Somehow, the racist name-calling enrages me more than the physical abuse. Anyone who would shout the n-word or anything similar is desperate.
Read More »Column: If We Do Not Stand Against Anti-Semitism, Why Should Anyone Else?
Within a week, Pope Francis and two prominent black men took steps that can only benefit the Jewish people in a follow-up, perhaps coincidental, to a rally of Jews and others who gathered near Capitol Hill to protest anti-Semitism.
Read More »Lauren Boebert and Her Pal: Living Their Own Holocaust?
U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene must be seeking vindication. Few Americans appreciate the suffering they endured during the past year or more – perhaps especially a resident of Boulder who works out of Room 136 on 200 E. Colfax Avenue in Denver, the location of the state Capitol building.
Read More »Column: War And Pieces: The Shape of Teachers’ Anti-Israel Drive
Amani Barakat must be joking when she twice touts the “peaceful” tactics of an anti-Israel drive among West Coast teachers’ unions. Simultaneously, Barakat continues in a leading role in an organization that seeks the right of return for Palestinians to Israel, a mission that could readily lead to war.
Read More »Column: Importing Arab Terrorism For A Philly Food Fight And Oakland’s Cruel Sea
Advocates for the Palestinians exerted their terrorism talents in or near two prominent American cities 3,000 miles apart in recent weeks.
Read More »Column: The Perils of Ilhan Omar: The Weird Way She Identifies With Jews
At long last, American Jews can bond with Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, at least in one sense. She now understands how we feel when she mouths off about Israel’s supposed oppression of the Palestinians, which compounds our fear that her followers will harm us.
Read More »Column: Anti-Semitism Watch: A Hopeful Sign For Black Lives Matter
When a parent buries a child, little else matters. So how does the Black Lives Matter movement find the time and energy to brand Israel as an apartheid and genocidal state and equate its policies with police brutality?
Read More »Biden Could Force Stark Choices For Hamas
President Biden set the stage for doing to Hamas what he may never achieve with the Republicans in Congress: by firmly casting Hamas as the bad guy.
Read More »Thanks, Yasser. Broken Peace Deal In 2000 Shapes Arabs’ Fate Today
If only the Palestinians could govern themselves in an independent state…
Read More »Column: Gun Violence: A Visitor From Jerusalem Unsafe In Israel Or America
raelis Efraim Gordon and Yehuda Guetta learned too late that they were not safe whether waiting for a bus in the West Bank or visiting relatives in Baltimore.
Read More »Column: The Yosefs Who Go Too Far
As an Israeli, Yosef should know that Israeli soldiers from Haifa or Tel Aviv are already “home” until the army deploys them to its territories, where most of the fighting usually takes place. American Jews are usually “home” in Philadelphia, Chicago or Los Angeles, and especially small towns, where they are often vulnerable to distorted verbal attacks on Israel.
Read More »Column: Human Rights Watch Report Spews Up The Usual Omissions And Distortions
Palestinian society paints itself into a corner for more than seven decades, and then their friends liken Israel to an apartheid state.
Read More »Column: Insane Ruling On Jewish Woman’s Murder: Maybe The French Court Is On Drugs
To paraphrase our insanity defense standard, a suspect who cannot distinguish between right and wrong in killing his Jewish neighbor is not guilty of committing a crime. France’s version of our Supreme Court moved close to such a conclusion when it ruled that Kobili Traore cannot stand trial for killing a Jewish woman since his state of mind was influenced by consumption of cannabis.
Read More »Column: Arab Refugee Aid Could Endanger Israelis
Certainly the refugees should be helped, but it is bothersome that the Arab nations have done little or nothing for them.
Read More »Column: Mississippi Senator Is False Witness To Sabbath Sojourn For Voters
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, scores zero for two so far on the facts. She falsely claims that Sunday is the Sabbath besides Saturday and, far more importantly, that our civil rights revolve around religious beliefs.
Read More »Column: Tragedy Could Have Been Prevented – With Slight Change In Federal Law
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa lost control. That happened In November 2017 during his senior year at Arvada West High School. On March 22, he would once again lose control, this time in a Boulder supermarket. As Sunday’s New York Times recounts the first incident, “Several (friends) said he had a …
Read More »Column: After Pittsburgh and Atlanta, Senate Rules Still Threaten Gun-Control Bills
It is a relief to learn that the nearly 10 million Americans who live in Arizona, Montana and West Virginia feel safe from gun violence. Three Democratic senators from these states will not take all necessary steps to pass two gun-control bills that the House of Representatives approved last Thursday.
Read More »Column: With New COVID Critique, How Would Palestinian Leaders Govern Their Own State?
The Palestinian Authority, which administers limited public services in Israel’s territories, is now accused by its own people of distributing Covid-19 vaccines to the privileged at the expense of needy Palestinians. Such an allegation should make one wonder how the Palestinians will govern their own independent state.
Read More »Column: Uplifting Response To A Dreadful Anti-Semitic Slur
Lowell, Mass., did it right confronting anti-Semitism. Not so right when Manhattan dealt with distortions on Israel.
Read More »Column: Murder at Capitol Hill?
Four decades ago, when she was president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dianne Feinstein stumbled onto a crime scene down the hall from her City Hall office. Could a similar event happen today in Washington, DC?
Read More »Column: A “More Pro-Israel President” Could Never Be Impeached
You know something is wrong with the impeachment rule when Israel and Nazi show trials are injected into the debate.
Read More »Column: Arab Villages Not “Burning Down” As House Dems May Be Burning Bridges
Didn’t you know? “They can’t be burning down Palestinian villages.” Rep. Ro Khanna did not know it either, but he uttered those words anyway in an interview last Friday with MSNBC.
Read More »Column: Anti-Semitism Watch: A Pox on Both Parties
U.S. Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rashida Tlaib – each crazy in their own ways – deserve each other. None of us deserve this pair turning Capitol Hill into a psych ward. Nor do we deserve the thoughtless and senseless response of both Democrats and Republicans.
Read More »Column: Ossoff and Schumer Launch Us Into New Era
Three senators, two of them Jewish, can be credited with launching America into a new political era.
Read More »Column: The Capitol Raid: Shattering a Jewish Refuge
When Rabbi Jordan Hersh’s grandfather, Joseph Goldstein, lived in Poland, thugs there picked Easter to beat up Jews. Our own fellow citizens chose the day for the presidential election certification to rampage our Capitol and beat up Capitol police and anyone else who got in their way.
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