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Jewish kids helped rid schools in their district of police protection to demonstrate their opposition to racism. Can Jews afford to prioritize virtue signaling over safety?
The very idea of “white privilege,” damning an entire ethnic group for its alleged evil behavior and attitudes, is racist.
John Bolton’s tell-all book reminds the pro-Israel community of the choice Trump poses for them. But like most Democrats, they care more about issues than character flaws.
Jewish organizations want to oppose racism, but the push to endorse a group tainted by anti-Zionism and radical demands is a mistake.
The Jewish state is not about to march across any border or claim even an inch of new territory. To the contrary, its footprint in Judea and Samaria will remain exactly the same.
There is plenty of “evidence” of Student Senate president Ahmad Daraldik’s anti-Semitic views beyond a few obnoxious online posts. He created an entire website to explain how the Holocaust never ended, it just moved to Palestine.”
There is a huge difference between rejecting a politician and debasing his supporters.
As with Israelis who validated the “nakba” narrative, the effort to cast America as incorrigibly racist has more dangerous consequences than just vandalizing statues.
John Bolton’s conduct, both during his White House tenure and since, shows that he has failed to accept the fact that he was an adviser, not a decision-maker.
Netanyahu’s vacillations are clearly a product of the immense pressure being exerted on him to turn his back on Trump’s Middle East peace plan. This is a shame. It is also absurd.
Biden’s adviser says he will keep sanctions in place until Iran returns to the nuclear deal. But merely restoring an agreement that gave Tehran a path to a weapon won’t work.
However battered our current system looks, it remains true that a democratic system is the best framework for balancing the freedom of individuals with the requirement for social order and civic justice.