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Did the Media Coverage of October 7 and the Hamas War Lead to Increased Antisemitism?

Chaim Lax Algemeiner, Oct. 8, 2024 “… antisemitic incidents rose (in comparison to the previous month) and the media stories that may have influenced this dangerous rise in anti-Jewish bigotry.” Since Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents in the United States and around the world have risen exponentially. These incidents include acts of […]

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Daily Briefing: SHOULD ISRAEL HIT IRAN’S NUCLEAR SITES?

“USE-OVER-LOSE” Experts See Hezbollah ‘Escalation’ In Use of New Missiles, As Group Weathers Israeli Bombardment:  Agnes Halou, Breaking Defence, Oct. 8, 2024 — Ten days after the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and amid an aggressive Israeli bombardment, a senior Hezbollah official today attempted to assauge any of the group’s concerns by saying its capabilities are […]

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Myths Disproven One Year After 10/7

Mike Coté Providence, Oct. 7, 2024    “The Palestinian population largely supported the Hamas massacre and favor the terrorist group over its rivals. The actions taken by the Palestinian people, their leadership, and their backers abroad since October 7 have shown that there is no peace to be had between the two sides without a […]

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Iran Is Inching Toward a Nuclear Weapons Breakout: What Does This Mean for the United States?

Robert Peters and Nicole Robinson Heritage Foundation, Oct. 1, 2024   “Given these reports and Secretary Blinken’s statement, we must assume that Tehran’s supply of highly enriched uranium could be converted to enough weapons-grade fuel to produce a handful of nuclear bombs in a matter of days.”   Introduction Iran can produce nuclear weapons far […]

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Can Israel Strike Iran Successfully?

Elie Klutstein/Makor Rishon Israel Hayom, Oct. 2, 2024   “Iran’s plan to acquire an atomic bomb is not an end in itself but a means. It is part of Tehran’s vision of wiping Israel off the map. Along the way, Iranian proxy forces, an existential threat in every respect, are being deployed. A lack of […]

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Nuclear Iran Is an American Choice

Aaron MacLean Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, no date   “It is certainly tempting to argue that the Middle East, from the American strategic perspective, does not or ought not exist. The region is the scene of a generational strategic failure of American statesmen and the American foreign policy elite of both parties.”   […]

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Daily Briefing: OCTOBER 7TH: WHAT DID WE LEARN?

CONSEQUENTIAL YEAR WATCH:  Douglas Murray: A Time of War:  The Free Press, Oct. 2, 2024 — When we planned the conversation you’re going to hear today—a live conversation with Douglas Murray—we thought it would be a searching conversation that we’d release on the anniversary of October 7th, looking back at a year of war from a slightly quieter […]

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October 7: The Return of History

Daniel Gordis Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2024 “If we knew anything at all about Jewish history, why were we so surprised?” During one of many recent somber moments, with soldiers dying as Israel remained mired (if not eyeless) in Gaza, more than one hundred hostages still in captivity, almost one hundred thousand internal refugees […]

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The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7

Shany Mor Mosaic, Oct. 7, 2024 “In this essay, I’ll review four interrelated categories of flawed thinking in four expanding circles of blunder.” One year ago today, an armed force of at least 3,000 men managed to penetrate a hostile border, overrun fixed and mobile defenses, commandeer army bases, and occupy for long hours a […]

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October 7: Trials of Zion, Memories of Diaspora

Cecile E. Kuznitz Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2024 “The fact that Israelis experienced such horrors meant that October 7 was not just a security failure; it shattered a fundamental promise of Zionism.”   The October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre left Israeli society reeling in ways with which it has yet to come to grips. The […]

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Are Canada’s Jews at a Tipping Point? Most are Anxious, Many Are Fearful, And Some Have Moved Away

Adrian Humphreys and Ari David Blaff National Post, Oct. 5, 2024 “There was a giant inverted red triangle painted on the welcome sign. That is a known symbol for literally killing Jews, it means, ‘this is a target, kill Jews here.’ That was it for me. I was done.” The soaring brick façade and sparse […]

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Daily Briefing: OCTOBER 7TH: THE DAY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

A DAY LIKE NO OTHER WATCH:  Einat Wilf on Israel, Antisemitism and a New Middle East / The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Oct. 2, 2024 — The Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosted an insightful and timely conversation between two leading voices on global issues – Einat Wilf, former Knesset member and expert on Israel’s foreign policy, and Casey Babb, Senior Fellow […]

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