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The mask is now off: Knesset member Mansour Abbas and his colleagues want to use their membership in the coalition as leverage to dismantle Israel’s Jewish identity.
Bari Weiss and other independent thinkers are right in thinking that it’s time for a new approach to college. But the war on wokeism will require more than just advocacy for open discourse.
He and other left-wing activists are being told it’s not enough to support Palestinians by advocating their right to self-determination. Solidarity is only worthy if it presents them as colonized subjects of an apartheid regime that has no right to exist.
Many leaders are terrified that speaking the truth about Israel will cause them to lose their access to the political and intellectual circles they prize so highly, and in which they pretend to themselves they are accepted as equals just like anyone else.
The government’s gift to the left-wing lobby was a futile attempt to buy goodwill from Joe Biden; boosting a group that exists to bash the Jewish state may come back to bite the prime minister.
The Palestinian claim that U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 rendered Jerusalem to be international territory has absolutely no basis in law and fact.
The ADL has acknowledged that Jew-hatred is on the rise on the left. But as long as it attacks CRT critics and supports media gaslighting about it, that stand is meaningless.
American Jewish organizations trying to maintain bipartisan support for Israel must decide between sustaining pro-Israel policies and alienating Democrats. The Republican Jewish Coalition has no such limitations.
The whole lollipop-licking plenum looked as puerile as it’s been sounding, with childish verbiage and decibel levels not even fit for a playground.
Nikki Haley’s demand that AIPAC snub Democrats who aren’t fully supportive of Israel won GOP applause. Still, efforts to preserve or revive what’s left of a shattered consensus must continue.
Captive to his post-Zionist and anti-Zionist coalition partners, Israel’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is predicated on making far-reaching concessions.
In the battle for political survival, anything goes. As the threat to Jerusalem goes unchallenged, the government OKs funding for Hamas while Netanyahu encourages thuggery at the Western Wall.