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Jan 21, 2025 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Moshe Phillips
It was 20 years ago this week that Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a single four year term as chairman of the Palestinian Authority. I suspect he’s having a very happy anniversary. When the 89-year-old looks around him, he must be astonished at how the international community has acquiesced in his brutal dictatorship.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
israel365news.com | Moshe Phillips
Moshe Phillips is national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel (www.AFSI.org), a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization. Israel’s enemies hate cartology, the study of mapmaking—as we were reminded again last week in the commotion over a map of biblical Israel.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
israelnationalnews.com | Moshe Phillips
MoshePhillipsis national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel (www.AFSI.org), a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization. We are now over 15 months since the Hamas led attack on Israelis on October 7. It's well past the time for American Zionists to start implementing a new agenda to guide our activism. Here are some big American Zionist ideas for 2025, and beyond. 1.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Moshe Phillips
Enemies of the Jewish state hate cartology—the study of mapmaking—as the world was reminded again last week in the commotion over a map of biblical Israel. Some Israel-hater noticed that the X (Twitter) account of the Israeli Foreign Ministry included a map showing the biblical borders of the ancient kingdoms of Judea and Israel, including the parts that extended eastward across the Jordan River.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
israelnationalnews.com | Moshe Phillips
Moshe Phillips is national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel (www.AFSI.org), a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization. The Associated Press has reporters stationed throughout the Middle East, so how is it that they still can't get the most basic facts about Israel and the Palestinian Authority right? This time the AP issued a news article on January 6 stating that “some 3 million Palestinians live in the 'West Bank' under Israeli military rule.” No, they don't.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thejewishstar.com | Moshe Phillips
What was this intifada that protesters on college campuses and in the streets of American cities keep screaming about? According to a recent article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the first intifada — lasting from late 1987 to 1993 — was “when Palestinians took part in boycotts, and hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers.” Well, that doesn’t sound so awful, does it? After all, it wasn’t really terrorism — just some rocks and Molotov cocktails.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
jewishaz.com | Moshe Phillips
(JTA) — The question of whether American Jews should criticize Israel has nothing to do with free speech, or democracy, or peace in the Middle East. It has everything to do with the real-life consequences that Israelis suffer when they bow to criticism from abroad. In a recent JTA op-ed, Rabbi Jill Jacobs called on American Jews to pressure Israel to “end the war in Gaza.” That might sound appealing at first glance. After all, war is bad. Everyone wants wars to end.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
tjvnews.com | Moshe Phillips
By Moshe Phillips(JNS) What was this intifada that protesters on college campuses and in the streets of American cities keep screaming about? According to a recent article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, the first intifada—lasting from late 1987 to 1993—was “when Palestinians took part in boycotts, and hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers.”Well, that doesn’t sound so awful, does it? After all, it wasn’t really terrorism—just some rocks and Molotov cocktails.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Moshe Phillips
What was this intifada that protesters on college campuses and in the streets of American cities keep screaming about? According to a recent article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, the first intifada—lasting from late 1987 to 1993—was “when Palestinians took part in boycotts, and hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers.”Well, that doesn’t sound so awful, does it? After all, it wasn’t really terrorism—just some rocks and Molotov cocktails.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
crescentcityjewishnews.com | Moshe Phillips |Joshua Marks
By MOSHE PHILLIPS(JTA) — The question of whether American Jews should criticize Israel has nothing to do with free speech, or democracy, or peace in the Middle East. It has everything to do with the real-life consequences that Israelis suffer when they bow to criticism from abroad. In a recent JTA op-ed, Rabbi Jill Jacobs called on American Jews to pressure Israel to “end the war in Gaza.” That might sound appealing at first glance. After all, war is bad. Everyone wants wars to end.
