Today’s is the 64th anniversary of Israel’s founding.
Against seemingly insurmountable odds, Israel survived the War of Independence, and then some. Now it is engaged in an existential struggle with the Islamists of every persuasion and location, and their anti-Israel allies in NGO’s, “peace” groups, academia, the media, and boycotters of every stripe.
There’s...
On March 11, Nicky Larson wrote a column for The Independent (Ireland) hitting on virulent anti-Israel sentiment in Ireland:
I used to hate Israel. I used to think the Left was always right. Not any more. Now I loathe Palestinian terrorists. Now I...
Their War On Women
The first explanation is that pro-choice feminists are incredibly nasty, spite-filled, and...
Via The Times of Israel:
Four people were shot and killed at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse Monday morning.
A rabbi and his two young children were among the dead, as well as an 8-year-old girl. Several more people were injured.
Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, was on his way to...
There are few things so vile as the various “Israel Apartheid Week” activities that have taken place the last few years, an attempt by the coalition of Islamists and Leftists to delegitimize Israel, and everything about Israel.
Look at the speaker list of almost any of the activities, and it’s like a...
One of my big regrets is not making more of a connection with Alan Dershowitz while in law school.
I didn’t take any of his classes, but I did have some interaction with him since he was the faculty advisor to the Jewish Law Students Association. We called him “The Dersh.”
In the early...
Israel Matzav and JWeekly have good write-ups of the anti-Israel derangement at the University of Pennsylvania, which hosted a Boycott Divest Sanction conference. Not Boycott Divest Sanction Syria, or Saudi Arabia, or Iran … just Israel.
We have featured these anti-Semitic — yes that’s what they are by their actions – before, but they are far...
Glenn Greenwald has a lengthy hyperbolic column complaining that people who criticize Israeli policies are smeared with accusations of anti-Semitism.
The column relates to the fallout from Ben Smith’s report on the anti-Israeli activities and writing at the Center for American Progress (CAP) and its Think Progress blog, and at Media Matters.
One focus...
I previously have highlighted the treatment of the “Arab Street” by NY Times columnist Roger Cohen in the midst of the Arab Spring protests, many of which revealed an open and ugly anti-Semitic side:
In the Middle East you expect the worst. But having watched Egypt’s extraordinary civic achievement in building the coalition that...
The NY Times has whitewashed the anti-Semitic aspects of the Arab Spring in Egypt since the beginning of the protests last January. NY Times’ columnists like Roger Cohen have sought to glamorize and glorify the so-called “Arab Street” and Nicholas Kristof has waxed poetic about Islamist forces in the Middle East.
So...
First it was Lara Logan. Then other female journalists:
The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders on Friday cautioned news outlets on sending female reporters to Cairo’s...
Calling Israel an “Apartheid State” and the barrier built to keep out suicide bombers the “Apartheid Wall” is part of the standard lexicon of the Islamist-Lefist Anti-Israel Coalition.
In The New York Times today, Richard Goldstone calls the apartheid terminology a slander, Israel and the Apartheid Slander:
One particularly pernicious and enduring canard...
An employee of the L.A. School District and active Occupy Los Angleles supporter was fired for her anti-Semitic comments which have garnered a lot of attention.
Here’s the video of her reaction to the firing, where she doubles down (h/t IsraellyCool):
The easy answer would be sure, fire her, she’s a despicable person.
But, her comments...
Today marked the 70th commemoration of the Nazi massacre of 33,771 Jews in September 1941 at the Ukrainian ravine at Babi Yar.
I visited the site in 1978, at which point a monument had been erected at the site.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s 1961 poem, which was not officially published in the Soviet Union for...
