Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, August 22nd 2024
“ABSOLUTELY CHILLING” Multiple Jewish Organizations, Hospitals Across Canada Receive Identical Bomb Threats: National Post, Aug. 21, 2024 — Police in multiple cities across Canada are responding to bomb threats that were sent to Jewish organizations, synagogues and some hospitals this morning. Courageous Leadership Is Needed to Combat Antisemitism in Canada: Deborah Lyons, National Post, July 26, 2024 — […]
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Jesse Kline National Post, Aug. 21, 2024 “Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Islamic Jihad is not a terrorist organization. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is not a terrorist organization. Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization,” she told a jubilant crowd of terrorist sympathizers. “These are resistance fighters. These are our heroes.” There are […]
Noé Chartier Epoch Times, Aug. 17, 2024 “I don’t think they have the resources to do a full background check on everybody that the government was seeking to bring into Canada.” Many questions are left unanswered around the foiled alleged terrorist plot in Toronto covered by a publication ban, especially on how one of the […]
Thursday, August 15th 2024
Zach Kessel National Review, Aug. 14, 2024 “Shame on UCLA for letting antisemitic thugs terrorize Jews on campus. Today’s ruling says that UCLA’s policy of helping antisemitic activists target Jews is not just morally wrong but a gross constitutional violation. UCLA should stop fighting the Constitution and start protecting Jews on campus.” A Los […]
Anat Peled and Carrie Keller-Lynn SPME, July 10, 2024 “Israelis are finding they are no longer welcome at many European universities, including participating in scientific collaborations. Their participation in cultural institutions and defense trade shows is increasingly becoming taboo.” Years of pro-Palestinian campaigning for a global boycott against Israel once found limited support. But in […]
Monday, August 12th 2024
Avital Indig/ Makor Rishon Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024 “Over the course of time antisemitism has led to two opposite processes: For some, it has aroused a strong desire to distance themselves from Judaism and to assimilate, while among others it has actually sparked a will to withdraw inwards and to bring the Jewish community […]
Monday, July 29th 2024
OUT OF CONTROL Anti-Semitic Violence Is Out of Control in Canada: Hardeep Singh, Spiked, July 24, 2024 — Montreal is not what it used to be. During a visit to Canada’s second most-populous city earlier this year, one thing stood out to me – the huge volume of pro-Palestinian posters, on walls and shop windows, denouncing Israel’s […]
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, July 25, 2024 “When Netanyahu is given horns and a blood-filled mouth, it should be clear he has become a stand-in for something else – for The Jew, for the toxic influence of that most problematic of peoples.” What would you call a gathering of angry people marching behind a giant, […]
Carly Adno Australia Jewish News, July 25, 2024 “We find ourselves in echo chambers and TikTok will deliberately suppress pro-Israel content, so it’s important to take the fight beyond social media as well.” In a wide-ranging interview in this week’s AJN, former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy says fighting the information war against Israel is […]
Avital Indig Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024 “Columbia was one of the first universities to see violent demonstrations, and as it happened, I had a front-row seat. Until then, I had never experienced anything like what I saw.” Shai Davidai is an Israeli-American social psychologist, senior lecturer at Columbia Business School and symbol of the […]
Alan Ripp WSJ, July 25, 2024 “No dogs allowed up here,” a passing jogger scolded me as I tried to call 911. I looked up and unbelievably, there was my attacker again, back on his bike and coming at me on the cinder path, shouting “You can’t run, Jew. I’m going to kill you now.” […]
Wednesday, July 17th 2024
Elizabeth Rosner CNN, July 13, 2024 “I often feel unable to manage my conflicting feelings about forgiveness when it comes to overt cruelty.” Sometime in late April, the Jewish cemetery in upstate New York where both of my parents are buried was vandalized. Close to 100 gravestones, almost all with Hebrew lettering on one or both sides, […]
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