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    EXCLUSIVE: Seattle School Board Member Calls Israel ‘Right-Wing Apartheid Force’ in Pro-BLM Email

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Emails obtained by Parents Defending Education, a watchdog organization, show a Seattle school board member called Israel a “right-wing apartheid force” and praised the Black Lives Matter movement six days after Hamas’ terrorist attacks left over 1,200 dead in the Jewish state. Eliza Rankin, the school board member for Seattle Public…
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    Hold Obama-Biden Foreign Policy Responsible for Iran’s Unprecedented Attack on Israel

    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…
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    Google Fires Dozens of Employees Following Israel Contract Protest

    Google fired over two dozen employees for holding sit-in protests over the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel. Protesters occupied multiple offices in Seattle, New York, and California, with signs that read “No more genocide for profit” and demanded that the company end its contract with the Israeli government for cloud and data services. Nine employees were…
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  • opinion

    3 Levels of Response: How Israel May Strike Back at Iran

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will make its own decision on how to respond to Iran’s missile and drone attack last weekend. Leaders from the U.K., Germany, France, and America have urged Israel to practice “restraint” in considering a response to the 300 drones and missiles fired by Iran. During a Cabinet meeting…
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  • opinion

    Is War Imminent? Former Trump Official Weighs in on Israeli Response to Iranian Attack

    Israeli leaders say the nation will respond to Iran’s weekend attack, but what that response will entail remains unclear. “I can see a number of scenarios in which this does escalate to a regional and potentially even a global conflict,” says a former member of the National Security Council, Robert Greenway, adding, “I can see fewer…
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  • opinion

    Why Is America Stopping Israeli Victory?

    On Oct. 7, thousands of members of the terrorist group Hamas and its “civilian” friends broke through the barrier between the Gaza Strip and Israel and proceeded to torture, rape, and slaughter at least 1,200 Israeli people. They burned their homes, killed their children in front of them, and then kidnapped some 250 Israelis back…
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  • opinion

    South Africa’s Dangerous Battle Against Israel 

    South Africa filed a lawsuit Dec. 29 in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, accusing Israel of committing genocide, pointing to the scores of dead Palestinians that have resulted from Israel’s campaign against Hamas.  While the case is still pending as of this writing, the court on Jan. 26 ordered Israel to…
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  • opinion

    Why Do Only a Third of Americans Now Support Israel’s Right to Defend Itself?

    Most recent Gallup polling in March shows that 36% of Americans “approve of Israeli military action in Gaza” and 50% disapprove. Last November, a month after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that claimed the lives of more than 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians, 55% approved of the military action that Israel initiated. What has happened…
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  • opinion

    Israel as ‘Pariah’ Among the Nations

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., twice described Israel last week as a “pariah” among the world’s nations. “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah,” Schumer said, adding later that the Israeli public “understands better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.” For…
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    Did Biden Just Hand Hamas a Big Gift in Its War Against Israel?

    President Joe Biden on Saturday warned Israel against invading Hamas’ remaining stronghold in Gaza, but experts say this would only ensure the terrorist group’s survival and recovery. Biden told MSNBC during an interview that Israel would be crossing a “red line” if its counteroffensive extends into Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza bordering Egypt and a refuge…
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  • opinion

    ‘This Is the Time to Visit Israel’: Envoy Urges Americans to Support the Jewish State Amid Gaza War

    NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Anat Sultan-Dadon, Israel’s consul general to the Southeastern United States, says that now is the time to visit the Jewish state, to show solidarity amid the war against Hamas. She also condemned South Africa’s accusation of genocide against Israel. “By all means, this is the time to visit Israel,” Sultan-Dadon tells “The Daily Signal…
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  • opinion

    A Troubling Moral Relativity Hangs Over Israel-Hamas Conflict

    The moral confusion of our time is not new. Almost 3,000 years ago, the Prophet Isaiah lamented, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” But at the start of the 20th century, a new…
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  • opinion

    Biden Empowered Iran Proxies Attacking US Forces and Threatening Wider War Against Israel

    The budding regional war in the Middle East is a crisis of President Joe Biden’s own making. Not only has the president empowered Iran by relaxing former President Donald Trump’s sanctions on the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, but he has also empowered Iran’s proxies through various geopolitical moves that make war more likely….
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  • opinion

    Nuclear Threat Posed by Iran, a Nation That Shouts ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’

    If Iran acquires nuclear weapons, the threat it would pose to the U.S. would be significantly different from that of other aggressors, such as Russia, according to Simone Ledeen.  There’s significant concern of “a nuclear bomb with a country that says routinely, ‘Death to America, death to Israel,’” says Ledeen, a former deputy assistant secretary…
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  • opinion

    Why Biden Is Threatening to Veto Aid to Israel

    President Joe Biden promised to veto any stand-alone aid bill for Israel, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and most House Democrats voted against one. The administration maintains that Israel’s security is so “sacred,” it must be tied to a doomed legislative package containing entirely unrelated issues that deal with border security and Ukrainian aid….
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  • news

    Speaker Johnson to Introduce ‘Clean’ Israel Aid Package

    As the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate stalls on funding for Israel, the House of Representatives is introducing new legislation to succeed where the upper chamber of Congress is failing. The Washington Stand has obtained a copy of a letter House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is preparing to send to his colleagues. It reads, in part, “Next…
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    UN Agency Fires Staffers for Participating in Hamas Attacks on Israel

    A major United Nations agency responsible for humanitarian services for Palestinians fired staff members for reportedly participating in Hamas’ terrorist attacks Oct. 7 in Israel. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East fired the employees for their alleged involvement in Hamas’ slaughter in southern Israel that left 1,200 civilians…
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  • opinion

    In Israel, Sounds of War Mingle With Songs of Life

    Bullet holes and toppled furniture bear witness to what happened in the home of one young couple living in Israel close to the border with Gaza on Oct. 7. Their home still partially stands, but they—and about 100 other members of their small community—are dead.  Walking through the streets of the small village, Joel Griffith…
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  • opinion

    Hamas’ Savagery Unites Divided Israelis Against Common Enemy

    At first, they’d tried to break into houses using their machine guns—shooting through walls, doors, and windows. When that didn’t work, they used crowbars on the door handles. But that didn’t work, either, so they gained entrance by ripping the doors off their hinges. The doors they threw into the streets, where they still lay….
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  • opinion

    Back From Israel: Morgan Ortagus Recounts Meeting With Netanyahu, Horror Stories of Traumatized Nation

    Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “look like shells of their former selves,” commentator Morgan Ortagus says, following meetings in Israel earlier this month.  But Ortagus, who was State Department spokesperson under President Donald Trump, says the weariness extends to the people of Israel, many of whom remain “traumatized” from the Hamas terrorist…
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