A new survey reveals an alarming degree of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish bias in American literary circles and institutions

By Maxim D. Shrayer, TABLET MAGAZINE    16 April 2024

Over the course of February 2024, I had exchanges and conversations, formal and informal, off and on record, with about 90 Jewish poets and translators, the majority of them living in the U.S., although some in Israel. They include some of today’s best known American poets as well as poets who are mainly known to other Jewish poets and readers.

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By Harold Rhode, JEWISH POLICY CENTER    17 April, 2024

Americans often say, “Let bygones be bygones,” “That’s history,” means something is no longer of importance. But the American view of compromise and conciliation is not universal, and may be preventing the US from taking necessary steps to secure American and allied interests in the Middle East.

Join us for a conversation about how allies and adversaries in the region relate to Washington’s overtures – both positive and negative. Scholar of Islam Harold Rhode served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for more than two decades.

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An emboldened Iran is a feature, not a bug of the Obama–Biden foreign policy doctrine.

By Josh Hammer, AMERICAN SPECTATOR    19 April 2024

President Joe Biden, Feb. 6, 2024 (Adam Schultz/The White House)

The terrorist Iranian regime’s unprecedented recent attack on Israel, which included 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles, is an unambiguous casus belli — an act of war — under international law.

Of course, Iranian proxies spread across the Middle East, such as Lebanon-based Hezbollah, Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Yemen-based Houthis, have committed countless previous acts of war against Israel. But last weekend was something different entirely: For the very first time since fanatical Islamists overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and took power in 1979, Iran launched such attacks directly from its own soil.

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By Steve McCann, American Thinker    April 19, 2024

On April 13, 2024, Iran, deploying more than 300 drones and missiles, launched a premeditated aerial assault on Israeli military and population centers. While ninety-nine percent of the weapons were intercepted, Irans’s attack is equivalent to a formal “Declaration of War” against Israel.

Since 1979 and the Iranian revolution, Iran and Israel have been undeclared enemies as Iran has used its proxy terrorist groups in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen to attack Israel. However, and most significantly, the April 13th attack was launched directly from an emboldened Iran.

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Eve Barlow, Blacklisted Substack    April 19, 2024

It’s the Supreme leader of Iran Khameini’s 85th birthday, and boy is he having a blast…

Yep, Israel has struck back against the Islamic Republic after last weekend’s declaration of war. Many happy returns, Ayatollah!

So far several reports are circulating that Israel has hit military targets in Syria, Iran and Iraq, including at least one military air base near Isfahan where several of Iran’s nuclear facilities and military bases are located.

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E. Rowell:  In this video Dr. Coleman discusses murder by physician being normalized as “medically assisted death.”  Many countries already have started this practice.  The goal is to save money by killing people who are too expensive, such as the disabled, the elderly, the drug addicted.  This is depopulation by design.

By Dr. Vernon Coleman, BIT-CHUTE    11 April 2024

Peloni:  Listen to the end to hear the public support for the call to end the use of mRNA vaccines.  As Campbell explains, that applause is on the other side of a glass partition.

“The Greatest Medical Scandal in Living History and Possibly Ever”

Dr. John Campbell, April 18, 2024

Peloni:  See also  Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth Behind Bail Fund for ‘Free Palestine’ Bridge Blockers which reports the connection between the Iranian psyop in the West and the Soros-funded Tides Center.

Caroline Glick | JNS | April 19, 2024

Caroline Glick interviews Iranian journalist and activist Vahid Behesti about the horrors of the Iranian government and why now is the time to topple the regime once and for all.

Many of the drones and missiles had to travel over Jordanian and Saudi airspace to reach Israel.

Jerusalem Post Staff,  JPOST    April 15, 2024

Saudi Arabia acknowledged that it had helped the newly forged regional military coalition — Israel, the United States, Jordan, the United Kingdom, and France — repel an Iranian attack against the Jewish state early Sunday morning, according to a story on KAN News.

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The Key to Both Goals Is Going After Hamas in Rafah

By Elliott Abrams, FOREIGN AFFAIRS    April 17, 2024

Palestinians stand near the site of an Israeli strike on a house, Rafah, April 2024 Mohammed Salem / Reuters

In the wake of Iran’s attack on Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles last weekend, Israel must decide how to calibrate its response. The spectrum of possible actions is wide and includes strikes on Iranian interests outside Iran and targets inside its borders.

Israeli leaders faced a similar decision after the Hamas attacks of October 7. Back then, the question was whether they should respond to the Hamas attack primarily by sending troops to Gaza with the goal of ending Hamas’s domination of that territory and its ability to threaten Israel militarily, or also (or instead) pursue Israel’s more powerful and dangerous adversary to the north, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah—even though it was not directly involved in the October 7 attacks. Israel chose the first option, a decision that has shaped the conflict to this point.

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By Fransisco Gil-White, MANAGEMENT OF REALITY    16 February 2024

Assyrians torturing prisoners of war. (Credit: New York Public Library)

In Part 1 of this series I mentioned Sargon of Akkad—a man with no equal—who led the ancient Semitic lower classes in revolution against their Sumerian rulers and established the Akkadian Empire 4,300 years ago.

This event—Sargon’s revolution—established a remarkably stable legal and political culture centered on the ideals of ethics, justice, and the protection of the vulnerable that, over the next 4,300 years, would liberate humans by the hundreds of millions. (Still at it…)

It is this remarkable culture, this ideology, that I am calling semitism.

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By unleashing war in the Middle East and targeting Israel, Iran may soon learn that Israel, or America, or both might retaliate for a half-century of its terrorist aggression.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AMERICAN GREATNESS    18 April 2024

Right now, at this moment, Israel could get away with whatever it wants if it has the capability to go it alone. America now is weak. Israel is strong. Crazy, huh? Opinion.

Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, TOI     Apr 18, 2024

OK. I have been hospitalized for three more weeks. I entered for surgery on an esophageal hernia repair, was told to expect a stay-over of one night but to pack for two nights “just in case.” “Just in case” of what? That’s the part of the next three weeks. It felt less that they were repairing my esophagus than that they were preparing my sarcophagus (?”?, ed.).

I left my laptop at home. However, the news would not let me desist from writing. So my wife Denise traveled 90 minutes back home to retrieve the laptop, 90 minutes back to drop it off with me, and now I write.

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Gadi Taub & Mike Doran, Israel Update    April 17, 2024

Though Iran’s attack was almost wholly intercepted, by the combined Israeli-American efforts, this was not victory over Iran. Mike explains why a defensive strategy can never defeat an offensive dominant one. Then there is also the high cost of the defense systems relative to cheapness and quantity of Iran’s drones and missiles. Iran has also collected a great deal of intelligence about the systems it is facing. But above all it successfully changed the rules of the game. It now remains to be seen how Israel will respond.

T. Belman.  I called this deal a few days ago.

Israel said unlikely to respond to Iran before end of Passover * US leads 48 countries at UN in condemning Iranian attack * G7 finance chiefs pledge close coordination on Tehran sanctions

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Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, December 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Egyptian officials tell a Qatari outlet that the US has accepted Israel’s plan for an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in return for not carrying out a large strike in Iran in response to Tehran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack.

“The American administration showed acceptance of the plan previously presented by the occupation government regarding the military operation in Rafah, in exchange for not carrying out a large-scale attack against Iran,” an unnamed official tells Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

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Miri Eisin, State of a Nation with Eylon Levy    April 17, 2024

Somewhat overshadowed by the Gaza war, Hezbollah has been consistently firing rockets at Israeli towns since October 7, forcing the mass evacuation of more than 60,000 Israeli civilians, and a no-man’s-land security perimeter inside Israeli territory.

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Peloni:  Patrick Byrne has been anticipating this event for the past several months, and Byrne discussed it brieflyin the past few days when he described the fallout surrounding the Uppercut being delivered to the SCOTUS.  I am honestly amazed that this story is not being reported elsewhere.

Peloni    April 17, 2024

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Peloni:  One of the foremost pundits of the inherent virtues of nationalism addresses the the various aspects of Israeli nationalism.  As is true of all of his conversations, Hazony provides a considerate, tolerant, thoughtful and insightful reflection of the Israeli nationalism.  Highly recommended video.

A better description by Hazony of the differences between a liberal, a conservative and a Marxist, and how they relate to Israel , can be found here.

Yoram Hazony | Benson Center |  April 17, 2024

With all eyes on Israel as it battles Hamas in the aftermath of the horrific October 7th massacres on its southern border, political theorist and Bible scholar Dr. Yoram Hazony will offer a defense of Israeli nationalism, discussing its historical origins and philosophical underpinnings and what it can contribute to a better political order.

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By Neil W. McCabe | Red State | April 17, 2024

An Army whistleblower has told RedState why he is speaking out about the actual decisions and actions by three Army generals in the Pentagon on January 6, 2021. Those decisions delayed the District of Columbia National Guard from responding to Capitol Hill protesters for roughly three hours, he’ll testify at Wednesday’s congressional hearing.

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The party and the organizations dismiss allegations as political persecution, while far-right parties claim vindication for previously accusing Ra’am of supporting terror

Sam Sokol, TOI    April 16m 2024

Ra’am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two nonprofits associated with MK Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am, or United Arab List, party are to be dissolved over alleged links to terror financing, the Corporations Authority announced on Tuesday.

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