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The Betrayal of Syria’s Kurds

A Kurdish veteran fighter looks out at the battleground with ISIS. Photo: Seth Frantzman. JNS.org – From Moscow to Washington, we are told that the principle enemy in the Middle East is the Islamic...

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Antisemitism Experts Disagree on Legitimacy of Holocaust-Aleppo Comparison...

Aleppo, Syria. Photo: Wikipedia. The Holocaust has frequently and rightly been invoked when subsequent genocides and mass killings are ignored, an antisemitism expert told The Algemeiner on Monday, the...

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Meet the Austrian President Fawning Over Iran

Austrian President Karlheinz Kopf. Photo: Austrian Parliament. JNS.org — You probably haven’t heard of Karlheinz Kopf. He’s one of three Austrian politicians currently sharing that country’s...

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Wielding the Holocaust Stick

A BDS rally. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – In late November, radical protesters in London attacked a Jewish communal building. As they wrestled with police at the gates, they screamed abuse...

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Fighting the Shameful Embrace of Hezbollah

Hezbollah’s military parade in Syria. Photo: Twitter. JNS.org – In July 2006, Israel fought a bitter defensive war against the Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah. The hostilities, which saw...

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Antisemitism Experts: Popularity in Germany of New Annotated Version of...

A first edition of Adolf Hitler’s autobiography “Mein Kampf.” Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The fact that a new annotated version of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf has become a...

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Difficult Questions and Contested Answers on Antisemitism

Activist Linda Sarsour (center). Photo: Facebook. JNS.org – In his magnum opus A Lethal Obsession, the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the...

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From the Passover Seder to the Real World

An armed Palestinian fighter. Photo: Wikimedia Commons JNS.org – At my family’s Passover seder this year, we read — as we always do — from the traditional Sephardic haggadah, in keeping with the...

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The Drumbeat Against Jewish Ritual in Europe Sounds Once More

The kosher slaughter of a chicken. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – This past week, Jewish ritual observance came under attack in both Belgium and Norway. While there is nothing suggesting that the...

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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Light and the Darkness

President Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. Photo: Screenshot. JNS.org – As much as President Donald Trump enjoys taking a metaphorical sledgehammer to even the merest of...

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Leave the Symbols of Nazi Persecution Alone, Billy Joel

Billy Joel wearing a yellow Star of David. Photo: Twitter. JNS.org – Billy Joel’s decision to sport a yellow star on the front and back of his jacket during a concert this week was a nod to history...

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Iranian Nuclear Revelations From Argentina

The aftermath of the bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994. Photo: File. JNS.org – Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon made a good point at a Security Council...

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Iran’s War, and America’s Shame, in Kurdistan

Fighters from the Iranian-backed Heshd al-Shaabi Shia militia in Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo: Screenshot. JNS.org – Prior to the referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan on September 25, the leaders of Iran, Turkey...

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Hopes Betrayed: The Russian Revolution and the Jews

A mass solidarity rally with Soviet Jewry at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on December 20, 1970. Photo: Moshe Milner / GPO. JNS.org – Another week, another centennial. Following the Balfour...

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France’s Socialist Party Shows the Right Way to Respond to Antisemitism

French socialist politician Gérard Filoche clashes with i24’s Anna Cabana. Photo: Screenshot. JNS.org – It has been a long time since I’ve heard anyone say anything positive about the French Socialist...

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In Decades-Long AMIA Jewish Center Affair, the Truth Will Come Out

Before being murdered, prosecutor Alberto Nisman had accused Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center. Photo: Twitter....

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Why an Antisemitism Commissioner for Germany Is a Good Idea

Demonstrators in Berlin brandish Turkish and Palestinian flags as they burn an Israeli flag. Photo: Jüdisches Forum für Demokratie und gegen Antisemitismus. JNS.org – There’s an intense debate going on...

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Islam’s Jewish Dilemma Revisited

Imam Aymen Elkasaby preaching at the Islamic Center of Jersey City in November 2017. Photo: YouTube screenshot. JNS.org – In his important book Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, the scholar David...

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Israel Can’t Deny the Reality That BDS Is in Decline

A pro-BDS demonstration. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – Recently, I’ve been nursing some concerns about the way the Israeli government is handling its response to the BDS campaign against the...

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Who Owns the Holocaust?

The entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – Who owns the Holocaust? That, ultimately, is the key question posed by the impending legislation in Poland that will criminalize...

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