Column
If the GOP takes control of the House and the Senate next month, it needs to use the power of the purse to halt the way the DC establishment funds anti-Semitism abroad.
As long as some on both the left and the right are ready to excuse their allies and legitimize smears of Israel, the problem will continue to get worse.
Speaking to JNS, the controversial right-wing Israeli politician said, “Our Tanach [Bible] teaches us that we are from here, we have come back to our land. I am not a racist, I do not hate Arabs, I hate terrorists.”
An inability of either the Likud-led camp or the “anybody but Bibi” bloc will enable the incumbent government ministers to stay put for the foreseeable future. One of these is radical-leftist Merav Michaeli.
The rise of right-wing women to power represents a positive change in society.
Being dragged into an endless and unwinnable conflict, to virtue-signal opposition to Russia’s illegal invasion, makes no sense for Jerusalem or Washington.
When an Israeli commits a criminal act, he or she is arrested and prosecuted. The opposite is the case in the P.A., where those who kill Jews are hailed as heroes.
Claims that a victory for Netanyahu would destroy Israel’s democratic system are partisan smears.
As a growing power in the world, Israel needs to adjust its foreign policy accordingly, looking beyond its own corner of the world and paying greater attention to the balance of power between the Western democracies and authoritarian states like Russia and China.
Lapid’s behavior since taking over the caretaker government makes one thing clear. If he forms the next government, the foundations of Israel’s democratic system and the basic freedoms that citizens of a free society expect, including freedom of the press and representative government, will be imperiled.
Such lethal myopia now stretches from Australia to a London theater.
The ongoing attempt by the ADL and other liberal groups to tie the former president to hatred of Jews is a partisan narrative aimed at distracting voters from the Democrats’ problems.