Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and Holocaust denier David Duke excoriated President Donald Trump for calling on Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to resign in her latest scandal involving anti-Semitism. Omar, a Somali-American freshman congresswoman representing the greater Minneapolis area, drew bipartisan condemnation this week after she accused the pro-Israel American Israel Political Action Committee […]
Plenty has already been written about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s antisemitic tweets. But what was the reaction in her home state of Minnesota? One standout piece in the local media appears courtesy of the Minnesota Star Tribune where Ahmed Tharwat, described as the host/producer of the Arab American TV show, BelAhdan, writes some very disturbing things in […]
Most mainstream media were consistent in their coverage of the firestorm surrounding Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar’s tweets. They reported that the freshman politician’s tweets drew upon a clearly antisemitic trope suggesting support for Israel in Congress was bought with Jewish money. The leadership of the Democratic Party condemned Omar’s remarks as antisemitic. Omar acknowledged this […]
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik If someone paid a terrorist in order to murder an American, the US would certainly prohibit that person’s entry into the country. If someone who funded terror against Americans travelled to the US, the US would certainly be expected to arrest him as soon as he set his foot on […]
Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan met with Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday evening. Erdan discussed with the Italian minister the cooperation between the two countries in combating terrorism, internal security and the struggle against the Hezbollah terrorist organization and the BDS movement. Minister Erdan referred to […]
It’s shocking that the Washington Post gave an op-ed soapbox to Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, leader of Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. They’re formally known as Ansar Allah (Helpers of God). Perhaps the Washington Post is ratcheting up its stance against Saudi Arabia following the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, who was affiliated with the Post. The […]
Sometimes it’s the most innocuous things that give an insight into minds of the media, particularly where Israel is concerned. Take this timeline of historical events during the life of Britain’s Prince Charles in a feature story in The Independent: The timeline includes events such as the formation of the Beatles, Watergate, the end of […]
Ahead of US midterm elections, Vermont ice cream company Ben Jerry’s has announced its newest novelty flavor: Pecan Resist (a play, I think, on “we can resist”). The flavor is a tribute to various liberal activist groups that have led the opposition to the Trump administration. The drawing on the container features a trio of […]
The Muslim Waqf has made use of the closure of the Temple Mount to Jews during the final week of Ramadan to get rid of large mounds of dirt containing sacred and archaeologically valuable artifacts from the times of the Jewish Temples. According to Arnon Segal writing in Makor Rishon, during the final week of […]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night attended a military event at the Hatzerim Air Force Base. In addition to Netanyahu, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, and Air Force Commander Amikam Norkin also attended the event. “We will continue to respond forcefully to […]
