By: Leslie Lenkowsky – wsj.com – November 5, 2023 Missouri Rep. Jason Smith denounced universities and student organizations for statements “celebrating, excusing, or downplaying” the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel. “Releasing such statements, or failing to condemn them,” he said last month, “is unforgivable and runs counter to our values as a nation.” Mr. Smith’s comments have more...

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – November 6, 2023 Prominent Democrats have turned on “Squad” member Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) over her hostility to Israel and her embrace of genocidal language. The radical progressive first faced condemnation from Democrats in Congress and her home state of Michigan after she posted a video accusing the Biden administration of being complicit...

The silence of some Democrats in response to explosion of Jew hatred is nothing short of betrayal and Americans Jews must not move forward without a reckoning.

By: Jakub Grygiel – wsj.com – November 1, 2023 Simultaneous crises are threatening global stability and taxing U.S. power and attention. Russia’s war in Ukraine, Hamas and Iran’s aggression against Israel and China’s threats in the Pacific are all products of the grand ambitions of evil imperial regimes. The first is that leaders are responsible for wars and these countries...

“Israel is a country that has no place in our land,” Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told the Middle East’s LBC International news network on Tuesday. “We must remove that country.”

By: Matthew Hennessey – wsj.com – November 1, 2023 Islamophobia is again the obsession of progressives and the media. “I know many of you in the Muslim-American community, the Arab-American community, the Palestinian-American community, and so many others, are outraged, saying to yourself, here we go again with Islamophobia and distrust we saw after 9/11,” President Biden said in his...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty  – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2023 Hamas’s atrocities already are being forgotten, interred in false equivalencies. Every 9/11 memorial I’ve seen seems to include the words “Never Forget.” I remember that the phrase, so closely associated with the Holocaust, shook me up. But it also felt superfluous. I used to think: How could I? The September 11...

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2023 Our David Zimmermann has reported on FBI Director Chris Wray’s acknowledgment in today’s Senate testimony that antisemitic threats are reaching historic highs. Wray has further testified that terrorist threats against the United States have also skyrocketed. The increase is obviously triggered by the outbreak of war in the Middle East,...

Your intentions were noble. You wanted to make the country and the world a better place.  You wanted to be more enlightened than your narrow-minded parents. From your perspective — influenced by teachers and professors — your parents and grandparents are the reason we live in a systemically racist, oppressive country.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 29, 2023 The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem sits atop the site of the Second Temple, the central place for Jewish worship before its destruction during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. One wonders if any of the people braying about the alleged “settler colonialism” of Israel...