When the IDF captured the Old City of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, the then Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, aware of how stunned the Arabs were at their humiliating defeat, wanted to avoid further upsetting them. So he decided, on his own, that there would be restrictions placed on Jews wishing to visit the Temple […]
Northern Virginia Muslim salon owner throws Jewish client out of salon over Israel
Jihad Watch has a whole category about Islamic antisemitism. Dennis Prager interviewed Dr. Andrew Bostom about Muslim antisemitism and its roots in Islam HERE. Islamic antisemitism is also at the root of the Palestinian “resistance” (from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea). And the Palestinian cause is deemed the central cause of the Muslim […]
How the Wall Street Journal Distorts the Reality of Christian Life in Israel
A handful of ultra-Orthodox Israeli teenagers, have been spitting on, or more often on the ground near, Christians in the Jewish state. Presumably they are expressing their anger at traditional Christian antisemitism, or perhaps are angry that Christian bodies such as the Vatican and the World Council of Churches have adopted anti-Israel attitudes. Or perhaps […]
Eight Points in Defense of Israel
In response to my article “You Don’t Have To Be Jewish To Love Israel,” a reader, Edmund Casey wrote the following: Were a population that had been native to Palestine for over 1200 years denied their right to become a nation after the breakup of the Turkish Empire in 1918? I am a firm supporter […]
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon tells Security Council ‘We are not leaving Judea and Samaria’
Danny Danon has shown again his characteristic fearlessness and defiance in the face of evil and injustice. Why should Israel give up Judea and Samaria? Because jihad terrorists said so? Islamic State-linked activity has been on the rise in Israel, particularly in Judea and Samaria. The Jerusalem Post reported last May that “Israel’s defense establishment warned of a sharp […]
A Little Girl Gets on a Bus
Amid ongoing wild claims about a “Greater Israel,” Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann, the executive director of Chabad in Columbus, Ohio, nearly a year ago beautifully enunciated what Israel is fighting for, and what victory would look like. The full text can be found here: “The Ultimate Victory: A Six-Year-Old Oct. 7 Victim’s Answer to Terror,” by […]
You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Love Israel
In 1964, the advertising firm of Doyle Dane Bernbach came up with a slogan for Levy’s Rye Bread that appeared everywhere on the New York Subway system: “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s.” And above those words were photographs of an Irish cop, a Chinese man, a black boy, an Italo-American cook, […]
Israel Protects Jewish Archeological Sites Under Palestinian Attack
All over Israel there are 20,000 archeological sites, testifying to the Jewish presence in the land over the past 3500 years. And in Judea and Samaria (a.k.a the West Bank), Palestinian Arabs have damaged or destroyed sites that testify to that presence. Yet in the Western media, it is the Jews who, in trying to […]
Colombia Recognizes Israel’s 1981 Annexation of Golan Heights
Gustavo Petro was a former leftist guerrilla who served as president of Colombia from 2022 to August 7, 2026. During that time, he was unremittingly hostile toward Israel, cutting diplomatic ties in May 2024 after repeatedly accusing the Israeli government of genocide during the conflict in Gaza. He frequently used intense language on social media […]
Serbia, Israel, and the Ties That Bind
Serbia has always been pro-Israel in its general attitude, but now it is demonstrating its friendship with the Jewish state in more tangible ways. It maintains close security and economic ties that are becoming ever more extensive; its officials, including President Alexander Vucic, have declared their solidarity with Israel. More on how the Serbs identify […]