Analysis
Monday, July 29th 2024
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 […]
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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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Friday, July 12th 2024 / Friday, July 12th 2024
SHABBAT READING Moses Strikes the Rock: His Sin Depends on Your Worldview: Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, June 21, 2023 — Commentators read the Bible closely to make sense of problematic passages. Nevertheless, their explanations are rarely purely textual, but reflect their own ideologies. A parade example is determining the precise sin of Moses and […]
Friday, July 12th 2024
Batya Ungar-Sargon Spiked, June 26, 2024 “Like most of America’s cultural battles, this one is a class battle in disguise. It’s a symptom of a much larger divide in the US between an over-credentialed elite and America’s working class.” New York has handed a stinging defeat to congressman Jamaal Bowman, a member of the ‘Squad’ […]
Alan Rosenbaum Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2024 “We’re talking to those who don’t know anything, or a lot about Israel, who don’t hate it or love it.” ‘Most teens and young people in the United States don’t know a lot about Israel,” says Elena Yacov, executive director and president of TalkIsrael, the US- and Israel-based […]
Tuesday, July 9th 2024
FOLLOW THE MONEY FIRST READING: U.S. Probes Provide Clues to Where Canada’s Anti-Israel Money Is Coming From: Tristin Hopper, National Post, June 5, 2024 — A series of U.S. probes into anti-Israel funding streams is providing early clues into the financing and organization underlying Canada’s own network of “pro-Palestinian” encampments, protests and blockades. Opinion: Court’s Dismissal of […]
Tuesday, July 9th 2024 / Tuesday, July 9th 2024
Avi Benlolo and Jerry Grafstein National Post, July 5, 2024 “Given that Jews face a disproportionate amount of hate, the way this judgment dismissed claims of antisemitism is highly concerning.” Despite being among its biggest supporters, the Jewish community often finds itself on the losing side when it comes to the University of Toronto. […]
Thursday, June 20th 2024 / Thursday, June 20th 2024
MUCH HEAT, AND SOME LIGHT WATCH: Munk Debate on Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism | Douglas Murray Vs Mehdi Hasan | 2024: Roaming Soren, YouTube, June 18, 2024 — Munk Dialogue with Douglas Murray, Natasha Hausdorff, Mehdi Hasan & Gideon Levy: Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? Hub Dialogues: Douglas Murray, Natasha Hausdorff, Mehdi Hasan and Gideon Levy on Whether Anti-Zionism […]
Karen Glaser The JC, Mar. 2, 2023 “From the get-go I felt it was my duty to explain the context and provide the content they didn’t have.” Natasha Hausdorff’s debut radio broadcast was during the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014. She’d been invited onto Nick Ferrari’s breakfast show on LBC to debate Israel’s military operation codenamed […]
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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