By Ben Cohen
Jenin was the location, in April 2002, of one of the most treacherous myths about Israel’s military conduct that spilled over into open antisemitism. Sadly, the lessons of that sordid episode more than 20 years ago do not appear to have been learned.
Israel’s political upheaval reflects partisan tunnel vision on all sides.
By Israel Hayom
If Israel wants to put an end to Palestinian terrorism once and for all, it's going to have to shut down the Palestinian Authority
This wasn't random, it was carefully calculated terrorism.
The overpowerful justice system threatens Israeli democracy, not Justice Minister Levin’s counter-revolutionary proposals.
Protesters bemoaning a concocted danger—the so-called “death of Israeli democracy” at the hands of the Netanyahu-led government—made a mockery of the actual mass murder of innocents.
By David Suissa
The Palestinians who celebrated the murderous act by dancing in the streets and handing out candies were not thinking about the civilized world. They were rejoicing at the death of Jews.
"The U.S. government should pay $14 trillion in reparations to black Americans"
While the world honors the Holocaust, outrage over calls for the murder of Jews at the University of Michigan is mocked as evidence that Jews are “snowflakes.”
A piece in a puzzle fraught with changes
The German-Israel Friendship Assocation (DIG) under the leadership of Mr. [Volker] Beck is not a supporter of Israel at all, but is completely intertwined with the left-wing side in Israel and denies the legitimacy of right-wing Zionist positions such as support for the Jerusalem flag march.
By Avi Ciment
He could easily have found a hundred rationalizations for marrying this girl. The fact that she was wealthy and he was struggling didn't make the decision any easier for him, and let's not forget that she was willing to keep Shabbos.
When immorality is ensconced in law, a line is crossed.
As illegal migration, runaway inflation and the national debt all soar to unimaginable heights, no one seems to know who is actually running the country. Could a national digital currency be the government's newest Big Brother surveillance program?
Once the decision came down, the attorney general and the heads of the opposition insisted that Deri immediately resign or that PM Netanyahu fire him. Deri's response? I will not resign.
The real enemies of democracy are the ones trying to save it
Many a morning as I was getting ready for school, Dad would come home to daven and then back to work he went. I don’t know when he slept or ate, but he never missed his prayers.
On the surface, the problem here seems relatively simple. The more documents that are found and produced – some by Biden’s lawyers – and the more President Biden says he knows nothing about them, only add oil to the fire.
We are witnessing the weaponization of the criminal justice system for partisan purposes.
In Israel, you can live together. You can find Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze and live in harmony without persecution and practice your faith.
Achieving normalization in relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia is possible, but Saudi Arabia demands progress on the Israeli-Palestinian track.
It would seem then to behoove the mayor to go public on a regular and sustained basis, letting New Yorkers know in no uncertain terms what and who stands in the way of his fulfilling his campaign promises.
By Bassam Tawil
When Israelis see Abbas paying the families of terrorists, why should it be a surprise that many Israelis vote for "hardline" candidates? And when Israelis see Palestinian factions inciting violence against them or vilifying Israel and prosecuting its leaders as "war criminals" at international tribunals, why should anyone be astonished that many Israelis are going to vote for a government they hope will protect them?
By Bennett Ruda
Numbers don’t lie, but what diplomats sometimes do with numbers is another story. Stephen M. Flatow
By dvora
A useful Jewish idiot can always be found to provide the haters with an excuse for persecuting their brethren.
What’s the best way to plan a photo op with a Jihadist group?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
With his return to office, Netanyahu confronts challenges with which he is intimately familiar, although some have taken new forms during his 18-month absence.
The shallowness of progressive Jews is creating a crisis for the Jewish world.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
That Israelis who seek judicial reform have a legitimate point is not the point. They do—but still have the ability to bring everything crashing down while they insist on the rightness of their cause.
The Supreme Court president has transformed the court into a super-legislator, empowered to dictate the terms of laws to the people’s elected representatives, based on the values of the justices
Let us just briefly look at the steep slope of lying, deceit and corruption that has seeped into the leadership of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish students must be given the means to defend themselves.
NY Times columnist’s laceration of the Jewish state has a long history.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The founding charter of Yad Vashem tasked the new institution with commemorating those "high-minded Gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews" as one of nine founding principles.
Archeologists have turned up yet more evidence of the Jewish presence in the Holy Land.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It would raise uncomfortable questions about Arab collaboration with Nazism.
The obsession with victimhood is destroying our future.
Once when I was there learning with my son, he approached me and attempted to explain and defend his actions. After listening to his self-justification, it was my turn to respond.
By its reticence to engage in a decisive offensive against its despotic adversaries, Israel is continually backing away from conflicts that it can win, while risking backing itself into a conflict that it cannot…
By Gila Arnold
At heart, she was a true artist. She used to love talking about her studies as a young woman in Pratt Art Institute, and she was always busy drawing or creating some work of art.
Also $97,000 in welfare every year.
It wasn’t rich Jewish donors who did him in, but his weaponized activism and mendacious scholarship.
Who had access to the various storage sites and thus to the secret documents? Incredibly, the Biden team says there are no guest logs to provide that information.
Opposition to proposed judicial reform is being reduced to senseless calls for “disruption” instead of debate.
The case involves a Christian Sunday Sabbath Observer alleging that the U.S. Postal Service discriminated against him when he was refused an exemption from working on Sunday.
The apocalyptic rhetoric about Netanyahu’s government and its judicial-reform proposal is about maintaining the power of a minority and thwarting democracy, not protecting it.
Hochul and the judge’s backers insist that Judge LaSalle should be brought before the full Senate for a hearing, regardless of the outcome of the vote in Judiciary committee.
We must not allow this injustice to take place. Judge LaSalle’s nomination should be brought before the full Senate for a hearing, regardless of the outcome of the vote in the Judiciary committee.
A complete listing of Roth’s vituperous attacks, lies, distortions and unverifiable accusations would fill volumes.
By dvora
By giving a platform to Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi and omitting his previous role as spokesperson for the PLO, the “newspaper of record” once again sacrificed truth to promote those seeking the isolation and dismemberment of Israel.
When Leftists aren’t tearing down noble statues, they’re putting up ugly ones.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Like Martin Luther King, Jr., the great Zionist leader believed that we are not free until all of us are free.
If a right-wing Court had been seizing extraordinary powers, the left would now be demanding the reforms it denounces.
By Ariel Kagan
Relations between Israel and Azerbaijan continue to solidify.
A deterring Israel is a cardinal national security asset for Saudi Arabia.
By Bassam Tawil
It is time to tell the EU to mind its own business and stop its anti-democratic meddling in other countries' affairs.
Repeated opinion polls and elections show that a majority of Israelis and Palestinians do not want the "two-state solution..."
By Dror Eydar
For years, the Supreme Court has given greater weight to the judges' understanding of the law than to the intention of the legislature. Then came Justice Minister Yariv Levin and announced: It's time for some balance
By delivering to the Palestinian Authority a 2,700-year-old spoon dating from the Assyrian empire, the department of Homeland Security has shown that it has internalized the Palestinian big lie
As Israel has no formal constitution beyond a few “basic laws”, the Court has no guardrails and can dispense rulings according to a judges’ political or personal leanings.
Arab Media Suggests it's a Done Deal
By Daniel Pipes
The right policy is to convince West Bankers, Gazans, and Muslim Jerusalemites that Israel is tough and permanent and that they have lost and should give up the war on Israel. Convince them to abandon their fantasy of eliminating the Jewish state of Israel.
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.
No secular idiocy is greater than the belief that the conscience can replace G-d, the Bible and Judeo-Christian values as a producer of moral behavior.
The report paints a stark picture of an increasing, intensifying and carefully coordinated campaign of attacks on Jewish identity at over 60% of the colleges and universities that are popular with Jews,
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This law has held true almost without fail in human history.
By Tom Nisani
If the Israeli flag had been allowed to fly atop the Mount in 1967, the conflict might have ended then and there.
Let me explain what Rabbi Feinstein is hinting at. An alternative to “live and let live” is that the government promulgates (to use Rabbi Pruzansky’s word) substantive moral values such as family values, revealed truth, social justice, or national identity.
Millions of economic migrants crossing the U.S. southern border want a better life. But most are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.
We believe this departure from the norm was designed to set the stage for a rollback of much of the Trump tilt towards Israel, something President Biden intended all along.
By Nathan Lewin
The court is primarily responsible for the criticism that now calls for a legislative remedy.
Hmm. So a Rabbi and Temple of “Conservative Judaism” Now Will Not Recite the Prayer for Israel
That the governor gets this is evidenced by her nomination of Justice Hector D. LaSalle to New York’s highest judicial post, Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals.
The most obvious example of America in decline is the perverse American doctrines surrounding transgender issues
During 2022, the PA lost its security control over the Nablus and Jenin areas in the northern West Bank
Western conventional wisdom vs. Middle East reality
"As of this moment, I am female. Now I’m also a mom"
Why do professed liberals persist in support of an entity that would comprise the utter negation of all the values they allegedly cherish?
By Zionist Organization of America
ISRAEL-JORDAN PEACE TREATY (1994) GUARANTEES JEWS ACCESS TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT
Today, Abbas starts the 19th year of his first 4-year term as Chairman/Dictator of the PA. No doubt, he will celebrate more anniversaries in the years to come.
The paper of "Record" is obsessed with exposing wrongdoing in the Hasidic community-whether or not it exists
By Israel Hayom
Despite some troubling trends among their youth, evangelicals remain the most ardent custodians of the US-Israel bond.
I never knew my paternal grandparents. They died in Auschwitz, Hy”d. My father didn’t speak much of his life before the war, and much of what I’ve learned about my family has been supplied by Shayna.
AFTER 150 YEARS OF CONFLICT, IT IS TIME FOR THE ARABS TO SHOW SOME MATURITY AND RESPONSIBILITY AND STOP THEIR RACIST INCITEMENT,
By Moshe Dann
Jordan must be recognized as the homeland of Palestinians.
It makes me feel good when my non-observant friends come over and they’re excited to say the blessing for washing their hands or they hum along to the bentching. I’m happy when they like my cooking and learn that hey, kosher food is actually quite delicious.
By Bassam Tawil
The "human rights defender, " about whom the UN is so worried, was arrested in 2005 and accused of plotting to murder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, founder of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party and former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel.
By Ben Shapiro
What happens when we discard those truths? Disaster
It is hard to refute the fact that the American exile has been the stopover most amenable to fulfilling the Gemara’s teaching (Pesachim 87b) that G-d only exiled the Jewish people among the nations of the world so that we should gather in converts.
My political and theological views diverged sharply with those taught by Rav Druckman, and my reverence for him became the stuff of childhood memories.