The News

July 12, 2019

Opinion: Warping “justice” — The Problem with Opposing the “Occupation”

By Jonathan Tobin (JNS.org) — The radical anti-Zionist IfNotNow group hit the jackpot last week with its initial investment in efforts to impact the 2020 presidential election. IfNotNow’s attempts to infiltrate Jewish summer camps and alter the way they teach […]
July 11, 2019

Opinion: A Little Good News from Campus

By Mitchell Bard It’s been another academic year, and another year in the endless campus war against Israel. Its enemies are relentless and undeterred by facts, law, or morality. You have undoubtedly read articles throughout the year documenting the challenges […]
July 10, 2019

CUFI Summit: Jerusalem Pilgrimage Road Should be American Heritage Site

The Pilgrimage Road from the Shiloam Pool to the Temple Mount, used by Jewish worshipers in the late Second Temple period, was excavated over the course of six years and unveiled by the City of David organization on June 30. […]
July 10, 2019

CUFI Summit: This Year, it was Christians United Against Anti-Semitism

While Israel is always the primary focus for the now 7 million member Christians United for Israel, at this year’s Washington Summit, the emphasis was on fighting the rise of anti-Semitism “in our Congress, in our churches and on our […]
July 1, 2019

Uganda native reflects on Israel bringing lifesaving safe water tech to remote villages

By Jahan Berns  I read recently about two young newly-graduated Israeli water engineers, Selda Edris and Mayes Morad, who went to a rural community in Uganda and gave the gift of life, i.e. the gift of clean and safe water. […]
June 30, 2019

Book Review: “Good Heart” weaves Christian-Jewish friendship, support for Israel

By Richard Friedman  “Good Heart” is a sparkling first-time novel by Al Newman, a long-time pro-Israel activist who lives in south Florida. Newman, who is Jewish, believes deeply in expressing thanks to the millions of Christians who are Biblically-inspired to […]
June 18, 2019

The Invention of the Palestinians

By Jerold S. Auerbach (JNS) — Rumors circulate of an impending Israeli-Palestinian peace plan to be proposed by the Trump administration. It might, therefore, be appropriate to scrutinize the Palestinian claim — grounded in myth and not history — to […]
June 13, 2019

The legacy of the ‘Nakba’ and lies about Israel

  Progressive college students have come to believe that in 1948, Israel enacted a policy of ethnic cleansing and forcibly expelled 750,000 Palestinians in order to ensure a Jewish supermajority and make room for Jewish immigration. By Matt Stein (JNS) […]
June 10, 2019

Opinion: True progressives are Zionists

Temporary Minister of Justice and the only gay member of the Likud Party, Amir Ochana, attends the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 6, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90. By Jonathan Tobin (JNS.org) — The irony is […]
June 7, 2019

Google Express to ship products in packaging made by Israel-based company

(JNS) — Google Express will start shipping products in packaging made by Israel-based manufacturer TIPA Corp Ltd., announced the latter’s umbrella organization, Sustainable Suite Inc., on June 3. TIPA, founded in 2010, produces and designs compostable, plastic-like bags and packaging […]
June 6, 2019

Louisiana unanimously passes anti-BDS bill

In 2017, Rep. Valarie Hodges addressed Louisiana’s 50th anniversary celebration of the reunification of Jerusalem, at the Capitol in Baton Rouge. (Southern Jewish Life file photo) A year after Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards issued an executive order forbidding state […]