Jeff Daube As a veteran pro-Israel advocate on Capitol Hill from 1994 to 2007, and now a denizen of the Knesset in my current role directing the ZOA’s Israel office, I have met many a legislator on both sides of the Atlantic. More than a few could be said to speak and act for the […]

Meet the J Street gang. by Michael Goldfarb What would you call a group that opposes sanctions on Iran, questions Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorist groups firing rockets from Gaza, seeks to pressure Israel into making major concessions without regard to the views of the elected government in Jerusalem, and supports a U.N.-commissioned […]

Western democracies should keep in mind that strong Israel deters Jihad Yoram Ettinger Jihad (Holy War) has been a cardinal feature of Islam since the 7th Century. It constitutes a clear and present danger to Western democracies, irrespective of the Arab-Israeli conflict, independent of the Palestinian issue and regardless of Israel’s policies and existence. Hebrew […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Palestinian Authority sources say Israel has released six Hamas members of the PA’s parliament who had been in prison for 3.5 years. An additional Hamas parliament member, Hatam Kapaisha, was released on Sunday after sitting in jail for a year. The six who were freed on Monday are: Ahmed Atwan, Wal […]

“For By Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War” Proverbs 24, 6 Still following his “Road Map,” President Barack Obama now seeks to create a twenty-third Arab state. Known, of course, as “Palestine,” this state would be carved from the living body of Israel, and would become an immediate and open enemy of the United […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold should probably buy himself a flak jacket. Gold is scheduled to debate Richard Goldstone at Brandeis University next Thursday and the anti-Israel forces are organizing quite a reception for him. Goldstone, who chaired the UN Human Rights Council’s commission charged with accusing […]

By David M. Weinberg The pious spiritual claptrap that characterizes J Street’s conference in Washington this week is both a conceit and a new form of Jewish apostasy. Conference speakers earnestly broadcast their “profound” Jewish and “spiritual” identities in order to besmirch the mainstream Jewish community and engender a distancing in US-Israel relations. This certainly […]

by Jamie Weinstein While covering J-Street’s first annual national conference over the last three days, I think I recognized one of 1,000-plus attendees from television. Proudly wearing a Code Pink t-shirt, the woman was handing out cards advertising a December 31 march to “break the illegal Gaza siege.” If I am right in my recollection, […]

By: Seth J. Frantzman The death of polymath Amos Kenan and recent Canaanite archeological finds at Beit Shemesh remind us once again of the obscure movement known as Canaanism, founded by a handful of right-wing Hebrew resistance fighters who decades later would become fountainheads of radical post-Zionism. The Canaanites were mostly either native-born Sabras or […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Europe continues to move to Islamic Sharia rule: Several British swimming pools require non-Muslims to dress like Muslims to avoid offending them, even though the sessions are held separately for men and women. Several British councils have begun Muslim-only swimming sessions that ban anyone who does not wear the “burkini,” […]