Monthly Archives: November 2020

Narishkeit

Yiddish is a most expressive language which often defies perfect translation into English as well as conveying its emotional intent. Take the word narishkeit for example. For the purposes of this op-ed, it can be...

Biden gesture to his Jewish voters : Deny assistance to anyone who honors those...

Indications are that a majority of Jewish Americans voted for Joe Biden in the recent US presidential election. It is entirely plausible that the Jewish enthusiasm in this tight race served to turn the tide...
Picture of  a smiling Maher al-Hashlamon as he was convicted of the murder of Dalya Lemkus

Palestinian Authority murder incentive fund in full swing

On October 8, 2015, six Arabs either murdered or tried to murder Jews, in six different locations in the country. As these attacks occurred, Arabs rioted in every nook and cranny of Israel, on...

How Trump can expose biggest lie in Middle East: Palestinian ‘refugee’ myth

The Trump administration may be on its way out, but it can still ­advance American interests between now and January. This is particularly true in the Middle East, where White House policies have arguably...

Remembering two forgotten heroes: Ben Hecht and Peter Bergson

On Nov. 25, 1942, a five-paragraph article, buried on page 10 of The New York Times, confirmed the deaths at that time of 2 million Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe and warned of the perilous plight...

Shoshana Bryen on F-35s and Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge

Shoshana Bryen, senior director of the Jewish Policy Center and editor of InFocus Quarterly, spoke to participants in an October 30 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about the U.S. administration's sale of F-35 jet...

Unreported Foreign Donations to Universities Foment Anti-Semitism | Opinion

Officials at the U.S. Department of Education last month released findings in their investigation into Georgetown University, Texas A&M, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Rutgers and other universities over billions of dollars in unreported funding from...

Stretching credibility to the limit

This past week provided further proof that credibility can be stretched to almost infinite lengths. The death from COVID of Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine (i.e. Israel) Liberation Organization and close bosom buddy...

Covering JFK’s Assassination for my school paper, at age 13.5

When you undergo a traumatic experience, especially at a young age, you remember  details of that experience for the rest of your life. And so it was for so many on the day of the...

Context of Terror

The classic Christian anti-Semitism of the European countries began to take root in the Arab-Muslim World as a widespread phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Anti-Semitism in the Arab-Muslim World is generally directed at...