With Israel fighting a two-front war in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox partners are demanding draft exemptions for yeshiva students and other members of the haredi community. This impudent demand was presented by United Torah Judaism and Shas, two ultra-Orthodox parties in his coalition government. They have a total of […]
With Jews in Europe poised to mark the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht on November 9, mobs attacked Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam following a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax the night before. The violence immediately brought to mind an ugly incident that occurred in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, late last October. Shortly […]
It was, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a message to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on November 6, “history’s greatest comeback.” Netanyahu, the first world leader to congratulate Trump, may have been indulging in hyperbole, but he was not too far off the mark. Trump’s triumph over Vice President Kamala Harris in yesterday’s […]
Canada, in tandem with the United States, has finally followed the lead of Germany, Holland and Israel and designated Samidoun, known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code. The federal Liberal government made its belated announcement yesterday, shortly after the Conservative Party’s foreign affairs critic, Michael Chong, raised […]
One of the net effects of Hamas’ terrorist attacks in southern Israel on October 7 last year is a marked tilt toward extremism in the ranks of Palestinian activists in the Middle East and the United States. Surveys indicate that most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank supported the massacre and no […]
Two days before the first anniversary of the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Palestinians and their motley group of supporters gathered in downtown Toronto to celebrate the cause of Palestinian “resistance” to Israel’s very existence. Chanting incendiary slogans such as “Israel will soon be gone, free, free Palestine,” and waving Palestinian and Lebanese […]
Donald Trump has been spouting verbal diarrhea of late. Speaking at two Jewish campaign events in the last few days, the former U.S. president and Republican Party presidential nominee claimed that American Jews would be mostly to blame if he lost November’s election to his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. “If I don’t win […]
The federal government of Canada faces a quandary. Should it abide by a request from the Jewish community and release the still secret second part of Justice Jules Deschenes’ Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada? Or should it heed the advice of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and keep it confidential? This extremely sensitive […]
A university in Canada has set an unfortunate precedent, much to Israel’s detriment and its own financial standing. On July 10, the president of the University of Windsor, Robert Gordon, caved in to Palestinian and pro-Palestinian protesters and signed an agreement that closed the “Liberation Zone” encampment on campus that they illegally set up on […]
Presidential debates in the United States should not only illuminate and clarify the issues of the day. They should also be on a cordial level. Regrettably, the televised debate on September 10 between Vice President Kamala Harris and the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, fell short of that standard. With less than […]