(JTA) — Attend or watch footage of a campus pro-Palestinian demonstration these days and you are likely to see someone carrying a sign reading “Decolonization is not a metaphor.” Almost immediately after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, George Washington University Students for Justice in Palestine put out a statement praising the terrorists, declaring “Decolonization is NOT a metaphor.”
After a remarkable weekend in which dozens of Israelis, Americans and foreigners were released from captivity through the intercession of numerous diplomats and statesmen, there seemed to be hope that the humanitarian pause demanded by so many here in New Orleans and elsewhere around the world would blossom into a full blown cease fire.
Tensions have been high among the Qatari, Egyptian and Americans attempting to broker...
(JNS.org) – On Oct. 6, a ceasefire was in effect between Israel and Hamas. Hamas breached that ceasefire on Oct. 7 and attacked Israeli civilian communities along the Gaza border. They massacred some 1,200 babies, children, women and men, many after torturing them in the most heinous manner. They took around 240 hostages.
In response, Israel did what every country in the world would do. It took...
(JNS.org) – On Oct. 7, Hamas perpetrated one of the most horrendous acts of evil that civilization has seen since the Holocaust. It is now trying to make a show of its supposed humanity—which does not exist—by releasing kidnapped women and children.
This decision is purely for public consumption and to please the media. In reality, Hamas is playing a cruel game in an attempt to win...
(JTA) — When I saw the photos and videos posted by Hamas murdering entire Israeli families, raping women and killing young people at a music festival on Oct. 7 — I was horrified and shocked. These images ignited the flames of a dormant trauma I suffered 82 years ago in Baghdad, Iraq, when I was just 10 years old.
Perhaps the most enduring wound for Jews from the Holocaust is the memory of aloneness. For 12 long years, the international community scarcely intervened as Nazi persecution gradually turned to extermination. Even as we established a sovereign state and created thriving communities in a free diaspora, there remained a lingering anxiety that the post-Holocaust era of Jewish acceptance was an aberration and that someday we would...
(JNS) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is incapable of learning from his mistakes. He needs a therapy session with Dr. Phil, who can ask, “What are you thinking?!”
Blinken is the Charlie Brown of diplomacy who keeps trying to kick the football no matter how often the Palestinians and Iranians pull it away.
He is like someone who can’t give up the hunt for Bigfoot....
(JNS.org) – There’s a theme that emerges when defending the atrocities of Hamas and its supporters: “You made us do it.” And the next step beyond that is the suggestion that the crimes committed by Hamas and its supporters were really a form of entrapment by Israel.
You see this argument in the suggestion that Israel deliberately lowered its guard to allow Hamas to kill, rape and...
(JNS.org) –Members of the congressional “Squad” are always at their best when playing the victim. In that light, Nov. 7 was a banner day for Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI.) as she tearfully assumed the mantle of martyrdom when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to censure her for statements “promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the...
The United States Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made the announcement late last night with no fanfare. After escaping several measures intended to punish U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI.) for seeming to justify the murderous October 7 Hamas attacks, her Congressional colleagues had finally censured her for crossing the line by promoting the phrase “From the river to the sea” over her social media.