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Moshe Phillips

Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press. He was a U.S. delegate to the 38th World Zionist Congress in 2020.

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Moshe PhillipsMay 10, 2022
This is who’s teaching our kids about Israel
The Jewish community needs to take a long, hard look at the role that many Jewish academics have played, and are continuing to play, in influencing Jewish college students to side with the Palestinian Arabs over Israel.
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Moshe PhillipsApril 25, 2022
Misunderstanding Christian anti-Zionism
Whatever the motivations of Christian Zionists may be, they do not affect us the way Christian anti-Zionists do
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Moshe PhillipsMarch 14, 2022
Nixon’s grandson rewrites Israel’s history
Christopher Nixon Cox appears to have a six-day gap in his historical memory.
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Moshe PhillipsNovember 29, 2021
The set-up on ‘Debating Israel and Apartheid’
Members of a four-person panel to speak at a conference sponsored by the American Historical Association essentially hold the same harsh viewpoint towards Israel.
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Moshe PhillipsOctober 26, 2021
Jewish academics promote ‘binationalism’ in place of Israel
The annual convention of the Association for Jewish Studies on Dec. 19 will feature “Binationalism Revisited‒Palestinian, Zionist and Jewish-American Perspectives.” A snapshot of panelists speaks volumes.
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Moshe PhillipsOctober 18, 2021
Strangle Israel, get a great speaking gig
With his past record on U.S.-Israel relations, why is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger addressing Temple Emanu-El in New York City?
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Moshe PhillipsOctober 8, 2021
The latest target of anti-Israel academics? The Negev
The same leftist activists who demand that Israel expel “illegal” Jewish settlers simultaneously insist that Israel not expel Bedouin squatters.
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Moshe PhillipsSeptember 6, 2021
J Street’s atheist rabbi named Harvard’s chief chaplain
Where Greg Epstein’s influence may well be felt, I fear, is on Jewish students’ perceptions of Israel, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.
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Moshe PhillipsJuly 20, 2021
The lie of the ‘Jewish nose’ returns
Medieval Jew-haters introduced it in the 12th century C.E. as a way of singling out Jews for contempt; much later, Nazi Germany’s propaganda machine invoked the stereotype.
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Moshe PhillipsJune 29, 2021
How Biden funds Palestinian terrorists
The pro-Palestinian wing of the Democratic Party will make sure that the money flows to Gaza, come hell or high water.
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Moshe PhillipsMay 14, 2021
On Eastern Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah and Israel
East and West are not simple geographic terms as they are in the United States.
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Moshe PhillipsApril 2, 2021
Israel-bashing disguised as Jewish studies
Michael Fischbach’s book review in “American Jewish History” is a vicious screed that challenges the very legitimacy of Israel’s existence and justifies the anti-Israel “right of return.”
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Moshe PhillipsDecember 4, 2020
Trump should let the Quartet die with James Wolfensohn
A review of the Quartet’s website is instructive in examining just what’s wrong with the body. Its failures—and they are plentiful—stem from its entire approach to Israel.
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Moshe PhillipsNovember 13, 2020
The Zionist left and the PLO flag: A troubling episode
Objecting to the reproduction of a hate map should not be a partisan issue. Palestinian Arab violence has never distinguished between left-wing and right-wing Jews.
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Moshe PhillipsNovember 3, 2020
Former USAID staffer vs. Israel: Fabrications and falsehoods
Anti-Israel extremists continue to use the lie of Deir Yassin to bash Zionism and the Jewish state.
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