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Moshe Phillips, author, commentator, and veteran pro-Israel activist, is the national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel (www.AFSI.org), a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization.
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Ever since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the use of Holocaust inversion by enemies of Israel has gone from being used only by pariahs to becoming chic.
Does Gere really object to the idea of Jewish families living in areas where ancient Jewish history is everywhere to be found?
The outright wrongheadedness inherent in each of these statements needs to be exposed. Not just for Israel’s well-being, but for America’s.
There’s no good reason for any Jew who is pro-Israel to resist using the term Zionist to describe themselves. Zionism is a team sport, and the object of the game remains what it has always been: the saving of Jewish lives.
Traditionally, we are supposed to limit eulogies in the Hebrew month of Nissan, as it is the season when our people’s liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt was brought about by G-d.
That outside-the-pale groups Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow would attack Israel and America for bombing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime should come as no surprise.
Since the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, a line has been drawn – between those who unequivocally condemn terrorism and those who equivocate.
There is no ambiguity here. No mistranslation. No context that softens the meaning. This is not the rhetoric of a partner for peace or the language of a movement committed to a peaceful future. It is a declaration of intent – one that mirrors, almost perfectly, the genocidal aims openly proclaimed by Hamas.
The issue at hand – Israel’s recognition of Somaliland – was itself revealing. Rather than treating Israel as a sovereign state exercising normal diplomatic judgment, the United Nations inexplicably escalated the matter into an emergency session, underscoring the very double standard Bruce later chose to address.
In my view, far too many valuable resources and an extensive amount of energy were spent in generating votes for the American portion of the World Zionist Congress elections. And I say this as a delegate to a previous congress.
Repeating a falsehood again and again doesn’t make it true.
This wasn’t just anti-Israel opinion; it was a call for the elimination of an entire nation and its people. This type of speech has no place in civilized discourse, and defending it as a form of free expression only emboldens those who seek to delegitimize Israel and harm Jewish communities.
Today, countries such as the UAE and Bahrain regularly seek U.S.-made weapons. But what will happen if the dictatorial rulers of these nations are replaced by forces hostile to America and Israel?
The fact that the Israelis are still capturing terrorists decades after the PA agreed to fight Arab terrorism exposes the truth: the PA’s so-called anti-terror stance is a fraud.
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.
Let’s examine the close, even affirming, relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and Jewish Voice for Peace extremists
The British government believes that it has the moral authority to dictate where in their ancestral homeland Jewish families can and cannot live.
The term is not in the Torah because it is a modern political invention.
Far too many American Jews know little about the Jewish struggle to free Israel from British control in the 1930s and 1940s.
Recognizing and/or creating a Palestinian state is wrong not only because it threatens Israel’s security, but because it would signal a broader victory for international terrorism – particularly Islamic extremist groups.
One would be greatly mistaken to think that she will pause in her efforts to combat Jew-haters and anti-Israel terrorists.
Levi Eshkol and Yitzhak Rabin, both of the Labor Party, were on board decades ago to offer freedom for Palestinian Arabs to emigrate elsewhere.
Satloff’s conclusion: Thanks to the creation of the P.A. in 1994, terrorism has decreased.
Why does one news report matter? One reason is that so many newspapers, major ones as well as small town ones depend on the AP for their international coverage.
Perhaps more than any other leader in the State of Israel’s history Olmert believes that his personal opinion of what Israel’s borders should be set as is always correct.
Where have they gone? To another continent or country, another city? Try blocks away.
One man surveyed in Gaza said: “In the end, people will accept reality. They want to live in a country that protects and supports them.”
It made sense at the time. And while the situation is very complicated right now, it still does.
The families of dead terrorists will say they are in need since their breadwinners are no longer alive. Of course, these terrorists are no longer alive because they either blew themselves up or were killed while attempting to commit murder.
Beinart is not misinformed—he is deliberately distorting the truth
When the 89-year-old Palestinian Authority chief looks around him, he must be astonished at how the international community has acquiesced in his brutal dictatorship.
That Israel's right to defend its civilians is being questioned every day all around the world demonstrates how important books that rise beyond rhetoric are – and that’s what these books do.
If Abbas really wants peace – as J Street and the State Department keep telling us – he would not have heaped praise on Shubaki in his eulogy.
It also includes the usual selection of anti-Israel slurs: Israel is an apartheid state … it is engaged in a slow motion campaign of ethnic cleansing … the Al-Aqsa mosque has been desecrated again and again… and Israel is illegally holding over five thousand political prisoners (because the ICNA considers convicted Arab terrorists to be political prisoners).
Dennis Ross is on television and in news articles offering unsolicited advice to Israel. But from 1993 to 1994, he was a source of hot air.
Many of the Palestinian Authority’s most sophisticated officials, stationed around the world, have lauded the mass murder, gang rapes and baby-burnings of Oct. 7.
Refusing to call on Qatar and Egypt to pressure Hamas suggests that they are primarily interested in pressuring only Israel.
J Street’s cynical political strategy: Say one thing in public, say something different in private; Manipulate Jewish leaders and reporters; and think up new ways to embarrass and pressure Israel.
Finally, in May 1990, Bush couldn’t take it any longer. Ross’s promises about the moderate Arafat crumbled as a PLO member-organization was caught trying to carry out a massacre on the Tel Aviv beachfront.
Israeli "settlers" are NOT like Australian settlers
Professor Derek Penslar of Harvard University wrote a book psychoanalyzing the Jewish people and denigrating Zionist patriotism as just hotheaded, irrational emotionalism.
Ex-diplomats never have to deal with the consequences of their bad advice.
The firebombs were “filled with nails,” a police spokesperson revealed. That was a new one for me, and I follow this kind of news closely.
Dalia Mogahed, who holds the title of “antibigotry fellow” at Boston University, has defended the mass murder and rapes by Hamas on Oct. 7 as “lawful resistance.”
Everyone seems to have forgotten that the PA was supposed to have been fighting terrorism since it was created back in the 1990s by the Oslo Accords – but it never has done the job.
'- JNS.org Einat Wilf also suggests linking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip with a Palestinian peace pledge.
The JTA news service in their article on the death of Henry Kissinger stated "Regarded as a brilliant diplomatic strategist, Kissinger was one of the most influential Jewish figures of the 20th century..." Influential? Yes. Pro-Israel? No. Despite the many pundits who now wish to recast Kissinger as a proud Jew who proudly supported Israel […]
The former Israel bureau chief of The New York Times has discovered who is really to blame for the Hamas pogrom on Oct. 7: Israel. This vile bit of slander comes from the pen of Ethan Bronner, who spent 26 years at the Times posing as an objective journalist. That included the years 2008 to […]
Derek Penslar, a professor of Jewish history at Harvard, recently signed a petition that slandered Israel as a country of “apartheid” and “Jewish supremacism.”
They never really cared whether Yasser Arafat ever fulfilled his obligations, including fighting terrorism or halting Palestinian incitement.
Why is an ostensibly Zionist organization pushing an Israeli anti-Zionist party?
2 questions and their answers are an enlightening approach
Those who fought back against the Nazis were able to obtain guns from criminal sources and from contacts in the Polish resistance Home Army.
If we do not see the unifying theme, we are quite literally missing out on the essence of Yom Kippur
“Stern’s spirit of freedom, pride, and sacrifice birthed the Jewish Insurgency and eventually its State, and, now in English, may well spark a revolution in the hearts and minds of the English-speaking Jewish world.”
A widely-respected veteran journalist with the JTA news service reported Biden's plan to visit Israel next month “appears unaffected” by Israel’s approval of the construction of some Jewish housing units in communities in Judea-Samaria. In other words, this “story” was—as in the mold of the classic Seinfeld sitcom formula—an article about nothing. He was writing about something that was NOT going to happen.
Jew-hating Al Jazeera, jpurnalist went out to a live battle scene and met her death. That's the story.
Parents have a right to know who is teaching their kids about Israel and to decide if they are comfortable with a particular professor’s perspective.
Members of a four-person panel to speak at a conference sponsored by the American Historical Association essentially hold the same harsh viewpoint towards Israel.
Israel’s behavior in wartime should be judged exactly as we do any other country at war, such as the US and its allies in WWII
The same leftist activists who demand that Israel expel “illegal” Jewish settlers simultaneously insist that Israel not expel Bedouin squatters.
Perpetuating stereotypes such as the “Jewish nose” is not just offensive. It can have real-life consequences.
Where Greg Epstein’s influence may well be felt, I fear, is on Jewish students’ perceptions of Israel, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.
J Street and the New Israel Fund have taken positions with regard to Ben & Jerry’s is nothing more than a red herring, or perhaps a fig leaf. Those wouldn’t make delectable flavors of ice cream
Labeling a territory ‘occupied’ means saying that it is wrongly and illegally occupied. Calling the Negev ‘occupied’ is a call for Israel to surrender the Negev.
The pro-Palestinian wing of the Democratic Party will make sure that the money flows to Gaza, come hell or high water.
The lessons are clear. First: Those who are blessed with the talent and fortitude to do what is necessary to help a fellow Jew must heed the call. And second: The Land of Israel is precious and must be treasured. This is not just a Zionist belief — it’s a Jewish imperative. This is Shavuot. This is Judaism. This is Zionism.
If the American Jewish community thinks boycotting Israel is a Jewish value, then, by all means, it should welcome J Street and JVP into leadership roles in the Jewish establishment.
The organizations threatening to boycott the JNF deny that they favor dividing Jerusalem.
It is a misrepresentation of history to state that Zionism was a secular movement and that Orthodox rabbis opposed early Zionism.
Abbas stated that Jews have “no historical ties” to the Land of Israel because they are actually descendants of the Turkish Khazar tribe (a bizarre and long-discredited conspiracy theory).
I disagree. I believe 2021 could prove to be a decisive year for Zionism in America, and it’s up to those of us who consider ourselves Zionists to decide whether to be incapacitated by worry or move forward with confidence.
A review of the Quartet’s website is instructive in examining just what’s wrong with the body. Its failures—and they are plentiful—stem from its entire approach to Israel.
Equally troubling is the fact some of these same liberal rabbis issued a public statement defending another Farrakhan supporter, Tamika Mallory, who was one of the founders of the Women’s March.
"...among the cadre of leaders of a little-known advocacy group in Washington, D.C. called Foreign Policy for America, which has a very disturbing perspective on Israel."
As a central theme of its propaganda, J Street maintains that Jews do not have a right to live wherever they choose and must be transferred out of their homes and neighborhoods in Judea-Samaria, where Israeli citizens have lived for nearly 50 years and before the Roman exile for nearly one thousand years
Objecting to the reproduction of a hate map should not be a partisan issue. Palestinian Arab violence has never distinguished between left-wing and right-wing Jews.
Ronald Lauder and Ehud Olmert need to answer for meeting with Abbas and giving him legitimacy.
Peace with Syria is a suicidal fantasy - the war-torn country is unstable and would insist on Israel giving up the Golan Heights
If “moderate” Arab leaders have to make extremist statements to “appease the radicals,” it means the masses of Arabs continue to hold radical anti-Israel views.
If the Jewish far left is critical of the UAE/Bahrain agreement, and I am also critical of the agreement, does that somehow make us bedfellows? Isn’t all criticism of Israeli policy bad and harmful?
Israel could find itself one day fighting American F-35 aircraft just as it found itself fighting American Patton tanks.
Edward Alexander, the Jewish scholar and author who passed away last week at age 84, was called “Seattle’s Jeremiah" by his hometown newspaper. An Israeli publication once hailed him as “Jewry’s premier polemicist.” For more than half a century, Alexander fought for Israel and the Jewish people in the trenches of the battlefield of ideas.
Unfortunately, though, Jewish groups in the U.S. that have traditionally been the settlement movement’s strongest backers have shown it zero support now.
He was a different kind of leader: He loved the battleground of ideas, but struggled mightily to show respect for his adversaries.
We have not only the right but the obligation to regain a very important commemoration that we have lost. That is: the annual observance of Yom Tel Chai on the 11th of Adar.
Why all the fear and anxiety? The threat of U.N. resolutions and condemnation didn’t stop Menachem Begin from doing what was needed to protect Israel and its future.
It is more concerned with what a foreign nation does with an area 1/180 the size of Texas and 1/23 the area of the adjacent Kingdom of Jordan.
The author’s photo on the novel’s dust-jacket shows a widely grinning Wouk with several Israeli flags fluttering behind him.
The PA considers the suicide bombers and other mass-murderers to be “heroes.” That includes, by the way, the terrorists who have murdered more than 150 American citizens in recent decades.
Kissinger's ignoring of the central role China played in the spread of Coronavirus shows that he is concerned about protecting his own reputation more than about saving lives.
What makes the Jewish nose lie so dangerous, and why it is so important for mainstream society to reject it is that stereotypes fuel hatred. Hatred fuels violence. So even when a stereotype is invoked in a supposedly humorous way, it has the same impact.
"The list is life." This list of movies is available, intriguing, and edifying on Israel's history, Zionist ideals, and Middle East politics.
With friends like these, who needs...
The very name Jerusalem means city of peace, city of completeness, and city of perfection in Hebrew. A Jerusalem that is not complete is just not Jerusalem. It’s really that simple.
Ehud Olmert met with Mahmoud Abbas - and said, unbelievably, that the PA leader fights terrorism. In that case, let him start by ending pay-for-slay.
The Deal Of The Century Plan creates a crisis of conscience for the American Jewish right. Which shall it be—principles or expedience? Consistency or hypocrisy?
