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  • The Week in Israel News: The World’s Upside-Down Response to Oct. 7 Gets Even Worse

    Welcome to 2024, the year where each week brings a new batch of fresh insanity, especially on Israel. While Donald Trump, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee in the upcoming presidential election, sits in the dock and unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens flood across our borders, elites are turning on Jews and demonizing Israel,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • 10 Most Common Pro-Hamas Lies About Israel

    Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion from the Biden administration after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorism in Israel. Here are 10 of their most common untruths about Oct. 7 and the Israel-Hamas war that followed. ‘Progressive Hamas’ Gay and transgender student protesters in America would…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • Joe Biden Is Selling Out Israel to the Antisemitic Mob

    Even as President Joe Biden was delivering his perfunctory Holocaust Remembrance speech earlier this week, decrying the “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and prattling on about how he would never forget the Oct. 7 attack—which saw well over 1,200 Israelis murdered, raped, and/or kidnapped—the president was planning to stop the Jewish state from…
    David Harsanyi
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  • If You Can’t Tell the Bad Guy in Israel Vs. Hamas, You’re the Problem

    The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip is the most morally clear conflict in modern history. It pits an actual terrorist group that just engaged in the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust against a democratic country that protects citizens—Jewish, Muslim, and Christian. It pits a monstrously evil tentacle of Iran—handed…
    Ben Shapiro
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  • Public School Psychologist Charged With Obstructing Traffic in Anti-Israel Protest

    A psychologist for Indianapolis Public Schools was among those held when police arrested 14 masked adults who officers said were blocking traffic late last month just outside the Governor’s Residence in the state capital. The school psychologist, Karisa Cole, and the other arrested protesters were charged with obstructing traffic April 25 at 10:30 a.m. on…
    Tony Kinnett
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  • Those Who Attack Israel ‘Are After the US Just the Same,’ Knesset Member Warns

    Terrorists in the Middle East do not despise America only because the U.S. supports Israel, but because America is a Western society, according to Simcha Rothman, a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. “But people that attack us, they are after the U.S. just the same,” Rothman says.  “The chant in Iran—‘Death to America, Death…
    Virginia Allen
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  • Biden Is Harder on Israel Than on Campus Pro-Hamas Radicals, GOP Senators Say

    President Joe Biden is harder on America’s allies than he is on pro-Hamas radicals on American college campuses, Senate Republicans said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Joe Biden is putting more pressure on Israel these days than he is on Hamas itself, or on the pro-Hamas chapters on America’s campuses,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said at the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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  • How Israel May Curb Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

    Details of Israel’s recent limited retaliatory strike against Iran‘s antiaircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed to stop such incoming ordnance. The target was near the Natanz…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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…
    Tony Kinnett
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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…
    Josh Hammer
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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…
    Kate Anderson
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  • 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…
    Virginia Allen
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  • 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…
    Virginia Allen
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  • 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…
    Ben Shapiro
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  • 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…
    Armstrong Williams
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  • 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…
    Star Parker
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  • 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…
    Dennis Prager
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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…
    Jake Smith
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  • ‘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…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • 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…
    Dennis Prager
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