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South Africa’s Baseless Accusation

The International Court of Justice in The Hague should categorically reject a baseless claim by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The South African government of President Cyril Ramaphosa submitted a case to the court on December 29, alleging that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is “genocidal in character” […]

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Masha Gessen’s Glib And Shameful Comparison

The New Yorker recently published an article by staff writer Masha Gessen in which she erroneously compared the Gaza Strip to Nazi ghettos in Eastern Europe. Understandably enough, her shameful comparison embarrassed the Heinrich Boll Foundation, which had awarded Gessen the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. Having deplored her thesis as “unacceptable,” the foundation withdraw […]

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The President Of Syria Joins The Ranks Of Holocaust Deniers

Holocaust denial is a vicious form of antisemitism, a cudgel antisemites brandish to doubly punish Jews. Having implicitly or explicitly applauded the mass murder of Jews, they then vastly underplay its scale and severity, or deny it ever took place. In pursuit of their malicious agenda, they fabricate evidence and twist the facts. Bashar al-Assad, […]

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Canada, In A Significant Shift, Votes For A Gaza Ceasefire

Regrettably, Canada has voted for a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where Israel and Hamas have been locked in fierce combat since the end of October. Until yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resisted pressure to support an immediate truce, understanding that  Israel requires far more […]

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A Despicable Moment In American Academia

Is it so hard to condemn genocide unequivocally? Shockingly enough, Elizabeth Magill, Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth, the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had various degrees of difficulty responding to that straightforward question with a simple yes or no answer. Ar a congressional hearing in Washington […]

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Hamas’ Sexual Violence Is Irrefutably Exposed

As Hamas barbarians went on a murderous rampage in southern Israel on October 7, they sexually assaulted and mutilated dozens of women. Contrary to Hamas’ lame denials, we know this to be true. It is not a figment of anyone’s imagination. On December 5, U.S. President Joe Biden condemned the “unimaginable cruelty” of Hamas attackers […]

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Hate-Motivated Desecration

Toronto police raided the homes of eleven pro-Palestinian activists on November 22 and placed them under arrest in connection with “hate-motivated” mischief over $5,000 and “conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.” The target of their despicable attack, which occurred on November 10, was Chapters Indigo, a Jewish-owned bookshop in the heart of the city whose […]

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Gaza War Unleashes Antisemitic Rhetoric On Chinese Social Media

Israelis were shocked by the ease with which Hamas terrorists broke past Israel’s high-tech billion dollar border fence along the Gaza Strip on October 7. They should also have been surprised by a related event — the appearance of antisemitic rhetoric on Chinese social and state media from that date forward. This pernicious phenomenon caught […]

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Who Is The Real Elon Musk?

Elon Musk, the owner of the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, is a hard man to pin down. In terms of his scattershot views, he is all over the place. Which begs the question: where does he really stand? On the one hand, Musk endorsed a foul antisemitic conspiracy theory dear to […]

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Trudeau Should Not Conflate Antisemitism With Islamophobia

Unless you are like the storied Rip Van Winkle, you know it in your bones that there has been a disquieting upsurge of antisemitism in Canada since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war last month. Wars pitting Israel against its Arab enemies always bring antisemites and their cheerleaders out of the woodwork. The latest conflagration […]