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‘They Don’t Understand War’: Analyst Slams Biden’s Denial of Arms to Israel
As stunned outrage escalated in reaction to President Joe Biden’s decision to halt arms shipments to Israel in the midst of its battle against the Hamas terrorist group, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday that the Jewish state would “stand alone” and “fight with our fingernails” in the face of a lack of…Dan Hart -
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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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China’s Land Grab
Editor’s note: The threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party through Chinese entities purchasing real estate in the U.S. is real, especially when property is located next to critical infrastructure or military installations. Enacting prohibitions on real estate sales to foreign adversaries is long overdue. The reforms now being contemplated in Congress and in state…Bryan Burack -
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US Is Failing to Counter Threat of Chinese Land Ownership, Report Finds
The United States government is not appropriately addressing the threat posed by growing Chinese ownership of American land, according to a report released by The Heritage Foundation Thursday. The federal government is woefully ill-equipped to track Chinese-owned real estate in the country, despite the serious threat these Chinese Communist Party-affiliated entities can pose to critical U.S….Jason Hopkins -
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She Spoke Out in Defense of China’s Uyghurs, Then China Abducted Her Sister
Rushan Abbas, a Muslim Uyghur living in America, delivered remarks at the Hudson Institute in 2018 about China’s persecution of Uyghurs. Six days later, her sister was arrested by the Chinese government. “My freedom of speech in America as an American citizen, my First Amendment right, cost my own sister’s freedom,” Abbas, founder and executive…Virginia Allen -
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Europe Must Stop Dragging Its Feet and Oppose Chinese Forced Labor
British parliamentarian William Wilberforce’s legacy rests on his bold public stance against slavery. The legendary 18th- and 19th-century abolitionist stood up before the British people in the House of Commons with a message of piercing moral clarity: Whatever the cost of abolition, there is no excuse for slavery. After several years of impassioned advocacy, Wilberforce…Jordan Embree -
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How China’s Climate Agenda Threatens US
China is intentionally advancing a climate agenda for its own gain, and America is allowing it to happen, according to a senior research fellow for international affairs at The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. China has “taken advantage of the United States, because we’ve had this very driven climate agenda,” Heritage’s Erin Walsh says. (Heritage founded…Virginia Allen -
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Biden’s Climate Policies Playing Into Hands of China’s Energy Schemes, Experts Say
China is operating in a “predatory” manner to make America more reliant on complex supply chains arising from climate change initiatives that play into the hands of hostile foreign actors, according to energy, environmental, and foreign policy analysts at a panel discussion Monday. The event at The Heritage Foundation marked the launch of a new…Kevin Mooney -
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Biden’s Gaza-Refugee Import Scheme Deserves Drone Strike
In his flattest brainwave yet, President Joe Biden hopes to import refugees from the Gaza Strip. This rotten idea should be blasted with a drone. After reviewing internal federal documents, CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported April 30 that Biden wants “refugee status” for certain Gazans. This designation “offers beneficiaries permanent residency, resettlement benefits like housing assistance, and a path to…Deroy Murdock -
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Blinken Meets With China’s Genocide Perpetrator, but Doesn’t Condemn It
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference April 22 on the State Department’s release of its 2023 country reports on human rights practices, he said China was engaging in genocide in Xinjiang province. “The report documents atrocities reminiscent of humanity’s darkest moments,” Blinken said in Washington. “In Sudan, both the Sudanese Armed…Terence Jeffrey -
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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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Here’s a Breakdown of Arrests of Pro-Hamas Activists at 33 Schools Over 2 Weeks
College campuses this week escalated efforts to root out pro-Hamas, anti-Israel occupations, with police making arrests on nine different campuses. Police have made more than 1,600 arrests in connection with the disruptive, illegal campus occupations since the first one began April 19 at Columbia University, according to an investigation by The Washington Stand. [The Associated…Joshua Arnold -
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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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Left-Wing Donors Gave More Than $3.3 Million to Pro-Hamas Activities Since 2016
With tent cities springing up across American campuses, filled with antisemitic activists who are openly supporting U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, you could be forgiven for suspecting that this activism was not wholly organic. And you would be right. Fingerprints of Further Funding Take the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University, where “students sleep in tents…Joshua Arnold -
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China Keeps Shooting Itself in the Foot in Hong Kong
The Chinese government’s suppression of civil liberties in Hong Kong hit new heights in March with the unanimous passage of sweeping national security legislation by the city’s rubber-stamp legislature. The move is just the latest indication of how willing China is to jeopardize its own economic interests to crack down on Hong Kong. The so-called…Michael Cunningham -
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Election Loss for South Korea’s Ruling Party Unlikely to Affect Pro-US Security Policies
South Korea’s liberal opposition parties scored a decisive victory in the recent National Assembly elections, routing the ruling conservative party of President Yoon Suk Yeol. The election earlier this month was seen as a referendum on Yoon’s first two years in office and the results risk turning him into a lame duck for the rest…Bruce Klingner