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Mar 28, 2024, 5:26 AM

Wrestling with, not diminishing, the claim of 30,000 Gazans killed

Screen capture, JVP-Chicago Instagram, March 8, 2024

Gazans killed since October 7 greatly outnumber Israelis killed. That is a fact, not an indictment. Anti-Israel voices exploit that fact to enhance empathy for Palestinians, plead for an unconditional ceasefire, and demonize Israel with charges of ethnic cleansing. The Hamas-controlled...

Mar 23, 2024, 11:08 PM

The non-Jewish ‘Jews’ of Israel

Druze religious and community leaders, security officials, and IDF officers accept 16 security kits donated by JUF and the International Fellowship of Christian and Jews (IFCJ). IFCJ photo, with permission.

They were with us during our Exodus. They still are. Most of Jewish history was living as a minority in other people’s countries. When given the opportunity we proved to be loyal, contributing members, if not always citizens. Today, the Jewish...

Feb 4, 2024, 11:41 PM

Tongue-tied by Hamas’s lies? Unravel both with the truth.

You encounter their provocative lies everywhere, from online to on campus. They are the catchphrases that Hamas’s supporters shamelessly peddle to recruit allies by demonizing Israel and lionizing Hamas. Many become tongue-tied trying to respond. But the truth is kryptonite to their...

Dec 1, 2023, 7:50 PM

An illustrated Guide for the Perplexed

Discerning the dog whistles of Hamas’ Chicago supporters Eight hundred years ago Maimonides’ “Guide for the Perplexed” illuminated the compatibility of Judaism with the new sciences. His insights broke through the darkness, shedding a clarifying light for the perplexed. Today, Hamas...

Mar 31, 2023, 6:11 AM

Why Bibi Blinked

A 2nd speculation based on Netanyahu’s new autobiography “My Story” His understanding of earlier intra-Jewish crises likely informed his delaying judicial reform A week ago, in “Bibi Will Blink,” I got the headline correct and the fine print wrong. Prime Minister Benjamin...

Mar 22, 2023, 6:41 PM

Bibi Will Blink

A prediction based on Netanyahu’s new autobiography “My Story” What he writes about, and doesn’t, provides clues to how the judicial reform crisis might end The Israeli government’s tsunami of proposed judicial reforms is both surging forward and subject to shifting...

Feb 8, 2023, 10:14 PM

A truly bewildering global personality

Book Review: Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity, by Daniel Aschheim, Ph.D. A true story: A Jew fled his homeland one step ahead of the Nazis, returning after the war. Within 15 years he became his country’s foreign minister and then chancellor. Under...

Jan 20, 2022, 12:00 AM

Where Jewish conspiracy lies are seeded

There's a direct line between Colleyville and the chutzpah of a convicted Al Qaeda agent, who got financial aid at Brandeis, calling Jews 'backstabbers'

Jan 12, 2022, 2:05 PM

Israel = Apartheid is the Mother of Bad Analogies

SJP mock Israeli "apartheid wall" at University of Chicago (JUF file photo)

Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the U.N. vote rescinding the slanderous analogy “Zionism is racism.” 2022 will see a new global campaign defaming Israel via analogy. Analogies are standard fare in arguments. When added smartly they can illuminate...

May 29, 2020, 4:03 AM

Troubling Signs

Encouraging Signs Obscured by Troubling Ones Those horrible Nazi signs at COVID-19 rallies are shielding other, positive, signs: though being trivialized, Nazism is actually being portrayed as evil, and more non-Jews are denouncing the baseless analogy Much has been written decrying...

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