Category: Israel
Chanukah Is Relevant for Everyone — but Not in the Way You Might Think
Of all the holidays on the Jewish calendar, Chanukah, which began last Sunday evening, has always been one of my…
Norman Podhoretz, a Grateful American
It is one of my favorite stories, told in Norman Podhoretz’s 2000 book My Love Affair with America—a tale for which I told my friend Norman, who died this week at the age of 95, I am eternally grateful, as it features so often in my sermons:
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California Dems Silent on Radical Anti-Israel Group’s Foiled Los Angeles Bomb Plot
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, and more than a dozen House Democrats who represent parts of Los Angeles have remained silent on the coordinated bomb plot a radical anti-Israel group was planning before it was foiled by the federal government.
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Australian PM Anthony Albanese Omits Jews in Statement on Hanukkah Massacre
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese released a statement after Sunday’s terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney in which he made no mention of Jews or anti-Semitism.
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Qatar Is Everything It Accuses Israel of Being
For years, Qatar has positioned itself as a neutral mediator and champion of human rights in the Middle East. Its…
Columbia Architecture School Partnered With Terror-Tied Lab in Beirut on Ford Foundation-Funded Project
Columbia University’s architecture school partnered with a Lebanese research lab cofounded by a Hezbollah collaborator on a project aimed at studying housing access for refugees in Beirut. The Ivy League university received a $350,000 Ford Foundation grant to carry out the project, but claims it’s never held any “formal agreements” with the Lebanese lab.
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EXCLUSIVE: Covert Israeli-Taiwan Meetings Aim To ‘Counter Chinese Axis of Evil’
JERUSALEM—Israeli lawmakers over the past two weeks covertly held a series of meetings with senior Taiwanese officials, seeking to strengthen bilateral cooperation and counter the growing menace of China.
Ohad Tal, a member of the governing Religious Zionism party and the Knesset’s powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, met in Taipei between Sunday and Wednesday with Taiwan’s vice president, Hsiao Bi-khim; foreign minister, Lin Chia-lung; and other top diplomats. Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister, Francois Wu, led a delegation to Jerusalem last Tuesday. He huddled with Tal and Michael Biton of the opposition Blue and White party.
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‘Everything Is On the Table’: Trump Admin Weighs Terror Sanctions for UNRWA
The Trump administration says that “everything is on the table”—including terrorism-related sanctions—as it moves closer to taking fresh punitive measures against the Hamas-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), according to three senior officials, who told the Washington Free Beacon that the aid group’s “time playing a role in Gaza is over.”
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Anti-Israel Celebrities Accept Major Saudi Payday To Attend Jeddah Film Festival
Some of Hollywood’s most ardent anti-Israel activists are flocking to Saudi Arabia this week for a government-sponsored film festival—and the kingdom is compensating them well for their time.
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Jasmine Crockett’s Farrakhan-Praising Pastor Launches Bid To Replace Crockett in Congress
Dallas pastor Frederick Haynes, who hailed anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan as a “great” man and lashed out at Israel in a sermon just one day after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, is running to replace a member of his congregation in Congress: firebrand House Democrat Jasmine Crockett (Texas).
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