07/24/2020
In under a week, two events happened at The New York Times—the arbiter of liberal news and opinion—which highlight the growing precariousness of the American Jewish community’s position in the Democratic Party. On July 8, the Times published an op-ed by Peter Beinart, a far-left American Jewish writer and self-anointed spokesperson for liberal Jewish opinion on Israel. Beinart’s article, entitled, “I no longer…
07/17/2020
When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Teheran in 2016, most observers dismissed the significance of the move. The notion that Beijing would wreck its relations with America, the largest economy and most powerful global superpower, in favor of an alliance with Iran, the world’s greatest state sponsor of terror was, on its face, preposterous. But despite the ridiculousness of the…
07/17/2020
Last week I participated in an online discussion of Black Lives Matter’s structural anti-Semitism with my friend and colleague Charles Jacobs in an event sponsored by EMET – Endowment for Middle East Truth led by the intrepid Sarah Stern, who moderated the event. Here is the video of our discussion.
07/17/2020
At Sunday’s government meeting, Israel’s elected leaders demonstrated their commitment to helping Jewish communities in the Diaspora. The government overwhelmingly approved a plan presented by the Diaspora Affairs Ministry to strengthen the connection between the State of Israel and Jewish communities around the world. Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich heralded the move saying, “The government decision represents an acceptance of…
07/07/2020
Twenty years ago, on July 3, 2000, an incident occurred along the Lebanese border with Israel that, at the time, seemed both bizarre and, in the broad span of things, unimportant. But with the hindsight of 20 years, it was a seminal moment and a harbinger for the mob violence now taking place in many parts of America. That day,…
07/07/2020
Last week I spoke with Pulse of Israel’s Avi Abelow about the refusal of American Jews to stand up to the anti-Semitism inherent in the Black Lives Matter movement.
07/07/2020
Last week I spoke with Chris Mitchell from CBN news about the sovereignty plan and why it is critical to go ahead with it both from an Israeli and American perspective. Watch.
07/03/2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needn’t take heed of the “friendly advice” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson proffered on Wednesday. As UAE Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef Al-Otaiba did earlier this month, Johnson published an article in Yediot Ahronot threatening Israel with various disasters if Netanyahu implements his plan to apply Israeli sovereignty in areas of Judea and Samaria in conformance…
06/28/2020
Black Lives Matter, the revolutionary, anti-American and anti-Semitic movement at the heart of the riots and the intellectual terror in the United States today first published its charter in August 2016. Jewish organizations from left to right condemned it for its slanderous accusation against Israel which it accused of committing “genocide: and claimed was an “apartheid” regime that had…
06/26/2020
The silence of the Jews of America in the face of rising anti-Semitism is stunning. Over the Shavuot festival on May 30, members of Black Lives Matter, (BLM) carried out a pogrom in Fairfax, the oldest Jewish community in Los Angeles, largely populated today by ultra-Orthodox Jews. They vandalized five synagogues and three Jewish schools. Most of the Jewish…