Monday night, on the upper east side of New York City, a gang of anti-Semitic “thugs” attacked a peaceful but visibly Jewish man – he was wearing a skullcap (a yarmulke or kippa). They also attacked his wife. Two cars “flying
On August 23, 2014, a paid ad/open letter appeared in the New York Times taking Elie Wiesel to task for playing the “Holocaust trump” card and for trying to “justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the
The most barbaric bunch of blood-thirsty misogynists this side of Genghis Khan are yearning for western “brides”–and the “brides,” who will be no more than sex and reproductive slaves, are coming, via an internet campaign, to service ISIS’s male Jihadis in
On July 31, 2014, the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University put out “an urgent call” to condemn Israel, Israeli scholars, and the Israeli culture of “rape,” “misogyny,” “sexism,” “genocide,” and “ethnic cleansing.” That’s not all. The Institute
The Lancet finally caved and did the right thing. Well–almost, but not quite. They have now published some letters of rebuttal to the Big Lie anti-Israel piece they published, but they have also published letters of support for the article
The most amazing rally for Israel just took place in South Africa. Whites and blacks, Jews, and non-Jews gathered, 12,000 strong, in the largest pro-Israel rally ever on the continent to convey a message of love and support for the
Shortly after this latest exercise in futility (aka a cease-fire) began, Hamas fired at Israeli civilians and IDF targets, killing two Israeli soldiers–and perhaps kidnapping a third soldier, 23 year-old Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, from Kfar Saba, who holds joint
A senior UN official, UN OCHA director, John Ging, confirms what the IDF and other informed experts have been saying all along, but to little avail. In a television interview yesterday, Ging said that Hamas terrorists “are firing their rockets
Abigail Disney, Walt’s great-niece and heiress, has just withdrawn her 12 million dollar investment in the Israeli Company Ahava because, she says, it is “stealing minerals” from an “Occupied West Bank.” Ms. Disney believes this violates both the 1970 Hague
Twenty to thirty people were arrested “for Hamas” today at midday in New York City. They lay down in the street opposite the Israeli Mission to the United Nations and blocked traffic for miles around. They chanted nothing and simply
Are The United Nations and the NY Times Guilty of Incitement to Genocide? Should they be held in any way accountable for the incitement against Jews and Israel that is erupting globally? I am asking this question seriously. Yes, I
An estimated ten thousand (busy) people came out in New York today, unable to stay away, needing to be there with each other: with Israel, in public, on record. Our finest and most cherished young men are heroically fighting
It was only a matter of time. Today, Ali Abunimah’s Electronic Intifada published a piece titled “Ending Zionism is a feminist issue.” I would say just the opposite is true: “Supporting Zionism is a feminist issue.” Today must be the day assigned
Meriam Yahya Ishag and her family landed safely in Italy last night. She flew on an Italian government plane and was accompanied by Italian Minister, Lapo Pistelli. Upon landing, Meriam was welcomed by Italy’s Foreign Minister, Matteo Renzi. Within hours
She has faced a death sentence, one hundred lashes, a medieval jail cell, a series of lawsuits, an unexpected and terrifying arrest at the airport, a subsequent detention, and a non-stop series of lawsuits which have yet to quit. I am talking
J’accuse every single Western academic, each intellectual and journalist who has ever circulated and signed a Resolution against Israel and in favor of Hamas is a supporter of Islamist barbarism against Western civilization. They are the West’s equivalent of suicide (or
Today, President Obama appears in the pages of Ha’aretz— on the very day that Israel’s left-wing newspaper is hosting a “peace” conference at which Obama’s anointed (anti-)Israel Lobby is also present: J Street’s Peter Beinart, Avi Shavit, Gideon Levy, et
One waits for an outpouring of condolences for the kidnapping-murders of the three Israeli teenagers, one of whom was also an American citizen. Especially, one waits for such statements from the most ardent supporters of a Palestinian state in the
The Big and Lethal Lies are coming at us faster and harder than ever before. ISIS has just crucified eight Muslim men for not being “extreme” enough in their Islamic practice. They kept their bodies on display in a
Europe has finally come to its senses and taken a stand in favor of the Western Enlightenment enterprise. On July 1, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the 2010 French burqa ban, a religion-neutral piece of legislation
I just realized that, with one or two exceptions, none of my left-liberal feminist compatriots of nearly fifty years have said a word to me about Hamas’s kidnapping-murder of three Israeli teenagers. Not a word in the 18 days they
My heart is broken, absolutely broken. Words never fail me but, at this moment, mere words feel inadequate, even inappropriate. I am, of course, talking about the discovery of three dead bodies which once belonged to three beautiful Israeli souls: Gilad
A new kind of American tragedy is taking place in a Brooklyn Federal Courthouse. Both the defendant, standing trial for conspiracy to commit murder abroad in Pakistan, and the main witness against him, his daughter Amina, wept when they
Day #14 is ending and the three Israeli teenage students are still missing. One is also an American citizen. Earlier today, Israel named the Hamas operatives whom they believe are behind this heinous act. They are two men who
Earlier today, peaceful Jews were mobbed and mocked on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Most chilling: they were taunted about the probable Hamas kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers. The video, uploaded to YouTube by user Asaf Fried, shows Jewish Israelis
