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After Paris: Charlie and Ahmed

Good muslim, bad muslim… Continue reading

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Shlomo Sand, The Arabs’ Darling

The old-new denial… Continue reading

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Ovadia Yosef Was Ready for Compromise Peace but Concluded Correctly it Wasn’t Possible

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, one of Israel’s most controversial figures, but also one of Israel’s greatest religious legislators… Continue reading

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Islamic Supremacy Alive and Well in Ankara

Supersessionism refers to the belief that Christians have superseded Jews in a new covenant with God. Islam, too, sees itself as superseding all previous divine revelation but, unlike Christianity, Islam freely erases history itself… Continue reading

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The war against the Jews

The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds… Continue reading

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The Battle over Silwan

On the face of it, the sparring that erupted over a gate built illegally by Arab residents may seem like a miniature version of the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians over who controls the Holy Land… Continue reading

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Founding National Myths

The vast literature proving the historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel has been extensively manipulated and distorted as part of the Palestinian politics of nationalism… Continue reading

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Barack Obama, his rabbi and political Islam

President Barack Obama’s view of Judaism, Zionism, and Israel was very much shaped by his liberal and left-wing Jewish contacts… Continue reading

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A Friend in Britain: How Churchill Used “Emotional Intelligence” to Help Jewish National Sovereignty

For over three thousand years, the Jewish people were defined by an identity shaped by the Hebrew language… Continue reading

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Winston Churchill – A Good Friend of Jews and Zionism?

Churchill’s political involvement with Jews and Zionism was enormously variegated and long, and the list of headings under which this involvement can be assessed no less so… Continue reading

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Jews and the Dutch: A History of Ups and Downs

The Netherlands is widely considered one of Israel’s closest allies but at the same time continues to take a critical stance toward Israel in line with EU’s pro-Palestinian policies… Continue reading

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A Very Brief History of European Christian Anti-Jewish Sentiment

Born with the rise of Christianity and Roman Catholicism, anti-Jewish sentiment is an old and firmly entrenched phenomenon in Europe… Continue reading

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Ban on Circumcision: Trampling Religious Rights of non-Christians in the Netherlands

Holland’s doctors’ association is encouraging Dutch parliament to place a ban on male circumcision, calling the practice “a violation of human rights”… Continue reading

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Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?

There is far more violence in the Bible than in the Qur’an; the idea that Islam imposed itself by the sword is a Western fiction… Continue reading

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“Christian Terrorism”?

In light of the Norway terrorist attack, and as expected, the hail of religious relativism has begun… Continue reading

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My Education

When I was getting a great education they made us read Shakespeare and Dickens; Wordsworth and Keats; Hemmingway and Faulkner… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Anti-Semitism on the Wane in Russia

Russia has recently shown clear signs of throwing off its long and tragic history of anti-Semitism. In the past several years… Continue reading

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Double Standard: Hearing and not Hearing

Two municipal chief rabbis decided on Thursday to remove their signatures from a religious ruling forbidding Israeli Jews from renting homes to gentiles…Israel’s peace partner reaffirmed on Sunday that Palestinians convicted of selling land to Jews would face the death penalty… Continue reading

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US 2010 Religious Freedom Report Toned Down Criticism of Israel

The U.S. State Department’s 2010 International Religious Freedom Report that was released last week, actually toned down the unjustified criticism that for years was the norm in the document authored by… Continue reading

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A Garland Of Myths

The distortion of history, ancient and modern, basic to the Arab-British resistance to Jewish restoration, had been fully articulated by 1948. After 1948, the Arabs added greater depth and vehemence in presentation and with it a theme of hatred of the Jews, comparable only to the demonology of medieval Christianity or the excesses of German Nazi propaganda in our own age… Continue reading

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Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks, But Without a Jewish State?

It did not take very long for the Palestinian Authority to make its unequivocal rejection of a Jewish State crystal clear following the pomp and circumstance of resumed negotiations between it and Israel in Washington last week… Continue reading

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The IDF’s Role and Impact on Israel’s Society

The following analysis takes a comprehensive look at the historical and contemporary role and influence that the Israel Defense Forces has had in Israeli society, and highlights the benefits of the IDF as a… Continue reading

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Turkish Government involved in the Gaza Flotilla

According to some people who are in a position to know: Erdoğan assured Israel that the ship’s passengers were peaceful and there would be no violence. That’s why Israel approached taking and diverting the ship in the manner it did. Is this true? I don’t know but it is definitely a story to… Continue reading

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Saudi Arabia and the Rise of the Wahhabi Threat

Al-Qaeda represents Wahhabism in its purest form – a violent fundamentalist doctrine that rejects all non-Wahhabi Islam, especially the spiritual forms of Islam. Wahhabism is an expansionist sect intolerant of… Continue reading

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Muhammad and the Jews

Everyone knows that many millions of the Muslims in the Arab world and beyond have a deep hostility towards Jews or “the Jew.” It seems to have reached a metaphysical level or debased into an irrational state of mind. The question is: where does the hate come from… Continue reading