Regrettably, anti-Semitism is a solid part of tradition in the areas of Russia that used to be the Jewish pale of settlement, and outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and pogroms, particularly around Christmas and Easter time, are a part of the tradition. ‘Priest led attacks on Moldova menorah’ Dec. Read More »
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Christians For Fair Witness Questions CMEP’s New Posting On Israeli Settlement Freeze
www.christianfairwitness.com Christians For Fair Witness Questions CMEP’s New Posting On Israeli Settlement Freeze Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East questions the Churches for Middle East Peace (”CMEP”) website posting on Israel’s settlement freeze. Fair Witness previously issued a press release (Dec. Read More »
Israel and the world as they ought to be
This is what Israel and the world ought to be and as we would like them to be. When can we expect a similar parade in Gaza or Mecca? History would have been different, if the Jews could refuse to have enemies. Ami Isseroff I refuse to be your enemy By Bradley Burston This is where the war ends. It begins here. Read More »
What is Hannuka about, what is history about and what is David Brooks about?
David Brooks seems to have created a bit of a stir with his article about the “true” history of Hanukkah. Read More »
One man’s view of Israel – Butch Bradley
Not every non-Jew who comes to Israel views Zionists as Nazis or people with horns and tails. Editor’s Notes: You’ve got cars in the castle! Dec. 11, 2009David Horovitz , THE JERUSALEM POST What the voices in Butch Bradley’s head had to say about Israel. Read More »
Attention – Urgent – Gaza Human Rights Violations
Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries, according to a human rights organization that is visiting Israel starting Sunday. Something for Judge Goldstone to investigate. Read More »
Breakthrough Report: Israeli peace initiative to give Palestinians a capital
Report: Israeli peace initiative to offer Palestinians a capital An unnamed official source in Jerusalem has informed us that Israel is about to make the Palestinians a generous offer for a capital city in the framework of peace negotiations. Read More »
You don’t say: ADL finds Egyptian media are anti-Semitic
It should not require a major study to show that media that print articles claiming Hitler was right about the Jews, and portraying the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the blood libel as factual just might be anti-Semitic. But sometimes it is necessary to belabor the obvious. Ami Isseroff ADL: Egyptian media anti-Semitic Dec. Read More »
Human rights scandal: Gaza patients denied treatment in Israel
Anyone who denies aid to seriously ill patients must be cruel and depraved. Rights groups should protest the inhumane and barbaric violation of the rights of Palestinian patients who are refused travel to Israel. Students and others are also being face with an arbitrary wall of bureaucratic red tape. Read More »
Palivision revisited: The Palestinian martyr who wasn’t: German documentary debunks Al Dura killing
Who killed Muhammad al Dura (or was he killed)? Al-Dura was the poster boy of the Palestinian violence, which Marwan Barghouti initated, by his own confession (boast actually) in September of 2000. Read More »
Sex industry: Dirty little secret of Palestinian Society
Amira Hass’s articles about real and imagined Israeli abuses are generally publicized with great fanfare by anti-Israeli bloggers. Here is an Amira Hass article they may not like too well, exposing one of the dirty little secrets of Palestinian society – forced prostitution of young women. Read More »
U.S. counters EU Resolution on Jerusalem
The US did not back the Israeli position on Jerusalem, but it did strike out against a European attempt to take the lead in making Israeli concessions to the Palestinians. The US is not interested in having others play on its turf, which was the whole object of the European resolution. Read More »
Christians For Fair Witness Questions CMEP Disregarding Israeli Settlement Freeze
Christians For Fair Witness Questions CMEP Disregarding Israeli Settlement Freeze Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East questions the failure of Churches for Middle East Peace (”CMEP”) to discuss Israel’s 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction in its November 30, 2009 Policy Newsletter. Read More »
“Arab Jew:” A Muslim Arab discovers… He is Jewish!
A story that is not really incredible, because there are many many Jews like this man, and many more whose identity is buried centuries back. These are the real “Arab Jews.” My Muslim background left me unprepared for this shocking discovery. by Mark Halawa Growing up in Kuwait, I had the best of everything. Read More »
Bibi: ‘Iran can now produce nuclear bomb’
‘Iran can now produce nuclear bomb’ Dec. 8, 2009Rebecca Anna Stoil , THE JERUSALEM POST Israel’s most challenging strategic problem is the Iranian nuclear program, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Read More »
Shayetet 13 (Flotilla 13) commando dies in training
Shayetet 13 is the approximate equivalent of the US Navy seals. Originally inspired by an Italian navy commando unit, Shayetet 13 was neglected for many years. Read More »
Yossi Melman proposes: Let’s take the “Zion” out of Zionism
It seems you don’t have to be Swedish to love the idea of transferring the Israeli capital. We Jews are no doubt a very clever people. Just ask any Jew and he or she will tell you about our Nobel prize winners, about Maimonides, about Baruch d’Espinoza, about Albert Einstein and many others. Read More »
Obama security adviser: Picture on Iran not good – You don’t say!
“The news from Iran is not good,” to paraphrase a statesman of an earlier generation. Actually, the picture regarding Iran was not good two years ago. Now it is approaching disaster. Read More »
Iran students prepare for Monday protests under government repression
Last update – 23:12 04/12/2009 Iran cracks down on dissent in universitiesBy The Associated Press As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions. Read More »
Can you be an Israeli in the “godeneh medineh” (America)
A joke – Two Israelis go to America, the Goleneh Medineh (Golden Country in Yiddish). They take a taxi from the airport. On the way, they run into a traffic jam. A Brinks armored car has overturned spilling cash and gold bars all over the street. People are rushing to grab the money. Read More »
Ritz Carlton to build first hotel in Israel
What – they are violating the Boycott Israel campaign? They aren’t the only ones who will not succumb to terror and racism either. Thursday, December 3, 2009, 1:43pm ESTRitz Carlton to build first hotel in IsraelWashington Business Journal – by Missy Frederick Staff Reporter Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. Read More »
Resistance strikes blows against the occupation – in Russia and Syria
To our dear friends in Russia and Syria, Today, the forces of liberation and enlightenment struck a blow against the occupation in a successful operation against a bus in Damascus, killing 12. Read More »
The Iran lobby: Alavi “charity” bribed Rutgers and Columbia professors
The Alavi foundation, a “charity” foundation apparently controlled directly by the Iranian government has evidently been bribing U.S. universities. What is truly remarkable is that this story got little publicity in most US media – though it did merit a little article in the New York Times. Read More »
The brighter side of the Shalit swap? – Hamas: “1 Israel Soldier Equals 1,000 Soldiers From
This is one way to look at the swap. The other way of looking at it, is that the deterrent value of arrests deteriorates with each swap, since every prisoner can assume he or she is going to be traded for the next kidnap victim. Read More »
The offer the Palestinians turned down
This is the offer that the Palestinians turned down. It is essentially not different from the offer of Ehud Barak, made in 2000, give or take a bit of land, and they turned that down too. It is hard not to read between the lines… Read More »
Hamas: 1 Israel Soldier Equals 1000 Soldiers From Palestine
“It is humiliating to each and every Palestinian to see that one Jewish soldier from Israel is equivalent to 1000 Islamic soldiers from Gaza and the West Read More »
Is Israeli-Palestinian peace really just out of reach?
The conventional wisdom in much of the world holds that there is an Israeli-Arab peace settlement that is just out of reach – so near yet so far, frustrated only by tactical accidents. We all know what the peace settlement must look like, says the myth. Read More »
Israel blasts EU plan to recognize Palestinian claim to East Jerusalem and unilateral state
Israel: EU stance on Jerusalem harms peace talksBy Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent Israel on Tuesday lashed out a new plan by the European Union to call for the division of Jerusalem with a future Palestinian state, saying that such a move by the EU would further harm the chances of renewing peace negotiations in the Middle East. Read More »
IDF takes the war to the Web….
Last update – 09:29 01/12/2009 New IDF unit to fight enemies on Facebook, Twitter By Anshel Pfeffer and Gili Izikovich, Haaretz Correspondent The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman’s Office is to begin drafting computer experts with an eye toward establishing an Internet and new media department unit, Army Spokesman Brig. Gen. Read More »
EU will recognize East Jerusalem as capital of Palestine
Last update – 08:02 01/12/2009 EU to recognize East Jerusalem as capital of Palestinian stateBy Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent European Union foreign ministers are expected to officially call next week for the division of Jerusalem, to serve as the capitals of both Israel and Palestine. Read More »
N.J. Stand up comic to tour Israel
You see – not everyone hates us! 
Standing up for Israel Nov. 30, 2009Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST After entertaining American troops in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as six times in Afghanistan, comedian Butch Bradley is certainly battle-tested. Read More »
Anyone for divesting from Israel?
Merrill Lynch: Now’s the time for Israel With a correction expected in emerging markets, Merrill Lynch gives five reasons for sheltering in Israel.Globes correspondent30 Nov 09 09:44 Bank of America Merrill Lynch has come out with a report strongly recommending Israel as a defensive haven among emerging markets. Read More »
Egyptian Cleric: Day of vengeance is nearing for every Jew on the face of the Earth
The remaking of history is as interesting as the rest of the hate rhetoric. So far as is known, Khaybar was a peaceful town of merchants, not a military power. It was attacked for the plunder it afforded. The inhabitants were murdered or enslaved. Such was the mercy of Muhammad… Read More »
Ignoring “ridiculous carrot and stick policies” Iran decides to build ten new enrichment plants
An accurate description of Western policy was given by the speaker of the Iranian parliament: “If you do not stop these ridiculous carrot-and-stick policies, we will in return adopt new policies and seriously decrease cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency,” Larijani, an influential conservative, told the assembly. Read More »
U.S. diplomacy and journalism on the Arab-Israel conflict
U.S. diplomacy and journalism on the Arab-Israel conflictNovember 29, 9:02 AMNY Israel Conflict Examiner Richard Shulman How realistic and fair are U.S. diplomacy and reporting on the Arab-Israel conflict? Isabel Kershner of the New York Times reports that Israel’s Defense Min. Read More »
Joint session of German and Israeli governments – a symbolic occasion
German friendship for Israel is valuable and must be cultivated, despite the heavy weight of the past, or perhaps because of it. In the long run, this bond may prove to be more “unbreakable” than the bond with the United States. Read More »
Illegal settlements? What’s in a word?
The OFICL notes that the US accepted the British mandatory borders of Palestine in 1924, making the settlements legal. However, the United States also accepted the state of Israel within its borders and the UN partition plan of 1947. The question of which of these takes precedence is interesting. Read More »
Juden raus! – The crime of being a Zionist
The crime of being a ZionistBy Karl Pfeifer I am an 81-year-old survivor of the Holocaust. Strange things happened to me last week in Germany. A journalist, I had been invited by a student organization at Bielefeld University and College to give a lecture on “Racism and Anti-Semitism in Hungary. Read More »
Switzerland – not holier than thou after all
Switzerland’s Choice of FriendsBy Assaf Sagiv Given Europe’s bloody history of conflict, Switzerland can perhaps be proud that it arouses no particularly intense emotions. Certainly no one hates it with the passion generally reserved for the Americans or the Jews — but then again, no one really adores it, either. Read More »
Urgent call to end the siege in Gaza now.
Just look at these pictures of the poor starving miserable Gazans. Get busy writing to all your elected representatives about the Zionazi genocide being perpetrated by the evil Jews. Don’t lose a minute. See all the pictures of starving Gazans here. Read More »
Supporting the right to self-determination in Latin America
Mr. Chavez expresses his solidarity with the Palestinian people, based no doubt, on international legitimacy and the struggle against colonialist imperialism. A response to Mr. Read More »
Brothers in arms: 83% of the Druze Community Joins the IDF
83% of the Druze Community Joins the IDF26 November 2009 , 14:15 On Wednesday (Nov. 25), the Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, attended a reception at the home of Druze Sheikh Tarif Muefk for the Eid al-Adha holidays which began that day. Read More »
The end of American Jews?
Putting two and two together, if most American Jews consider that they are a religion and not a people, and more and more Jews define themselves as “secular” or “just Jews,” it means that soon there will not be many Jews in the United States, since they would have neither peoplehood nor religion to bind them to Judaism. Read More »
Scottish Trade Union in anti-Labor Israel bash in aid of Hamas
The boycott movement in trade unions is the result of a systematic program of subversion, in which organizations created for a wholly different purpose were turned into platforms for spreading anti-Israel propaganda. It was not spontaneous or accidental. It took a long time and a lot of work. Read More »
Anti-Semitism in Europe and European Media
Last update – 20:15 27/11/2009 Comment / Anti-Semitism in Europe: New prejudice fans flames of the oldest hatredBy Morten Berthelsen Israeli soldiers harvest Palestinians’ organs for profit, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports in Read More »
The Iran lobby: Alavi “charity” bribed Rutgers and Columbia professors
The Alavi founction, a “charity” foundation apparently controlled directly by the Iranian government has evidently been bribing U.S. universities. What is truly remarkable is that this story got little publicity in most US media – though it did merit a little article in the New York Times. Read More »
IAEA Censures Iran for nuclear lawlessness – Iran defiant
This is a bad time for a major nuclear crisis, as Americans are busy with Thanksgiving weekend. Diplomats: Iran Censured at UN Nuclear MeetingDiplomats: UN watchdog votes to censure Iran’s nuclear defiance, urges a stop to enrichmentBy GEORGE JAHNThe Associated PressVIENNA The U.N. Read More »
Dutch anti-Semitism in Jerusalem
Too bad this article appears only in Israel National News and not, for example, in Haaretz. Dutch anti-Semitism in Jerusalemby Yochanan Visser The incident described below will be discussed in the Dutch Parliament Nov. 30th after being hushed up by the state funded news show. The Dutch-Israeli monitor group Israel Facts reported the truth. Read More »
How dumb can they really be?
I’ll bet you didn’t think they would be stupid enough to do this, right? They are a rational regime, right? They would not actually hang out a sign that says “We are evil,” would they? But they really did…. Smart regimes don’t come out against peace, kindness and decency, even if they are against peace, kindness and decency. Read More »
The Iran dialog is dead – time to put up or shut up
Mohamed ElBaradei cannot be suspected of “Islamophobia,” neoconism or Zionist tendencies. Even he has finally been convinced of the awful truth: Iran is not interested in dialogue. Iran is certainly intent on building the capability to produce nuclear weapons and is probably actually engaged in building them. Read More »
Hezbollah in Lebanon – whose responsibility?
Lebanon Is Still an Occupied CountryBy Elias Bejjani* Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday 24/11/09 warned that Lebanon , not Hezbollah, would be the target of retaliatory attacks should the militant group escalate tension along Israel’s northern border. “Lebanon grants Hezbollah permission to operate on its soil,” said Barak. Read More »
The little Mumbai survivor – a year later
This is the story of three year old Moshe, whose parents were murdered by Islamist terrorists in the Mumbai attack one year ago. Please try to keep this heart wrenching story in mind, when attempting to fathom the cynicism and depravity of those who blame the attacks on the “Mossad” and those who published their evil drivel. Read More »
Whose fault is the boycott divestment and sanctions movement?
Who started the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS, not to be confused with BLT, LBJ, MSM or WMD) movement? Was it the Palestinians? The leftists? Nonsense says Cecile Surasky of the Jewish Voice for Peace. It is the Zionists who are at fault for starting the BDS movement. Read More »
New UK Boycott Threet from South Africans
COSATU activists to bring pro-boycott message to the UK From TULIP: Bongani Masuku (International Secretary) and George Mahlangu (Campaigns Coordinator) from the South African national trade union centre, COSATU, are due to speak in Manchester on 7 December at an event titled “The case for sanctions and boycott”. Read More »
Marwan Barghouti begins his election campaign – as a champion of Hamas
Last update – 17:01 25/11/2009 Barghouti: Shalit abduction achieved what no dialogue couldBy Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents and Haaretz Service Fatah strongman, expected to win Palestinian election if freed in Shalit deal, declares intention to run. Read More »
Israeli Netanyahu declares 10 month settlement freeze in order to restart peace talks
Those concerned that peace will break out unexpectedly needn’t worry, the Palestinians have already rejected the move. Read More »
Vile assult of the enemies of Islam and the virtues of polygamy
It seems the enemies of Islam are preparing a terrible assault on the religion of Muhammad: the enemies of Islam are planning one abominable and vile conspiracy after the other, in order to finish off the Muslim woman and turn her into a liberated Western woman. Listen to what they ask of women. Read More »
You don’t say: Outlook for tough Iran sanctions is dim
Well yes, we already knew the outlook for tough Iran sanctions is dim – USSR and China watered down all previous sanctions resolutions, didn’t they? But as the Obama administration had about 10 months to prepare for this moment, you would’ve thunk they had thought about the problema and worked out solutions, no? Apparently not. Read More »
What do Jews want?
The Middle East from the point of view of the Jews: For the Past 2,000 Years… For the past 2,000 years or so, my people have been hounded, persecuted, murdered, tortured, expelled from their homes, beaten, burnt at the stake, gassed and cremated in ovens. Read More »
Has the Obama government misread Israeli opinion on Jerusalem?
Herb Keinon’s Analysis: Obama’s press on Gilo shows a continued misread of Israel is one of the more astute analyses of why Israel is building in Gilo, and why most Israelis are backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on this issue. Read More »
