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           listen           Live from San Francisco International Airport   Yishai Fleisher           the pulpit             featured column     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?       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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