ISIS Leader Baghdadi Calls For Terror Attacks to Avenge Loss of ‘Caliphate’
(CNSNews.com) – Almost five years after he was last seen publicly, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made a reappearance in an online video, hailing his fighters for not giving up the remnants of the “caliphate” in Syria without a fight, and urging supporters to carry out attacks in France, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere. The […]
Poll: Fewer Low-Income Americans ‘Struggling’ Financially Since Trump Took Office
More Americans say their financial situation has improved since President Donald Trump took office, and fewer low-income Americans report that they are “struggling” to make ends meet, a new Monmouth University Poll finds. The national survey of 801 American adults (18 and older), conducted April 11-15, 2019, asked: “Thinking about your current financial situation, would […]
Cartoon Scandal: New York Times Keeps Digging
When HonestReporting first addressed the publication of a blatantly antisemitic cartoon in the New York Times International Edition, it was only the beginning of a wave of revulsion to hit the newspaper. There was disgust at the cartoon itself (drawn by Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Moreira Antunes, of the Lisbon weekly paper, Expresso) and the fact that it […]
Facebook Fights Fake News With Biased Gaza Video
A video commissioned by British Channel 4 for Facebook Watch called “Gaza: life in the deadly blockade” shows a horrendously context-free and one-sided portrayal of the Gaza border protests. Gaza: life in the deadly blockade Amputees have become a common sight in Gaza as Palestinians are shot during protests at Israel’s border. Children as young […]
Trump Tax Cut: Over 100M Saw Decrease in Tax Burden; Some in High Tax States Saw Increase
It should come as no surprise most Americans saw a lower federal tax burden following the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Tax Foundation data reveals 80 percent of filers saw a substantially lower federal tax liability following federal tax reform – and only 5 percent of filers saw a significantly higher tax liability. The […]
ANALYSIS: The New York Times and the New Anti-Semitic Tsunami
I started my writing career roughly thirty years ago with an opinion piece for the leftist Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. The article dealt with the shocking revelations about new concentration camps in former Yugoslavia and an anti-Semitic attack on the Auschwitz monument in a park in Amsterdam. “Never again” said the text on the monument […]
Trump, Democrats Agree to $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan. How to Pay for It Will Come Later.
President Donald Trump and a delegation of congressional Democrats agreed Tuesday on “big and bold” infrastructure plans with an equally big price tag of $2 trillion over 10 years. The discussion of how to pay for it was left for another day. Democratic leaders noted it would include expanding broadband internet access and work on […]
This Mom Is Fighting Her Kids’ School District’s LGBT Indoctrination
Maria Keffler is a former teacher herself. But when she recently found out, by accident, about new LGBT policies her children’s school district was considering instituting, Keffler was shocked. Now she’s speaking out—and urging other parents to do the same. Read the transcript of the interview, posted below, or listen to the interview on the […]
Columnist’s Bizarre Accusation Against Google Maps
Is Google Maps deliberately preventing tourists from visiting the West Bank in order to isolate the Palestinians? Writing in her Times of London column, Janice Turner raises the bizarre question: A puzzle remains from my recent holiday to Israel. Why does Google Maps try to deter tourists from visiting the West Bank? After a morning […]
The New York Times’ Cartoon Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere
The New York Times is facing a wave of censure after publishing an antisemitic cartoon in the paper’s international edition. The cartoon, and subsequent non-apology, came on the back of a week of repeatedly hostile, unbalanced and insensitive coverage of Israel. On Friday, 19 April, the New York Times published a piece, by a former […]
Future shootings can be prevented. Here’s how.
How Jewish organizations train people to prevent shootings like the one in Poway. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein said his Chabad of Poway could not afford to hire an armed guard. Had it been able, or if the government had helped the synagogue bring in one, he believes the deadly attack there Saturday could have been averted. […]