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The American betrayal of Israel by Melanie Phillips

The suggestion that Israel is no better than Hamas is a pernicious lie spread by those who want Israel gone.

Melanie gonna Melanie I guess.

Maybe it’s just me, but if your goal is to get more American Jews, a lot of whom have definite disagreements with Chuck Schumer’s latest Israel speech for one reason or another and also have definite disagreements with President Biden’s most recent statements with regard to Israel, to vote for Donald Trump, you might want to hold off on calling us treasonweasels from your Brittish safe space.

Just sayin’

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French Jews by Andrew Lovseth

Hamas’s October 7 slaughter of Jews in Israel and the Israeli response in Gaza have created a stunning backlash against Jews in the name of anti-Zionism. Episodes from the Holocaust such as Kristallnacht have been invoked, but this time it is primarily left-wing rather than right-wing action against Jews that we are seeing, whether in […]

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Arab Modernizers by Andrew Lovseth

Early in the pandemic, a friend of mine introduced me to another friend of his, an Emirati living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Knowing that my academic research is focused on the geopolitics of the Arabian Gulf, he figured it might be interesting for me to meet someone from the region — and why not make […]

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Improbable Influencers by Andrew Lovseth

After George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, Susan Korn was outraged. The 30-something founder, CEO, and creative director of Susan Alexandra, a New York–based fashion company that offers Judaica-inspired clothing, jewelry, and homewares, took to her brand’s Instagram page to show it, writing: Today I feel . . . helpless, devastated, disheartened. I know this is a jewelry/bag […]