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Americans don't know the enemy. And increasingly our elites don't know ourselves.
By Jeff Dunetz
Obama is rarely correct, but that statement was a true prediction of Joe Biden’s first seven months in the Oval Office. Since inauguration Day on January 20, everything Joe Biden has touched has turned to manure.
When the world comes to see that Jews in the Diaspora are as fearless as the IDF in Israel, they will leave us alone. When they see Jews fighting back in the streets when a Jew hater comes up and attacks, they will leave us alone.
And that is why a Jewish state, even though the fact of its existence does not itself prevent antisemitism, is invaluable in ending it. A stateless people is a powerless one, and the use of power is the best remedy for Jew-hatred.
By Paul Gherkin
The anti-Zionist lexicon is changing the very meaning of words in an aggravated assault against the Jewish State and Jews around the world. Everyone should readily recognize the mendacious slander and call out the perpetrators for their libel.
Calling liberals anti-Israel or anti-Semitic is inaccurate. Lumping all liberals together as followers of progressive elected officials and their anti-Israel positions is a mistake.
Both Pfizer AND Moderna have said that we will all need a 3rd booster shot before the winter.
By Paul Gherkin
If Rashida Tlaib wants to put a pretty picture on Hamas, the minimum she should is to get the political-terrorist group to release the bodies of the two Jewish men who have been withheld from their families for last seven years.
By Paul Gherkin
Successful race baiters become famous and powerful. They first attract attention which brings in followers, and then money and ultimately true power.
The ONLY heritage month we truly need is the heritage of our freedom from all tyrannies.
No matter what kind of Jew you are, we have more in common than the trappings that divide us
By Fred Maroun
A substantial percentage of Jews refuse to stand up with their fellow Jews against antisemitism at a time when antisemitism is particularly virulent
Ben & Jerry's didn't boycott a place, they boycotted a people - the Jews of Judea and Samaria.
- if the media weren't systemically anti-Israel--a VERY BIG IF
By Fred Maroun
Despite its faults, Israel is still far more democratic, far more just, and far more respectful of life and human rights than its enemies (which include my native country Lebanon).
Israel’s struggle with Iran has a physical and cognitive aspect. Every skirmish has components in these two realms. Israel often wins a battle in the physical realm while losing it in the cognitive one
Kamala Harris is paradoxically the strongest vice president in generations and the weakest.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
A true story that will inspire hope: Herschel, the HERO
War is needed to stop this insanity is a regime change in Tehran.
Palestinians love repeating the line that house demolitions don’t deter attacks on their own. The answer is that house demolitions together with other policies combine to create a terror shield.
By Aryeh Werth
Kaner visits Israel each year with his family, but the deeper source of Kaner’s motivation for defending and supporting Israel is found in the family history.
“I’ll probably never be there again.” Was Richie WRONG!
By Alan Zeitlin
Many who were interviewed by this reporter days earlier stated that they did not believe in a boycott of Israeli Ben & Jerry's owners because the situation was more complex and Jewish owners could lose their livelihood.
What do you do when G-d, the Bible, and the struggle within don't move you? You find what does.
Once it’s established that “Palestine” is a good cause, then the more that a person aspires to moral goodness, the more anti-Israel they become. It doesn’t hurt that preexisting antisemitic conditioning, subliminally present in both non-Jews and Jews, makes it easy to see Israel as evil.
By Jeff Dunetz
While the Jewish community should not be punishing Unilever which is a big supporter of the Jewish State, we can and should do much to fight Ben & Jerry’s.
If we can’t make them realize the folly of their ways, we can at least try and stop them from profiting from it
By Forest Rain
While UK’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn honors terrorists that committed this atrocity, repeated attempts to give the slaughtered Israeli athletes the recognition they are due, have fallen on deaf ears.
This past week, I read more articles and heard more jokes about Ben & Jerry’s than I have in the last 100 years… ok, only the last 59 years. While everyone meant well, including the “We Stand with Israel” attitude, I have to be straight and honest with you… you’re focused on the wrong thing! […]
By Alan Zeitlin
There are arguments on both sides if the Kof-K should remove its certification of Ben & Jerry's.
California legalized theft with Proposition 47. Since then pharmacies and small businesses have been forced to shut down by a wave of shoplifters with nothing to fear from the law. But it’s not just stores that are reeling from the crime wave unleashed by criminal justice reform. Proposition 47 was passed in 2014. LAPD crime […]
Wiki's editors lie through omission, demonise Israel, belittle Jewish history, obsessively create new pages every time something happens and sanction all those who oppose them. Wikipedia's world vision is an antisemitic one.
It is shocking to me that one out of four American Jews thinks that Israel is an apartheid state and is committing genocide against the Palestinians.
The Shalabi terror mansion may be dust and rubble, but the Biden administration will not forget the martyred mansion and intends to fight on so that no more terror mansions are blown up.
A development that threatens the absolute nature of Islam’s inevitable dominance in Islamist theology.
It is every parent’s right to talk privately with their child about their family’s values and balancing modern values with Torah practice. It is not your right to publicly discuss other people’s observance.
With King Abdullah's visiting Washington at the invitation of Pres. Biden, it is most appropriate to share this open letter addressed to the Jordanian monarch.
By Forest Rain
You don’t need Ben & Jerry’s in order to have good ice cream. If you have a mixer in your house, you can make your own ice cream, any time you want.
Applying one standard to Israel and another to the rest of the world makes Ben & Jerry's hypocrites of the first order. Please tell me that you stopped selling ice cream to other countries for moral reasons so I can resume eating your wonderful flavors
The world seems to pretty much agrees with this antisemitism.
Jews need to be proud of our Judaism and of Israel. We shouldn't be defensive - we should be enthusiastic.
It is an expression of the Antisemitic idea that Jews must always be held to the highest of standards – indeed, to a standard that is continually raised so as to ALWAYS be out of reach.
By Jeff Dunetz
Tisha B’Av is the saddest day of our year because we didn’t trust God' promise to give us the land of Israel. In a way, our collective egos were too big then and 3500 years later we are still weighted down by our large egos
It is naïve to think Palestinians or their advocates will be placated by an easing of Palestinian restrictions. Only when Israel cedes control of all the land and ends the Jewish state will Palestinians be satisfied.
By Jeff Dunetz
In an open sea ceremony, the Zionist blue-white flag with the Star of David was hoisted and “Hatikvah,” which became the Israeli national anthem, was sung over and over. The Exodus 1947 became Israel’s first ship of state.
Home field advantage
Spotting Jews will become a matter of seconds, rather than having to ask around, which can waste precious minutes during an altercation in which a Jew might defend himself.
By Alan Zeitlin
Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late senator John McCain, said that in one of her last conversations with her father before he died, he said to keep the flame of Israel burning.
It was important to have a rally today to show that it is not acceptable for Jews anywhere to be attacked.
So we see that Jews lives in Halhul in the Middle Ages, they venerated it for much longer as the burial place of a prophet, and it is clearly an important Biblical site.
The question is why? Why is the Taliban so successful? This brings me back to extremism.
No laundries, no showers, no swimming, and no pastrami sandwiches. It seems like the big expression during the Nine Days is: "Just say no!" Please allow me, therefore, to change things up a bit. Here is a list of things you can say "yes" to during this period.
The solution is to employ a proactive, not reactive strategy; to attack rather than defend.
By Fred Maroun
Without systemic antisemitism, it would be impossible to explain why the United Nations condemned Israel 17 times in 2020 while the UN’s combined condemnations of ALL OTHER COUNTRIES ON THE PLANET, including China which is engaged in a genocide of Uighur Muslims, amounted to only 6.
By Jeff Dunetz
To put it more succinctly, tying Islamophobia to Antisemitism is just bull.
There's simply no excuse for generalizing about an entire group based on the actions of a few people in the group.
I've noted before that the legal analyses given by NGOs like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are not only biased against Israel but they betray an ignorance of the laws of armed conflict.
Bet Shemesh Mayor Aliza Bloch has fired the Charedi members of her ruling coalition.
Every day, the paper – which publishes both a Hebrew print edition that few Israelis read, and an English internet edition that is read around the world by decision-makers in governments and businesses – pumps out its vileness. Every day its writers present a slanted version of events in which Israel and Israelis are oppressors, occupiers, murderers, racists, thieves, and liars.
Civil rights isn’t just regulating what you do, but how you think.
By Paul Gherkin
Palestinians are spending considerable energy to reeducate the world on manufactured “facts” rather than acknowledging the basic history, dignity and rights of Jews. Sadly, universities are listening.
By JoeSettler
Assaf A. Voll has written one of the most comprehensive books on the history of the Palestinian People.
As he put it, “Take away the Torah, and what will be left of us? A small, and unimportant people with a sub-American culture. We are on the stage of history only thanks to the Torah, the Mishnah, the Talmud - the great contribution of the Jewish people. Not only religiously but also nationally. This is the core of our identity.
The only people who think a potential Palestinian state will be confined to the West Bank are Americans who aren’t familiar with actual Palestinians.
It’s difficult to place any kind of silver lining on this event. People are still suffering...There is no sliver lining for them. But I believe that a Kiddush HaShem should be made public. There are two of them I’d like to highlight.
In other words, Iran will be able to get the bomb with very little lead time for Israel to act, and the US will be obligated to prevent Israel from acting against Iran.
Imagine an Israel without its Zionist purpose (and very quickly, without its Jewish majority). How long would it survive? Why would anyone want to fight for it? Would Jews and Arabs make common cause in support of a liberal, democratic state?
I see no difference between Hitler and Raisi. Other than the fact that Raisi sees eradicating Israel a religious obligation. Even if means mass murdering Jews. In my view this makes him more dangerous that Hitler
Did anyone change their daily routine or – just like the ‘ol Pharaoh - are we still the same ‘ol Yossi, Rivka, Sarah and Chaim?
The conclusion is obvious: who says they don't want to have anything to do with their Jewish neighbors? They definitely want our patronage.
What made Briana Sykes open fire on a police officer? The answer is right in front of us.
It’s great to have great teammates. Back on the basketball court during my youth, I was lucky to play alongside shorter, quicker guys who could shoot the ball and taller, stronger guys who could rebound and play defense. My job—as someone who was neither fast nor tough—was to be the klutz who ensured that we never […]
Plague after plague… but this time it wasn’t sent to Pharaoh, it was sent to us.
Many right-wing Israelis are furious at Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for joining a coalition that contains left-wing parties opposed to settling Judea and Samaria.
Has Jew hatred morphed into insanity /mass hysteria? What ties people of all races, colors, creeds and sexual orientation? You know the answer...JEW HATRED
There was a time when the humiliation of an Israeli soldier was not something that would dare enter the mind of our enemies.
The ONLY inquiry Palestinians are demanding is why the PA almost bought vaccines that they claim were of "inferior" quality. The PA, naturally, has to defend its "honor" by canceling the deal.
Critical race theory is only a theory to white people. To everyone else, it’s tribal hatred.
One thing is absolutely clear: putting an Arab party in the coalition brings the question of the relationship of the Jewish state to its Muslim Arab citizens front and center in a way that it heretofore hasn’t been.
The accusations against Israel can be divided into two categories. First, the Jews stole Palestinian land. ... The second category of accusations against Israel is that Israel mistreats Palestinians.
There are others on Biden’s foreign policy team that also hostile to Israel.
I would guess that you wouldn’t have thought that I would write such an article, but I did…
A small group, they don't have national aspirations and are happy to serve the country they happen to live in. In Israel they serve with distinction in the Israeli army
Don't let anyone tell you differently: money is a key enabler in the Palestinian Arab descent into the horrors exemplified by what Abbas. Ghannam and the now-deceased knifer Halabi did.
By Batya Medad
I've shocked many friends, real life friends and facebook acquaintances/followers with my enthusiastic support of this proposed unity government.
So yes. Is the Rikudgalim ostentatious, a show? Yes, it’s a display, for crying out loud. And displays are in your face. And in OURS.
If you look at the ideologies of the various parties that ran in the recent election, it is clear that the great majority of Israelis prefer a right-wing government. If it were not for the question of Netanyahu, we would have a solid right-wing coalition of 70 to 80 mandates. Instead, we are getting a “unity” government that includes Meretz and Ra’am.
Many of the media advocacy campaigns waged on Israel’s behalf during the latest Hamas rocket attacks didn’t recognize the pitfalls of playing victim.
The recent explosion of Jew-hatred and misoziony in America, which has encompassed street thugs, pro-Palestinian demonstrators, college students, and now corporate executives, is unprecedented.
Palestinian shame-based culture holds that it is more honorable for the residents to be homeless than to admit that Jews own the homes.
By Jeff Dunetz
We remember the D-Day invasion more than three-quarters of a century ago and thank those heroes who saved the world from tyranny,
Jackie Mason made a joke recently that there are 3 things we can always count on: Death, Taxes and Anti-Semitism...
What about religious issues? Clearly some of their coalition partners are not too thrilled about religion playing any part in government decisions. They see Charedim as an impediment to that.
July 31, 2026 
