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Islam is to terror as rainfall is to flooding. With these words, Sami Abu Shehadeh, of the anti-Zionist Arab party Balad, commenced a debate with me on “The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in the West,” which took place in the i24 News studios last month. Clearly, the events in Paris …

The arch-antisemitic Facebook group Christians United for Peace (CUFP), proving how geographically and historically challenged they are: CUFP proving how fiercely, obscenely, viscerally anti-Jewishly racist they are: I’ve provided plenty of other examples in the past (see here, for instance) of the CUFP that runneth over with antisemitic poison. Now, …

With all the outpouring of support for jailed Aussie journalist Peter Greste, we tend to have lost sight of the reality, especially when the media laud him as a martyr for press freedom.  Consider this editorial in The Age: Gathering the news without fear or favour. It has now been …

Pope Francis has considerably upped the ante in enlisting spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I – to sign a joint Common Declaration demanding an end to international indifference regarding Islamic State barbarism being perpetrated against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq. The Common Declaration …

Written and submitted by William D. Rubinstein. Professor William D. (Bill) Rubinstein is an Australian academic who in 2005, when living and working in the UK, resigned his membership of the Association of University Teachers in protest at its (subsequently revoked) decision to boycott two Israeli universities, Haifa and Bar-Ilan. …

Editor’s Note: Please be aware this article originates in the USA. These organisations exist in Australia, and I am sure elsewhere in the world, I don’t think they are a radicalised here as the USA though. Submitted by ‘Hamas on Campus’. MSA (Muslim Students Association) and SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) …

Genocide of the Pontian Greeks? Well may you ask “What this is doing here? ” Pontus (“sea” in Greek),is an historical Greek designation for a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Anatolia, Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its …

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s announcement on 30 October that Sweden has recognised the State of Palestine elicited a response from Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman that will surely go down as one of the most memorable diplomatic quotes of 2014: “It is too bad that the government of Sweden …

Somewhere in the bowels of Lincoln Center, in New York City, is a heinously scarred Jewish hunchback, eating a hot pastrami sandwich while pawing a greasy, dog-eared copy of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and plotting revenge upon Peter Gelb. Or, so one hopes, anyways. Gelb …

Various sources are reporting that the White House is claiming that US Secretary of State John Kerry did not say what US Secretary of State John Kerry said. In the Times of Israel we read: The US State Department denied claims Friday that US Secretary of State John Kerry made …

Since the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the glamorous couple hasn’t put a foot wrong, and with the birth of their cute baby George and another on the way, they have cemented the popularity of the Royal Family. While it might seem churlish to dent this glow by …

San Francisco State University is probably not the most Israel-friendly university in the United States. In truth, I feel quite confident in suggesting that the opposite is true.  Among SFSU faculty most hostile to Israel, however, is professor Rabab Abdulhadi of the ethnic studies department. Back in the 1960s, the …

Adalah is an Arabic word which means justice  and denotes The Justice of God. It is among the five Shia Principles of the Religion. So what’s a so-called Israeli group, that is a grantee of the NIF – New Israel Fund, doing with an Arabic name? One also has to …

ead on for article Ebola has now claimed over 4000 lives mainly in Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The United Nations Security Council response to eradicating this deadly virus and prevent it spreading world-wide stands in marked contrast to its ineffectual resolutions seeking to address the catastrophic humanitarian crisis …

If You’re British, Sign The Petition! Let MPs know that there is widespread opposition to unilateral recognition for a Palestinian state that isn’t the result of direct negotiations This message from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign refers, of course, to the House of Commons vote this coming Monday on a motion …

The Obama administration has decided that while the Jews of the Middle East must put up with genocidally antisemitic barbarian Jihadis directly upon their doorstep, the United States has every right to bomb their ideological brothers half a world away, despite the fact that the Islamic State poses no direct …

Dear Sweden, The nation, the government, much of the people, the land… You are idiots. Swedish police record 60 hate crimes against Jews in 2012, up from average of 22 in 2010 and 2011. Sweden has stepped forward to recognize the independent  – an impressive and bold action that shows …

Imagine this scenario: the emergence of a militant Jewish group. The New Sadducee State (NSS) rejects the Torah’s Oral Tradition, and want to return the entire world to their rule under their literal and strict interpretation of the Written Law. They want to bring back slavery, an eye-for-an-eye justice, chopping off the hands of thieves, …

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” Golda Meir, former Israeli Prime Minister, 1972.   Convention on the Rights …

  For an Administration whose President was elected on promises of “change,” “progressivism” and “inclusiveness,” the amount of blatant antisemitism is anything but reassuring. The most recent gaffe was Vice President Biden’s casual use of the word “Shylock” to describe greedy moneylenders. After realizing his faux pas, Biden has since …