It was a surreal event cooked up by some of the most extreme elements in Israeli politics. At a moment when Israeli forces are battling Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip and negotiations are under way to free the hostages still in Hamas’ captivity, twelve government ministers and fifteen members of the Knesset had nothing […]
Israel’s right to self-defence in the face of Hamas’ massacre on October 7 was implicitly recognized by the International Court of Justice in its interim ruling on January 26. Significantly enough, the court’s president, Joan Donoghue, did not call for an immediate ceasefire, which South Africa and its ally, Hamas, had demanded. This is no […]
As Israel’s ambassador to Canada said recently, the Canadian government should finally clarify its position on South Africa’s baseless allegation that Israel committed genocide during its air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. Since October 8, the day after Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 civilians and soldiers in a murderous rampage in southern Israel, the […]
Loud, aggressive and intimidating Palestinian protests supporting Hamas, demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, and falsely accusing Israel of genocide have been proliferating like weeds in Canadian and American cities for more than three months now. Frankly speaking, they have gotten out of hand, the sanctity of freedom of assembly and free speech […]
South Africa has gone down a very crooked road in accusing Israel of “genocidal intent” in its military campaign to eradicate Hamas and remove it from power. In light of the atrocities that Hamas perpetrated last October in southern Israel, which ran the gamut from mass murder to sexual assault, Israel had every moral and […]
Americans For Peace Now, a dovish pro-Israel organization affiliated with the Peace Now movement in Israel, issued an unrealistic and naive statement on January 8 that unintentionally plays into the hands of Hamas. Calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Israel-Hamas war, it urged the Biden administration “to push” Israel to adopt and implement a […]
To put it plainly, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is out of touch with reality. In recent days, he has called for the emigration of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents and the rebuilding of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, from which Israel withdrew unilaterally in 2005. Smotrich’s foolhardy recommendations have been seconded by his sidekick, […]
With Mexico poised to elect its first Jewish president, Vincente Fox has shamelessly exploited his position as its former president to sow antisemitism. The target of his vile attacks, Claudia Sheinbaum, is the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City — the first Jewish woman to hold this post. Sheinbaum, a member of the left-of-center National […]
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” […]
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 […]