admin | January 15, 2020
At the annual conference of the American Historical Associationthe major professional organization for academic historianstwo resolutions condemning Israel were defeated. This is the fourth time since 2015 that the same group of historians has put forward such resolutions
admin | January 14, 2020
Its difficult to hide a smile when considering the irony that Meretz, once the crown jewel of the righteous Zionist left, was last week swallowed whole by the Labor Party, now headed by two Mizrahi Israelis. Meretz, which found itself dangerously close to the election threshold, pulled out all the stops in trying to convince Labor head Amir Peretz, who previously refused the merger, to unite the two parties in a joint slate in the run-up to the upcoming elections on March 2.
admin | January 14, 2020
Hotovely with Rabis Brander and Taharlev Gershon Ellinson Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) on Monday visited Midreshet Lindenbaum of the Ohr Torah Stone network and addressed the 200 students of the Midrasha. "We are on the eve of an election where the ideological issue is being hidden from the public and only the personal issues are being dealt with," said Hotovely, who called to "bring the ideological discourse back to the center of the stage and realize that the debate between us and our political rivals is about the identity of the state and the wholeness of the land. The focus on the Prime Ministers issues is a mask behind which there is a dangerous leftist ideology." Hotovely also said that "there is tremendous value for a religious Zionist presence in a party that represents the majority of the people of Israel
admin | January 14, 2020
Israels New Right and National Union parties announced on Tuesday that they will be running together in the countrys March 2 elections. The two parties also called on the Jewish Home Party to join them, according to a report in Arutz Sheva
admin | January 14, 2020
Mordechai Nisan, The Crack-up of the Israeli Left, Mantua Books, 2019, 224 pp. This book makes interesting reading for Western researchers even if not acquainted like myself with the complexities of the Israeli political morass
admin | January 14, 2020
Martin Bubers I and Thou has become a cult classic of modern Western theology in the years since it was first published in Germany, nearly a century ago. The book took intellectual and spiritual inspiration from Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, and a whole host of post-Enlightenment Western secular thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, to argue that there is an ethical dimension to life.
admin | January 14, 2020
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Chief Major General Hussein Salami said that Lt. General Suleimani architected the battleground failures of the US and the Zionist regime in the region. He made the remarks in his meeting with Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis on Tuesday in Tehran.
admin | January 13, 2020
Students protest at an anti-Israel demonstration at the University of California, Irvine. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA) In an interview in the New Yorker, the eminent medievalist, David Nirenberg, an authority on anti-Judaism, uses that term in an effort to make some sense of the upsurge in violent crimes against Jews across diverse societies and the disproportionate place of Jews in public discourse in countries with few Jews, like Poland and Hungary. Nirenberg uses the term, anti-Judaism interchangeably with anti-Semitism, the most commonly used term (in varying spellings), for what I call Jew-hatred or anti-Jewish actions.
admin | January 13, 2020
A poll conducted by the Direct Polls institute on Sunday revealed the distribution of voting among the religious Zionist public, if elections were held today. According to the data, 53.59% of the religious Zionist public would vote for the New Right led by Naftali Bennett in an alliance with the National Union led by Bezalel Smotrich, and only 17.49% would vote for the Jewish Home in its alliance with Otzma Yehudit. 9.87% of religious Zionists members would vote for the Likud, 0.67% would vote for Agudat Israel and 0.45% for Shas.
admin | January 13, 2020
Itamar Ben Gvir, Rafi Peretz, Bezalel Smotrich, Ayelet Shaked, and Naftali Bennett TPS A senior Likud official on Monday urged the smaller right-wing parties to follow the lead of the left's Labor-Gesher and Meretz parties and sign an agreement for a joint run. "This is the time for the right to unite," he said. "[Defense Minister] Naftali Bennett (New Right) must put his ego aside and unite all of the right-wing parties in order to avoid the loss of Knesset seats for a third time
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