Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, December 20th 2024

SHABBAT READING Joseph Dreams that the Sun, Moon and Stars Bow to Him – Does It Come True?:  Dr. Mordecai David Rosen, The Torah.com,  Dec. 9, 2020 — The story of Joseph opens with him sharing a dream with his jealous brothers: בראשית לז:ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם שִׁמְעוּ נָא הַחֲלוֹם הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר חָלָמְתִּי. לז:ז וְהִנֵּה אֲנַחְנוּ מְאַלְּמִים אֲלֻמִּים בְּתוֹךְ […]

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Friday, December 20th 2024

Charles Lipson Sapir Journal, Autumn 2024 “How can Jews be hated and harassed in the name of social justice?” The open, virulent, and sometimes violent eruption of antisemitism at elite universities may be the most daunting social challenge faced by American Jews since the Ku Klux Klan’s antisemitic campaign in the 1960s. The Klan had […]

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Friday, December 20th 2024

Sabrina Soffer Algemeiner, Dec. 19, 2024 “Students like myself have sought to educate rather than expose administrators for their ignorance and negligible indifference.” How does one become a “Good Jew?” What is the ideal response in the face of hatred? Should one choose silence and appeasement to avoid conflict, or express unapologetic pride and deter […]

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Friday, December 20th 2024

Michael Yudkin Fathom Journal, November 2024 “These resolutions have been met with strong condemnation and calls for repeal within the United Kingdom and elsewhere.” The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded in 1915, and one of its first acts was to issue a Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure. If you […]

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Friday, December 20th 2024

Samuel J. Abrams Sapir Journal, Autumn 2024 “Many conventional religious institutions are now rejecting actual Christianity where it conflicts with TWA teachings.” Higher education is in trouble. More than 800 colleges and 9,000 campuses have closed since 2004. The cost of attending a four-year college has increased by 180 percent between 1980 and 2020, forcing […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, December 19th 2024

“There was no real strength behind Iran’s façade of strategic superiority.” – Jason M. Brodsky *** Why Tackling the Iranian Regime Should Be on Top of Trump’s Administration Agenda:  Hany Ghoraba, IPT News, Dec. 18, 2024 Will Tehran Be Next? Iran’s Myth of Power Has Been Shattered:  Edward Luttwack, Unherd, Dec. 10, 2024 This is Iran’s […]

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Thursday, December 19th 2024

Hany Ghoraba IPT News, Dec. 18, 2024 “… one can only imagine what would happen if the Al Mahdi army was armed by a nuclear arsenal to complete its “holy mission.” Following President Elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 U.S. Presidential elections, the new administration is facing a ramp of international crisis that extend from the Korean […]

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Thursday, December 19th 2024

Kasra Aarabi and Saeid Golkar Middle East Forum, Dec. 4, 2024 “The ballistic missiles Iran’s regime has been firing are called Khaybar Destroyers—in other words, “Jew destroyers.”’ With the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli rabbi who helped provide kosher food in the United Arab Emirates, now confirmed as terrorism, the Iranian regime’s involvement is […]

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Thursday, December 19th 2024 / Thursday, December 19th 2024

Edward Luttwack Unherd, Dec. 10, 2024 “Iran’s population is discovering that it has spent decades in poverty to pay for the massive build-up of the Revolutionary Guards and all their militias. And for what?” Damascus has fallen — something that has as much to do with Iran as with Syria. Tehran had long kept the […]

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Thursday, December 19th 2024

Jason M. Brodsky The Spectator, Dec. 8, 2024 “Iran’s national security strategy has been unravelling in real time.” Iran’s Axis of Resistance is falling apart. Israel has significantly degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities and decapitated its leadership. Hamas has been left decimated in Gaza. The regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has collapsed. Intact for now are […]

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Wednesday, December 18th 2024

  Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Dec. 13, 2024 “It seems Ireland wants to ‘liberate’ the ICJ from its quaint attachment to the morally reasoned belief that genocide requires genocidal intent.”  It’s not often I feel ashamed to be Irish. But today I do. For the Irish government is plotting something so slippery it boggles the mind. […]

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Wednesday, December 18th 2024

Editorial Board WSJ, Dec. 5, 2024 “The report essentially blesses Hamas’s strategy of using human shields.” From the people who brought you “Israeli apartheid” comes another trendy smear: “Israeli genocide.” With a new report Wednesday night, Amnesty International assures its good standing in the anti-Israel herd. The price is to swallow an inversion of reality. Amnesty poses […]