At the opening ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day 2022 at Yad Vashem this Wednesday night, Prime Minister Bennett gave a respectful and thoughtful speech. Bennett posed the question. What is the lesson? What should we do with this? My answer is clear: Our critical imperative is to stand up for our own […]
Continue readingWhat do the Temple mount and Juden sind hier unerwunscht have in common they both make it clear “Jews are not wanted here.” Bennetts coalition seems to believe that rewarding the perpetrators of violence towards Jews is the answer to a security problem while penalising the victim of that politically/religious motivated crime. Two thousand years […]
Continue readingWhen is enough? How long is a piece of string? Arabs riot on the Temple Mount and stone Jews going about their business while Arab nationalists like MK Ahmad Tibi and Osama Saadi of the Joint List declare their solidarity with the Arab rioters and their aims. They invite further violence and attacks upon Jews […]
Continue readingThe Joint Lists MK Ayman Odeh must go from the Knesset permanently after inciting his fellow Arabs currently serving in the police force to throw their weapons in the face of Jews serving in Israel’s security forces. Odeh’s emotive comments were calculated to send a message to the Bennett coalition that his tenuous grip on […]
Continue readingBennett gets that sinking feeling after MK Idit Silman of Yamina resigned from the governing coalition Wednesday morning, ending the coalition’s majority in the Knesset. Following her resignation, Idit Silman called on Bennett to “join hands to be a voice to the values for which we were elected.” She accused the current government of undermining […]
Continue readingEleven Jews have lost their lives to Arab Nationalist attacks since last Tuesday, including five victims shot dead by an Arab murderer in Bnei Brak yesterday. Police eliminated the attacker at the scene of the crime. The twenty-six-year-old Arab had previously spent time in an Israeli jail for acts of violence towards Jews. Our Israeli […]
Continue readingZelensky hit a sour note when comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Holocaust during his Zoom address to the Israeli Knesset last night. While it’s clear that Putin’s Russia is manifestly wrong in its naked aggression towards Ukraine the United States and others bare some responsibility to the current crisis when they encouraged […]
Continue readingIsrael cannot escape its mission, nor can it avoid its destiny. Yet today, the Jewish State and much of the diaspora exist in a contrary state from its Biblical commission. A large sector of Jewish society works to overthrow the Biblical mission by undermining Jewish values, thought, and the very Torah itself. This leads to […]
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