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In a ceremony graced by the presence of Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin  and Minister of Education Gideon Sa’ar, hundreds of Israeli high school students from secondary schools across the country packed the Knesset’s main auditorium on Sunday, December 19th to witness the awarding of cash prizes to 15 winners of the 2010 Ze’ev Jabotinsky […]

The London Review of Bigotry                 Just Journalism, founded in 2008 as a sorely needed initiative to monitor the bias in the British media’s coverage of Israel and the Middle East, has issued a report on The London Review of Books (LRB).  Melanie Phillips observes that the LRB is important because it “plays a key […]Full Story »

There is no mystery about Julian Assange’s motives in releasing the avalanche of secret documents known as Wikileaks—he has declared he sought  to deal a mortal blow to American power.  In The Wall Street Journal (Dec. 6) Gordon Crovitz thows light on Assange’s bizarre weltanschauung.  Crovitz writes that in 2006 Assange published two essays […]Full Story »

Following in the footsteps of Chavez and Castro, Argentina and Brazil’s regimes [now joined by Bolivia] have declared that they recognize Abbas’ Palestinian Authority “as a free and independent state within the borders defined in 1967. The Palestinian Authority is of course neither free nor independent. It’s a dictatorship that refuses to hold free […]Full Story »

‘Yes, but is it good for the Jews?’ This question has over time become both joke and punch line as Jews ask it no matter what the topic and no matter how distant from Jewish concerns. In a more serious vein, it captures the mindset of a people who have suffered centuries of oppression […]

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If we take Germany, and look at the excellent indicator of the web network, we can see that neo-Nazi websites have increased from 800 last year to 1872 this year, and the year is not over yet. One fifteen-year-old out of every 20 belongs to a neo-Nazi group. The German neo-Nazi messages that are […]Full Story »

The good folks at the UN are hard at work, busy spending your hard-earned cash on such events as a New York City bash known as “Durban III” next September. And guess what, this includes inviting Iranian President Ahmadinejad to lecture Americans about ending racism and intolerance.               The UN budget process goes like […]Full Story »

An interesting year comes to a close.               First the epiphany of Tony Blair:  The tony former Prime Minister was a star player in Europe’s bullying of Israel, pushing for serial appeasements in exchange for escalating terror. Much to our surprise his memoir A Journey is sympathetic to Israel and has, in consequence, elicited […]