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One year later, the anti-Trump “resistance” is still trying to exploit a synagogue massacre for political purposes, rather than honoring the victims of a hate crime.
Incendiary Jew-hatred has become the signature cause of “progressives,” who tell themselves that targeting Israeli settlements proves their own virtue by supporting a righteous cause.
The strongest horse in the race remains Benjamin Netanyahu. Despite the best wishes of Benny Gantz and the left side of the Israeli electorate, there is no possible government formation that doesn’t include at least some portion of Netanyahu’s Likud Party.
The party’s turnout for the J Street conference and their presidential candidates’ threats of cutting off aid to Israel illustrate how little they understand the Middle East.
It’s not an electoral impasse per se, but Jewish festivities in September and part of October that shut everything down for a month.
From Oslo to London to Sydney to Washington, the position of courts and senior jurists is that it is not permissible to criminalize, or even to set limits on, relations between politicians and the media.
If the neo-Nazi gunman in Halle hadn’t been prevented from entering the synagogue by its robust security system, Germany would have been confronted with the most atrocious act of anti-Semitism on its soil since the Nazi era.
Trump may be responding to a genuine desire to evade endless wars, but partisan excuses for his Syria blunder don’t help Israel.
The United States has left the Middle East numerous times under several American presidents. But it has consistently returned—for better or worse.
The welcoming of support by Ilhan Omar and other anti-Semites by the Bernie Sanders campaign says a lot about the future of the Democrats’ radical activist base.
Support for the Palestinian cause is now the default position across the West’s progressive classes, including for many Jews.
A “Forward” editor learns that those who seek to delegitimize Israel and its supporters are more than willing to tolerate anti-Semitism.