By Barry Shaw (MAY 28, 2023 / ARUTZ SHEVA) Susie Gelman is absolutely the wrong candidate for U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority maybe, but not to Israel. In her role as chair of the Israel Policy Forum (someone will have to explain to me how she ever got that position) Gelman […]
By Guy Milliere (MAY 15, 2023 / GATESTONE INSTITUTE) It is the first time in Israel’s short history that a large-scale movement has been launched using undemocratic means to overthrow a democratically elected government. The new government, in fact, is trying to restore democracy – by reforming Supreme Court practices that were adopted starting in […]
STUART V. PAVILACK (MAY 13, 2023 / PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE) Just a month ago we celebrated the Jewish holiday of Passover, the telling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt, and the price of freedom. During the Passover Seder we are charged to help rebuild the land of Israel and to restore the City of […]
By Ron Kampeas (APRIL 26, 2023/JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to congratulate Israel on its 75th birthday and to wish it well in making peace with other countries. But the encouragement of peace deals did not extend to the Palestinians, in a breach with the language typical of U.S. lawmakers’ past […]
By Luke Tress (APRIL 20, 2023 / TIMES OF ISRAEL) Likud lawmaker May Golan said Thursday she will work with all Jewish organizations as Israel’s consul general in New York, if she takes up an offer to serve in the high-profile diplomatic post. Her comments came after some Jewish leaders and former diplomats expressed concern […]
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: Former temporary, caretaker, unelected Prime Minister Yair Lapid did enormous harm to Israel, American Jewry and U.S.-Israel relations during his Passover trip to the U.S. by demonizing Israel’s democratically-elected government as “extremist” and by telling American Jews, Jewish leaders and Democratic […]
