Analysis
Monday, August 26th 2024
Elliot Kaufman WSJ, Aug. 22, 2024 “ … the anti-Israel fanatics demand that Jews relinquish not so much the tenets of their religion as their dignity and the solidarity that sustains Jewish peoplehood.” A legal victory for Jewish students comes by way of an oversimplification of Judaism. Yet in the process, it stumbles on some […]
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Barton Swain WSJ, Aug. 23, 2024 “Apart from the slogans, speakers didn’t call straightforwardly for the destruction of Israel and the wiping out of Israeli Jews, but only a fool could miss the intensely antisemitic purpose of the event.” Predictions were amiss that the 2024 Democratic National Convention would repeat the mayhem of its 1968 […]
Dexter Van Zile Focus on Western Islamism, Aug. 23, 2024 “Walz has a lot to answer for, but no one is going to ask him about it. The idea seems to be that you can’t say anything critical of Muslims without being accused of being an anti-Muslim radical, so people just ignore it. [Muslims] […]
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Aug. 23, 2024 “The commentariat’s reluctance to hold Hamas responsible for anything, even its own wicked deeds, is getting scary now.” A bizarre debate has blown up. All over social media, people want to know: who’s responsible for the deaths of the six Israeli hostages whose bodies were discovered by the IDF in […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, August 23rd 2024
SHABBAT READING Psalms for Our Times: Rashi Counters Christological Readings: Prof. Rabbi Mordechai Z. Cohen, The Torah.com, Aug. 2, 2024 — It is becoming increasingly accepted that Rashi reacted polemically to Christian beliefs and Bible interpretation, and that, throughout his commentaries, he was implicitly refuting the Christian claim that God had rejected Israel. He thus made the […]
Adam Milstein Jerusalem Post, Aug. 23, 2024 “Obfuscating and appropriating Jewish history is a tactic that comes directly from the playbook of terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah.” Since October 7th, protests around the globe in support of the “Palestinian cause” have exploded in popularity and tenacity. Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activists repeatedly, almost religiously claim […]
Seth Mandel Commentary, Aug. 22, 2024 “In the left-wing world of representative factionalism, “authentic” usually means “maximalist” if not, at the very least, “strident.” The only meek representative in progressive activism will be the Jewish one.” After the parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin were given a gracious reception at the Democratic National Convention last night, demands […]
Thursday, August 22nd 2024
Warren Kinsella Toronto Sun, Aug. 10, 2024 “Inash El Usra’s website shows videos of a children’s concert, uploaded to their YouTube account. In one video, a child is dressed up as a Hasidic Jew – complete with payot or side curls – and he shoots a toy machine gun at girls wearing Palestinian flags.” Ottawa wants to take […]
Wednesday, July 17th 2024 / Wednesday, July 17th 2024
BLAMING JEWS Trump Assassination Attempt Ignites Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories; Jews, Israel Blamed for Shooting: Jacob Frankel, Algemeiner, July 16, 2024 — The assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump’s life has sparked a wave of conspiracy theories online blaming Israel or Jews for the shooting. Will Jewish Students Be Safe This Fall?: Jason L. Riley, WSJ, July […]
Wednesday, July 17th 2024
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, July 11, 2024 “… as Owens has again taught us, not everyone who decries the dead hand of liberal groupthink is a principled dissenter or honest observer. Antisemitic conspiracy theories are always the last refuge of media con artists.” There is a good argument to be made that the […]
Friday, July 12th 2024
Jerry Grafstein JNS, July 10, 2024 “My guide to seeking truth today is best summed up by Maimonides: “This I accept as trustworthy because of tradition, this because of sense-perception and this on the grounds of reason.” Is the history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire unfolding before our eyes in […]
Wednesday, March 20th 2024
CIJR APPLAUDS LIBERAL MP ANTHONY HOUSEFATHER WATCH: ‘I Am a Canadian, I Am a Jew and I Am A Zionist’: Liberal MP Condemns Motion That ‘Rewards Hamas’: National Post, YouTube, Mar. 19, 2024 — Liberal MP Anthony Housefather gave an impassioned speech on March 18 during a debate over a non-binding NDP motion, which originally called for the immediate […]
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