Why Americans Support Israel

As Israeli air strikes and naval shells bombarded Gaza last week, the world asked the question that perennially frustrates, confuses and enrages so many people across the planet: Why aren’t the Americans hating on Israel more?

Islamist Media Digitally Cover Prominent Western Women

Even the modestly dressed and Islamist friendly Catherine Ashton did not escape being photoshopped.

Palestinians Desecrate Everyone’s Holy Sites–Including Their Own

Take note: as long as Blinken considers the construction of apartments for Jews a greater threat than shooting and stabbing Israeli men and women at shopping malls and bars, the Palestinians will not cease their blood payments and murderous incitement.

Zelenskyy and Ukrainian Antisemitism: The Fish Rots from the Head Down

Zelenskyy has left us Israelis with a bad taste in our mouths. He’s a hero the world over, and we want to like him, too. But it’s difficult for Israelis to like him after the things he said

Anti-Semitism, On the Rise: How Can We Stop it?

Conference speaker Charles Small stated the majority of religiously motivated hate crimes in the US target the Jewish community and there has been a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the New York area

The EU Hijab Ban: Where The Logic Leads

By definition, discrimination is visited upon those who are different or who act differently from the way the majority of people do. Laws exist to bar employers from acting on some of those differences.

The Maccabees’ Response To ‘World Opinion’

“Israel has bad public relations.” This is the perennial cry. “Israel must improve its image to convince the world of the justness of its cause.”

New Moderates: Syrian Rebels, Iranian President, and the Taliban

American policymakers are likely to be carried away and to see rebel victory as the equivalent of a good and heroic victory for freedom.

INTO THE FRAY- Gaza: Gratuitous Gobbledygook

The obdurate resistance of Gaza to any type of resolution has led to such overriding exasperation that it has begun to undermine the quality of the public debate on the issue.

Where Right And Left Meet

For those of us who came of age in the 1960's and 70's, a time when the Cold War was still very much a daily life-and-death concern, there was never much confusion about what Right and Left stood for in terms of U.S. foreign policy.

NY Times Pits “Principle” against Powerful “Rabbis” in Iron Dome Vote

After much criticism, the Times quietly removed the reference to "rabbis" without apologizing for its reporter's mendacious anti-Semitism or disciplining her for her journalistic malpractice.

Do You Want Nazis as Neighbors?

As shocking and insulting and horrifying as it is, Nazi war criminals are still living freely among us.

Palestinians’ New Enemy: Tzipi Livni

The Palestinians were unhappy with Kerry for being biased, now they are angry with Livni for daring to criticize Abbas.

Trump was the Gift; Biden the Punishment

Israeli liberals cheered for Trump's downfall and the Democrats' rise to power because of their need to appear enlightened. We are all paying for this sin.

Inside Canary Mission

Canary Mission aggregates public statements, videos, & photos of leaders in the anti-Israel movement

Government to Expel BDS Activists. Bravo!

I applaud Israel's government for, albeit belatedly, acting to expel or bar entry to foreigners entering Israel as "tourists" to promote/assist BDS and provoke West Bank Palestinians against the IDF

Who’s Funding Illegal Palestinian Settlements in Area C—Nearly 10,000 Cases

“Area C,” which comprises some 60 percent of the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria, has become highly volatile again. In the past, debate has centered on Jewish settlements. Now, “illegal Palestinian settlements” sprouting across the region, are under the spotlight.

The Tenth Annual Swim4Sadna Kinneret Swimathon for Women: Surpassing All Expectations

Personal Empowerment, Inclusion for All and Giving to Society--Surpassing expectations

Daring To Tell The Truth

Yet the Jewish establishment seems willing to turn the other cheek and not register the kind of protest that should be strong and virtually automatic.

Mistaken Assumptions About the Origins of Violence Among Israeli Arabs

Internal violence within the Israeli Arab community is not the result of socioeconomic deprivation. Quite the reverse, in fact.

Before Jerusalem’s Reunification, Shmuel Matza Left Defiant Carvings On A Prison Wall

“I had seen the plans for the museum and that the Kishle was part of the grounds,” Lieber tells JNS. “It was something that no one even remembered.”

Fifty Years After Eichmann Execution, Israel Thrives

Half a century ago in May, Israel hanged Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann for overseeing Germany’s extermination of six million European Jews, fully one-third of the world's prewar Jewish population. The murder of the six million staggers the mind. Such a vast breadth of our people, each of them with his own individual dreams, loves and aspirations, exterminated.

Damned if you Do . . . and Trump and Netanyahu are Certainly Doing

The campaign against Trump and Netanyahu signifies a cultural disorder in the West that borders on the pathological.

Civility: What The Sages Had To Say

In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Tucson, "civility" is the word on everyone's lips. This is ironic when one considers that civility is nowhere to be found in anyone's actions. Each partisan faction is charging the other with hatred and violence.

The Iran-Saudi Explosion: Losing The Forest For The Trees

In a sense, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia were drifting apart well before the nuclear agreement.

Has Armenia Resurrected a Terror Group?

Have ghosts of ASALA, a brutal Armenian terror organization allied with the PLO, come back to life? If so, how will this affect Israel?

The Holy Land Doesn’t Tolerate Sin

What goes on in Israel doesn’t only impact Jews in Israel. It impacts Jews all over the world.

Hidden Lights Aglow

He turned to the rav to express sincere regret for his needless suffering and to request the honor of a private audience.

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