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Daniel Pipes delivering his remarks at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies on Nov. 27, 2018. Credit: Josh Hasten.

Time for the Palestinians to admit they lost the war on Israel … and...

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“What is euphemistically called ‘the peace process’ should more accurately be called the war process,” Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy was better 25 years ago than in 2018. This according to Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle...
IDF reserve soldiers seen making food in a staging area near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on July 20, 2014, during Israel's “Operation Protective Edge.” Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90

IDF starts new department for interested female soldiers: Army Kashrut

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Women enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces will now have a new department available in which they can fulfill their years of service: Army Kashrut. For the first time, women will be able to fill...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with Czech President Milos Zeman in Jerusalem on October 7, 2013. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90

The historic nature of Miloš Zeman’s speech in Jerusalem

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Shifts in perceptions among European Jews on where they feel safest is not due entirely to demographic change. It also has to do with Eastern European leaders like the Czech Republic’s Miloš Zeman, who,...
PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff introducing a segment on Nov. 27, 2018, about Jews inside Iran, which garnered criticism of whitewashing the Islamic Republic’s hatred of Israel. Credit: Screenshot.

PBS TV special whitewashes Iran’s repression of Jews, hatred for Israel

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Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour” featured a segment about Iran’s Jews living in apparently relative peace despite the Islamic Republic chanting “Death to Israel.” “Many people outside of Iran are going to remark that you’re not being...
Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky. Credit: Columbia University website.

Jewish Columbia professor finds swastikas, ‘Yid,’ spray-painted in office

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A Jewish professor at Columbia University in New York was the target of anti-Semitic vandalism on Wednesday, walking into her office to discover two red swastikas and the slur “Yid” spray painted on the...
A pro-BDS display, with photos and Palestinian flags, at Dam Square in central Amsterdam June 24, 2016. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Dutch students to teacher: ‘Only reason you’re here is because Germans forgot to gas...

A new poll conducted in the Netherlands finds most of the country’s Jews are afraid to identify as Jewish in public. Half of all Dutch Jews polled said they do not feel safe in...

Bohemian Channukah, an adaptation to Queen’s classic.

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United by a strong Jewish identity and driven by the mission of connecting Jews from all over the world with their heritage through music, the a cappella professional group Six13 is the origin of...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) and Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, at a meeting on implementing the Iran nuclear deal Sept. 22, 2016, in New York. Credit: U.N. Photo/Amanda Voisard.

The lethal error in appeasing Iran

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When the Obama-brokered Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2015, one of the many spurious reasons offered for that agreement was that it would help the supposedly moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani draw the...
File photo: The "Arrow II" intercepting missile launcher at the Palmachim Israeli Airforce base. May 9, 2014. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash 90.

South Korea to buy Israeli radar systems to counter potential missile threats

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South Korea announced that it is buying two Israeli-made radar systems to counter missile threats, despite warming ties with North Korea, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. Seoul is purchasing two Green Pine radar arrays made...
U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert delivers a press briefing at the department in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15, 2018. Credit: Jackson Richman/JNS.

State Department continues to see Saudis as player in Mideast peace process

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Despite the criticism that the Trump administration has gotten over its reaction to last month’s killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the State Department stood by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s response. “It’s a mean, nasty world...