Analysis
Tuesday, May 7th 2019
By Prof. Philip Carl Salzman Democracies, such as Israel’s, offer many political benefits: First, all adult citizens have the right to influence government policies—through voting, lobbying, and contributions—according to their preferences. Second, changes in governments are regularized, through time limits on every administration. Third, whether administrations are re-elected or replaced by a different one, […]
Monday, May 6th 2019
By Bradley Martin Speaker Nancy Pelosi did the right thing and spoke at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C, even when a number of Democratic candidates for the U.S. presidential elections announced their intention not to attend. “Israel and America are connected now and forever,” Pelosi said during her address. “We will […]
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Thursday, May 2nd 2019
By Machla Abramovitz President Donald Trump’s plan to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist entity, in much the same way as he has Iran’s IRGC is currently making its way through the political process. Whether he will succeed, remains to be seen. As well, the issue of CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood gained prominence […]
By Machla Abramovitz On March 26, Captain Michel Bacos passed away in his home town of Nice, France at the age of 94. Bacos was the heroic Air France pilot whose plane was hijacked to Entebbe, Uganda, and who refused to abandon his Jewish passengers. “Michel bravely refused to surrender to antisemitism and […]
Wednesday, May 1st 2019
By Emil L. Fackenheim, From: God’s Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical Reflections, 1972 What does the Voice of Auschwitz command? Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember the victims of Auschwitz lest their memory […]
Tuesday, April 30th 2019
By Philip Carl Salzman After Congresswomen Ilham Omar’s and Rashida Tlaib’s incendiary anti-Semitic rants directed at Jewish Americans and American ally Israel, the Democrat House “progressive caucus,” led by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, rallied around to protect and support them. The progressive media chimed in, supporting the Islamist congresswomen. Even after Rep. Omar dismissed the 9/11 attacks as “someone did something,” Democrat progressives defended her, […]
By Bradley Martin Last month, the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (G-ETS) appointed Taurean J. Webb as its Director of the Center for the Church and the Black Experience. The prominent Methodist seminary also announced that Webb would be joining its faculty as an assistant professor of religion and race upon completion of his dissertation. “We […]
Monday, April 29th 2019
By Frederick Krantz The United States is witnessing today several linked phenomena of profound importance and danger for both Israel and the world. The Democratic Party risks being taken over by a faction calling itself “progressive” or “democratic socialist”, and distancing itself from Jews and from the Party’s traditional support for the State of Israel. […]
Sunday, April 28th 2019
Thursday, April 25th 2019
By Barbara Kay Antisemitism is the most ancient of hatreds, and not, as many progressives would like to believe, an obsession of the far right and white supremacists alone… Conspiracy theories have targeted Jews as a religion, as a race and as a nation. Islamophobia, by contrast, is a recent invention, conceived to advance […]
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