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May 22, 2017, 9:13 PM

Arabia, Jerusalem and Rome

This week President Donald Trump made a landmark speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, addressing leaders of 50 Arab and Islamic countries. He said that he was there to address the three monotheistic religions. His first stop was Saudi Arabia,...

Jan 28, 2016, 9:05 PM

The Missing Gene of Empathy for Murdered Jews

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, the ‘conscience’ of human rights was addressing the UN when he told the world that he understood that killing innocent Jews was a result of Palestinian “frustration from the occupation.” The Secretary...

Feb 26, 2015, 11:16 PM

Comfortably numb?

Last week, 100 British artists joined a so-called “cultural boycott” of Israel, pledging that they would not accept any invitations or funding from the Jewish State until Israel “ends its colonial oppression of the Palestinians.” The artists, who include...

Jan 12, 2015, 1:09 AM

We’re All Jews

Watching the images of the terrified hostages released from hiding in the freezer at the Hyper Cacher market on the television last week, I could not help but feel that French Jews must be having terrible flashbacks of the...

Nov 19, 2014, 8:35 PM

CNN’s Freudian Slip

In a violent terror attack in Jerusalem this week, two Palestinian men stormed into a synagogue carrying hatchets and pistols. Moments later, four Jews were dead and the synagogue was a blood bath. An Israel policeman later succumbed to...

Nov 6, 2014, 6:32 PM

Obama and Israel: A Recipe for Disaster

“The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” said a senior Obama administration official in a now infamous Atlantic piece by Jeffrey Goldberg on October 28th. The “chickenshit” affair may mark a low point in diplomatic relations between Israel and...

Sep 11, 2014, 11:04 AM

Countdown to the new 9/11

It's time for The world to realize that ISIS and Hamas are waging a war of jihad against all civilized nations

Aug 14, 2014, 7:13 PM

Obama’s ambush of Israel

A naive ideology of passivity has set the US president on the wrong side of history

Aug 7, 2014, 2:09 PM

Is Journalism Dead?

Michael Oren, interviewed on CNN on a screen filled with images from Gaza (YouTube screenshot)

If the shoddy reporting during the Israel-Gaza conflict is to be believed, there simply were no Hamas fighters

Jul 24, 2014, 9:09 PM

Blame it on the Jews: A Story About Hate

As an observer of the developments of the rise of global anti-Semitism over the last fifteen years , a long time producer of an international television network, and currently a documentary filmmaker (Blame it on the Jews: A Story...

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About Me

The former Senior Producer of CNN’s Jerusalem bureau for twenty plus years, Izzy Lemberg is a veteran international television news producer and recipient of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award. Based in Jerusalem, Izzy is currently working on a documentary film about anti-Semitism called Blame it on the Jews.