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Jewish Doctors Consider Fleeing Canada Amid Rising Rates of Antisemitism in Their Profession

David Blaff National Post, Dec. 4, 2024 “Discrimination doesn’t just impact doctors, it undermines the entire health-care system, compromising patient care and eroding workplace integrity. This is a crisis for all people in Ontario, not just Jewish doctors.” Nearly one third of Jewish medical practitioners in Ontario are considering leaving the country in response to […]

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How Universities Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism

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Isabelle Taft NY Times, Nov. 25, 2024 “Some of the tactics protesters used last semester have been met with stringent responses this school year.” Colleges and universities have tightened rules around protests, locked campus gates and handed down stricter punishments after the disruptions of pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments last spring. The efforts seem to be […]

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Opinion | What I Learned at Stanford

Zahava Feldstein Moment, Nov. 25, 2024 “I learned that the European white supremacy from which colonialism, racism and Nazism arose had solidified its antisemitic core hundreds of years prior. A hatred of Jews was built into dominant European ideas about the world and structures of power well before either 1492 or 1619.” “Zionists are the […]

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The Altneu Antisemitism: Part I

Michael Oren Clarity with Michael Oren, Nov. 19, 2024 “Unwittingly, perhaps, the interviewer drew on timeless tropes and transformed them into unassailable truths. Hers was the Altneu antisemitism.” The spike in antisemitism globally, and most piercingly in the United States, is hardly news. Neither is the realization that the Jew-hated we now see all around […]

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Daily Briefing: THREATS EMANATING FROM JUDEA AND SAMARIA LOOM

“The motivation of Palestinian organizations has grown since the 7th of October and includes increasing attempts to raid Israeli territory and the development of the ability to fire rockets at Israel using knowledge that has trickled from Gaza and Lebanon.”  — Ido Zelkovitz West Bank Emerges as Israel’s Primary Security Threat – Analysis:  Yonah Jeremy Bob, […]

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How has Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth Handled Extremism, Terrorism in the West Bank? – Analysis

Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Nov. 28, 2024 “2024 has been a stark failure in restoring security and order compared with almost every other year in the past decade.” Closing in on five months into his role as commander of IDF Central Command, with responsibility for the West Bank, is the area more or less […]

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West Bank Emerges as Israel’s Primary Security Threat – Analysis

Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Nov. 27, 2024 “This will continue to be a focus for Iran because it is an indirect way to confront Israel, and Iran will have more plausible deniability than on other fronts because the terror actors will be Palestinian terror groups with whom there is no ceasefire anyway.” No one […]

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Israelis and Palestinians Continue to Clash in the West Bank as Future of Territories in Question

Keren Setton The Medialine, Dec. 12, 2024 “The threat is limited only due to Israel’s ability to thwart and respond to such attacks.” Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon has often diverted attention from another simmering front in the West Bank. Israeli troops conduct daily operations in the West Bank, which […]

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Why Palestinians Will Not Have New Leaders

Bassam Tawil Gatestone, Nov. 25, 2024 “Palestinians still remember how political activist and human rights defender Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of corruption in the Palestinian Authority, was beaten to death by PA security officers in Hebron in 2021. Until today, no one has been punished for the killing of Banat.” Palestinian leaders have a long history […]

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Daily Briefing: IS A WEAK ASSAD PREFERABLE TO A TURKEY-BACKED ISLAMIST REGIME?

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TERROR IN SYRIA Turkey Unleashes Jihadist Terror on Syria:  Uzay Bulut, Gatestone, Dec. 3, 2024 — Turkey is unleashing another gruesome jihad in Syria. On November 27, jihadist terror groups — led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Organization for the Liberation of the Levant; HTS) —launched a coordinated attack on Aleppo Governorate in northwestern Syria, […]

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Second Fall of Aleppo Marks New Phase in Syrian Civil War

Paulo Agular Geopolitical Monitor, Dec. 2, 2024 “The collapse of the Assad-Iran-Hezbollah axis in Aleppo could divert resources and attention away from Israel, allowing it to sustain pressure on Gaza and other fronts as needed.” The swift capture of Aleppo by rebel forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), marks a pivotal turning point in the Syrian civil […]

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Chaos in Syria ‘Creates Opportunities’ Against Iranian Axis

Yaakov Lappin JNS, Dec. 2, 2024 “The Assad regime allowed Syria to be the Philadelphi Corridor [the Gazan area bordering Sinai used to smuggle weapons] on steroids.” Since Nov. 27, the Syrian civil war has seen a resurgence of hostilities that directly threatens the stability of President Bashar Assad’s regime, following an offensive launched by […]

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