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The refusal by Arab families in Jerusalem of a court offer of a compromise that would let them keep their homes is the latest example of the Palestinian refusal to accept a peaceful solution.
A report on the transfer of Ra’am Party money to a “charity” in Gaza is being underplayed by a government bent on passing the state budget and staying intact.
A dirty trick backfired. But the willingness to excuse using the frightening images of Charlottesville as a partisan ploy makes a mockery of discourse on anti-Semitism.
The government’s rush to become a climate champion is as much about global finance as about the environment, and Israeli technologies may become the primary beneficiaries.
Given the Biden administration’s near-obsessive drive to open a consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem, it’s just a matter of time before it presents an offer it believes Israel will be unable to refuse.
The leftist-progressive camp’s relationship with reality is at best ambivalent. For progressives, the narrative, rather than reality, is what counts.
The administration’s harsh criticisms, combined with renewed appeasement of Iran, bode ill for the alliance. How serious is the president about demanding that Israel bow to his demands?
Many liberal Jews don’t want to know about Jewish exceptionalism because it runs smack into the cardinal precepts of liberal dogma—universalism, the rejection of cultural singularity and the eradication of difference as “discrimination.”
Claims by Democrats that mentioning political donations by George Soros as anti-Semitic while ignoring problems in their own party is both wrongheaded and hypocritical.
Genuine leaders are ready to forgo frivolous popularity, while enhancing durable respect.
A new survey shows that most Jews are thinking a lot about anti-Semitism but not experiencing or changing their habits because of it. And they tend to view the problem through a partisan lens.
The brouhaha surrounding the Israeli defense minister’s designation of six “humanitarian” NGOs as terrorist organizations highlights two greater issues.