Posts Tagged: Jewish State
A Spiritual Examination of the Israeli Elections
A few weeks ago, while reading the Beshalach weekly Torah (bible) portion , I noticed for the first time that the party responsible for taking...
Response to Judith Butler at Brooklyn College
The ironic and the disingenuous are kin. Their commonality resides in a gap, which is the distance between what is said and something else. With...
Yair Lapid Lambasts Ultra-Orthodox Community
Times of Israel - Speaking in the Knesset for the first time since becoming an MK, Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid lambasted the ...
Peres in Knesset Opening Speech: Israel’s Enemies Should Not be “Mistaken About Our Abilities Both Overt and Covert”
Israeli President Shimon Peres opened the 19th Knesset today with a warning: "I recommend to our enemies not to be mistaken about our abilities both...
Brooklyn College Political Science Department Denies Equal Free Speech and Academic Freedom to Pro-Israel Students and Faculty
The international campaign to delegitimate Israel by subjecting the Jewish state—and the Jewish State alone—to boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) has now come to the most...
Israel’s Emphatic Response to Obama’s Thinly Veiled Threat
There is much to be said about Bloomberg Columnist Jeffrey Goldberg's recent report on President Obama's current attitude towards Israel, where he claimed that the...
Why Bibi is Not Intimidated by Obama
I'm sure Jeffrey Goldberg got it right. Whatever the reason the President leaked his unhappiness with Bibi to Goldberg just a few days before the...
Jonathan Freedland’s Illusions About the Nature of Modern Antisemitism
Jonathan Freedland is one of the more decent and reasonable Guardian journalists. It's sad that, at the Guardian, being a Zionist who takes anti-Jewish racism seriously warrants...
Sen. Paul on Israel Visit: Jewish State Would Benefit From U.S. Aid Decrease
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), known for his opposition to foreign aid, on Monday reiterated that stance during his visit to Israel. The senator, son of...
Why Jews are So Bad at PR and How Israel Can Win
The biggest question surrounding the State of Israel is why it is so hated. The conventional wisdom is that the world remains hopelessly anti-Semitic and...
How Israel Should Avoid International Isolation
As the political climate heats up in Israel, the oft chimed argument of choice for the withered and depleted concessions camp, charges that various actions...
Converging Toward Hamas
There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control...
Palestinian Authority Plans New Steps to Isolate Israel
Equipped with upgraded nonmember observer state status at the United Nations, the Palestinians are plotting a series of steps to isolate Israel—including filing war crimes...
Ed Koch on Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary: “It Would be a Terrible Appointment”
In a recent interview with The Algemeiner, former New York Mayor and staunch backer of President Obama's re-election, Ed Koch, strongly opposed the possible appointment...
