Neither nation has a history of being good to Jews. There's now one interesting bit being discussed. It seems, just before the Russian invasion, a miraculous set of anti-semitic attacks happened in the Crimea and Russia was quick to blame neo-Nazis. However, the local Jews have a different opinion. As pointed out in a Daily Beast article, the Jews ( Read more... )

Last year, some jailed terrorists went on hunger strike in Israel. All the "human rights" groups immediately screamed about evil Israel and the comments on every news article numbered in the thousands as people denounced the existence of the nation and Jews.

Jordan is now seeing a similar hunger strike. Check the comments here an elsewhere? How ( Read more... )

Israel killed some terrorists hiding amongst civilians and some civilians died. The Muslim world isn't claiming the targeted folks were civilians, they're just using the collateral damage to condemn Israel. Of course, the Geneva Conventions are clear: It is illegal for combatants to hide in civilians populations and hiding there does not prevent ( Read more... )

I was listening to today's "Wait, Wait. Don't Tell Me...". It's a comedy quiz about real news from the week. One of the last bits was so funny I had to look up the real information. Here it is ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhtJxC6NwFw is a great video somebody made about boycotting Israel. It mentions a lot of what I've mentioned about the selectivity of the boycott of Israel. It's done facetiously as a pro-boycott video, purporting to show all the the things the ( Read more... )

The Mossad was accused of using false New Zealand, Canadian and other passports for a team that killed a terrorist. Investigations were started, ambassadors were yelled at, folks screamed at the top of their lungs ( Read more... )

A Tony Judt op-ed piece purports to talk about "Israel without cliches". However, it's one large cliche of excuses for hating Israel. The NYT will never print my response, so I'll post it here ( Read more... )

The usual suspects are lying again. The international community hasn't failed Gaza. Gaza's failed the international community ( Read more... )

I've been talking for years about a letter from Martin Luther King that equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. I've also used CAMERA as a source for lot of information. Somehow, I've missed, until now, CAMERA's own research, announced way back in 2002, that the letter was a hoax. They investigated information they agreed with, that supported ( Read more... )

The UN has released another screed. This time, a supposedly neutral report on Israel's response to 12,000 rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli civiliansThe lack of neutrality is loudly announced in the title, "HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND OTHER ( Read more... )