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Posted by Samantha Mandeles on December 01, 2020 17 Comments
We have covered the radical Islamist group American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) extensively, especially as the group has increasingly framed its anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism as expressions of 'intersectional' social justice activism. In 2020, AMP has yet again used its largest annual event—the "Palestine Conference"—to hijack and foment existing racial tensions as a political warfare weapon against Israel.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 23, 2020 4 Comments
In what could be a landmark in the Middle East's history, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to meet the country's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Israeli media reported. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, currently on a tour of the region, was also reportedly present at the meeting in Neom, Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on November 17, 2020 24 Comments
As regular readers doubtlessly know, the 2018 midterm elections presented Americans with a new phenomenon in the form of the congressional "Squad": several avowedly anti-Israel (and often Islamist-allied) first-term U.S. Representatives. Now, as the smoke from #Election2020 begins to dissipate, it seems that (spoiler alert) The Squad's congressional anti-Zionist cabal is about to get a little bigger.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 17, 2020 16 Comments
The world is a much safer place thanks to a recently revealed U.S.-Israel covert operation that killed Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, hiding in Iran. Abdullah, who went by his jihadi name Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was on the FBI's most-wanted list and was plotting further terrorist attacks at the time of the strike.

Posted by David Gerstman on November 16, 2020 22 Comments
Over the weekend, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) unveiled its list of the Top 40 Global Advocates for Israel Online and it included a name familiar to Legal Insurrection readers: LI author Vijeta Uniyal. How did an Indian man, a resident of Germany (though currently in South Africa for work-related reasons), with little to no exposure to Jews and Israel become one of the internet's foremost advocates for Israel?

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on October 07, 2020 10 Comments

The Israeli military has laid bare the terrorist group Hezbollah's latest claims that it does not run missile and munition factories in Beirut's residential areas. The Israel Defense Forces (IFD) used terrorist militia's own video footage of a facility in Beirut to show the machinery used in the manufacturing of rockets and warheads. 

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on October 04, 2020 29 Comments
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—darling of the far-left and heroine of the anti-Israel lobby—recently canceled an appearance sponsored by far left 'pro-Israel' groups, and reportedly is avoiding meeting with mainstream Jewish groups. In this post, I go over the background of how we got here.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 27, 2020 6 Comments

Iran's growing aggression played a factor in Arab states reconsidering their policy towards Israel, a senior Emirati minister admitted. Iran's hostile behavior towards its Arab neighbors made them look at the Jewish State "with fresh eyes," UAE’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Anwar Gargash, said. The UAE, along with Bahrain, signed a historic peace agreement with Israel at a White House ceremony on September 15. 

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 26, 2020 12 Comments
The Palestinian Authority's new school curriculum infuses antisemitism in young minds and glorifies jihad terrorism, reveals a recently released report by IMPACT-se, an NGO that monitors school textbooks around the world. The report, which analyzed 222 textbooks for the 2020-21 academic year, found that they "remain openly antisemitic and continue to encourage violence, jihad and martyrdom."

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 22, 2020 14 Comments
Less than a week after the signing of the Israel-Arab peace accords, the Arab Gulf country of Bahrain has reported a foiled Iranian terrorist plot against diplomats and foreign nationals on its soil. Several suspects have been rounded up for planning a terrorist attack backed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) -- Iranian regime's military and foreign terrorist arm, Reuters reported citing Bahrain's Interior Ministry.
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