Column
By firing Marc Lamont Hill because of his support for terror and the destruction of Israel, CNN set a standard that needs to be emulated.
While once admired by liberal U.S. Jews for being a tiny David confronted by an anti-Semitic Goliath—a little lady in need of her big man for survival—Israel has slowly been transforming into an uppity force to be reckoned with.
Despite Tehran’s deranged, genocidal call to arms, European governments are still trying to circumvent U.S. policy against Iran in an attempt to keep the nuclear deal alive.
The possibility of Israel launching a preemptive military strike should not be ruled out.
Why comparing Central American asylum-seekers to the Holocaust won’t help them or fix America’s broken immigration system.
The campaign to isolate Israel and its international endeavors has been an epic failure, but efforts to isolate pro-Israel U.S. Jews and to mainstream anti-Semitism continue.
As others have pointed out, the Western influence did not result in more democratic institutions but rather more effective and efficient security systems. Western European ideas did not take root but totalitarian movements did, particularly among the elite.
When it comes to double standards, Israel is the ideal target for every kind of persecution.
There isn’t enough public support for an operation that could end Hamas terror completely. Thus the choice is between two short-term fixes, both of them bad.
The lack of a credible alternative leader or strategy for dealing with security threats means that the prime minister is still favored for re-election.
The effort to treat the presidential daughter and son-in-law as unwelcome in the American Jewish community deepens the partisan divide in a way that undermines Jewish values.
Unfortunately, this history—the forced exodus of Jews who, along with their descendants, constitute the majority of Jews in Israel—is barely studied, mostly ignored and seemingly of little interest to the general population and even to Diaspora Jewry.