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Israel Is Winning the War, While the West Retreats

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Mick Hume Spiked, Dec. 21, 2024 “Every act of betrayal of Israel has been accompanied by the constant barrage of international media coverage that works on the principle of blame Israel first, and ask questions later.” It’s now clear that, given a free hand, Israel can handle its mortal enemies in the Middle East. It’s […]

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Benjamin Netanyahu: The Inside Story of Israel’s Victory

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Eliot Kaufman WSJ, Dec. 20, 2024 “From the air, you can mow the lawn. You can’t pull out the weeds.  We’re here to uproot Hamas—not to deliver deterrent blows, but to destroy it.” “Hello?” Benjamin Netanyahu begins over the phone. “I’m going to give you a précis of everything that happened because we stand now at a […]

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Daily Briefing: ISRAEL CLOSES ITS EMBASSY IN IRELAND BECAUSE OF ‘EXTREME ANTI-ISRAEL’ POLICIES

Referring to the Israeli attack on Hezbollah, using explosives in pagers, cartoonist Martyn Turner depicts an IDF soldier who looks dirty, sinister and with a large nose, a Jewish caricature which belongs in Der Sturmer. His thought bubble says ‘‘they all hate us so let’s get em’ painting Jews as justifying their place in the world only in terms of […]

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Israel Says Ireland ‘Crossed All Red Lines’ with ICJ Genocide Case After Closing Dublin Embassy

Debbie Weiss Algemeiner, Dec. 16, 2024 “In the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, while many other European countries flew Israeli flags above their government or public buildings, no such act of solidarity was shown in Ireland.” Ireland’s decision to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice and its support for redefining […]

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‘Anti-Zionism’ Has Become the New Antisemitism in Ireland

Oliver Sears Fathom Journal, December 2024 “His short statement drips with contempt, revealing how such antiquated anti-Jewish racism presents itself in contemporary political commentary, without the least self-doubt.” I have a photograph, circa 1908 of my great-grandmother, Perla Rozenblum aged eighteen with a group of friends in Vienna at the tombstone of Theodor Herzl, the godfather of modern […]

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From Criticism to Closure: How Did Irish-Israeli Relations Get to this Point?

Alex Winston Jerusalem Post, Dec. 19, 2024 “The current Irish prime minister and foreign minister, I think, perceive themselves as global statesmen striding the universe, whose very utterances everyone is hanging on.” Over a decade ago, Michael D Higgins, then still future president of the Republic of Ireland, visited the town of Sderot with a delegation of […]

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Ireland’s Badge of Dishonor in Its Phony War With Israel – Opinion

Allan Shatter Jerusalem Post, Dec. 22, 2024 “The Irish government is simultaneously accusing Israel of genocide while recognizing nothing done by Israel to defend its citizens against Hamas terrorism currently falls within the existing international law concept of genocide.” On Tuesday, December 17, Dr Jilan Wahba Abdul Majid, elevated from Palestine’s representative to ambassadorial status […]

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Israël liquide l’arsenal chimique syrien, et fait payer à l’Irlande sa surenchère anti-israélienne

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Citation de la semaine:   « Nous voulons entretenir des relations normales avec le nouveau régime syrien… Mais si ce régime permet à l’Iran de se réimplanter en Syrie, s’il autorise le transfert d’armes iraniennes ou de toute autre arme au Hezbollah ou s’il nous attaque, nous réagirons avec force et nous lui ferons payer […]

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Daily Briefing: ELITE UNIVERSITIES’ VIRULENT ANTISEMITISM: AMERICAN JEWRY’S MOST DAUNTING CHALLENGE

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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The Rise and Fall of Jews on Campus

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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The Ethics of a ‘Good Jew’ on College Campuses Today

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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Opinion | The Moral Collapse of the American Association of University Professors

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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