Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, February 29th 2024

The European Country Most Hostile to Israel:  Itamar Eichner, Ynet News, Feb. 25, 2024 Please Boycott My Country: Torkel Brekke, WSJ, Feb. 27, 2024 Told that Norway is the West’s Most Anti-Semitic Country, Diplomat Lashes Out at Israel:  Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel, Nov. 6, 2012 As It Prepares for 250th Anniversary, Sweden’s Jewish Community Suddenly Faces Uncertain Future: […]

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Thursday, February 29th 2024 / Wednesday, February 28th 2024

David Stavrou Haaretz, Feb. 3, 2024 “We always had antisemitism, but you could avoid it by moving to a different neighborhood or changing your job. Now it’s everywhere – in the streets and squares, even in the ‘nice’ neighborhoods.” Sweden’s Jewish community is preparing to celebrate its 250th anniversary next year, but what was being […]

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Thursday, February 29th 2024 / Wednesday, February 28th 2024

Raphael Ahren Times of Israel, Nov. 6, 2012 ‘Today, the radical left-wing government silently accepts Hamas’s demand for ethnic cleansing of the Jewish minority, while foreign ministers like Jonas Gahr-Store pose no major remarks.’ A prominent Norwegian historian and a senior diplomat from her country wrangled over the Scandinavian’s country’s anti-Semitism and anti-Israel record, trading […]

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Thursday, February 29th 2024 / Wednesday, February 28th 2024

Itamar Eichner Ynet News, Feb. 25, 2024 “Norway is the only country in Europe that does not define Hamas as a terrorist organization.” After a long period during which Ireland was considered the most hostile country toward Israel in Europe, it seems that Norway has managed to take its place and win the dubious title. […]

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Thursday, February 29th 2024 / Wednesday, February 28th 2024

Torkel Brekke WSJ, Feb. 27, 2024 “When Norwegian university faculty and boards call for boycotts of Israel, their virtue signaling typically comes without a cost, but a counter-boycott might change the calculus because losing U.S. partners would hurt most institutions.” I have spent years researching religious discrimination against Jews and Muslims globally and am deeply […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, February 28th 2024 / Wednesday, February 28th 2024

HAMAS DEFEAT WITHIN MONTHS WATCH: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on “Face the Nation:” CBC News, Feb. 25, 2024 — MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Prime Minister, the US is working on a hostage deal that President Biden has said would bring with it at least six weeks of calm. The intelligence chiefs met on Friday. Are we close to […]

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Wednesday, February 28th 2024 / Wednesday, February 28th 2024

Noah Rothman National Review, Feb. 27, 2024 “What is this sort of advocacy meant to achieve other than to convince other naïve, blinkered radicals to commit similar acts of violence — acts that may not be limited to self-harm?” We love death like our enemies love life.” That chilling mantra, expressed a decade ago by Hamas […]

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Wednesday, February 28th 2024 / Tuesday, February 27th 2024

Joe Kaufman Focus on Western Islamism, Feb. 26, 2024 “All they can do is throw money at things,” he said. “Bribing, bribing, bribing … Who do they have on their side? It’s anyone they have been able to purchase. It’s elected officials. It’s media outlets. Show me where the Palestinian savagery is. Show me! You […]

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Wednesday, February 28th 2024 / Tuesday, February 27th 2024

Yaakov Katz Jerusalem Post, Feb. 16, 2024 “The West was more obsessed with the people who might or might not have been killed in Gaza – depends if you want to believe Hamas – as opposed to the question of why two Israelis were being held there in the first place.” Imagine that in 2017, […]

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Wednesday, February 28th 2024 / Tuesday, February 27th 2024

Michael Starr Jerusalem Post, Feb. 27, 2024 “… it is not only irresponsible to promote suicide because of those that my commit it, but also because an act of suicidal political protest is another step toward more political violence.” The American radical left’s glorification of the self-immolation of US airman Aaron Bushnell in front of Israel’s Washington, […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, February 27th 2024

YES, UNRWA IS REPLACEABLE WATCH:  International Summit for a Future Beyond UNRWA:  UNWatch, Feb. 26, 2024 — The international summit will address the humanitarian situation in Gaza and plan for a future beyond UNRWA. The goal will be to develop a program of action for the international community to fully ensure the humanitarian and other needs of […]

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Tuesday, February 27th 2024 / Monday, February 26th 2024

Olga Deutsch Washington Times, Feb. 19, 2024 “… the South African submission to the ICJ accusing Israel of genocide — a charge that the U.S. has called “meritless” — contains no less than 45 references to NGO publications and 13 footnotes citing UNRWA. Unsurprisingly, representatives from Al-Haq and PCHR were members of the South African delegation to public […]