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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. You could find Rabbi Mike Moskowitz protesting for illegal aliens at “Moral Mincha” rallies organized by Torah Trumps Hate (TTH) and Hitoreri: An Orthodox Movement for Social Change. Both lefty groups claim to be Orthodox Jewish organizations and with his black hat, dark suit and black beard, “Rabbi” Mike Moskowitz certainly looks the part of a real Orthodox Rabbi. But he’s as real as Hitoreri and Torah Trumps Hate. “Rabbi” Moskowitz is actually employed by...

If you thought Matt Damon was funny, you are a disgrace Excuse me for being blunt. But it’s getting late. We are losing this country. You surely are neither Christian nor Jewish, if you got a laugh from Matt Damon’s lampooning of Brett Kavanaugh on SNL. But you are a Democrat. Is this what’s become of America? We are supposed to be a merciful people. So who are you? What are you? We believe in mercy for the widow and pity for the orphan. If you say Kavanaugh’s wife and daughters are neither of those, I ask – have you...

Hunter College will offer students an “Abolition of Whiteness” course this fall to discuss how “white supremacy and violence” influence individual identity. The course fulfills one of four graduation requirements in political science, and its instructor has requested that it be added to the list of courses that satisfy a diversity requirement. Hunter College will offer students an “Abolition of Whiteness” course this fall to discuss how “white supremacy and violence” influence individual identity. The course, taught by Women and Gender Studies Professor Jennifer Gaboury, is cross-listed for both her department and the Political Science Department, where it fulfills one...

Another prominent Democrat has trashed Elie Wiesel — the Holocaust survivor, author, and Nobel Peace laureate who died on Saturday. Dorothy Reik, president of the Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains and a member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee, wrote an email quoting a reference to Wiesel as a “Holocaust whore” and adding: “I had met people who made their livings from the holocaust [sic] but never to the extent that Wiesel did.” Reik had been defending Max Blumenthal, the virulently anti-Israel writer and son of Hillary Clinton adviser Sid Blumenthal, who had tweeted: “Elie Wiesel...

I don't know where and when we Jews learned to hate ourselves. I guess it's that so many millions of people hate us that we feel it's easier to go along with them. We assume we must have deserved it if we were almost wiped out during WWII, and now Iran (aided by Obama's nuclear negotiations) wants to do it again. In the concentration camps, some Jews identified with the Nazis and shoved each other into ovens. In The Bridge on the River Kwai, Alec Guinness identified with the Japanese and tried to save the bridge he had built for...

Say No More! By Ari Bussel Israel’s enemies, so it seems, are all her own. Haredi Jews demonstrated outside the AIPAC meeting, saying the State of Israel is an abomination of the Torah. They were members of the same sect who traveled to Iran to hug President Ahmadinejad and support his quest to prove the Holocaust never happened. A Code Pink Jewish lady disturbed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress. The “peace activists” wearing “Free Palestine” shirts and waving flags that rose to disturb the AIPAC dinner earlier the same week. Jews for Peace in Los...

Following in the footsteps of the European initiative launched by JCall, a group of Jewish-American leaders on Friday launched an online petition urging an end to Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and calling for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Called "For the Sake of Zion," the petition is signed by dozens of prominent American rabbis, judges, writers, academics and philanthropists.

During World War II, there were Jewish "kapos" in Nazi concentration camps who were forced by the threat of immediate death to collaborate with the Germans and performs jobs involved in the murder of other Jews. We should not be too fast to judge them, given their dire circumstances and desperate desire to stay alive. There are today, however, Jewish leftists who would like nothing better than to assist Jew-hating Arabs in creating a Second Jewish Holocaust, and their slavish and servile collaboration with genocidal Islamo-fascists has nothing to do with threats to their own lives. Almost every self-hating Jew...

CLAMART, France At a solemn vigil outside the hospital treating Yasser Arafat, an unusual interfaith moment: A haredi rabbi from New York leaving flowers for the ailing Palestinian leader. Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for Natorei Karta, arrived from the United States last week to show solidarity with Arafat and the Palestinians. Another member of Natorei Karta, who traveled from Vienna, Austria, shook hands with a Muslim prayer leader at a makeshift shrine set up outside the main gate of the Percy military hospital near Paris. Natorei Karta steadfastly opposes Israel's right to exist. Its members stage demonstrations against...

The existence of "black sheep" in families is not all that unusual. What stands out among various ethnic groups is the unique degree of malevolence exhibited by the Jewish black sheep against their fellow Jews, which would then qualify them as Jewish anti-Semites. Simply having Jewish ancestors is no obstacle to being an anti-Semite. We can consider a spectrum of moral behavior ranging from the most ethical to the most evil. This article deals only with consciously (in my opinion) anti-Semitic Jews and not with those Jews who are only misguided into supporting evil, but who do not consciously intend...

It is a familiar pattern. A well-known Diaspora Jewish figure speaks out in a secular-news outlet denouncing Israeli policies. While the majority of Jews gasp at the chutzpah of the denunciation, commentators and journalists speak in hushed tones about the trials and tribulations that the dissenter will be subjected to for breaking with Israel. A few pro-Israel stalwarts will voice outrage, but most of the reaction will, however, center on the "courage" that the Israel critic has shown. All of which will be pure bunk. Far from having to pay a price for bashing Israel, the critic will be showered...