Conservative author and columnist Ann Coulter ignited a social media firestorm Wednesday evening when she tweeted about “f—ing Jews” during the GOP debate, mocking the candidates’ focus on Israel.
In an attempt to shore up support for President Obama’s much-hated Iran nuclear deal, the New York Times published a list of legislators who voted against the deal. But the list immediately sparked charges of anti-Semitism because one of the categories identified whether or not the Senators were Jewish. It wasn’t long before the list was taken down.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is searching for a thief who stole silkscreens from a series that featured famous Jews painted by Andy Warhol.
A Palestinian man from Hebron has been bombarded by threatening messages after he saved five American Jews from a Palestinian lynch mob last week.
American Airlines, the world’s largest airline carrier, has announced that it will service its last U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv on January 4, 2016.
The bonds that bind America to the Jewish people and the Jewish state of Israel are comparable only to the bonds between brothers–with a common heritage of the struggle for freedom forging a shared commitment to liberty, tolerance, and democracy. This is why our enemies are the same. This is why the forces of evil do not discriminate between us. It is, however, also true that common foes often mean common defenders. This is the case with David Horowitz in Islamo-Fascism and the War Against the Jews, Volume IV of The Black Book of the American Left.
A mob self-identifying as outraged Muslims attacked a Turkish street band in Istanbul this week for playing the Italian left-wing fight song “Bella Ciao,” complaining that the song was a “Jewish march” and that bands should not be allowed to play “Israeli music” freely in Turkey.
A couple of weeks ago on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions I was singing the praises of Britain’s most likely future Opposition leader. The brilliant thing if Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour party leadership race, I argued, is that by
Alan Solow, a prominent Jewish leader and a close confidant of President Barack Obama since his Chicago days, has published an op-ed responding to the charge that Obama is using antisemitic language in pushing the Iran deal.
Kaukab Siddique, an associate professor of English at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, has called me and other defenders of free speech “dirty Jewish Zionist thugs” – and of course, he refuses to retract. On the contrary, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports Kaukab Siddique spewed, “I would say it again.”
Iran’s Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, a radical Shiite cleric whose position grants him enormous influence in Tehran and who is appointed directly by Iran’s Supreme Leader, called on Friday for the Muslim nations of the world to “unite and expel the Zionists from this region.”
In direct contrast to the Muslim Brotherhood regime that ruled Egypt just a couple of years ago, the new government in Cairo under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has built a cordial relationship with the Jewish people and has remained an honest broker in negotiating mutually beneficial agreements with the State of Israel.
A plurality of American Jews now say they oppose the Iran nuclear deal, 45% to 40%–and a majority oppose the deal after they learn more about what is in it, according to a new poll.
This weekend, I shed tears over the Iran deal–literally, and publicly. It happened during a discussion among congregants at my synagogue about President Barack Obama’s capitulation to the Iranian regime.
When Irving Roth walked out of the Auschwitz concentration camp in April 1945, having watched in horror as members of his family were marched into the gas chamber upon their arrival the previous year, he was thankful that he would live to see his sixteenth birthday.
In order to further victimize Palestinians in Gaza as peace-loving and not widely anti-Semitic, the BBC swapped out the Arabic word for “Jew” and changed it to “Israeli” in its new Children of the Gaza War documentary, which aired on BBC Wednesday.
The Spanish government is offering citizenship to the descendants of formerly exiled Spanish Jews. No longer will such Jews actually have to travel to Spain; they need only “hire a Spanish notary and pass tests on the Spanish language and history.”
On Thursday, over five hundred years after Spain’s Jews were told to convert to Catholicism or leave the country, Spain offered the descendants of Jews who left the country the right to Spanish citizenship, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein reportedly told the cast and crew of Finding Neverland in April the Broadway show’s failure to garner a single Tony Award nomination was personal. Sunday, Seinfeld creator Larry David joked it was because he is Jewish.
On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, believed to be a religious Jew, was heckled by the audience at a Jerusalem Post conference when he defended the actions of the Obama administration vis-à-vis Iran over its nuclear program.
The tomb of Nahum the Elkoshi, who foresaw the end of the Assyrian Empire, is the latest piece of history in danger by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorist group destroys anything that promotes idolatry.
Long-time sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer has courted controversy with her latest comments on sex. This time she is being criticized for comments on sexual consent by saying that men can’t help being sexually aroused when the clothes start coming off. Westheimer even cited the Jewish Talmud as proof to back up her claims.
On Tuesday, former Obama advisor David Axelrod informed an Israeli television channel that President Obama considers himself “the closet thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office.” Obama’s deep and abiding connection to Jewish identity is obviously rooted in his ethnic background, connected to Jews via (?); his ideological ties to Jews, such as (?); and a profound connection with the state of Israel as evidenced by (?).
Over several days this week, hundreds of anti-Semitic fliers have turned up on doorsteps in neighborhoods in Maryland and nearby Washington D.C., a report says.
With the rise in anti-Israel (anti-Semitic) activities capturing more headlines in recent years, especially on college campuses, Christians United For Israel is combating the trend with a new program that has been part of the Progressive playbook for nearly a generation.
