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The terrorist threat Israel faces is an unusual one: the terrorist organizations seeking to destroy it control their own territory, making them a kind of semi-state.

International sport events claim to be universal symbols of unity and peaceful coexistence, except when it comes to Israel, where the world tolerates Arab racist attitudes towards Israelis.

All in all, the greatest problem with Cortez is not her ignorance, but her enduring stubbornness. Cortez, unfortunately, is a part of a growing trend of partisanship and leftism in the Democratic party, which ultimately harms Israel.

J-Street and IfNotNow are not fringe groups; they are the mainstream representation of secular Diaspora Jewry. And they actively work to harm Israel and the Jews in it, both economically and physically. They have no “love of Zion"

Your Church removed any veneer of objectivity or fairness from your General Convention, and zeroed right in on those pesky Zionists. We watched as you introduced a dozen resolutions hostile to the Jewish state,

To be a light unto the nations, they say, Jews must merely set a good example in their own lives, individual and communal.

As a religious minority, American Jews benefit from a prevailing reluctance among most Americans to have explicitly religious tenets govern our pluralistic society.

Had a 100-kilogram rampart stone fallen into the Mount where Moslems gather or pray – Israel would be excoriated, even though Wakf digging may be to blame.

The “Nation-State” law corrects an existing constitutional distortion. Those who demand that the law include equality are trying to harness this law to serve the extreme left.

Some Israeli Arab leaders want Israel to disappear as a Jewish homeland. If these leaders are so unhappy in Israel perhaps they should consider leaving for another Arab country. Why do they refrain from doing so? Because it's in the Jewish homeland that they and their children can live and thrive.

Relations between France and Israel have been ambivalent and complex for decades, and there have been ample occasions when the French government has set out expressly to blacken Israel. Pres.Macron is seemingly a new type of Frenchman yet continues the hypocritical French policy of tarnishing Israel.

The fear that he has normalized anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, coupled with unwavering loyalty to the Palestine solidarity activists who have dragged Labour into the mire of Jew-baiting, leads many to conclude that what has already happened in the party will unfold next in the country.

Many who recognize the legitimacy of Jewish national rights in the Land of Israel are troubled by the new Basic Law. A look at the background and some of the facts about the law that are misrepresented.

Many worry that the leftward shift among Democrats in their opposition to Trump during this election season may bring the party closer towards the anti-Israel views found on the party’s far-left, as exemplified by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The LGBTQ community’s claim that they are being “prevented” from becoming parents is simply untrue.

The sifting project of debris from illegal construction by the Waqf on the Temple Mount has yielded hundreds of thousands of findings relating to the roots of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. Time for the government to wake up and support the project.

Though the White Helmets themselves failed to acknowledge who saved them, the U.S., Canada, UK, and EU all acknowledged Israel’s help. It would be appreciated if they let Israel in addition to defending others, was permitted to defend itself.

Jews are also commanded in the Torah not to wrong or oppress a stranger “for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” But what if the strangers in question want to turn your own country into Egypt?

Adina Hay-Nissan, recalled that she called up the British command that was stationed in the hotel and warned them, ''This is the Hebrew resistance uprising. We planted bombs in the hotel. Please vacate it immediately. See, we warned you.''

If everyone is considered a refugee, then in the end, nobody will be. If refugees are a limited class of people, there’s some hope that other countries can be persuaded to take them in.

Islam is the official state religion in 27 nations and the preferred religion in another 3 nations. Christianity is the official state religion in 13 countries and the preferred religion in another 28 countries. Buddhism is the state religion in 2 nations and the preferred religion in another 4

Thousands demonstrate in the Holy Land on a holy day for an unholy abomination.

If the Israelis did not lay claim to the Golan, there would have been no means to have got the White Helmets and their families out of Syria. Had Israel not made the Golan the peaceful and thriving area it is, it would simply be another part of fragmented Syria.

At this stage, the new law does nothing more than apply the brakes to a car that was skidding down the slope of bi-nationalism.

A society regulates marriage for reasons pertaining to health and social order. Until the rise of political correctness, couples first had to be tested for STDs. Bigamy is illegal for a wide range of obvious reasons. Thus, it is thoroughly reasonable for Israel to adopt and enforce its own marriage laws

Those who present themselves as rabbis and conduct marriages for couples who halachically cannot be married are like lawyers who falsify records or restaurant owners who forge Health Ministry permits.

13 years since the disengagement and Israel is a very different society today, the sobering realities having clarified the true nature of the “peace” our neighbors seek.

The drive to pass the Jewish nation-state law and the growing appeal of sophisticated Bible study stem from a similar profound place: a desire to entrench our roots in this land.

American Jews need to be clear-eyed about what the future holds for the Democratic and Republican parties and whom they owe our hakarat ha'tov.

Vatican City is surrounded by walls and th Pope is perfectly OK with that. The only wall he seems to detest is Israel's separation barrier.