Category Archives: Israel

NYT: Israelis’ Favorite Thing About Donald Trump? His Style (to Put It Bluntly)

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

New York Times: JERUSALEM — Donald J. Trump has been called a lot of things by a lot of people around the world. In Israel, where his comments about remaining “neutral” in peace negotiations raised hackles but his condemnation of … Continue reading →

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Forward: ‘India’s Jewish ‘Lost Tribe’ Faces Hard Times in Israel’

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

It’s funny how all low-IQ groups have these problems. Forward: The result so far has been a group plagued by absorption and integration difficulties as harrowing as those faced by many previous non-European immigrant groups in Israel — and maybe … Continue reading →

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Vox: ‘Ethnic nationalism is bad for the Jews’

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

What they mean to say is “Gentile ethnic nationalism is bad for the Jews.” From Matthew Yglesias at VOX: That Trump’s efforts to mobilize white nationalism as a force in American politics has inadvertently also mobilized anti-Semitism does not come … Continue reading →

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Was Making The Holocaust Central To Jewish Identity A Good Thing?

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Luke Ford

Such a move would be great for one’s career, but was it good? Was it good for humanity? Was it good for the Jews? Nobody seems to ask these questions. They just take it for granted that making the Holocaust … Continue reading →

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Are Orthodox Jews Pro-Trump?

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: “Are Orthodox Jewish conservatives immigration restrictionists? That is one aspect of my conservatism that I suspect would be unpopular in Orthodox Jewish settings as well as non-Orthodox Jewish settings.” Orthodox Jews care primarily about the welfare of Orthodox Jews. … Continue reading →

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