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 You don’t need Ben & Jerry’s in order to have good ice cream. If you have a mixer in your house, you can make your own ice cream, any time you want.

Applying one standard to Israel and another to the rest of the world makes Ben & Jerry's hypocrites of the first order. Please tell me that you stopped selling ice cream to other countries for moral reasons so I can resume eating your wonderful flavors

The world seems to pretty much agrees with this antisemitism.

Jews need to be proud of our Judaism and of Israel. We shouldn't be defensive - we should be enthusiastic.

It is an expression of the Antisemitic idea that Jews must always be held to the highest of standards – indeed, to a standard that is continually raised so as to ALWAYS be out of reach.

Tisha B’Av is the saddest day of our year because we didn’t trust God' promise to give us the land of Israel. In a way, our collective egos were too big then and 3500 years later we are still weighted down by our large egos

It is naïve to think Palestinians or their advocates will be placated by an easing of Palestinian restrictions. Only when Israel cedes control of all the land and ends the Jewish state will Palestinians be satisfied.

In an open sea ceremony, the Zionist blue-white flag with the Star of David was hoisted and “Hatikvah,” which became the Israeli national anthem, was sung over and over. The Exodus 1947 became Israel’s first ship of state.

Home field advantage

Spotting Jews will become a matter of seconds, rather than having to ask around, which can waste precious minutes during an altercation in which a Jew might defend himself.

Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late senator John McCain, said that in one of her last conversations with her father before he died, he said to keep the flame of Israel burning.

It was important to have a rally today to show that it is not acceptable for Jews anywhere to be attacked.

So we see that Jews lives in Halhul in the Middle Ages, they venerated it for much longer as the burial place of a prophet, and it is clearly an important Biblical site.

The question is why? Why is the Taliban so successful? This brings me back to extremism.

No laundries, no showers, no swimming, and no pastrami sandwiches. It seems like the big expression during the Nine Days is: "Just say no!" Please allow me, therefore, to change things up a bit. Here is a list of things you can say "yes" to during this period.

The solution is to employ a proactive, not reactive strategy; to attack rather than defend.

Without systemic antisemitism, it would be impossible to explain why the United Nations condemned Israel 17 times in 2020 while the UN’s combined condemnations of ALL OTHER COUNTRIES ON THE PLANET, including China which is engaged in a genocide of Uighur Muslims, amounted to only 6.

To put it more succinctly, tying Islamophobia to Antisemitism is just bull.

There's simply no excuse for generalizing about an entire group based on the actions of a few people in the group.

I've noted before that the legal analyses given by NGOs like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are not only biased against Israel but they betray an ignorance of the laws of armed conflict.

Israel: Something for everyone

Bet Shemesh Mayor Aliza Bloch has fired the Charedi members of her ruling coalition.

Every day, the paper – which publishes both a Hebrew print edition that few Israelis read, and an English internet edition that is read around the world by decision-makers in governments and businesses – pumps out its vileness. Every day its writers present a slanted version of events in which Israel and Israelis are oppressors, occupiers, murderers, racists, thieves, and liars.

Civil rights isn’t just regulating what you do, but how you think.

Palestinians are spending considerable energy to reeducate the world on manufactured “facts” rather than acknowledging the basic history, dignity and rights of Jews. Sadly, universities are listening.

Assaf A. Voll has written one of the most comprehensive books on the history of the Palestinian People.

As he put it, “Take away the Torah, and what will be left of us? A small, and unimportant people with a sub-American culture. We are on the stage of history only thanks to the Torah, the Mishnah, the Talmud - the great contribution of the Jewish people. Not only religiously but also nationally. This is the core of our identity.

The only people who think a potential Palestinian state will be confined to the West Bank are Americans who aren’t familiar with actual Palestinians.

It’s difficult to place any kind of silver lining on this event. People are still suffering...There is no sliver lining for them. But I believe that a Kiddush HaShem should be made public. There are two of them I’d like to highlight.

In other words, Iran will be able to get the bomb with very little lead time for Israel to act, and the US will be obligated to prevent Israel from acting against Iran.