Tony Badran, Tablet Magazine Journalist Profile

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Obama Plays a Dead Man’s Hand in Lebanon, and Wins

Nov 27, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Tony Badran

Barely three weeks ago, Barack Obama’s legacy was in tatters. His Party was roundly defeated in the election, after he personally engineered the defenestration of his doddering former Vice President from the Oval Office. Instead of greeting the sight of Obama emerging from the shadows with relief, Americans reacted with horror. His hand-picked candidate was trounced, while the Party he directed lost both houses of Congress.
The UN’s Kosher Stamp for Terror

Nov 1, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Tony Badran

Earlier this week, the Israeli Knesset took a first step toward banning the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from the country, following a series of revelations over the past year of its intimate, decadelong partnership with Hamas.
The Ottoman American Empire

Jul 31, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Tony Badran

According to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israel has “effectively lost sovereignty” over the north of its own country thanks to Hezbollah rocket attacks that have sent 80,000 Israelis fleeing from their homes and set at least 20,000 acres of Israeli land on fire.
America’s Politically Slanted Pravda Media

Jul 9, 2024 | newswithviews.com | Kelleigh Nelson |Tony Badran

By Kelleigh NelsonJuly 8, 2024The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. —Frederick DouglasWhere liberty dwells, there is my country. —Benjamin FranklinIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. —George OrwellWe’re the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true – it has little to do with America – around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don’t follow that.
American by the Grace of God

Jul 2, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Liel Leibovitz |Tony Badran

What, to an immigrant, is the Fourth of July? For the two of us immigrants—a Christian from Lebanon and a Jew from Israel, respectively—Independence Day, in addition to hot dogs on the grill and fireworks in the sky, is about taking a moment to reflect on the seminal decision of our lives: the decision to come to America to be part of a great and good nation. If you’re detecting a religious undertone in our love for this country, you’re not wrong.
After Gaza: A Tablet Roundtable Discussion

May 8, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Tony Badran

Israel had barely begun its military operation in Gaza, after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 more, when the Biden administration began talking about what would need to happen the day after the war was over. “There has to be a vision of what comes next,” President Biden said on Oct. 25, 2023. Subsequently, the term “the Day After” was everywhere.
Vast Majority of Terrorism Supporters on US Campuses are NOT American Students

Apr 24, 2024 | conservativeangle.com | Tony Badran

Go to Article The vast majority of the terrorism supporters in the US campuses are not American students. Why aren’t terror students punished for their despicable actions? And who benefits from all this? “It’s not just tuition money that schools are milking. Foreign governments also write big checks to ensure that their students—and their politics—are given red-carpet treatment at big-name universities.
January 31: The Terms of Israel’s Hostage Deal Are Getting Worse

Jan 31, 2024 | thedailyscroll.substack.com | Tony Badran |Park MacDougald

Negotiations to free the more than 100 Israeli hostages still held by Hamas are underway in Paris, led by Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns and representatives from the Israeli and Egyptian intelligence services, Qatar, and Hamas. On Tuesday evening, The Washington Post published details of a joint U.S.-Egyptian-Qatari “framework” for a new deal, “parts of which have been accepted by Israel and which is under consideration by Hamas,” according to the paper.
Why America’s Richest Universities Are Protecting Hate-Filled Foreign Students

Jan 30, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Tony Badran

Five weeks after Rutgers University suspended the New Brunswick campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on Dec. 11 for violating several university policies, the school reversed its decision and reinstated the pro-Hamas group.
Iran Sponsored the October 7 Massacre. America Paid for It.

Dec 13, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Tony Badran

It may strike some observers as curious, and others as unimaginably evil, that only weeks after Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, the Biden administration awarded sanctions waivers worth $10 billion to Iran, the primary external sponsor of those attacks.