factor in establishing the Jewish state. After personally experiencing antisemitism, Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, wrote in his diary in June 1895 that he “recognized the emptiness and futility of efforts to ‘combat antisemitism’” in Europe. “Declamations made in writing […]
No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge.
The gates finally begin to crack open.
It wasn’t long before Klein ran into the roadblocks erected by the U.S. State Department to keep Jews out of the U.S.
The apparent lack of sensitivity to the needs of the observant Jews was visible in a number of areas
Given the tremendous unmet needs of the survivors and an inefficient effort by the American Orthodox community to help observant European Jews, the Vaad insisted there be unity among Orthodox Jews or the mission of saving the Torah community in Europe would be doomed.
Ben Shapiro's musical 'We Will Rise' on the Warsaw Ghetto is set to open in Israel this week.
As we watched in horror as Israelis were viciously attacked in a pogrom in Amsterdam after attending the Maccabi TLV-Ajax soccer match, one is reminded of the Dutch response to the Jews when the Germans invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, Holland did not join the resistance […]
In an attempt to describe the horrific attack against Jews in Amsterdam, some reverted to using Holocaust terminology which distorts history. This was not a replay of Kristallnacht, as despicable as it was.
A bad legacy that will hopefully end this week
Can any rational person compare what Hitler did when he initiated the most disastrous war in history to what former president Trump accomplished during his four years in office?
A number of Western leaders seem to think they know what is best for the State of Israel, and frequently admonish and attempt to bully the Israeli government to follow their dictates.
The profound German influence on Arab antisemitism can be seen in a number of areas
Irving Bunim, a key leader and builder of the Young Israel movement
Every time one hears American and European political leaders insist that Israel embrace a two-state solution, a number of questions come to mind. Is this an attempt to appease their Muslim citizens, some of whom engage in violent protests against Israel? In the US, is it an effort by Democrat officials to demonstrate their fealty […]
The book is a quest to explain how these Polish policemen transformed into lethally proficient cold-blooded murderers of their own countrymen,
Setting the Carlson-Cooper record straight.
For Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Israeli penitentiaries were “boot camps” where many of its members forged their ideology and commitment to the organizations during the years spent together with other inmates.
Despite resistance by British authorities, Jews assisted the Allies, cause
As Arabs were working with the Nazis to defeat the British, the Jews in Palestine volunteered to protect the British position in the Mediterranean
A Jewish-Arab comparison in WWII: Jews parachuting behind enemy lines in WWII and providing technological savvy.
In sharp contrast to the Arabs, the Jewish community of Palestine actively supported the Allied cause in both World War I and World War II.
Setting the record straight on the Arab propaganda war because the unending war between the Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews is fought on a number of levels. One on the military front; another in the propaganda arena.
12,000 Palestinian Arabs and 30,000 Palestinian Jews volunteered for the British Army.
The mufti urged the Arabs to “Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion."
The Oriental Service station featured antisemitic propaganda cleverly mixed with Arab music and passages from the Koran, all supervised by the mufti.
The Oriental Service station featured antisemitic propaganda cleverly mixed with Arab music and passages from the Koran, all supervised by the mufti.
Why are there still Arab “refugees” from a war that ended 70 years ago?
WH must accept that Palestinian Arab leaders are engaged in “a zero-sum game” in which Israel has no right to exist
By what legal right are Arabs permitted to live in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, but the Jews are restricted to only certain portions of these areas?
How do we know when antisemitism has become an existential danger? When it becomes a mass movement.
History with contemporary relevance.
‘Rabbi,’ he said ‘I am a Christian and I feel that I, too, have had a hand in helping to bring the Children of Israel to the Promised Land. I want to tell my children that I helped a people find a homeland.
Jews came to represent everything men feared
The argument that once the settlements issue is resolved, a peaceful resolution of the conflict could be concluded is groundless
Sometimes the pen of propaganda is mightier than the sword.
The absence of genuine Palestine Arab history has not prevented them from inventing their own.
The Germans had not expected the Jews to resist, which is why they were surprised by the fierce opposition.
The charge that Jews are not a people or a religious community because they do not have a common language, history or ancestry is an attempt to deny them the right to self-determination and their own state.
Yet it was a “blindness to the Arab problem,” and lack of historical perspective that led Major-General Aharon Haliva, IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate, and others to believe that in Gaza, “our military force and deterrence,” and efforts “to stabilize the economy, allow in workers, and improve the quality of life all have the potential to create years of quiet.” He made this prediction in June 2021, and again in September 2022
Only when the Arabs truly understand that the Jews are in Israel to stay can there be a chance for a dialogue. Until then, Israelis are negotiating with themselves and seen by some as "walking like sheep to slaughter."
Egyptians identify with the Pharaohs and Syrians and Lebanese with the Phoenicians, so the Palestinian Arabs decided to claim to be part of the Jebusites, an extinct tribe who lived in Jerusalem before being conquered by the Jews.
Those who helped were few and far between
Soros has invested millions of dollars in the “defund the police,” movement, “social justice” projects and Left-wing grassroots organizations advocating for environmentalism, gun control, court-packing, legalizing drugs and abortion.
What is one of the major signs we need to be aware of in ascertaining the danger of antisemitism? ...it is when we should determine whether antisemitism has becomes a mass movement.
The book offers a compelling and accurate description of the challenges the Zionists faced between 1945–1949
A formerly cooperative relationship now fraught with disagreement
After South Africa filed a lawsuit with the UN's International Court of Justice claiming Israel is violating the UN convention on genocide by "killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction," Israel’s past relationship with South Africa’s Apartheid […]
The international press in Israel had become less an observer of the conflict than a player in it. It had moved away from careful explanation and toward a kind of political character assassination on behalf of the side it identified as being right
Palestine Authority’s (PA) relentless glorification of terrorists reinforces the culture of hatred against Jews.
Rather than addressing the causes of the conflict, the US and West do not seriously confront the Arabs about incitement against Israeli citizens in their schools, mosques and media and do not hold them accountable for continuing to provide financial support to families of convicted terrorists who are either incarcerated in Israeli prisons or who have died while murdering Israelis. Instead, they blame Israel for intransigence
The same leftists who maligned whites have now turned on the Jews. When whites were being denigrated, many Jewish leftists either supported the attacks or acquiesced to them. Now these Jews are being included among the “oppressors,” which is the same genocidal hatred that was exhibited in the George Floyd riots.
The PLO and its supporters continued to look for a way to expel Israel.
Israel is being extremely vigilant in trying to reduce civilian casualties, yet Kemp said President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak regularly warn Israel to adhere to the laws of war and reduce civilian casualties to a minimum, even though they know precisely what the IDF is doing. This is nothing but theater to placate constituents and others who oppose Israel.
*Editor’s Note: This is the fourteenth installment in 'Setting The Record Straight,' the most recent series of articles from Jewish Press Online contributor, Alex Grobman, PhD There is no dearth of volunteers for martyrdom a Hamas leader pointed out. Their greatest problem was the “hordes” of young men who demanded to be sent. The selection […]
Suicide bombers guarantee international media attention. [1] “The media are part of the war. CNN is more important than airplanes,” asserted Malek Wabdeh, a Hizballah cultural representative [2]
When will we begin to connect the dots?
During both World Wars, the Arabs had “gained everything and contributed nothing….”
The idea that the State of Israel has reduced antisemitism is mistaken. Antisemitism has intensified.
“Terrorism is a form of theater,”
The Oslo Accords were viewed by the Palestinian Arabs as the first stage in Israel’s total defeat
Oren asks rhetorically why is it that Israeli leaders “rarely articulate a vision of Israel’s future?”
“The importance of the weapon of such martyrs is no less than the importance of nuclear weapons.”
She said she had a medical problem, that's why the soldiers let her in, to check her in private because she is a woman," he said. "That's a very cruel, cynical use of the humanitarian considerations of our soldiers."
Terrorist organizations, including ISIS, began using women once they realized they were far better able to evade detection than men.
One must accept that Palestinian Arab leaders are engaged in "a zero-sum game" in which
A defining element of radical Islam today is its extensive use/support of suicide attacks as a weapon in fighting jihad
To preserve the terrorist Wafa’s memory and have her continue to serve as a model for other women to emulate, the Palestinian Authority has named places and events after her
A Joan of Arc? If being the first Palestinian female suicide bomber qualifies for sainthood.
Hatred, and loathing of the Jews, and “to a lesser extent of the Americans, is transmitted.
Destroying Israel has been a primary objective of the Palestinian Liberation Movement (PLO) from the outset
Soviets played a critical role in facilitating the use of language as a weapon of demonization and delegitimization against Israel
By framing the conflict between Israel and a people struggling for their liberation, the Arabs attempt to justify this dispute as a just war worthy of international support.
In 1921, Winston Churchill, then Colonial Secretary, echoed the same theme of "economic blessing" on a visit to Palestine. He urged the Arabs to give Zionism a "fair chance," since Zionism would be "accompanied by a general diffusion of wealth and well-being and by an advance in the social, scientific and cultural life of the people as a whole."
"opposition to land sales was one of the principal focal points around which the Arab national idea in Palestine coalesced. It was the place where the national idea adopted by the urban elite intersected with the villagers' fears that the Jews would buy up more land and dispossess them."
By any/all accounts, the land is ours
The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate deliberately make no mention of recognizing Palestinian Arabs as a separate and distinct people with their own national rights.
*Editor’s Note: This is the ninth installment in the most recent series of articles from Jewish Press Online contributor, Alex Grobman, PhD At the San Remo Conference in San Remo, Italy in April 1920, the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers, Britain, France, Italy, and Japan met to define the precise boundaries of the […]
Declared Chaim Weizmann, “and I thought I heard the steps of the Messiah.”
Having linked the future of Zionism to British rule and prejudice, the Zionists had to take the lead to ensure their numbers would increase and their efforts would succeed.
Both by the law of G-d and man
Israel as a Jewish state was justified at the time of independence…, and its preservation continues to be justified today.
More than 3,000 years before the Mayflower left England for the New World, Jews fled from Egypt.
Wherever Jews lived, they did not publicly challenge the occupation of the land by the empires of the East and West. They did so in their homes, sanctuaries, books and prayers. Religious rituals were instituted to remember the destruction of the Temple and the subsequent exile.
Not according to any accurate application of the term
This conflict remains intractable because of the baseless canard that Israel stole Palestinian Arab land, and is thus an occupier of Arab land
The Durban Conference, “which ended only three days before 9/11, revealed the intimate connections between anti-racism politics and a key platform in the terrorist agenda, namely, the delegitimation of Israel and the legitimation of terrorism against its citizens”
The “global left,” he says, “considers itself the moral cutting edge of mankind. Jews are competition. So there’s an enormous appetite especially on left for stories about Jews behaving badly
A piece in a puzzle fraught with changes
We are Zionists who believe that when the people of Israel exercise the sovereign right to vote, the result should be respected by all, by non-Jews and Jews throughout the world, and by Jews within Israel.
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