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It is difficult not to savour the irony of two United States congresswomen who advocate boycotts of Israel crying foul at being denied entry into the very country they seek to erase.  Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, two members of the Democratic Party’s “Squad” of neophyte congresswomen from the Party’s …

Attached is a piece by Vic Rosenthal, published at the Elder of Ziyon and his own blog, Abu Yehuda, titled, “Are there ‘Arab Jews?’” He opposes the notion of “Arab Jews” on the basis of historical analysis and an appreciation for the ways that the language we use heavily influences …

  It’s not that so many countries with far worse human rights records than Israel decided that Israel alone should be named and condemned as the world’s greatest women’s rights offender that offends us but that so many with better records voted the same. By now you should have heard …

Buckle up.  We are going on a journey.  Well, two to be precise.  The journeys of two immigrants’: Irving Berlin and Ilhan Omar. Let’s begin with Irving Berlin as he arrived in the 19th century. Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidore Beili and lived in Temun, Siberia.  The family came …

A few years ago, 2013 to be exact, I had only just started blogging, when I came upon a dreadful group of Jews here called the ‘Australian Jewish Democratic Society‘.   I was completely and utterly horrified that Jews could rubbish Israel they way they were. I started doing some digging …

From the 22nd to the 29th of June 2019, a group of five Austrians, three Germans and six participants from the Netherlands visited Christians for Israel Ukraine, to take part in a working trip. Apart from seeing significant historical sites, packing food-parcels, visiting Holocaust survivors at their homes and meeting …

Press Release Arab MK Urges Boycott of Israel at Pro-BDS Conference in London Member of Knesset Yousef Jabareen (Hadash-Ta’al) publicly called to boycott Israel in a speech he gave over the weekend at a pro-BDS conference in London, Kan news reported. “The international community has all the tools to deal …

SHAVLAN- A biographical novel based on a true story written by Eunice Blecker. Sarah Taube cowers in the bakery cellar clutching her three children, listening to the sounds of shooting and shouting by the White Cossacks during a pogrom. In order to survive, she enters into a bargain with the …

Causing quite a stir last weekend, Linda Sarsour tweeted that “Jesus was Palestinian of Nazareth and is described in the Quran as being brown copper skinned with woolly hair.” Really? The Quran was written some 600 years after the death of Jesus.  Are we expected to believe that fact, if …

European Jewish Congress President Kantor expresses concern about a Jewish future in Europe after release of FRA report on young Jewish Europeans. (Brussels, Thursday, July 4, 2019) – European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor has expressed great concern over the results of a EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) …

Birthright Israel has been a phenomenal success in achieving its goal of ensuring “the vibrant future of the Jewish people by strengthening Jewish identity, Jewish communities, and connection with Israel.”  The group, founded in 1999 with the financial support of Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt, has brought over 650,000 Jews …

For months now Britain has been roiling in its Brexit woes. Theresa May resigned (or was she pushed?) and the race is now on to choose a new Prime Minister. The internal voting amongst Tory MPs is now over and the choice is down to two men, one of whom …

The United Nations may also be beyond repair. In May 2019, Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel hired to investigate the matter of whether US President Donald Trump conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election said there was a limit as to what he could do in his investigation, …

Haters constantly attempt to slander Israel as a “white-supremacist” state.  Using lies and distortions, they are trying to convince African-Americans that Israel hates blacks and that they should hate Israel. Unfortunately, the lies seem to be working.  In a recent poll, only 46% of black Americans viewed Israel as “ally” …

Another day, another battle.  I do little more than fight antisemitism and false history and yet in the last six months I have had two attempts to silence me.  The first was a denial of service attack on my website.  Given the content of the threats that preceded the actual …

Or so I would have thought. Yet, in America today this is what we see: Florida Young Democrats (FYD) has a new Central Florida Regional Director, Rasha Mubarak.  In their announcement welcoming her, Florida Young Democrats noted that she had previously served as the Central Florida Regional Director of the …

Many were shocked when US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said she “loves the fact” that her “Palestinian ancestors” were part an attempt “to create a safe haven for Jews” after the Holocaust [Recording of her interview – Holocaust remarks at 28:00]. Where did she pick up such a false record of …

This was an unmistakable sign. One will miss it or ignore it at his peril. The despicable cartoon just published by The New York Times in its International Edition stands as one of those existential gut checks, those moments where the veil of complexity is stripped away and we are …

Jackie Robinson became the first black person to play Major League Baseball when he took the field on April 15, 1947.  His ten years in the majors were remarkable in many ways, including his incredible talent on the field and his exemplary personal character in an era of tremendous black-white …

Dear, sweet Sarah Silverman, standing shoulder to shoulder with her new BFF, Ilhan Omar, praising the idea of a two-state solution in Israel. Where Israel is divided, again, into a smaller state to make room for another Muslim state-number 24 in the region- so that peace will reign. After all, …