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KISS Frontman Gene Simmons condemned a pro-Palestinian boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest next week in Tel Aviv. “Let music be heard throughout the world, whatever your political point of view is,” the rocker told The Daily Caller. Eurovision is the world’s largest non-sporting televised event, in which each of 41 countries enter a song and compete over three rounds. The country that wins in any given year becomes the host the following year (Israeli singer Netta won last year for her song “Toy”). Advocates of the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) movement have called on broadcasters to refuse to...

Different Standards By Ari Bussel “And your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.” Leviticus 26:33 There is a monopoly on news and opinions for the Jewish community of Greater Los Angeles in one paper, the Jewish Journal. Not unlike most papers, the Journal’s existence was threatened until recently, when three local philanthropists injected a million dollars into its operations as silent investors. Some would say Rob Eshman, the Journal’s editor-in-chief, is a reflection of the community. In his latest editorial he wished for Israel to have acted differently with respect to the March on...

When local activists singled out a small St. Denis Street shoe store as the focus of their campaign to boycott Israeli products, they figured it was a soft target. Boutique Le Marcheur is a family-run business, owned by a francophone Québécois couple. It is in the heart of Montreal’s lefty enclave, the Plateau Mont-Royal, and the made-in-Israel BeautiFeel shoes it carries represent a tiny portion of its overall sales. But when protesters showed up last fall with banners and pamphlets for the first of their weekly demonstrations, they did not reckon on the resolve of owners Yves Archambault and Ginette...

Young Zionist wants to make Aliyah. The Shaliach, as always, is encouraging.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Lebanon is becoming an additional Iranian satellite, promising that Israel will know how to defend itself in the face of growing regional threats.

It's bad enough that the government of the United States is actually suing one of those united states. But to hand 11 foreign governments the baseball bat so they too can take a whack at the piñata that is Arizona? Well, that's just bad form. (We aren't even filled with delicious candy!) Thankfully, Gov. Jan Brewer is fighting back... {snip} Like Israel, Arizona's attempt to control its borders has made her an international pariah state. While their close ally Hugo Chavez cuts weapons deals with Iran, Ecuador and Bolivia are upset about Arizona enforcing pre-existing federal law. While Nicaragua and...

Iranian-backed TV broadcasts US Koran desecrations, inflames deadly Kashmir riots; 15 dead The Iranians seized on reports of Koran burnings near Ground Zero and elsewhere in the U.S. to fan deadly riots Monday in mostly-Muslim Kashmir. Indian forces killed more than a dozen people and wounded scores more rampaging rioters, who chanted "Down with Koran desecrators" as they attacked a Christian school in one town and government buildings in other cities. They also chanted "Down with America" and "Down with Israel," cries rarely heard in Kashmir where Muslim rebels have long waged a bloody rebellion against Indian rule. U.S. Ambassador...

Muslims making a spectacle of desecrating the American flag.

TEHRAN (AFP) – Egypt has denied visas to four Iranian lawmakers who planned to travel to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, Iran's Press TV reported on Wednesday. "The Egyptian government has stonewalled the visa process... no visa has been issued for the MPs as of yet," Mahmoud Ahmadi Bighash, one of the four lawmakers, was quoted as saying by the English-language television's website.

Poll: Israelis not swayed by Obama By GIL HOFFMAN 16/07/2010 Survey finds only 1-point rise in Israelis saying US is pro-Israel. US President Barack Obama’s efforts to reach out to the people of Israel last week – when he hosted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a positive meeting at the White House and gave his first interview as president to an Israeli television station – were not very successful, according to a Smith Research poll for The Jerusalem Post. After Obama’s earlier meetings with Netanyahu were portrayed as adversarial, Obama made a point of treating the prime minister with the...

TEHRAN – Former IRGC commander has said that “Iran has no strategic allies in the region save for Syria and Turkey which are to some extent close to us but they are not considered as Iran’s allies in real terms.” Today Iran’s enemies atop of them the U.S., Britain and the Zionist regime are working together with the aim of harming Iran’s interests, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told the Mehr News Agency in an exclusive interview with the Mehr News Agency published on Wednesday. “On one hand the U.S. is responsible for imposing political and economic pressure against Iran...

Israel receives military and financial assistance, and also some diplomatic support at the United Nations, but the US puts pressure on Israel to surrender parts of the homeland... It seems to me a Ron Paul presidency would be good for Israel and for the United States. Its foreign policy non-interventionism and its concern to protect national sovereignty would provide Israel with a greater impetus to increase its own independence and sense of national honor. I hope American Zionists will resist the immediate, meretricious attractions of American financial assistance for Israel. Ron Paul would both end this infantilizing, and even corrupting,...

According to HRANA, Elnaz Babazadeh, a 26 year old woman was raped and murdered by Basij forces in the city of Tabriz (northwestern Iran) last week. According to HRANA, Basij forces stopped Babazadeh in her car for not following the Iranian regime’s dress code. Elnaz resisted the forces and ignored the orders of the Basij forces. Then the Basij forces who who initially stopped her jumped into her car and threatened her with a gun. Two other Basij members joined in and beat and raped her. They murdered Babazadeh and dumped her body close to Emamiyeh cemetery.

“So Let it be Written; So Let it be Done!” by Norma Zager If only I could get through one Oscar night without blubbering. There is always a winner that has just lost a parent, one who thanks a parent or spouse for their encouragement and love or another who recounts a story of suffering and anguish guaranteed to turn on the waterworks. Some watch the Oscars with a bowl of popcorn. I bring a box of Kleenex. Watching the Oscars this week, the tears really flowed. The capper of the evening for me was Steven Spielberg and his mother...

Christian Zionists: Ahmadinejad is new Hitler http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3427247,00.html Christians United for Israel call on US to attack Iran immediately, move US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as sign of support WASHINGTON - Thousands of members of Christians United for Israel headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to lobby Congress on behalf of the Jewish state. The group's founder, the Reverend John Hagee, declared, "We support Israel because we are Bible-believing Christians," and said the world needs to see that "the sleeping giant of Christian Zionism has awakened." Helping Israel Christian volunteers help spruce up Sderot / Will King Special program sends...

Friday, June 1, 2007 America, Stand with Israel at the Counter-Rally on June 10, 2007. You CAN make a difference. Come to Washington DC on June 10, and join us in a rally to support Israel's right to peace, security and defensible borders! Israel's opponents are on the move: On June 10, 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of Israel's 1967 war of survival, the extremist groups "United for Peace and Justice" and "Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation" will hold what even the liberal magazine Tikkun called a rally for the "dissolution of the State of Israel." The "United for...

Jul 23, 2006 8:10 pm US/Pacific Governor, Mayor Attend Pro-Israel Rally (CBS) LOS ANGELES Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attended a pro-Israel rally Sunday in Los Angeles, drawing criticism from Muslim leaders concerned about violence in the Middle East. Meantime, a Los Angeles-based relief agency announced it is sending medical supplies to help victims of the hostilities in Lebanon and Gaza. The pro-Israel rally, which drew an estimated 10,000 people to the Jewish Federation on Wilshire Boulevard near the heavily Jewish Fairfax District, was meant to "show this community's support for Israel and to promote peace during this...

Our Christian Friends "I believe that September 11 is a departure point in the history of the relationship between Jews and Christians. I think on the day that the planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, every single American understood what it meant to be an Israeli." Ralph ReedThe year is 1981. Saddam Hussein is firmly control of Iraq and is trying to create an empire. His current objective is to conquer Iran. The war has been going on for a year and Saddam wants Iran and its oil reserves, the second biggest in the world. With Iran,...

When Abbas visits the White House tomorrow, he should be asked why an official religious representative of the PA has not only been inciting Palestinians against Jews and Israel, but also calling for the destruction of America

Shalom, I was shocked to read the attached letter. Is this the way people want to help Israel ? By describing untruth... It is true that many people are unemployed at the moment but no one is going starving to school. Some families do not know the order of priorities maybe they try to earn money by gambling while the family need the money for necessities. Maybe some families even starve , but to say " poverty all around me " is a very big lie. I don't like it when people try to make us look miserable . People...