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 […]
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 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 […]
“Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.” Why does that simple five-word statement raise such controversy? Can most of the world really be wrong to deny Jerusalem’s capital status? What exactly are the counter-arguments, and how effective is Israel at balancing principle and pragmatism in the city? And does all the fuss — about the city’s […]
By Victor Garcia | Fox News After apologizing over the weekend for publishing a syndicated cartoon with “anti-Semitic tropes” in its depiction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump, The New York Times was criticized again Monday over yet another caricature of Netanyahu. Dan Senor, a former Pentagon aide and advisor to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, called […]
Organizers canceled a conference at a Paris university featuring an address by Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut following the threat of protests. “Security is our top priority and it’s preferable to take no risks,” organizers of the event at Sciences Po university wrote Tuesday. The conference on Europe’s future was to include other speakers, but they […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Republican Jewish Coalition on Tuesday accused Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont of seeking to score points with the party’s “energized” left wing by describing the Israeli government as “racist.” Reacting to Sanders’ use of the epithet to describe Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently-reelected government, and comments indicating that as […]
Writing in The Guardian, academic Mick Dumper states that the Jewish historical presence on the Temple Mount is merely an “increasingly strident claim.” He also believes that: “Flushed with his electoral victory, and politically tooled-up with US support for his annexationist dreams, Netanyahu has the Islamic sites of Jerusalem in his line of fire. He […]
A Washington state man out on bail after being charged with two felonies for posting plans on Facebook to commit a mass shooting against Jewish targets has posted more violent messages and threats against Jews. Dakota Reed, 20, had been out of jail on $50,000 bond since December. But in the wake of the new […]
(CNSNews.com) – Weeks before President Trump took office, he and his transition team tried energetically to thwart a major U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel, according to the partially-redacted Mueller report released on Thursday. Those efforts were a foreshadowing of what would became a signature policy of the Trump administration’s dealings with the U.N., where […]
