Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, May 2nd 2019
Trump Administration Seeks to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Organization: Rebecca Ballhaus, Courtney McBride, and Jared Malsin, WSJ, Apr. 30, 2019 — The Trump administration is seeking to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, the White House said, a move that could complicate relations with U.S. allies where Muslim Brotherhood affiliates currently serve in […]
Analysis
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
YOM HASHOAH The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz: Emil L. Fackenheim, 1972 — What does the Voice of Auschwitz command? — What does the Voice of Auschwitz command? Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. Emil L. Fackenheim, a Holocaust survivor born in Germany (1918), was a Reform rabbi and professor of philosophy […]
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
Politics: Putting Together the Puzzle: Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 25, 2019 — when President Reuven Rivlin officially tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a government last week, Netanyahu said he wanted to get started as soon as possible on building a coalition with the same partners he had for the past four years. Netanyahu’s Brilliant […]
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 […]
A Despicable Cartoon in The Times: Bret Stephens, NYT, Apr. 28, 2019 — As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it. Except that The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it. The European Origins of […]
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
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