It’s easy to mock the Israeli President’s to do list: kiss babies – check; issue holiday greetings — check; host another reception for another ambassador – check. But in a young democracy with a volatile political system, the President’s to do list is more challenging. …
Un-Jews use Trojan horse slogans that delegitimize Israel and Zionism
For some Jews, mere criticism is no longer sufficient. Language that demonizes and delegitimizes the Jewish state has crept into common parlance
‘Jewish Supremacy’: A Nazi Slur Goes Woke | Opinion
The spike in Jew-bullying since Israel’s confrontation with Hamas last month has resolved the decades-long debate about whether anti-Zionism blurs into anti-Semitism. By targeting kosher restaurants, defacing synagogues and beating visible Jews, the haters clearly target Jews and Israelis as one. The storm has been so fierce …
Israel needs an antisemitism czar
When Jew-hatred peaks, Jews traditionally mobilize – and unify. Yet today’s spike in antisemitism is sowing confusion. Too many American Jews refuse to recognize the Jew-haters within their own partisan camps. As a result, too many liberals blame Donald Trump for this latest Jew-bullying-binge. Even …
The Un-Jews: The Jewish attempt to cancel Israel and Jewish peoplehood
by: Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy In May, when Israelis were attacked by Hamas missiles from Gaza, the criticism from some voices within the American Jewish community seemed not only more intense but categorical, escalating very quickly from what Israel did to what Israel is. …
When it comes to anti-Israel attacks on Jews, it’s time to name the enemy
The COVID-19 epidemic proves you cannot just treat a plague’s symptoms – you must root it out. Yet as incidents of Jew-bullying in the U.S. more than doubled in May compared to the same time period in 2020, too many American Jews complained about the …
The Bennett family’s grace trumps its rivals’ gracelessness
96 The Bennett family’s grace trumps its rivals’ gracelessness View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 16/06/2021 The Bennett family’s grace trumps its rivals’ gracelessness When Naftali Bennett requested “support for the Unity Government … to restore stability and functionality to the …
No ceasefire in Palestinian anti-Americanism
Chants of “America is the head of the snake” welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to the Palestinians’ working capital of Ramallah last week. Considering that the dictatorial Palestinian Authority runs Ramallah, this protest against “receiving the enemies of the Palestinian people on our …
An Open Letter to the Jewish People About Birthright-Israel and Israel Education
On May 25, the first Taglit Birthright-Israel participants since the pandemic’s outbreak landed at Ben-Gurion airport. The Covid-19 crisis confirmed many of Birthright’s essential values. In our isolation, we all felt the anguish of the loneliness Birthright counters with group trips and community consciousness. Ideologically, …
Welcome to Israel, the work in progress – opinion
Dear Ls… On Shabbat, you announced at your son’s bar mitzvah that you’re making Aliyah, moving to Israel…. Are you crazy? Didn’t you notice the 4,000 rockets Hamas fired at us? Didn’t you learn to run away from rocket-fire not toward it? Moreover: What kind …