Instead of correcting some of the hyperbolic anti-Israel “reporting” that has so blurred people’s capacity to know what is going on, he pours fuel on the flames of ignorance and perpetuates a rhetoric that lays blame for the whole conflict primarily or solely on Israel.
What Netanyahu is risking is that he will finally succeed in driving away Biden, Chuck Schumer, and every other true Democratic friend of Israel.
By not insisting on the immediate return of hostages before the ceasefire, and by failing to condemn Hamas for starting the war, the UN has once again shown its chronic bias against the world’s only Jewish state.
With rising incitement against Jews globally, American Jews are feeling betrayed by former allies—those who are outspokenly antisemitic, and those who remain silent.
The world of antisemitism has become so muddled that it’s almost impossible to tell one from the other.
Various factors are reshaping the American story, which has profound implications for America’s Jews.
Purim invites the voice of Esther and the voices of girls to come forward and be seen and heard.
Hamas, not Israel, is responsible for the tragedy that has unfolded in Gaza.
This is a time for serious people who will choose a side and take stands, and for Jews who are fully committed and won’t flinch.
My ex-comrades must be gratified that their anti-Zionist vitriol, a niche passion of the far left when I was young, are de rigueur for today’s “progressives.”
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