Tuesday, March 19th 2024 |
By LUKE TRESS
(JTA) — When Sen. Chuck Schumer called for new elections in Israel, all but telling Israelis that it was time to replace Benjamin Netanyahu, it was a rare instance of an American leader weighing in on how (and when) an ally should vote.
The call was all the more notable coming from Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in history and a man who is known for...
By JONATHAN TOBIN
(JNS.org) –Turning points in history aren’t always obvious or easily recognized by those living through them. But the significance of Oct. 7 and the way the events of that awful day and the terrible reactions to them around the world—are such that few Jews have been unaware that they are living through a crucial moment in the history of their people. The horrific attacks on Jewish communities...
By NADAV SHRAGAI
(Israel Hayom via JNS.org) – Adolf Hitler has many advocates among the Palestinians.
And not only among Hamas. The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, a renowned Holocaust denier, even at his ripe old age (and just one month before the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre) never tires of explaining: “Hitler killed Jews because of their financial dealings and not because they were Jews.”
The former head of...
By MOSHE PHILLIPS
Martin Indyk has spent his entire professional life immersed in the Arab-Israeli conflict, holding prominent positions in advocacy groups, think tanks, and the State Department. So how is it that he still can’t get the most basic facts about the conflict right?
In the March-April 2024 issue of “Foreign Affairs,” Indyk makes the case for why it would be great to have a sovereign Palestinian state as...
By KHALED ABU TOAMED
(Gatestone Institute via JNS.org) – Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, leaders of the Iran-backed terrorist group have been trying to distance themselves from the atrocities by holding Palestinian civilians responsible for some of the crimes, including the murder, beheading, rape, torture, kidnapping, mutilation and burning of hundreds of Israeli men, women and children.
These are the same civilians Hamas has long been using as human shields in...
By ARIEL KAHANA
(JNS.org) – Antony Blinken tends to speak with a soft voice, almost in a whisper. His language is also restrained, and his words are chosen carefully. You won’t catch him putting his feet on the table like Barack Obama, or swearing like Donald Trump. He’s a diplomat. His stabs are barely noticeable. It’s hard to argue with him.
But as the days go by, it is becoming increasingly...
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(JNS.org) – The comings and goings of the principal deputy national security director are not usually newsworthy. Yet one particular trip undertaken by the current occupant of that post, Jon Finer, which was supposedly private rather than public, has become a matter of national political importance.
Accompanied by a delegation of other high-ranking administration officials, including President Barack Obama’s U.N. ambassador and current administrator of the U.S....
By DANIEL GREENFIELD
(JNS.org) – What do you get when you massacre more than 1,000 people, rape, torture, behead and kidnap every Jewish, Christian or non-Arab in sight? International diplomatic recognition.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reportedly begun conducting a review of options for recognizing a “Palestinian” state after the war. The U.S. State Department has claimed that there are no policy changes, but that may be yet more...
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(JNS.org) – For the 1,000 black pastors who have joined a movement to pressure President Joe Biden to force a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the issue is solidarity with the “oppressed.” This can be seen as part of a general revolt within the activist base of the Democratic Party against the administration’s policy in the Middle East. Much like the petitions signed by lower-level officials...
By MELANIE PHILLIPS
(JNS.org) – The United Nations was set up to promote peace and justice around the world. Instead of doing so, however, it has become a key weapon against peace and justice in the global armory of evil causes.
Nowhere has this been more baleful and done such appalling intergenerational harm than in the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which administers health care, education and welfare...
