Whenever I have received a call from a listener to my radio show challenging Israel’s legitimacy, I have asked these people if they ever called a radio show to challenge any other country’s legitimacy. In particular, I ask, have they … Continue reading
After the winners are done gloating, and the losers are through with feeling bitter, I am left with three wishes: First I ask the center-left (of which I’m part of): respond democratically. Of course we must avoid joining a coalition … Continue reading
For half a century, memories of the Holocaust limited anti-Semitism on the Continent. That period has ended—the recent fatal attacks in Paris and Copenhagen are merely the latest examples of rising violence against Jews. Renewed vitriol among right-wing fascists and … Continue reading
The gathering of Israel from the Diaspora is a biblical promise which has comforted Jews from the time of Babylonian exile, through the early days of the Zionist movement and right up to such recent anti-Semitic attacks as in Copenhagen … Continue reading
Alan Parsons wrote “Everyone – no matter where they reside, what religion they follow, or what ideology they aspire to – deserves to hear it [his music] if they so choose.” ‘Music knows no borders, and neither do I,” English … Continue reading
New York City Councilman David G. Greenfield makes remarks on the floor of the council moments after Pro-Palestine activists protested the commemoration of 1.1 million people killed in Auschwitz. Greenfield is the grandson of Holocaust survivors.
In the wake of the terrorist attack on a kosher market in Paris, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked French Jews to come home. I don’t particularly like that advice. I think it would be a tragedy if centuries of … Continue reading
The insidious, and mistaken, media meme around the irresistible story of Israelis choosing to live in Germany Israelis in Berlin: Is anything cooler, more postmodern, more transgressive, more emblematic of our hip, new borderless world? In October, New York Times … Continue reading
This post of Greta Berlin reminds us what the role of the international community should and should not be in accurately demonstrates what a bad influence “pro-Palestine” international figures are. In this instance she is trying blame Israel for everything … Continue reading
Palestinian youths prefer to spend time in Israeli prison than to live in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Over the past two months, more than 20 Palestinians have been arrested while trying to cross from the Gaza Strip into Israel, according … Continue reading
