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December 24, 2019

Stop Erasing Jesus’ Identity: He was not a Palestinian, he was a Mizrahi Jew

By Hen Mazzig (JNS) — Every year, in the days leading up to Christmas, the “Jesus was a Palestinian” talking point surfaces off and online. Every year, anti-Israel activists hop on this bizarre bandwagon and drive it over historical facts. […]
December 23, 2019

Q&A: What is the International Criminal Court and Why is it Targeting Israel?

Photo: Prof. Yuval Shany By Prof. Yuval Shany and Col (Res.) Adv. Liron Libman Courtesy the Israel Democracy Institute What is the International Criminal Court? The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an international tribunal that considers charges against individuals accused […]
December 22, 2019

Jews, Evangelicals: Chanukah, Heroism and Partnership

By Richard Friedman  Not too long ago, I found myself in a conversation with six new Evangelical Christian friends. We’ve become connected this past year through our common dedication to Israel and work for two organizations that promote Israel’s well-being […]
December 22, 2019

At UCLA, students accuse terror attack survivor Kay Wilson of Islamophobia for recounting her story

From left: Dutch Parliament members Kees van der Staaij, Kay Wilson and Joël Voordewind, with Itamar Marcus (third from left), director of the Palestinian Media Watch. Marcus and Wilson spoke to the Dutch Parliament in 2018 as it discussed ways […]
December 19, 2019

Series of PFLP Arrests Provides More Evidence of Linkage Between BDS Movement, Terrorist Groups

Khalida Jarrar (left), who was arrested by Israel’s Shin Bet security service for her ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian terror group, is pictured with Israeli-Arab Knesset member Ayman Odeh, who heads the Joint Arab List. […]
December 18, 2019

Two Miracles on Capitol Hill: Israelis and Palestinians, Republicans and Democrats

From left: Heather Johnston, founder and executive director of USIEA; Ashraf Jabari, a Palestinian business and community leader from Hebron; and Avi Zimmerman, co-founder of the JSC. Credit: Eitan Tal. By Richard Friedman It’s rare that one miracle happens. But […]
December 16, 2019

New Report: How BDS Movement Misuses Social Justice to Spread Jew-Hatred

A march held by members of New York Students for Justice in Palestine. Source: JCPA. By Sean Savage (JNS) — With anti-Semitism on the rise in the United States and across the world, a new report has just been released […]
December 15, 2019

Concerned about the future, novelist promotes ties between Evangelicals and Jews

By Alan Newman  A 1970’s folk song by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young advised “Teach your children well.” Here’s a lesson: Back on July 5, 1934, for three cents you could buy a copy of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. On that Thursday, […]
December 14, 2019

Western Media, Especially the Washington Post, Whitewash and Normalize Anti-Semitism

Valerie Plame speaking at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Dec. 4, 2007. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. By Sean Durns (CAMERA.org) — The only thing necessary for the triumph of antisemitism is for journalists to do nothing, to say nothing – […]
December 13, 2019

International faith-based group sees Israel up close and personal

Faith-based pro-Israel parliamentarians in Jerusalem for the Israel Allies Foundation’s annual Chairman’s Conference hand a resolution calling for elected officials worldwide to oppose the BDS movement to Likud Party Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar, December 2019. Credit: Jerusalem East Gate Foundation. […]
December 12, 2019

Praise for Trump’s effort to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses

Anti-Semitic graffiti on The Rock at the University of Tennessee in September. As anti-Semitism grows on college campuses, with an increasing number of Jewish students feeling intimidated and harassed for their pro-Israel views, the Trump administration has taken an important […]