‘Pure Make-Believe’ – Separating Divestment from Antisemitism

Letter-writer Paul Cunningham picked an especially dreadful week for Jews to proclaim that antisemitism is not tied to divestment from Israel, a divisive topic in his home state of Maine in the United States. Read more

A new (political) danger for delicatessens

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‘Regional stability’: The Mirage of the Middle East

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Weighing Trump’s and Harris’ policies toward Israel

We can envision Donald J. Trump wagging his forefinger as did Pakistani restauranter Babu from Seinfeld when the former president proclaimed, “The Democrats are very bad to Israel, very bad.” Read more

Trump and Carville fan antisemitic sentiment

It does not surprise me that pro-Arab advocates compare the Gaza war to Vietnam and downplay Hamas’ outrages. Read more

Two-State Solution is unworkable but there are other solutions

Spain likely recognizes a chance to revive the Inquisition when the opportunity drops in its lap. Read more

The confused world and murderous rhetoric of Khyami James

It looks like I need to take out a restraining order against Khymani James, who, at the age of 20, went down in modern history this weekend, clamouring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Read more

Hamas broke the ceasefire on Oct. 7; Now its supporters want another one

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Letter from America: Now they are getting in my face

In my neighbourhood in Philadelphia, in my haven away from obnoxious, law-breaking pro-Hamas activists, a billboard sponsored by an Arab/Muslim group emerges ahead for motorists travelling south on Bustleton Avenue that posted the words, in black print, “Don’t stop talking about…” followed below in blood-red larger print: “PALESTINE.” Read more

Flouting the law should not free ‘Palestine’ defenders of consequences

Even harsh critics of U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik were stunned when she trumped “legal scholar” and University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill over university policies that can translate into routine criminal laws. Read more

Worse than Nazism: It is Babi Yar all over again

Hitler taught the Arabs how to slaughter Jews, yet it can surprise us that the Einsatzaruppen’s chapter in Gaza City could not find a 50-foot deep ravine to gun down the 1200 or more Jews who were massacred on Saturday morning. Read more

What is not fit to print is printed. What is fit to print is not printed.

A New York Times reporter got away with posting a strangely worded, one-sided feature that sends a message that the Palestinians are long-established inhabitants of the land that is now governed by the state of Israel. The Palestinians  are even described as “indigenous.” Read more

Food for thought – a letter from America

In The Philadelphia Inquirer’s food section, a Palestinian chef opened up a whole new front…quite an unappetising one…in the propaganda wars over Israel. Read more

Those irritating antisemitic thugs: how low can they go?

Two antisemitic thugs in London and Boca Raton, Florida, picked on Jewish targets their own size to badger, as disgusting as these attacks are. Read more

No antisemitism here

It happened in Berlin, of all places. On behalf of those poor Palestinians, they chanted, “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Israel”, and “Tel Aviv, the answer will come.” Read more

Israel is our business

Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighbourhood where I grew up. Read more

Palestinians dread what they have wrought

As I scanned the menu at a Japanese restaurant in Philadelphia on Sunday, I overheard the word “Palestinians.” Read more