Triple Crown hopeful owned by Orthodox Jewish family from Egypt
From the Jewish Standard:It took American Pharoah barely more than two minutes and two seconds to win the 2015 Kentucky Derby.For Joanne Zayat of Teaneck, whose husband, Ahmed, owns American Pharoah...
View Article05/20 Links Pt2: Re-liberating Jerusalem; Anti-Semitism scholar Robert...
From Ian:Re-liberating JerusalemIt's been almost 50 years since Israel unified Jerusalem and turned it from a dusty and depressed backwater into a truly radiant international capital city sparkling...
View Article"Pro-Israel" J-Street tries to raise funds by saying Israel is racist
By now you have read the story about the shelved plan to force West Bank Arab workers to go back to their homes using buses that stop at checkpoints.After criticism from the left and the right, much of...
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Why FIFA's president will never get the PLO to compromise
From Sky News, Tuesday:FIFA President Sepp Blatter has held crisis talks in Jerusalem aimed at averting a Palestinian bid to have Israel suspended from international football.The Palestinian Football...
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Saudi airstrike kills 5 in humanitarian aid office. You must have missed the...
Different building hit by Saudi airstrikesFrom IBTimes:Shelling from Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces hit an international humanitarian aid office in Yemen on Thursday, killing five Ethiopian refugees...
View ArticlePA TV says Jews control banks, media.. Will CNN consider it newsworthy?
From Palestinian Media Watch:Another expression of Palestinian Authority Antisemitism appeared on government-controlled PA TV earlier this month. The host of a weekly program on Islam, Imad Hamato, who...
View Article05/21 Links Pt1: PA TV: Jews "control the media, the money, the press; How to...
From Ian:PA Antisemitism: Jews "control the media, the money, the press, the resources"Another expression of Palestinian Authority Antisemitism appeared on government-controlled PA TV earlier this...
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Political perversity in Israel and the US (Vic Rosenthal)
Vic Rosenthal's weekly column:Why are elites in Israel and the US helping their deadly enemies?The phenomenon of Israel-hating Jews has been discussed a great deal, and there are some theories that go...
View ArticleEgyptian dresses up as a Jew and gets harassed, pushed, slapped
In this video an Egyptian dresses up as a Hasidic Jew and asks Egyptians how to get to the synagogue. At another point, without the costume, he shows Hebrew writing to people and says he is...
View Article05/21 Links Pt2: Robert Wistrich's last column: "Anti-Semitism and Jewish...
From Ian:Robert Wistrich: Anti-Semitism and Jewish destiny On Sunday, Robert S. Wistrich – the director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University...
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Archbishop Hanna admits Muslims persecute Christians but blames the messenger
Archbishop Atallah Hanna, of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, gave a speech to pilgrims about Palestinian Christian issues and concerns.He said that Palestinian Christians cling stubbornly to...
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Joe Lieberman far more skeptical of Obama's feelings about Israel than...
Jeffrey Goldberg has just published another long interview with President Obama, and he once again does everything he can to praise him on his stance towards Israel.For example, he stated that "Obama,...
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Iran threatens to kill 600,000 Jews
From Times of Israel:Senior Iranian military official warned on Thursday that any Israeli attack would unleash a firestorm of missiles on its cities fired by the Islamic Republic’s Hezbollah allies in...
View ArticleJibril Rajoub keeps playing FIFA like a fiddle
From Reuters:The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has complained to world football's governing body FIFA that Israeli authorities held up a national team player as the squad travelled from the West...
View Article05/22 Links Pt1: In Obama's Middle East there's only one problem --...
From Ian:Caroline Glick: The Israeli enablers in action EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has some explaining to do.During Mogherini’s visit this week she spoke loftily of Europe’s concern for...
View ArticleA visit to a southern Israeli kibbutz (Ido Daniel on Twitter)
Sometimes, you can find real journalism on Twitter. From Ido Daniel:In Sderot today. Already met with mayor Alon Davidi, now heading to Kibbutz Nahal Oz— Ido Daniel (@IdoDaniel) May 22, 2015With Beni...
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Chag sameach!
I will not be blogging until Monday night (or Tuesday morning) because of the upcoming holiday of Shavuot, the least well known of the major Jewish holidays.Have a great holiday!
View Article05/22 Links Pt2: Robert Wistrich: Defender of the Jewish People; ‘Lawrence of...
From Ian:Robert Wistrich: Defender of the Jewish People Many scholars look away from the widespread anti-Semitism emanating from Muslim states and from parts of the Muslim population in Western...
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Tikkun Olam and the First Jewish President (Mike Lumish)
In September of 2011 New York Magazine published a cover showing the back of what we are to assume is the kippa-wearing head of Barack Obama with the headline: "The First Jewish President": The Truth?...
View ArticleIsrael's Supreme Court rejects Bedouin have land right claims in Negev "Al...
Al Arakib is an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev that Israel has demolished over 50 times. It has become a cause celebre among Israel bashers.The case has been in the courts for years.In late...
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