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An ‘abject, squalid, shameless’ debate at the Oxford Union

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In an era dominated by social media and defined by short attention spans, it’s striking that longer, more involved debates hosted by elite institutions still matter. The Oxford Union—a debating society created at Oxford University...

10 pro-Palestinian lies told by the ‘useful idiots’

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Anybody who’s been to college can understand the allure of a wild party on the quad: Everybody singing together, wearing cool costumes and flipping off the establishment. Unfortunately, the theme of the riotous parties we’ve...

Center for American Progress head calls for one-state solution

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Patrick Gaspard, a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa and current president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, told Politico that he no longer believes in a two-state solution. “This is difficult, but we need...
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the 2022 summer White House internship class on Aug. 10, 2022 in the Rose Garden. Credit: Erin Scott/Official White House Photo.

White House interns demand Biden call for ceasefire, end Israeli ‘apartheid’

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More than 40 anonymous White House interns issued a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday demanding that the administration call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and support a...
Robbie Keane during an Ireland-Austria match in 2013. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Irish MP blasts Robbie Keane’s move to Maccabi Tel Aviv

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An Irish politician from the extremist Sinn Féin party has criticized Robbie Keane for accepting a head coaching position with the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team. “Very very disappointing that Irish Football icon Robbie Keane...
Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, which honors those deported to Nazi concentration camps, in Paris. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

French parliament rejects resolution calling Israel ‘apartheid’

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After a group of far-left members of France’s National Assembly put forward a measure labeling Israel an “apartheid state,” the lower house of Parliament rejected it by a margin of 199 to 71. “We can only reject...
A Palestinian man hangs a picture of former South African leader Nelson Mandela next to a poster of former Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat, at a memorial service for Mandela in Jerusalem's Old City on Dec. 8, 2013. Photo by Sliman Khader/FLASH90.

Israel slams South Africa parliament decision to downgrade ties

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Israel on Wednesday slammed as “disgraceful” the South African parliament’s decision to downgrade Jerusalem’s embassy in Pretoria to a liaison office. The measure in the South African legislature was backed by 208 lawmakers, with 94...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Western Wall, speaking on the annual Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars and Victims of Terrorism, May 3, 2022. Credit: Kobi Gideon, GPO.

Herzog: Comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa is a ‘blood libel’

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday slammed as a “blood libel” comparisons of the Jewish state’s policies towards the Palestinians to South African apartheid. “The comparison between the State of Israel and the apartheid regime...

Rubio tells media to hold Florida-bound Roger Waters culpable for anti-Semitism

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Florida’s Republican Sen. Marco Rubio went on an all-around attack on Pink Floyd co-founder and longtime anti-Israel activist Roger Waters ahead of his tour of Rubio’s state. Writing in an op-ed for The Floridian, Rubio called Waters out for his recent...
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd for his “Us + Them Tour” at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Oct. 28, 2017. Credti: James Jeffrey Taylor/Shutterstock.

Roger Waters talks of ‘apartheid’ Israel, bashes Golda Meir in online student forum

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Former Pink Floyd member and vocal Israel critic Roger Waters bashed Israel, the “settler-colonialists, Zionist movement” and even Golda Meir during an online program to support pro-Palestinian students at McGill University in Canada. “At the...