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Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Oct. 31, 2023 “… there is a logical line from the furious denunciation of certain forms of speech as ‘violence’ to the implicit acceptance of actual violence if it is directed against ‘bad’ people. That line is what we might call narcissistic savagery, where almost anything can be justified in the name […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, November 1st 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

GLORIFYING MONSTERS WATCH: Trigger Warning: x, Oct. 24, 2023  — “We took a 15-year-old girl, took a selfie with her” “Her body was lying on the floor, I shot her. The commander yelled at me, said I was wasting bullets on a corpse.” These are just some of the horrific confessions of Hamas terrorists interrogated by Israeli security […]

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Wednesday, November 1st 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

Alan Baker Jerusalem Post, Oct. 31, 2023 “Despite her reputation as a crusader for liberal issues, she chose to ignore the Hamas atrocities, which included mass murder, rape, and kidnap.” It is difficult to fathom the logic behind the wave of demonstrations against Israel in European capitals, on North American campuses, and in cities in […]

Analysis

Wednesday, November 1st 2023

Benjamin Netanyahu WSJ, Oct. 30, 2023 “It means holding Hamas accountable for the double war crime it commits every day by deliberately targeting Israeli civilians and deliberately using Palestinian civilians as human shields.” Until recently, many believed that the promise of progress in the 21st century would enable us to move beyond the barbaric horrors […]

Analysis

Wednesday, November 1st 2023

Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Oct. 30, 2023 “Jew hatred is the most damaging piece of the “horseshoe” consensus that brings the far left and far right together. This hatred is a sign of mental incapacity and is a barrier to learning.” As students and, worse, professors, at elite universities across the U.S. exulted at the news […]

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Wednesday, November 1st 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

Joel Kotkin UnHerd, Oct. 31, 2023 “… as protecting Jews increasingly becomes less of a priority, the very nature of Jewish identity will evolve with it.” It is a warm Monday morning in Rome, and the city’s ancient ghetto resembles an armed camp. As carabinieri line the streets, a cloud of melancholy hangs in the air: not […]

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Wednesday, November 1st 2023

Suzy Weiss and Francesca Block The Free Press, Oct. 31, 2023 “When you look at the political right you see a group that seems very comfortable with Jews in Israel and very uncomfortable with Jews at home. And when you look at the political left, you see a group that seems very comfortable with Jews […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, October 31st 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

INCREASING TIES Antisemitic or Pro-Palestinian?:  America’s New Majority Project, Oct. 25, 2023 — Majorities or pluralities of Americans agree that key sentiments expressed by anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian politicians and protesters are antisemitic. ________________________________________________________ The Islamo-left is a Menace to Jews and Decency:  Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, Oct. 22, 2023  Jews Are Being Abandoned by the Left: Joel Kotkin, National Post, […]

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Tuesday, October 31st 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Joel Kotkin National Post, Oct. 30, 2023 “The face of antisemitism comes increasingly not from knuckle-dragging neo-Nazis, but from sophistos often aligned with Palestinian activists. Sixty per cent of German antisemitic messages sent to the Israeli Embassy come from well-educated people.” For much of the past century, Jews across Britain, North America and Europe tilted […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Bojan Pancevski, Matthew Dalton, David Luhnow and Karolina Jeznach WSJ, Oct. 30, 2023 “Both reactionary Islam and the radical left in the West are both opposed to Western hegemony and they see the Jewish state in this region as the quintessential expression of Western domination. It is a toxic combination.”   A Star of David […]

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Tuesday, October 31st 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

John Podhoretz NY Post, Oct. 26, 2023 “Why do you think the marchers are meeting near Crown Heights anyway? This is why. Their purpose isn’t to call for a cease-fire or to advocate for the Palestinian people. Their purpose is to make known what October 7 made known: There will be no peace or security […]

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Tuesday, October 31st 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Oct. 22, 2023 “I’m sure Hizb ut-Tahrir, a cult so extreme it is banned in Germany, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a cult that referred to Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel as ‘a day of good news,’ was using the word jihad in the peaceful sense. Maybe its call for Muslim armies to commence […]