Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, November 21st 2024
FIGHTING LIES WATCH: Lawyer DESTROYS Woke Myths About Israel – Natasha Hausdorff: Andrew Gold, Heretics, YouTube, Nov. 11, 2024 *** Why Trump’s Victory Is Cathartic for Millions of Us: Michael Shellenberger, Real Clear Politics, Nov. 7, 2024 The Policing of Wrongspeak: Melanie Phillips, Substack, Nov. 20, 2024 Albert Murray vs. the Lachrymose Conception of Afro-American History: Warren […]
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Michael Shellenberger Real Clear Politics, Nov. 7, 2024 “… if anybody really wants to understand why so many of us—even if we have our criticisms of Trump—feel relief and vindication at his victory, they need to consider that it has more to do with the repudiation of totalitarianism than with Trump as a person […]
Warren Zev Harvey The Omni-American Review, Vol. 1, 2024, no date “It is time to break with the lachrymose theory of [Jewish] woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth.” He forcefully rejected as untrue the dominant view among scholars which saw Jewish history as nothing but a bleak succession of […]
Melanie Phillips Substack, Nov. 20, 2024 “… it was hatred of Jews; and hatred of Jews seems to be a non-hate thing altogether.” According to The Times (UK £), doctors, vicars, social workers and other professionals have been investigated by the police for “non-crime hate incidents”. Oh — so too have nine year-olds. Eh? Say again?! […]
Gary Saul Morson Commentary, July/Aug. 2024 “Today we can ask: Why do so many cheer, or at least not object, when they witness mobs embracing the bloodthirsty and sadistic Hamas? Perhaps for the same reasons that young, pre-revolutionary Russians once celebrated terrorists who murdered innocent citizens?” Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once […]
Monday, May 27th 2024
Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics, May 26, 2024 “By damaging Israel, which they regard as an outpost of Western imperialism in the Middle East, they strive to weaken and fundamentally transform the United States.” Following Hamas’ bloodthirsty Oct. 7 assault on Israel’s southern border communities, woke leftists and jihad enthusiasts on campuses and beyond […]
Friday, September 1st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Luke Tress Times of Israel, Dec. 28, 2022 “Jews fare better in open, liberal environments, and less well in closed, illiberal environments. There is nothing inherent about illiberalism spawning antisemitism, but there is — given Jewish history — something inevitable about it.” In May 2021, as Israel again battled terrorists in the Gaza Strip, […]
Tuesday, July 25th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
INCREASING TIES WATCH: The Woke Penetration of Israel: Caroline Glick, JNS, Feb. 14, 2023— This week’s “Caroline Glick Show” was filmed as opposition lawmakers rioted inside the Knesset and tens of thousands of leftists demonstrated outside it. ____________________________________________________ The Woke Army: Organized Against Israel: Bob Goldberg, Jewish Journal, Mar. 22, 2023 Barack Obama’s Success: How […]
Bob Goldberg Jewish Journal, Mar. 22, 2023 “The woke army successfully identified Israel as the leading cause of oppression worldwide and enshrined anti-Zionists as the core of CRT doctrine and activity.” To understand why undermining Israel is central to the woke agenda, read “The Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That is Destroying America’s Freedom,” a recently […]
Tuesday, May 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
BONFIRES AND SONG Understanding Lag B’Omer: The Mystical Holiday of Holy Fire: Rabbi Ari Enkin, United With Israel, May 8, 2023 — Lag B’omer marks the cessation of the plague that killed 24,000 students of beloved scholar Rabbi Akiva (50-135 AD). It might just be that this plague was the failed Bar Kochba revolt in which Rabbi Akiva’s […]
Tuesday, September 6th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Phoebe Maltz Bovy Common Sense with Bari Weiss, Sept. 4, 2022 “While the specific term cancel culture wasn’t used, the concept existed and was indeed driving cultural concerns.” At a church book sale in my Toronto neighborhood, I found The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, a bestseller by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf first published 30 years […]
Monday, August 1st 2022 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Yoram Hazony Defines “National Conservatism” WATCH: Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism: Uncommon Knowledge, Hoover Institute, June 22, 2022 — Yoram Hazony is the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and president of the Herzl Institute. His 2018 book, The Virtue of Nationalism, established Hazony as one of the leading proponents of a new kind of “national […]
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