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Palestinian journalists carry mock coffins of Palestinian journalists who were killed during the current war in Gaza during a symbolic funeral toward a United Nations office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Martin Fletcher

CPJ’s misleading tally of journalist deaths is clickbait for Israel haters

It matters that a large number of listed fatalities were tragic casualties of the war, not necessarily reporters at work

CEO of X (formerly known as Twitter) Elon Musk, arrives to meet with National Unity leader Benny Gantz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 27, 2023. (Chaim GoldbergFlash90)

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

On Israel’s warm welcome for Elon Musk

Our leaders rolled out the red carpet for the man whose platform sends ‘Hitler was right’ tweets to Israeli users

Papa displays his tattoo in front of a famous image of his liberation from Auschwitz.

Emily Bornstein

Keep the Holocaust out of your anti-Israel arguments

If you believe Israel desecrates the memory of the six million, I can say with confidence that if they were alive today, you’d hate them too

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (iStock)

As if Israel simply woke up one morning and chose to attack Gaza

A grotesque, fact-free letter by 620 Irish academics accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and genocidal violence

A participant holds a placard as students gather during a 'Walkout to fight Genocide and Free Palestine' at Bruin Plaza at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in Los Angeles on October 25, 2023 (Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)

Daniel Chamovitz

Freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability

My fellow university presidents should quit cowering behind free speech claims and condemn campus hate

Family and friends attend the funeral of Rose Elisheva Lubin at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on November 9, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

There’s no shortcut to redemption

The trials of the Jewish nation are not fair: Some get more than their fair share, and some must fight for a crumb, but that is how we build

Illustrative: An International Red Cross vehicle carrying Israeli Russian hostage Ron Krivoy released by Hamas drives towards the Rafah border point with Egypt ahead of a transfer to Israel on November 26, 2023. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Israel’s choice: Body or soul

Israel will almost certainly have to decide whether to destroy Hamas completely or save the remaining hostages

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Jonathan Foxman

Nov 29, 2023, 11:52 PM

Anti-Semitism and the Ideology of Oppression

Something hasn’t seemed right: the young people tearing down posters, the mobs vandalizing Jewish businesses and threatening their customers, the justice-minded student protesters who seem so completely uninterested in Hamas’ hideous cruelty. Yes, it’s anti-Semitism, and that is enormously...

Nov 29, 2023, 11:52 PM

Middle East Chronicles: A Jewish-Israeli Insight into Hezbollah’s Games

Sitting here, in the heart of Israel, watching the grand theater of the Middle East unfold, I can't help but smile skeptically. Consider this: Hassan Nasrallah, the conductor of Hezbollah, in an Oscar-worthy performance, declares support for the resistance...

Nov 29, 2023, 11:48 PM

Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Move: Gaza’s Transition

My prediction is that Saudi Arabia will temporarily assume control over the Gaza Strip during its transition from Hamas leadership to becoming a sovereign nation. This action could be part of a peace deal brokered between Israel and Saudi...

Nov 29, 2023, 11:47 PM

The Meaning And Purpose of “Israel”

As Israel is involved in an ongoing battle with violent forces that seek to wipe it from the map, and as antisemites around the world wage an ideological battle to undermine the Jewish state’s very existence, it is an...

Jonathan Muskat

Nov 29, 2023, 11:46 PM

Don’t opine on the hostage deal until you meet with the families

I often tell my students that the difference between a yeshiva student and a rabbi is how we deal with halachic questions. Yeshiva students sitting in a beit midrash want to raise issues. Yeshiva students argue that a particular...

Nov 29, 2023, 11:43 PM

The Middle East War and Campus Newspapers

In covering the craziness on our university campuses, part of the story is how the campus newspapers are covering and reporting controversial events on campus. This also applies to the demonstrations and events surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The highly...

Nov 29, 2023, 11:42 PM

Russian Missiles Almost Destroyed Israel in 1973 — And Saved Ukraine Today.

When Arab armies invaded Israel 50 years ago, they were armed to the teeth with Russian-made missiles that almost brought the Israelis to the brink of defeat. But call it diffusion of military technology – or just old-fashioned payback. When...

Nov 29, 2023, 11:41 PM

The erasable line

Headline on Times of Israel: 2 Israeli-Russian women handed to Red Cross; 10 more Israeli hostages awaited I took a break this week. I followed my own advice and watched some comedy shows. All I did was watch comedy shows and...

Nov 29, 2023, 11:40 PM

Day 54 of The War: Even Without A Language

A lot is happening at once in our tiny restaurant

On November 11th, I posted here about Neta Heiman Mina, whose mother, Ditza Heiman (84), was kidnapped by Hamas to Gaza. Last night, on the 5th day of the ceasefire for hostages exchange, Ditza Heiman was released along with...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Nov 29, 2023, 11:40 PM

Flatterer’s Folly (Vayishlach)

Jacob and Esau (AI image by author)

“Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.” -Adlai E. Stevenson Some twenty years earlier, Jacob had pretended to be his brother Esau and deceived their blind father to bestow blessings on him that had been originally intended for Esau....

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