CHERNA MOSKOWITZ , THE JERUSALEM POST When my husband Irving was a young man he would go door-to-door around Milwaukee with a Jewish National Fund blue box collecting money to redeem property in the Land of Israel. Although it was during the Depression, everyone put in what they could afford: pennies, nickels and dimes. In […]

By: Yocheved Miriam Russo Professor Rivka Carmi, president of Ben-Gurion University (BGU), says she’s “shocked” by the call to boycott Israel made in a Los Angeles Times op-ed written by Dr. Neve Gordon, the chairman of her Department of Politics and Government. As Carmi told the Jerusalem Post, “We are shocked by Dr. Neve Gordon’s […]

by Shalom Pollack (Israelnationalnews.com) Mount Tabor stands 575 meters (1,890 ft.) like a solitary faithful guardian where the beautiful Jezreel Valley and the lower Galilee meet. It is located 17 km. (11 miles) west of Lake Kinneret. The mountain’s distinctly perfect round form demands our attention. The mountain is an ancient horst, a geological term […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Over the past few weeks evidence has piled up that Iran is not years away from being capable of building nuclear bombs at will. It is months away. As the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency on Teheran’s nuclear program makes clear, at its present rate of […]

By Tomer Zarchin and Chaim Levinson, Haaretz Correspondents www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112231.html The High Court asked state prosecutors why the state discriminates between illegal Jewish and Palestinian building in the West Bank, citing the lack of enforcement of demolition warrants against illegally-built Palestinian buildings in the area. The High Court hearing on Thursday came after the right-wing “Regavim […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Jonathan Pollard’s attorney, Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, has slammed Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss’s report on Pollard. In a report released Thursday, Lindenstrauss said the United States may not have given Pollard a fair trial, and accused Israeli officials of poor coordination. The report was “another cover-up of successive Israeli governments’ failures regarding Pollard,” said […]

Eli E. Hertz Norway has declared a boycott of the Israeli company Elbit. This company manufactures monitoring devices installed on the separation fence Israel built in order to impede the movements of suicide bombers into Israel. Norwegian authorities claim that they have acted in accordance with the 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion, […]

Palestinian children are taught through formal and informal education to see a world in which “Palestine” exists and replaces all of Israel. Two children’s quizzes broadcast last week on Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority television show how the PA routinely teaches its children to identify all Israeli cities as Palestinian cities. In the two quizzes on PA […]

by Thomas Landen It is hot in Brussels. Ramadan has begun. The faithful in the predominantly Muslim borough of Molenbeek are not allowed to eat or drink from sunrise until sunset. Non-Muslim policemen, patrolling the streets of Molenbeek in their sweltering cars, are not allowed to eat or drink either. As every year during Ramadan, […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Credo quia absurdum. “I believe because it is absurd.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now officially on record in favor of creating a Palestinian state (a position that he had long opposed), but only if the new Arab state is “demilitarized.” Naturally, any such notion of demilitarization will be anathema […]