Human Rights Watch Now Openly Endorsing BDS
Human Rights Watch doesn’t like Israel. No surprise there. But since the advocacy group still does important work on human rights issues in other countries, it continues to get taken seriously by the...
View ArticleFake Palestinian Diplomacy No Substitute for Actual Negotiations
The notion that the chief obstacle to peace in the Middle East is an Israeli unwillingness to make the sacrifices necessary for an agreement (settlements and Jerusalem) is a familiar theme in...
View ArticleNetanyahu, Clergy Call on Obama to Release Pollard
The campaign to release Jonathan Pollard has been heating up over the past few days, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a group of 500 religious figures sent two separate letters to...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
President Obama’s peace-process failure is actually a political win for both Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, writes Benjamin Kerstein: “The reason for this is a simple one: It is in the interests...
View ArticleIsrael to Consider Law Allowing Deportation of Foreign Activists
Get ready for more hyperventilating over Israel’s alleged slide toward totalitarianism. Likud members are expected to introduce a bill before the Knesset that will allow the Israeli government to...
View ArticleGroup Defies Dutch Government, Continues to Fund Anti-Israel Website
A government-funded Netherlands organization has rejected requests from the Dutch foreign minister to stop supporting financially the Electronic Intifada. The Interchurch Organization for Development...
View ArticleIsraeli Shakeup Another Setback for Obama
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s decision to break away from the Labor Party and form his own centrist faction is a boost to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. With the remaining...
View ArticleRep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Slams PLO-Flag Decision
It’s so refreshing — and sadly rare — when a politician comes out and just says the honest truth. Today Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the new chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee, issued some...
View ArticleThe Culture War Against Israel
In 2010, the hard-core left married pro-Islamic and pro-Palestinian organizations and gave birth to an entertainment-boycott campaign aimed at Israel. Cultural-boycott efforts have spilled over into...
View ArticleTurkel Commission Report: Israel Followed Law During Flotilla Raid
The Turkel Commission, an investigation launched by the Israeli government into the flotilla raid, has found that Israel acted in accordance with international law during the incident. Nothing in the...
View ArticleThe Real Danger Is that the Guardian’s Spin Could Mislead the West
The Guardian clearly has it in for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat. Not content with lambasting the concessions they actually made, it’s now accusing...
View ArticleIs All Criticism of Israel Out of Bounds?
That’s what Chas Freeman claimed during a panel discussion with Steve Clemons this week. In an attempt to defend himself against charges that he’s an “Israel-basher,” Freeman argued that anyone who...
View ArticleAbout Those ‘Likudniks’
The theory that a powerful cabal of Jewish intellectuals pressured President Bush into launching wars on behalf of Israel is one that’s become associated with the anti-Semitic political fringe. But it...
View ArticleThe Guardian: Let’s Have a ‘Discussion’ About the Morality of Terrorism
If you’ve ever wondered what the first step to becoming a full-blown terrorist apologist is, check out this column by the Guardian’s Chris Elliott. In the piece, Elliott defends a letter to the editor...
View ArticleCould an Unstable Egypt Bring Israel and the U.S. Closer?
At Politico, Walter Russell Mead analyzes what the possible outcome in Egypt could mean for the U.S.-Israel relationship. He writes that if an extremist government ends up replacing President Hosni...
View ArticleSharansky: Reagan Right, Critics Wrong
Ronald Reagan, who would have been 100 this Sunday, had an instinctive affinity for Jews and Israel. As an actor who spent decades in the heavily Jewish environment of Hollywood and who counted scores...
View ArticlePro-Mubarak Rioters Go After ‘Jew’ Journalists
JTA is reporting that the pro-Mubarak protesters in Egypt are targeting foreign journalists, who they believe are supported by Jews. The Egyptian state-run media has been reporting recently that Israel...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s Surprising Achievement: Political Stability
Three years ago, most observers of the Middle East were sure about one thing: the newly elected coalition government in Israel being put together by Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t last. In particular, the...
View ArticleCoalition Shift Leaves Netanyahu on Top
The collapse of the short-lived supermajority who presided over Israel’s ruling coalition since May has given critics of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the best couple of days they’ve had in years....
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox Big Losers in New Coalition
There was no blue and white smoke emanating from the roof of the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem today, but not long before the College of Cardinals sent up their signals in Rome announcing the...
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