The Hypocritical Protestant Churches The recent initiative by a group of Protestant Christian leaders calling on Congress to reevaluate military aid to Israel is a nauseating example of applying double standards against Jews and Israel under the cloak of piety and hypocritical...
Documenting Palestinian Criminality We are told, day after day, that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is a genuine moderate committed to achieving a peace settlement with Israel. In addition to the international community, even some Israelis – admittedly a dwindling...
The New York Times hates Israel The brouhaha over the recent New York Times column by Tom Friedman highlights the newspaper’s increasing hostility against Israel. Today, it would not be an exaggeration to state that the editorial policy of the NYT towards the Jewish state is...
Abe Foxman responds to Isi Leibler No such games Sir, – Speaking on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League, I can unequivocally say that Isi Leibler is totally mistaken when he suggests that American Jewish organizations have become reluctant to criticize American policies toward...
Israelis performing Wagner in Germany – a national disgrace The Israel Chamber Orchestra on Tuesday performed Wagner’s opera Siegfried Idyll at the Bayreuth Opera Festival. It was the first time an Israeli orchestra had played Wagner in Germany. The conductor, Roberto Paternostro, whose mother and...
Political correctness and the Kushner brouhaha Should loathsome or controversial public attitudes be taken into account when determining whether to honor a person for artistic, musical or literary contributions? This has now become a contentious issue in the American Jewish arena. In New York...
The controversy over Wagner A debate over whether it is appropriate for an Israeli orchestra to play the music of the notorious anti-Semite Richard Wagner has again been resurrected. The Jewish boycott of Wagner’s music was initiated in 1938 following Kristallnacht when...
Islamophobia and the Jews It is surely high time for Diaspora leaders to stop living in denial and get their act together. Instead of competing with each other in oozing political correctness, they should display some backbone and call a spade a spade. We are currently...
Anti-Semitism soars in Holland Like many Jews, as a youngster I associated Holland with windmills and tulips and a heroic people which bravely defended Jews during the Nazi occupation. Alas, I subsequently learned that the record of the Dutch towards the Jews was nothing of the...
The Guardian and anti-Israel lies The most recent defamation of Israel in the Guardian newspaper was a front page exposé alleging that Israel had offered to provide nuclear weaponry to the South African apartheid regime. I attach for your information two important articles exposing...
