Yitzhak Santis

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Oct 22, 2023, 6:42 PM

Anti-Zionist Jews in Service to Annihilationist Antisemitism

In the last week we’ve been witness to anti-Zionist Jewish groups organizing in Washington against Israel’s right to defend its citizens in the aftermath of the mass murder by Hamas death squads of 1,400 Israelis and other nationals. Whether...

Oct 16, 2023, 3:32 PM

Waiting for the inevitable

Waiting.... We are waiting for the other shoe to drop. We know it is coming, we didn't call up 400,000 reservists to hold a grand picnic. I live in the north. Driving yesterday I saw convoys of heavy armor heading south....

Jan 11, 2022, 5:05 PM

When fathers weep

Ammar Muhammad Hujayrat, z"l. (Courtesy, via The Times of Israel)

A Bedouin child's violent death. His family's extra bitter coffee of mourning. And my effort to share the pain in an embrace that said what I couldn't in words

Jan 24, 2019, 9:38 PM

Was Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s apology sincere?

Ilhan Omar, then a candidate for US Congress, speaks at a Hillary for Minnesota event at the University of Minnesota in October 2016. (Lorie Shaull/Flickr/via JTA)

Omar's support for BDS undermines her apology

Oct 31, 2018, 2:54 PM

Hate Speech: Nothing New under the Sun

Judaism has much to say on the power words have over life and death. The Tree of Life massacre underscores this. When demagogues rile up crowds with angry words, some people feel validated and empowered to act out those words....

Jun 26, 2017, 10:12 PM

When Dykes ban Jews

That is a pretty offensive headline, I admit. But it aptly describes a very offensive incident. Here’s what happened as reported by JTA and carried in the Times of Israel, “A parade in Chicago celebrating the lesbian community banned three Jewish...

May 2, 2016, 2:48 PM

Of Livingstone, Hitler and the unmentioned Nazi Palestinian Mufti

This article is co-authored with Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs. -- In the uproar following Ken Livingstone’s comments about Hitler having been a Zionist “before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews” a crucial point has not been raised:...

Sep 23, 2014, 11:57 AM

The Lancet’s indefensible defense of antisemitic David Duke promoters

Here is one of those seemingly difficult dilemmas for which, upon reflection, there is but a single moral choice. You are an editor of an internationally renowned peer-reviewed medical journal whose primary capital is trust among its readers. This trust...

Jun 16, 2014, 9:51 AM

Presbyterians can enflame conflict or be peacemakers

This week in Detroit at their biennial General Assembly, members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have a profound choice to make: to be peacemakers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or to become participants in the dispute. Presbyterians have a unique opportunity...

Mar 10, 2014, 10:49 AM

Christ at the Checkpoint’s government enablers

Taxpayers are helping bankroll a conference that revives medieval theology to serve anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist aims

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Yitzhak Santis resides in Ramat Yishai in northern Israel.