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Thursday, June 20th 2024 / Thursday, June 20th 2024

Melanie Phillips Substack, June 19, 2024 “And as also usually happens at such events, these two anti-Zionists promulgated distortions, falsehoods and blood libels to demonise Israel and its supporters.”   Two days ago, a gripping debate took place in Toronto.  The latest in the Munk Debates on major policy issues run by a Canadian charitable […]

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Thursday, June 20th 2024 / Thursday, June 20th 2024

David Blaff National Post, June 18, 2024 “Mehdi Hasan may have written a book called ‘Win Every Argument,’ but last night he got trounced while debating @DouglasKMurray and Natasha Hausdorff.” Douglas Murray and debate partner Natasha Hausdorff succeeded in persuading two-thirds of audience members at the Munk Debates on Monday night that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are the […]

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Thursday, June 20th 2024 / Thursday, June 20th 2024

Douglas Murray The Spectator, Apr. 29, 2024 “I am afraid that it is the nature of anti-Semitism that it is ineradicable. It can be subdued, and it can be called out, but it cannot be ended ‘once and for all’” One of the best ways to work out that somebody has not thought deeply about […]

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Wednesday, June 19th 2024 / Wednesday, June 19th 2024

FIGHTING BACK Podcast: Ruth Wisse on the Explosion of Anti-Israel Protests on Campus:  Mosaic, May 3, 2024 — Anti-Israel campus activism has never been more popular or unpleasant than it is right now. In years past, much of this activism was mixed up with nods to the desire for peace and a two-state solution that would allow […]

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Wednesday, June 19th 2024

Victor Davis Hanson Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 16, 2024   “… what makes it now so insidious is its new tripartite constituency.”   What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting? What are the students at Stanford University vandalizing the president’s office really demonstrating against? What […]

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Wednesday, June 19th 2024

Shabbos Kestenbaum Tablet, June 5, 2024   “… although the reports found that a Jewish student was spat on, an Israeli student was asked to leave class as her nationality made classmates “uncomfortable,” another Israeli was assaulted at the business school, a staff member taunted me with a machete and challenged me to debate the […]

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Wednesday, June 19th 2024

Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, June 10, 2024   “The controversy at Columbia Law School continues a struggle by students, opposed by some authority figures on campus, to promote the anti-Zionist movement, despite its connections to terrorist organizations, white supremacist groups, and extremist far-left activists who have openly called for the destruction of Israel and the […]

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Wednesday, June 19th 2024

Daniel Buck National Review, June 10, 2024   “While it’s tempting to wonder whether — even hope that — Columbia is an outlier, its school of education is not only influential; it’s emblematic.”   The campus tantrum at Columbia University exposed for all to see the institution’s commitment to the fringe political philosophies of postcolonial theory […]

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Tuesday, June 18th 2024

Thousands of Launches Per Day: What Does Hezbollah’s Arsenal Look Like Today?:  JP staff, Jerusalem Post, June 11, 2024 — Hezbollah’s weaponry has seen significant developments in its arsenal of rockets, UAVs, and precision missiles, the Alma Research and Education Center stated in its report released this week.   The Grave Consequences of the UN’s Failure in Lebanon:  Bradley […]

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Tuesday, June 18th 2024 / Tuesday, June 18th 2024

Canaan Lidor Times of Israel, June 17, 2024 “October 7 gave us an existential jolt because it unveiled the danger with which we had been living for years.  I assumed Hezbollah would invade imminently, and I knew we had no forces that could stop them.”   To the sound of birds chirping, Asaf Ben Lulu […]

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Tuesday, June 18th 2024 / Tuesday, June 18th 2024

Michael Makovsky and Blaise Misztal The Hill, June 15, 2024 “With Tehran now capable of enriching up to a bomb’s worth of fissile material in less than two weeks, Israel might not be able to wait much longer to prevent a nuclear Iran.”   Gaza is but one front in a wider Iran-Israel conflict that is […]

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Tuesday, June 18th 2024 / Tuesday, June 18th 2024

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2024   “… it is acceptable for Hezbollah to launch 4,000 rockets at Israel in eight months and force the evacuation of thousands from their homes, but not to go to war over it.”   An article published by the BBC on Saturday can shed some light on the town […]