Peter Beinart is notorious for leading and co-signing a public call in 2016 for a “targeted boycott of all goods and services from all Israeli settlements.”
The Z Street case must be viewed in the context of what came to be known as the IRS scandal. During the first term of the Obama administration, the IRS began subjecting conservative groups that applied for nonprofit status as education organizations to the sort of special scrutiny not applied to liberal groups.
We have all heard about how the Tea Parties were targeted by the Obama Administration and the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), but did you know that before all that a pro-Israel organization had the same issues and sued the US Govt.? They won and we have the story from the founder, Lori Lowenthal Marcus!
Friedman is expected to quickly leave for Israel where he has long maintained a residence in Jerusalem.
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The president of J Street shared how enraged he is by the fact that groups that work in direct defiance of US foreign policy enjoy a tax-exempt status in the US.
The U.S. is condemning Iran for enjoying the ballistic missiles concessions the US gave to it in the Nuclear Iran Deal.
State Dept. condemned 3 terrorist attacks Tuesday, but never mentioned Israel or that Arabs were the perpetrators.
As Obama starts his march out of office, he once again is threatening to impose a deadly "peace plan" on Israel.
Only Jews paid Hillary to speak to them, not Christian groups, not Muslim groups. And they overpaid.
Blumenthal repeatedly told Clinton the U.S. must punish Israel for 'wrongdoings.' Clinton's response? 'Pls print.'
In a lawsuit between a Jewish school and parents, a shul weighs in to give its "pro-Israel" hecksher.
State Dept. condemns random attack which happened to lead to murder of a random person in a random place. #Shameful
U.S. claim that it simply re-issued an old country of origin labeling requirement for Israel ignores the origin of the rule.
If you say anything about Israel that isn't unequivocally hateful at Oberlin, you are branded as a supporter of state-sponsored terrorism.
Hillary Clinton 'very interested' in staff ideas to secretly rouse 'Palestinian' protests and raise $billions for 'Pledge to Palestine.'
Kerry tells Israel it better accept the Two State Holy Grail or it will get more of the recent terrorism.
Russia and Israel create coordinating group to avoid mishaps in the region.
The House passed a Resolution to block the Iran Deal because the 60 day review period has not yet begun.
Congress can sue the President for violating Corker-Cardin and hiding documentation of secret deals, but will it?
US officials couldn't give Congress documentation of the Nuclear Iran secret side deals - it doesn't have them and never did.
Iran Deal Review Act required the administration to provide things it hasn't. So do they lose now?
The Court queried: 'Is it really the government's position that the IRS can discriminate against its citizens?'
Forget about Israel, doesn't Brandeis care about Iran's abysmal human rights record?
Some American Jews continue lobbying Obama to more aggressively undermine Israel
The US is removing Cuba from list of state sponsors of terrorism. But Cuba's recent BFF, Iran, doesn't have such a clean record.
Obama says Bibi has to prove he supports a "two-state solution."
V15 is barred from attempting to achieve its stated goals: defeat Bibi and create a Palestinian State.
With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.
Bibi recognizes the Two State idea will mean not only the end of Israel, but also the enslaving of the Palestinian Arabs.
Sanity prevails: leadership of UC Irvine student government vetoes ban on American and other flags
A poll conducted for Fox News by Democratic and Republican research teams just before and on the day of Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the joint session of Congress on March 3, shows that Americans believe the United States is not doing enough to fight back against Islamic extremism, and think that U.S. President Barack Obama […]
Want to know who are the Bibicotters and how you can tell them what you think?
Once again al Quds' Said Arikat used the State Dept. Briefing room to slander Israel with false "facts."
Crocodile tears for dead Jewish Danes?
Which pro-Israel groups are supporting Netanyahu speaking to Congress?
NY's Celebrate Israel Parade new guidelines barring BDS advocates doesn't actually bar BDS advocates.
Will Clinton show for Bibi's speech? Warren's pro-Israel statements may play a role.
Bibi says US and partners already made very bad offer to Iran; he is going to DC to speak against it
Egypt's Sisi calls the Muslim Brotherhood the progenitor of modern Islamic extremism.
Ex-NYPD cop sues for anti-Semitism, - including Nazi and "oven" jokes - in the police force.
Schabas resigned due to enduring bias charges; his report must be scrapped.
Arab journalist advocates for PA and Gaza in State Dept. Press Briefings
On Wednesday, Dec. 25, a Turkish court rejected a claim for compensation from the state of Israel by the relatives of a man who died during the battle between Israeli soldiers and anti-Israel protesters who were attempting to breach the internationally-recognized legal blockade of Gaza. The family of Furkan Doğan, one of nine who died […]
Philadelphia Federation head calls on academic institutions to resign from the American Studies Association and urges people to call on their alma maters to condemn the ASA boycott of Israel
Offering a summer course on hate speech that is only mentioned on its English website, is only offered in English and which focuses on "ethnic cleansing and genocide" suggests Al-Quds University is looking to score PR points but entirely unrepentant for harboring terrorist celebrations.
The loss of membership and the launching of a competitor association, along with the legal challenge to the American Studies Association's tax-exempt status, may be the only real legacy of the ASA's boycott of Israel.
Yet another hypocrite who directed the world to sever ties with Israel until the moment he needed what Israel had to offer. And Israel provided even Sarraj with its best medical care. #BDSFail #ApartheidFail
Maybe the moderator should have "reined in" the emotions when the audience was booing and "enraged" - her words - by Podhoretz's defense of Israel from J Street's blaming Israel for the academic boycott.
Will SFSU president or national security take any serious action in response to a student leader calling for the decapitation of all IDF soldiers and their supporters?
A J Street U student was rude and disruptive during a campus event at Brandeis, wrote about the event omitting relevant details, then asked an editor to remove someone else's blog post describing his behavior because it might affect his "future employment."
Some Hillel students reject Hillel's standards and partners. But they still want Hillel funds for their (anti-Israel) activities.
It appears the president of a university-funded student group at San Francisco State boasted how much he loved his knife and that it made him want to stab an Israeli soldier.
Israel markets itself as a global leader in counter terrorism and counterinsurgency, but it can only do so, claim the Haverford College-sponsored speakers - because they use the "West Bank" and Gaza as labs and the Arabs as their experimental mice.
Two days after severing its connections with Al-Quds University following its president's "unacceptable and inflammatory" verbal attack, Brandeis University also removed the Al-Quds President from the Advisory Board of a Brandeis Center for Ethics and Justice
It wasn't the Nazi-like demonstration at Al-Quds, it was Sari Nusseibeh's blaming "extremist Jews" for starting a "vilification campaign" against the Arab university that severed the bond.
There was a microphone misfire at the UN on Thursday - someone told the truth!
Whenever someone asked Kerry "what would the Israelis say?" Kerry said, "Stop listening to the Israelis."
Kerry's gloves came off last week, now former legal counsel to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs removed his. The difference? The Israeli's speech sans gloves are steeped in law and fact.
In a remarkable televised interview, US Secretary of State John Kerry placed all the blame for any snags in the peace talks on Israel and threatened Israel of dire consequences if the current talks are not resolved to this US administration's satisfaction on the timetable set up by this administration.
The Office of Civil Rights seems to have rolled back the recent extension of protection from anti-Jewish discrimination on campuses.
The slain former friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, deceased suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombings, apparently told authorities Tamerlan had participated in the triple murders in Waltham, MA on Sept. 11, 2011, court documents revealed
"I'm used to sitting in jail cells with serial killers, did they think I would be intimidated by some American college students?" Berko said in a phone interview on Wednesday evening with The Jewish Press.
Anti-Israel, NIF-funded public relations hack convicted of extortion and rape of 15 yr old Haredi girl.
The Israeli Oxford student told virulently anti-Israel British politician George Galloway, "I don't have a question for you sir, as you can see, because I don't debate with racists." And with that, Hunter opened the Israeli flag, hoisted it up over his head, and holding it aloft and streaming behind him, he strode, stiff-necked, from the room.
"Here Is Israel" hopes viewers will see that focusing solely on demonizing Israel isn't just unfair to Israel, it is a betrayal of their best intentions.The video will arm potential anti-Israel activists against turning into unwitting hypocrites, instead of advocates for just causes.
Richard Allen of JCC Watch, evoking the character Johnny Friendly from the Marlon Brando movie, "On the Waterfront" said, "Nothing moves on the NYC Jewish waterfront without John Ruskay's approval."
A charismatic kid from Alabama became enthralled by Islam, eventually becoming a top al Qaeda terrorist, was killed by his own former colleagues in Somalia
A Penn junior studying at al Quds University laments the "worldwide systems of white supremacism and colonialism," and especially Israel as the "settler-colonial apartheid state," but ignores al Quds' glorification of murderers of Israelis, Americans, teenagers and children.
Rockets raining down on Israel from Lebanon did not even merit a mention during the Thursday State Department briefing.
The Washington, DC JCC is staging viciously anti-Israel plays, funded by the Greater Washington Federation.
The last remaining Jewish school in central Brussels has instructed its students to remove their kippot in the school's neighborhood and wait until they are inside the building to put it back on.
The US State Department issued a Worldwide Travel Alert warning that al Qaeda terrorists may be planning an imminent attack on US citizens abroad throughout the month of August
The IRS insists that there is no legal remedy for determining whether an applicant's constitutional rights have been violated, and that offended parties must be satisfied with a "good enough" remedy, even if it is not perfect.
"Donor Fraud" is when money is raised from Jewish donors on the pretext that it will be used to support the Jewish community, and instead some of that money is used to actively promote those who viciously attack Israel.
Anat Berko has spent 15 years interviewing those involved in every aspect of the suicide bombing industry. Her parents fled Iraq, but had been there for generations. She knows the Arab world and she warns the west that the Arab Spring is coming their way.
The UK border security agent also told the British man who was going to provide Cantor with summer work experience that any additional attempts to aid Cantor would be useless and “the little Jew will be on his way back to his rich daddy,” in a matter of hours.
A 30-count indictment was entered against Dzokhar Tsarnaev. Charges against him, including the use of weapons of mass destruction, carry the death penalty. Blood-scrawled confessions were found in the boat in which he hid.
Tied up and raped at knifepoint, Linor Abargil was able to escape, to press charges, to find other victims of the same rapist, and make a documentary about how to speak out. Oh, and she was crowned "Miss World" just seven weeks after being raped.
USA Today posts Boycott Israel press release as a "news" article. Lies about Israel are reprinted as if true, assisting in the effort to convince US singer Alicia Keys to boycott Israel.
Pro-Israel groups are now turning to the UJA-Federation and asking that it stop providing funds to organizations which use those funds to promote virulently anti-Israel activists. If not, a "Close Your Wallet" campaign will begin this summer.
Erdogan blamed the "financial lobby" for Turkey's unrest and recent economic troubles. Sound familiar?
Richard Allen of JCC Watch said, "There has been a pattern - first with [BDS activist] Roger Waters and now with Alice Walker. All of our efforts to speak with the 92nd Street Y administrators have been met with closed doors, closed ears and closed minds."
In addition to lots of other anti-Israel activity, Alice Walker was front and center with Roger Waters as the two of them attempted to block Carnegie Hall from hosting the Israeli Philharmonic in October, 2012. Now Alice Walker is scheduled to appear at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday, May 30.
Two Claremont Colleges conducted investigations: Pitzer exonerated its Students for Justice in Palestine members and pilloried a Jewish Israeli faculty member from the other school, while Claremont Mckenna found the Pitzer students and the faculty member behaved poorly.
There is no doubt that the David Arenberg who will emerge from prison in approximately five months is a different, a better and a more spiritual human being than the one who went in more than 12 years ago. But the losses and the pain have been profound.
The man who solicited government proclamations for naming May 19 "Palestinian American Day" had publicly expressed outrage over the NYPD surveillance of Muslims. No one even noticed he was a convicted felon.
Congress is also now investigating what looks like a cover-up of the misdeeds.
The truth won’t let the politically correct head stay buried in the sand. The Jewish Press report two weeks ago of an ugly link between the Boston bombers and an unsolved triple murder bears fruit.
After repeatedly denying it was targeting conservative groups for unfair treatment, the IRS admitted it was treating politically conservative groups in inappropriate ways.
The players include several perfect archetypes, and the situation is a classic one.
The school has thus far failed to address this fundamental issue: Brooklyn College not only allowed, but participated in, the violation of their students' constitutional rights at an event at their school, and at which nearly a dozen school officials and employees were present.
the global jihadi masterminds learned from the mistakes of the past, and the new style of operation, particularly for those in the non-Muslim arena, is going to be small cells, few connections, low cost munitions and high density, high profile crowds. "It's the al Suri Strategy come home to roost," Lacey told The Jewish Press.
Dustin Hoffman is giving an award to the maker of a documentary which, according to an IDF membership group, "was edited, clip after clip, shot after shot, to the point where it has no connection to reality," in order to make Israelis look bad. The organization hosting the award ceremony is the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
The fact that three men were brutally murdered on September 11, in murders which remain unsolved but in which the victims have now been connected to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, cannot be ignored.
The standard for judging whether constitutional rights can be abrogated is not, as the Investigators claimed in their Report, based on sincerity, but on whether or not, at the very least, there is a reasonable belief that the Four were about to disrupt the BC BDS event. The Investigators stated clearly that there was no such reasonable belief at the time the Four were ejected from the event. Therefore, based on the evidence provided in the CUNY Report, it would appear that the constitutional rights of the four Jewish pro-Israel students were violated.
Four major American Jewish organizations publicly expressed disgust over the choice to honor Jimmy Carter by a journal of Cardozo School of Law.
We are now in a situation where there seems to be no two ways about it - someone is lying, maybe several people. And school officials, both administration representatives as well as faculty members were on the scene - so if the students were unfairly ejected, an apology will hardly suffice.
Kontorovich says, "international opinion is squarely against Israel, and if international law were a popularity contest, Israel would be voted off the island. But the whole point of international law is to buffer international politics, rather than serve them."
President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.
Turkey is now not only openly hostile to the Jewish State, but also to the Jewish people.