by Abdallah Qardash, Khalif, Islamic State Somewhere in Northeast Syria or Northwest Iraq, October 30 – Our movement’s recent setbacks, including the assassination of Khalif al-Baghdadi and his chief spokesman, point to a disturbing fact: our fellow Muslims have provided ...
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Feed SubscriptionThe Bible Can’t Be Jewish Because It Doesn’t Mention ‘Tikkun Olam’
by Rabbi Christine Matthews III New York, October 7 – Countless people I meet make the same error: assuming that just because the Hebrew Bible came from within the Jewish cultural tradition dating back thousands of years, it somehow represents ...
Read More »We Recommend Gantz As Prime Minister As Long As We Can Also Indict Him For War Crimes
by MK Ayman Odeh, Joint List Haifa, September 23 – Our alliance of Arab parties has finally reached its fateful conclusion in the ongoing drama of the recent parliamentary elections: we have told President Rivlin that we back Benny Gantz ...
Read More »I Like To Lecture Israel About Its Overblown Security Concerns From The Safety Of My NY Office
By Susan Lefkowitz-Li, J Street donor New York, September 12 – My status as wealthy Jewish-American grants me numerous privileges, which I acknowledge, but I savor none of them as much as I enjoy pontificating about the excessive measures the ...
Read More »It’s Racist Of Israel Not To Let Us Ban Jews From The Other 3% Of Hebron
by Subhi Sh’hada Hebron, September 3 – I need not inform the reader that my hometown bears the distinction of one of the most radicalized locations in the region, if not the world. A hardcore group of several hundred Jews, ...
Read More »It’s Easier To Launch Semantic Tangents Such As ‘Arabs Are Semites Too’ Than Address Arab Antisemitism
By Rebecca Goldsmith, If Not Now activist I always counsel my pro-Palestine allies to keep the focus of rhetoric on Islamophobic manifestations and anti-Muslim violence, especially from Israel, but it can be hard to maintain that focus when others bring up ...
Read More »I Can’t Be Antisemitic Because My Conspiracy Theories Paint Jews As Super-Smart
by Veli Alley, conspiracy theorist I do wish the do-gooders would stop accusing me of hating Jews when every single thing I say about them indicates all the positive traits Jews possess, such as the immense intelligence they must have ...
Read More »Quick, Check Whether Any Dayton/El Paso Dead Are Jewish So We Can Pay The Killer
by Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority Ramallah, August 5 – This office put out an official message of condolence to the people of the United States as soon as we heard of the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over ...
Read More »No Other Country Kicks Us Out When We Try To Undermine Only Israel’s Existential Legitimacy
By Kenneth Roth, Director, Human Rights Watch Our researchers should be free to conduct their observations and analysis in a country that purports to call itself democratic, but Israel’s behavior in this regard raises some disturbing questions: what does it ...
Read More »In NY I’ll Have To Keep Reminding Myself I Can’t Just Jail Nosy Reporters
by Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran Tehran, July 16 – During my current visit to the Big Apple, I will need to keep in mind that I cannot react to challenging questions from journalists by ...
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