Photo: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 A global pandemic can teach us a lot about the priorities of a government. Take the Palestinian Authority. Even with the outbreak of COVID-19, the P.A. continues to prioritize payments to convicted terrorists and their families over the distribution of salaries to teachers and social-welfare recipients. Last...
There Is No ‘Moral Equivalency’ Between Israeli Soldiers and Palestinian Terrorists
During a seminar in my graduate program in Israel, a professor concluded a lecture on terrorism and political violence claiming: “The tears of a grieving Palestinian mother, whose son was responsible for carrying out a suicide attack are equal to the tears of an Israeli mother whose son fell in...
Showing Israel’s Positive Side on College Campuses
Photo: israaid.org On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake rocked the foundations of Haiti. Within 24 hours of the disaster, a team of 220 medical personnel and rescuers from Israel had traveled thousands of miles to provide assistance. Over the next five years, as other countries came and left, the tiny...
IfNotNow Spreads More Lies About Israel
Photo source: IfNotNow on Facebook The trope that Jews (or in this convenient case, the Jewish state) are the cause of another people’s suffering is not a new one. In fact, New York Times author Bari Weiss has traced it back to the time of Jesus’ crucifixion in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, and explains:...
שלום ואלימות בסכסוך הישראלי-פלסטיני: מאמר תגובה
ב- 7 בפברואר פרסמה נור אלמסלמני מאמר שכותרתו “מדינה חסרת מדינה? פלסטין … לאן? ” בה היא קובעת כי “הפלסטינים מנסים ליישם תוכנית שלום עם הישראלים כבר זמן רב מאוד.” טענה זו אינה מתייחסת לעשורים הרבים שבהם ההנהגה הפלסטינית הסיתה לאלימות, תמכה בטרור והפיצה תעמולה אנטישמית. מאז הקמתה בשנת 1959,...
Newly Elected VP of Rutgers-Newark Student Government Foments Antisemitism Online
A Palestinian student who was elected this month as vice president of the student government at the Newark campus of Rutgers University has a history of posting anti-Israel and antisemitic content on social media. Carolyn Assaf, a pre-med student, once posted a since-deleted 15-second cartoon video on Instagram of what...
Minimizing The Holocaust During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The depth of the coronavirus pandemic took the world by surprise. The international economy has completely crashed, unemployment is rampant, and as of Friday, the disease has claimed more than 150,000 lives worldwide, with a reported 2.2 million cases of infection. While scientists around the world continue to decipher the many surprises...
Hamas Uses Children as Human Shields, and Israel Gets Blamed
Photo: UN Watch On February 19, 2019, Fathi Hammad, a member of the Hamas Political Bureau, made a public statement saying that “we will teach our kids in the kindergartens, the elementary schools, and the middle schools how to move forward and liberate their land, with the help of Allah alone.” This...