By MORTON A. KLEIN
Though Israelis are scarcely surprised by the phenomenon of Palestinian terrorism, they were nonetheless sickened by the recent rape of a 19-year old girl, Ori Ansbacher, by Arafat Irfaiya, a 29-year old Palestinian Arab from Hebron.
Upon capture by Israeli forces, Irfaiya made plain the motive...
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By WILLIAM DAROFF and SANDRA PARKER
(JNS.org) — In June 2015, then-Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina struck the first major blow against the BDS movement when she signed legislation barring the state from entering into contracts with companies that boycott the Jewish state. The bipartisan vote of the South...
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By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(JNS) — This week’s Warsaw summit was supposed to be about rallying the world against the threat that Iran poses to international peace. But given the complete lack of interest on the part of either America’s Western European allies or the Russians in reconsidering the...
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With no comment from the NFL’s top official and no opportunity for redress from that infamous “no call” last in the NFC Championship Game, the fans of the New Orleans Saints could have cried in their beers and stayed bitter like petulant children. They pressed for a response, but when...
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By MITCHELL BARD
According to its website, “Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is guided by a vision of justice, equality and freedom for all people. We unequivocally oppose Zionism because it is counter to those ideals.”
In rationalizing this position, JVP displays arrogance, myopia, paternalism, and disregard for facts and...
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By JONATHAN A. GREENBLATT
NEW YORK (JTA) — Every year, extremism takes a deadly toll around the world. No region is immune — not the Middle East, not Europe, and not the United States. In 2018, there were at least 50 Americans killed by extremists from different movements.
Many of the victims...
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This one hurts, maybe even worse than last year when the Minnesota Miracle, a last-ditch effort by a scrambling team, sent the Boys in Black and Gold back home from the playoffs to watch the Super Bowl rather than play in it. This year had all the markings of a...
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By SEAN BURNS
(JNS.org) — Adolf Hitler was a genocidal dictator who unleashed the most destructive war in the history of humankind and perpetrated the Holocaust. He was also a lover of animals and art who, initially anyways, brought Germany’s economy out of the doldrums. Life is complicated.
A...
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By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(JNS.org) — It may be that supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump and those who back the Israeli government led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are now so closely aligned that the latter have no qualms about the Jewish state being dragged into one...
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By MITCHELL BARD
Reading New York Times stories and op-eds about Jews and Israel reminds me of Ronald Reagan’s classic debate response to Jimmy Carter: “There you go again.” People often ask why the paper has such animus, and while many reasons have been proffered, none completely explain the obsession with criticizing...
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