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Trump 2.0 Means the End of Ambivalence About Israel

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Nov. 15, 2024 “With Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as secretary of state, Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and Waltz, Huckabee, Witkoff and Stefanik in charge, there is no longer any question whether the second Trump administration will take a very different, far more pro-Israel position than the stands of the Biden/Harris administration […]

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Trump’s Pro-Israel Appointments: Dream Team or a Tightrope for Jerusalem?

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JP Editorial Jerusalem Post, Nov. 17, 2024 “At the heart of Trump’s foreign policy is the aspiration to end wars and expand peace initiatives in conflict zones, including the Middle East.” US President-elect Donald Trump chose strong supporters of Israel in a series of appointments announced last week. They include Marco Rubio as secretary of state, Pete Hegseth […]

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The Who’s Who of Jews in Trump’s Inner Circle

Luke Tress/JTA Jerusalem Post, Nov. 18, 2024 “After Trump’s 2020 loss, the family moved to Miami and sat out Trump’s most recent reelection campaign.” These names, and a few others, became familiar to American Jews over the four years of the first Donald Trump White House. Depending on the day, and their political views, Jews looked on […]

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Daily Briefing: WHEN TOLERANCE TO ANTISEMITISM GOES MAINSTREAM

PARROTING THE EQUIVALENCE Islamophobia and Antisemitism: A False Equivalence:  Scott Abramson, Fathom Journal, November 2024 — A trend in Western discourse has developed in the past few years, observable in full vigour since 7 October, of presenting Islamophobia as the companion bigotry of antisemitism.    *** The Amsterdam Pogrom Is What Happens When the World Tolerates Antisemitism: […]

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How Do You Say Jew in Arabic?

Omar Mohammed Times of Israel, Nov. 13, 2024 “Paradoxically, this language of exclusion coexists with a widespread nostalgia for a “golden age” of interfaith harmony, a time many Arabs proudly recall as an era when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in peace across the medieval Islamic world.”   Arabic is a language of extraordinary […]

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America’s Electrifying Counter-Revolution

Melanie Phillips JNS, Nov. 14, 2024 “Evidence that the post-match attacks were part of the broader Islamic war against Jews and the West was provided the following day when the same pro-Hamas mobs attacked the Amsterdam police, who had belatedly banned the continuing hate fest.”   America is attempting to clean up its house. Europeans […]

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Where Did the Idea of Three “Abrahamic Faiths” Come From?

Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Nov. 14, 2024 “Ultimately, “Judeo-Christian” fell out of favor for being exclusionist and anti-Muslim. Once associated with liberal values, it was increasingly identified with the illiberal political right.”   In the Jewish world whose annual cycle of Torah readings recommenced last month, these are the weeks of Abraham. Last week was the […]

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The Amsterdam Pogrom Is What Happens When the World Tolerates Antisemitism

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Nov. 10, 2024 “Rather than being exceptional, it is part of a pattern of behavior that is the natural outcome of a combination of factors that have emboldened those who hate Jews to act on their vile beliefs.”   Much like the reaction to the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on […]

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The Amsterdam Pogrom and Antisemitism in Biden’s America

Ruthie Blum JNS, Nov. 10, 2024 “What have Biden (who boasts of being a “Zionist” at heart), Blinken (himself a Jew) or Vice President Kamala Harris (who’s married to a Jew) done to quash antisemitism in the “land of the free and the brave”?” An Israeli broadcast journalist reporting on world leaders who condemned the […]

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Antisemitism in America: My Campus Tour

Bernard-Henri Lévy WSJ, Nov. 14, 2024 “What happens now when they are told, “You have the right to be protected, but only if you aren’t openly or excessively Zionist”?”   The University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. Two prestigious institutions where the spirit of antisemitic hatred has been raging in […]

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Heritage Foundation Struggles to Find Partners in Fight Against Antisemitism

Gabby Deutch Jewish Insider, Oct. 14, 2024 “This is a very well-meaning effort. But the writing process was a little bit one-sided and not terribly iterative. And also, while I do believe that left-wing antisemitism is a larger systemic problem, the fact that it doesn’t touch right-wing antisemitism is, I think, a mistake, because of […]

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What the Results of the US Election Mean for the Fight Against Antisemitism Worldwide 

Michal Cotler-Wunsh The Hill, Nov. 10, 2024 “Antisemitism, a lethal shape-shifting hate, is a predictor for the collapse of all the spaces and places where it spreads.” In the midst of a raging war of authoritarian regimes and their proxies on civilization, at an existential moment in an algorithmic world rife with conflict, fear, despair and distrust, […]

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