November 17, 2020

Beware Of “Anti-Zionism Is Not Anti-Semitism” From The Left

by Micha Danzig “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism!” — Martin Luther King Jr. For years now, it has been open season on Jewish students at many college campuses in the United States and in […]
November 17, 2020

Fighting racism, antisemitism in conversation between “Anne and Emmett”

Student actors Allyn Hackman, left, and Cameron Mayers. (Photos by J. Hun-En Joswick) by Richard Friedman It was a trip Cameron Mayers had to make, driving 90 miles and 65 years back into history. Mayers, an 18-year-old Mississippi State University freshman, […]
November 15, 2020

Obama 2.0? Myths and Facts about Biden for his critics

by Mitchell Bard After the last four Orwellian years, it should come as no surprise that some Biden critics are unhinged. To get an idea, I saw one post that said innocent Jews will die if Biden is allowed to […]
November 11, 2020

Praying Around the Potholes on the Road to Middle East Peace

A Jordanian car next to an Israeli bus in Jerusalem by Jonathan Feldstein Despite decades of working and interacting with Christians whose love and support for Israel is strong and unconditional, I am still not used to it when people […]
November 8, 2020

From Birmingham to the NFL, with a love for Israel

The Minnesota Vikings and Mark Wilf (at right) hosted Israel’s Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer in 2019. (Vikings photo) by Richard Friedman Birmingham, New Jersey, the National Football League, Israel and a Zoom call reconnecting friends after 70 years. […]
November 6, 2020

Harris: Biden administration will reverse several Trump policies on Palestinians

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris on the campaign trail in October 2020. Source: Kamala Harris via Facebook. (JNS) — Vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said a potential Biden administration would reverse several moves by the Trump administration regarding the […]
November 6, 2020

What a Biden administration could mean for Israel and the Middle East

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, March 2016. Credit: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv/Wikimedia Commons. by Israel Kasnett (JNS) — With razor-thin margins separating U.S. President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe […]
November 5, 2020

Will UAE’s precarious relationship with UNRWA stand in the way of peace?

by David Bedein For more than 70 years, Arab regimes have communicated a sole message toward Israel: belligerency, teaching the next generation to engage in a war on the Jews. Israel’s earlier peace agreements with Egypt (1979), the PLO (1993) […]
November 4, 2020

Pro-BDS candidates, Q-Anon supporter in Georgia win their elections

Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush of Missouri’s 1st Congressional District. Source: Screenshot. (JNS) — Incumbent Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and progressive Cori Bush — all of whom support the anti-Israel BDS movement — won their respective congressional races […]
November 1, 2020

New initiatives join forces to battle antisemitism, anti-Israel activities on campus

A panel of experts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) discuss anti-Semitism in the media, campus and public life. Photo by Kineret Rifkind. (JNS) — The Academic […]
October 31, 2020

Trump reverses U.S. restrictions on joint research projects in the territories

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering remarks at Ariel University, along with U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO. by Alex Traiman (JNS) — Less than one week before Americans will decide whether to entrust President Donald Trump […]