Micha Danzig served in the Israeli Army and is a former police officer with the NYPD. He is currently an attorney and is very active with numerous Jewish and pro-Israel organizations, including Stand With Us and the FIDF, and is a national board member of Herut North America.
Sadly, as it is with history, governance and everything else it has touched, the PA exploits Ramadan, using it to corrupt and to incite violence.
Yazen was a beautiful 19-year-old Druze boy and Shirel was a beautiful 19-year-old Jewish girl. Both could have chosen an easier path in the army than they did.
Putin and those who hate Israel are convinced that these states have no right to exist and wish to eliminate them.
Just as Anti-Vaxxers are not “Refuseniks,” Palestinians are not experiencing either “apartheid” or “genocide.”
At an event promoting the importance of voting in a democracy, VP Harris had an opportunity to stand up for truth, for the importance of facts, and against the lies and libels that actually undermine democracy. Sadly, she failed to do so.
The uninformed reader could easily conclude that the one Jewish state in the world is the only one that is to blame for all of this violence and the lack of peace in the region.
Since well before the German agitator Wilhelm Marr first utilized the phrase “antisemitism” in the late-19th century (in order to make Jew-hatred sound race-based, scientific and academic), the formula for justifying antisemitism and inciting Jew-hatred has been to find what people hate, fear or are most upset about, and attach it to the Jewish people.
By isolating and singling out the world’s only Jewish state with hypocritical sanctions, Ben & Jerry’s is giving sustenance to the world’s oldest hatred.
We have to fight against this assault on the truth and assault on morality as if our lives depend on it. Because, ultimately, they do.