Monday, June 12, 2023
THE DAILY SYNDICATE
Amid stark disagreement, UN postpones meeting on antisemitism
A draft of the plan that JNS reviewed gives equal weight to the IHRA, Nexus and Jerusalem Declaration definitions of antisemitism.
Mike Wagenheim
Hezbollah fans flames of Israeli border tensions
Lebanese villagers try to stop IDF engineering work near Mount Hermon.
Baruch Yedid
‘The challenge of evacuating patients with needs under fire is double’
Lt. Col. Merav Shabi Sultan of the IDF Homefront Command shares some of the ways Israel is preparing for a war with Hezbollah.
Yaakov Lappin
White House consulting CAIR on antisemitism like inviting ‘butchers to National Vegetarian Day’
“I’m disappointed and appalled that CAIR—an organization that has peddled antisemitic tropes and has ties to extremist, anti-Israel groups—played any role in the U.S. national strategy to counter antisemitism,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) told JNS.
David Swindle
Former ‘Miss Iraq’ Sarah Idan to vie for Adam Schiff’s congressional seat
“Our democracy is fundamentally at stake,” said the Baghdad native, 33, who fled her country after posing in a selfie with “Miss Israel” in 2017.
Bradley Martin
AJC Global Forum meets to tackle challenges facing the Jewish people
As many as 1,000 people from 60 nations attended the opening session held in Tel Aviv.
David Isaac
Barak urges civil revolt as anti-reform protests lose steam
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak claims that Benjamin Netanyahu is intent on destroying Israeli democracy.
David Isaac
Reform opponents blasted for spitting on energy minister
Israel Katz was accosted while addressing an event in Tel Aviv.
Amir Ettinger and Yehuda Shlezinger
‘Times’ airs accusations that religious Jews in New York are polluting wells
“It’s shocking today, where we have access to so much information to research,” a community activist told JNS. “People fall into the same traps.”
Menachem Wecker
B’nai Brith Canada: Shut down auction site hawking Shoah items
The “memorabilia” on offer include an empty canister of Zyklon B.
David Swindle
latest news
US to rejoin UNESCO
Netanyahu mourns Berlusconi, ‘a great friend of Israel’
Israel to compensate Gaza border towns after ‘Shield and Arrow’
Former IDF chief: Israel killed hundreds of ISIS terrorists
Israeli opposition leader Lapid testifies in Netanyahu trial
Israel leverages Abraham Accords to become ‘global communications power’
Netanyahu touts ‘excellent relations’ in meeting with Lithuanian premier
Israel tops Korea to secure third place at Under-20 World Cup
Hispanic Jewish Foundation gets building for Madrid museum
UK leaders slam Roger Waters’s antisemitism
US government departments warn about Iranian drone program
Conference in Baltimore features Islamist speakers with antisemitic histories
‘USA Today’ crossword calls Palestine a Jordan neighbor
Menachem Wecker
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Yishai Fleisher
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Jonathan S. Tobin
Israel shouldn’t make concessions to Biden for Saudi normalization
Expanding the Abraham Accords is vital. But given the administration’s desire to appease Iran, coupled with the Saudis’ unpopularity, Washington won’t pay the price to make it happen.
Yoni Ben Menachem
A new nuclear deal with Iran threatens Israel
Senior officials in Jerusalem are concerned about Israel’s inability to influence the Biden administration and Congress on the Iranian nuclear issue.
H.E. Abderrahim Beyyoudh and Robert Singer
How water is being used to further cooperation in our region
Israel and Morocco needed to find ways to make the wilderness bloom.
Stephen M. Flatow
What the Palestinian student elections reveal
Why is it that there are no candidates who oppose violence and support peaceful coexistence with Israel?
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
Do Zionism and the State of Israel have intrinsic value?
Religious Zionism should celebrate, not reject its diversity of thought and opinion.
Benjamin Kerstein
The UN goes all in on antisemitism
The international body is a very sick man.
Amy Rosenthal
Intifada in North Carolina
In the face of violent Jew-hatred, Jewish leaders are silent.
Douglas Altabef
Where is the outrage?
Calls for “rebellion” and “civil war” are an invitation to unspeakable violence
Joseph Frager
Napoleon was right about the Jews
He acknowledged, like other great men, that the Jews are the heirs to the Land of Israel.
Thane Rosenbaum
With Trump, all bets are off
No one has ever made better use of bad publicity. The worse it gets, the more energized he seemingly becomes, and the more devotedly his base responds.
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