Column
The recent drama about U.S. funding for Iron Dome was just a sideshow to Rep. Andy Levin’s proposed amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987, which would effectively support Palestinian terrorism against Israel.
The vice president not only failed to challenge a student who smeared Israel, but praised her instead. What does this say about campus culture and politicians who see the hard-left as their party’s base?
The lot of political dissidents has always been a brutal one, and so there is every reason to fear that a combination of arrests and propaganda will be unleashed to crush the nascent movement for peace with Israel.
The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the shallow and ignorant, whose knowledge of the Jewish state is entirely drawn from malicious propaganda that misrepresents Israel’s defensive measures as racist aggression.
A conference that urged Iraq to join the Abraham Accords fed hopes for expanding the growing circle of normalization. But intimidation of some of those involved demonstrates how dangerous sanity can be in the Arab world.
AOC’s tears and subsequent apology for not opposing the Iron Dome illustrated the frustrations of the left and the fears of other Democrats about being bulldozed by radicals.
The Lapid-Gantz-Bennett government has decided to raise the white flag of surrender.
Ruth Wisse’s new memoir tells of the flowering of Jewish literature and of witnessing the miracle of Israel. But she is just as interested in the revival of anti-Semitism and Jewish indifference or complicity in the war on their own people.
We all know that raw prejudice among Jews against those who are visibly Jewish—that they are loud, rude, unwashed, contemptuous towards outsiders and all the rest of that baggage—is our community’s dirty secret.
Jewish defenders should target their enemies’ Achilles heel—their narcissism and belief in their own unimpeachable virtue.
The refusal of left-wingers to go along with a bill that included funding for the Iron Dome defense system is being spun by Democratic leaders as a momentary tactical blip. It isn’t.
Hateful anti-Semitic ideology, stemming from Iran, is meant to create enemies for the Yemeni people where there are none, and to divide people by religion—Muslim against Jew, Christian, Baha’i and all others.