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So, Who Are The Privileged MKs?

TOI’s liveblog report on the possibility of an end to the ban on entrance by MKs to the courtyards of the Temple Mount lacks an element, an important one. According to other sources (here), Police...

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The ‘Montor Mindset’ That Is Still With Us

The attitude of Jewish communal leaders towards Jews living in distressed lands, as in the Ukraine and Syria, as well as regards non-Jews such as Darfur, the new boat people refugees from the Middle...

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Jewish Poison

Yakov Hirsch, I learned, is a professional poker player and dog trainer. As he has published, his twitter handle is @yakzh and his articles are posted at yakovhirsch.com. This was his reaction to Prime...

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Who But the Waqf?

As has been reported, Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that after the post-Ramadan Muslim festival of Id el-Fitr which concludes this Friday, normal visiting hours will be reinstated. That is,...

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Academia Askew

Zionism has been taking ever-increasing hits from academic circles, where the levels of knowledge of history, rationality and logical thinking have been sinking ever lower.  Campuses seem to be...

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A Short Quiz on Termites

About who did State Department spokesperson John Kirby say this? We’ve been – without speaking to specific comments, as you know I’m not wont to do, we have been very clear – the Secretary’s been clear...

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Cordoba Calling to Jerusalem

Tisha B’Av is over. Four hundred Jews managed to enter, if only to be “tourists”. No praying. No swaying. No moving of lips. If you’re into destruction, this is the place. But there is another place...

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The Creation, Not Invention, of Palestine Mandate Citizenship

I went this past week to the Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem to attend the book launch, here advertised: of this book: By the way, that photograph is of Abu Ghosh Arabs taking the oath of allegiance to...

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The Guardian: On Guard and Censorious

I posted a comment to this op-ed in The Guardian, entitled Don’t worry! Clinton and Trump are going to fix Israel/Palestine  by Moustafa Bayoumi, a student of Edward Said. Bayoumi is “an award-winning...

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Forgive Them Though They Know What They Do

I found this sentence here: It has been 68 years since the creation of the State of Israel. This has not led to the creation of an independent Palestinian state but has only deepened the tragedy of the...

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Measuring Distance for the State Department

The State Department’s deputy spokesperson, Mark Toner, declared this week in connection with the new construction in the Shiloh Bloc that this settlement’s location deep in the West Bank, far closer...

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UNESCO’s Crime of Identity Theft

In the wake of the repeated attempt last week by UNESCO to avoid linking the Temple Mount to Judaism or Jewish peoplehood (and which was passed today), some voices were raised that it didn’t make a...

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Who Need Apologize?

For several years, pro-Palestinianism activists in the United Kingdom have been promoting a recall of the Balfour Declaration.  You don’t think that Mahmoud Abbas came up with his idea to call for a...

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Jews Do Not ‘Occupy’ Their Own Homeland

The Roman historian Tacitus wrote about the Jews.  In 109 CE. About Jerusalem. About the Jewish Temple, that existed. About Judaea. He was not Jewish.  He wasn’t “biblical.” He was an external source...

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The Pals. Giving the Game Away

We’ve been treated, as has the world, to a series of outrageous statements emanating from the nether-world of the Palestinian Authority, that institution that represents...

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