Another Desperate—and Fake—Israeli Apartheid Report Readied for the Airwaves
| 31 Jan 2022
Amnesty International is attempting to bomb the world’s airwaves, news sites, and printing presses with yet another fake Israeli apartheid report. Last week, in an extraordinary move of attempted media synchrony, Amnesty actually pre-positioned an embargoed press release emblazoned with a bright red instruction to editors “Under Strict Embargo until 1 February 2022.” … Read more
Yom HaGirush—The Inside Story
| 27 Nov 2021
Today, we speak of a largely forgotten ethnic cleansing largely unparalleled in the history of humanitarian abuses. Recall the coordinated international expulsion of some 850,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim lands … Read more [PDF]
The Ethics of Censorship
| 23 Nov 2021; updated 27 Nov 2021
The issue of censorship on the internet and social media platforms is raging given the tension between corporate interests and societal harm. The public wants to hold large digital platforms such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter accountable for damaging content developed or communicated by the users of such platforms. Others believe that no content except that which is clearly illegal should be banned from such sites based on the right to freedom of speech. Whether the information being propagated is true or false and who is entitled to make the true/false call only further complicates the matter … Read more [PDF]
A Reopened Jerusalem Consulate Will Again Proclaim that Jerusalem Is Not in Israel
| 14 Oct 2021
Many consider the Biden administration’s oft-expressed intent to open a US consulate-general in Jerusalem a minor administrative change. In fact, it is a dangerous resurrection of a fiction that dominated American attitudes and policy toward Israel for decades. It is nothing less than a devious scheme to reverse US recognition that Jerusalem is in Israel by pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to abandon Israel’s claim to sovereignty over its own capital city … Read more
Afghanistan Lost, Values Vanquished
| 4 Oct 2021
For the sake of ending a 20-year war, the demise of Afghanistan’s democracy and the tragedy of lives lost is the gravest of all failings on the part of the US. By negotiating troop withdrawals with the Taliban, the Islamic fundamentalist group that harbored al-Qaeda during the 9/11 attacks, America failed in preserving the value of peace. Instead, it is increasing the chances of war in the region. The implications for Israel might be stunning … Read more
The Court Decision That is a Clear and Present Danger to America’s Jews
| 20 Sep 2021
Try painting a swastika on the wall of a synagogue, and you’ll be arrested and charged with vandalism and probably serve jail time for a hate crime. But a federal appellate court has just gone out of its way to grant constitutional protection to signs bellowing “Resist Jewish Power” and “Jewish Power Corrupts” … Read more
Biden Must Stop ISIS from Finishing Genocide of Assyrians and Yazidis
| 30 Aug 2021
America’s precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan spawned a new humanitarian crisis. As the Taliban rebrands the country they captured with nary a fight—the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan—desperate people are trying to flee, even to neighboring countries already struggling with their own crises … Read more