JNS The Daily Syndicate - Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Tuesday, August 8, 2023


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Palestinian security forces at the Rafah border crossing to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 3, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

American Jewish groups downplay Visa Waiver Program risks to Israel

Palestinian Arabs must be “thoroughly screened,” Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS.

Speakers at a panel on day one titled “Many Voices, One Vision: Change Agents on Campus” at the Israel on Campus Coalition National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., include (from left) moderator Jacob Baime, CEO of Israel on Campus Coalition; Keron Campbell, an alumnus of Morehouse College in Atlanta; Sam Fingerhut, a student activist at The Ohio State University; and Tessa Veksler, student body president at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on Aug. 7, 2023. Photo by David Swindle.

Young adults ‘empowered’ at Israel on Campus Coalition summit in DC

More than 400 Zionist college students from across the country told JNS that they are absorbing much about advocating for Israel.

Ghil’ad Zuckermann, chair of linguistics and endangered languages, and a tenured professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Photo by Avi Kumar.

Inspired by Hebrew, scholar helps revive dying aboriginal Australian languages

Two Israeli natives living in Australia are working with indigenous Australians to give their languages a life after death.

OC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin speaks with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at Mount Dov, near Lebanon, Aug. 8, 2023. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry.

Gallant warns Hezbollah: ‘We are ready to protect our sovereignty’

Route 465 overlooking the Ateret intersection in the Binyamin region of Samaria. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS.

Palestinian terrorists fire at bus in Binyamin region

The Israel Security Agency arrested Palestinian terrorists Khaled Abu al-Hijaa (left) and Marad Kaabi. Credit: Israel Security Agency.

Israel thwarts Palestinian terror cell directed from Lebanon

Pensacola Police Department vehicle in Florida. Credit: Courtesy.

Teens face multiple felonies after eight acts of vandalism in Florida

Antisemitic graffiti found at Sciences Po, a university in Paris. Source: Combat Anti-Semitism/Twitter.

ADL report: Antisemitism growing on political left

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 18, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

IDF chief: Military cohesion ‘best chance’ to heal societal rifts

An Israeli protests against the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, at Moshav Neve Ativ, Aug. 7, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Protesters allowed into Golan town where Netanyahu is vacationing

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, Sept. 3, 2020. Credit: Flash90.

King Abdullah hosts Abbas in Amman

The Australian flag flies above Sydney Harbor and the city's Opera House. Credit: ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock.

Canberra to resume use of term ‘occupied Palestinian territories’

The view from the Goha Hotel in Gondar, Ethiopia. Credit: A.Savin via Wikimedia Commons.

Israel mulling options to rescue citizens in war-torn Ethiopia

Athletes for Israel founder Daniel Posner (left), a longtime hedge-fund and private-equity manager in Manhattan, and Auburn Tigers coach Bruce Pearl at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, August 2022. Credit: Courtesy of Auburn Athletics/Basketball.

Arizona, Kansas students to visit Israel in ‘Birthright for College Basketball’

The delegation from Ukraine participating in the JCC Maccabi Games in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from Aug. 6-11, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

JCC Maccabi Games kick off in South Florida with 2,000 young athletes

Israel-Premier Tech co-owner Sylvan Adams in Scotland, August 2023. Credit: UCI World Cycling Championships Glasgow.

Sylvan Adams wins double cycling championship

Passengers at the arrival hall in the Ben-Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on July 11, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

featured column

Jonathan S. Tobin

Did Israel sacrifice security for visa waivers?

U.S. pressure led Jerusalem to give up singling out Arabs with U.S. citizenship for special scrutiny. Does the debate about “ethnic profiling” ignore threats?

Destiny Albritton

Don’t call me a ‘non-Jewish’ Zionist

We need to create a more inclusive movement for potential friends of the Jewish community and Israel.

A suggestion for the Princeton University president

The book that claims that Israel harvests Palestinian organs must be held to the academic standards of President Eisgruber’s “truth-seeking institution.”

Irwin J. Mansdorf

Selfishness and Israel’s crisis

Both sides of the controversy over judicial reform are pushing Israelis to the extremes.

Farley Weiss and Leonard Grunstein

Jew-hatred must not pay

We must take to heart the wise words of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: “The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews.”

Uri Pilichowski

When Palestinian nationalism becomes antisemitism

It’s time for anti-Zionism to come to an end.

The two-state solution: What the average Israeli knows but the average American won’t acknowledge

An Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) webinar

Yishai Fleisher

"The Yishai Fleisher Show" with hosts Yishai and Malkah Fleisher, and guest Ben Bresky, Rabbi Shimshon Nadel and Rabbi Ken Spiro

Reanimating ‘Dry Bones’

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

Dry Bones: Ping Pong

Today's cartoon predicts what I think will be the next phase in the battle between Israel's Supreme Court and Knesset.

Yaakov Kirschen

This year’s Zuckerman Faculty Scholars at seven Israeli universities join a community of 37 scientists who have returned to Israel to establish labs since the program’s inception in 2016. (Illustrative photo.)

Zuckerman STEM program taps latest North American scholars for cutting-edge research in Israel

Survey reveals what Israel’s high-tech employers seek

Israeli sculptor Sam Philipe with Mayor Amichai Stern. Credit: Courtesy.

A majestic Lion of Judah sculpture is donated to Kiryat Shemona

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