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Yisrael Medad

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Yisrael MedadFebruary 13, 2019
Forget Ilhan Omar; pay attention to her Jewish support system
Mostly on social-media platforms, but in mainstream media outlets as well, Jews have been trying to extend her support, justify her spew and ratchet up the anti-Semitic poison.
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Yisrael MedadFebruary 6, 2019
The origins of Mideast flavor, aka ‘cuisine geography’
Food, it appears, can become an instrument of a political struggle.
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Yisrael MedadFebruary 1, 2019
The international anti-Zionist consortium
What we are witnessing is the rise of a consortium that reaches out even to adversarials as long as the common enemy—the Jew as Zionist—is pummeled, trampled and done in.
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In latest case, San Francisco files lawsuit against Airbnb for delisting area-specific properties
Yisrael MedadJanuary 23, 2019
The complaint asserts that “since biblical times, Judea and Samaria have been part and parcel of the Land of Israel, as reflected in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and an unbroken line of historical and archaeological sources spanning more than 3,000 years.”
Airbnb logo. Credit: Screenshot.
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Yisrael MedadJanuary 22, 2019
Women’s March on Jews and Israel: A deadly ‘intersexuality’
They have formed a new matrix of “intersexuality” to protect themselves on the one hand and to allow them to attack on the other.
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Yisrael MedadJanuary 7, 2019
‘Palestine’ origins and former members of US Congress
Israel came into existence in 1948. Palestine, incidentally, never became an independent geopolitical entity.
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Yisrael MedadJanuary 4, 2019
Temple to mosque and mosque to temple
In Jerusalem, despite the law, Jews and Christians cannot freely access the site except as tourists and visitors, and they surely cannot pray anywhere inside the compound.
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Yisrael MedadDecember 31, 2018
The ‘BBB Elections’: Act One
There are too many questions and too few solid answers. But that's what makes Israeli politics so fascinating.
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Yisrael MedadDecember 5, 2018
The problem that dare not speak its name
Racists, white supremacists, internationalists or whatever, from the right and from the left, need to be contained, and the pushback from the Jewish community needs to be across the board.
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Yisrael MedadNovember 30, 2018
Marc Lamont Hill’s slip up and slide down
Hill should know that “resistance” in the history of the Arabs of historic Palestine means one thing and one thing only: killing Jews. Violently.
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Yisrael MedadNovember 28, 2018
The sound of the death knell for BDS?
Airbnb offers, “We are most certainly not the experts when it comes to the historical disputes in this region.” Would you trust a company that admits it is, well, a bit stupid?
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Yisrael MedadNovember 14, 2018
‘Hasbara’: Fostering counter-narrative engagement
Who practices apartheid if not Arabs who, for example, permit every visitor to the Temple Mount to drink from the water fountain there, except the Jews?
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Yisrael MedadNovember 7, 2018
The rise of the Diaspora ‘supremacists’
It is not only an outlook that sees the Diaspora as so much better than a renewed clannish ghetto. It is the concept of Israel itself, as much as it is their misrepresentation of what Israel is and does.
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Yisrael MedadNovember 1, 2018
Yes, we need to talk, but …
The Jewish Federations are important to Jewish communal life in North America and to Israel. But this is a two-way street.
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Yisrael MedadOctober 28, 2018
Does the US promote an apartheid policy?
This is a sort of American apartheid policy. No Jews allowed. Even if we live less than a kilometer one from the other or drive on the same roads.
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