Daily Archives: February 20, 2024
When presidents curse at the Jews
U.S. President Joe Biden is reported to have used profanity in two recent outbursts against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sadly, such eruptions are nothing new. Going back to the 1940s, presidents and other...
How the ‘settler violence’ campaign works
This past Last Saturday afternoon, 71-year-old Hagar Gefen was driving through the Jordan Valley when she was waylaid by Palestinian assailants. They pulled her from her car, beat her and stole her vehicle.
Gefen is...
Jews must tell their own stories in all their complexity
When I was a child, my grandmother called me her “little shiksa.” In Yiddish, shiksa means a non-Jewish woman. This was meant as a compliment. My grandmother was a glamorous woman who knew a thing or two...
Again wielding veto, US strikes down UN ceasefire resolution
The United States again used its veto power at the U.N. Security Council to thwart a call for the imposition of a ceasefire on Israel.
Washington stood alone on Tuesday in voting down an Algeria-drafted resolution...
IDF to begin probe into response to Oct. 7 attack
The Israel Defense Forces in the coming days will start an internal investigation into the military’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre and the period preceding the cross-border invasion.
Army commanders will be leading...
‘Moody’s economists are misreading the geopolitical map’
In between a press conference on immigration and a meeting with the families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich found the time for an interview.
It’s clear...
Face of Israeli stock car racing searches for a seat on big stage
A key to fighting rising Jew-hatred, according to Israel’s premier stock car racer, is to drive a lot of miles in someone else’s car.
Alon Day, a native of Ashdod in southern Israel, has captured...
Prince William calls for more aid to Gaza, release of hostages
Britain’s Prince William released a statement on Tuesday calling for more aid into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as well as the release of the remaining 134 Israeli hostages being held by Palestinian terrorists.
“I remain...
New Haven reviews anti-Israel city staffer who protested at rabbi’s home
The nation’s third-oldest independent school, which traces its history to 1660, suspended a member of its advancement team, as the city—home to Yale University—investigates his wife for yelling anti-Israel chants through a bullhorn outside a...
When pro-Israel advocacy isn’t just big, but ‘Biggah’
A straight-talking, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is Instagrammer might not necessarily be unusual, except when it comes in the form of a non-Jewish American black man who speaks truth to power on Israel.
“Go home, Susan. You’re drunk,”...