Right Side of History or Left Side of Disaster?

By now, any­one who’s surfed the inter­net, turned on a TV, radio or had a dis­cus­sion about world pol­i­tics has heard that Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. Really forced out. A peace­ful rev­o­lu­tion that was really a street-side coup d’état to top­ple a cor­rupt gov­ern­ment that was a firm friend of the West. So how do we inter­nal­ize US […]

Glocks, Crocks & Shades of Gray

Many of my blog fol­low­ers have asked why I haven’t blogged in a few weeks. That’s sim­ple. I’d love to say I was ski­ing the Alps or div­ing the Sey­chelles or maybe even scal­ing the Andes but in all hon­esty, besides advo­cat­ing for Act For Israel, I spent the last month comb­ing through all 18 chap­ters of my upcoming […]

Today Jews, Tomorrow the West?

On my drive back from LA, my iPhone buzzed to life with break­ing news about pack­ages con­tain­ing explo­sives ear­marked for Chicago syn­a­gogues. The CNN bul­letin con­firmed US offi­cials believe al Qaeda in the Ara­bian Penin­sula (AQAP) is behind the cargo ter­ror plot. Now, do I believe al Qaeda or any other rad­i­cal Islamic group would plan […]

When Did Liberals Become Hypocrites?

Grow­ing up, being a lib­eral meant you were an intel­lec­tual who stood for noble causes like progress, peace and human rights. I’m proud to say my dad was one   –   he knew the wrongs that needed to be resolved but also knew when some­one put lip­stick on a pig. Yet today, those that claim to be lib­eral are often walking […]

The World Did Not Blink

     The world barely noticed when Turk­ish PM Tayyip Erdo­gan left the entire planet in the lurch by vot­ing against Iran’s nuclear sanc­tions last week (ditto for Brazil and Lebanon).   The world stared silently when Russ­ian government-ordered raids slaugh­tered thou­sands of Chechens and dis­placed over 500,000 in two decades.    The world entirely over­looked hundreds […]

Apartheid in the Middle East

Imag­ine if Al Qaeda funded groups inter­na­tion­ally to warn peo­ple about the wicked nature of Jews. Far­fetched? Not exactly. It’s hap­pen­ing right now except the group isn’t Al Qaeda it’s the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. Harm­less? Try ask­ing those close to for­mer Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Anwar Sadat. Heck, you could ask Sadat your­self if the Broth­er­hood hadn’t assassinated […]

A Salute to Standouts Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism

The United Nations has a long­stand­ing pas­time that is vir­tu­ally unknown. It’s not a noble one like elim­i­nat­ing blood­shed in the Congo, or restor­ing law in Soma­lia or even peace­mak­ing in Kash­mir. It’s not focused on con­demn­ing coun­tries with appalling human rights abuses like China, Cuba, North Korea, Saudi Ara­bia, Sudan and Zim­babwe. Oh, no. It has […]

Israel Aids Haiti While Arab Nations Are Noticeably Absent

The Jerusalem Post just char­ac­ter­ized Israel’s prompt response to Haiti’s earth­quake vic­tims as the Israel’s “pub­lic rela­tions knight in shin­ing armor.” That couldn’t be fur­ther from the truth. Israelis and non-Israeli Jews have a long his­tory of help­ing those in need. One of the beliefs rab­bis teach young Jews and new Jews alike is tikkun olam, […]

Checking Hanes on Planes?

On December 31, 2009, in 9/11, human rights, Islam, Jews, Judaism, terrorism, by jenhanin

Potty Humor is at an all time high thanks to the lat­est failed Islamic ter­ror­ist, AKA the Under­wear bomber. Butt. Seri­ously! What can we expect next? Ter­ror­ists with explo­sive anal plugs, tam­pons, implants or pros­the­ses? I mean how far we can expect Islamic extrem­ists to go to destroy our way of life? Appar­ently, far. Killing innocent […]

Read Between the Lies

On December 15, 2009, in 9/11, honor killings, human rights, Iran, Jews, Judaism, terrorism, Uncategorized, by jenhanin

We hear an awful lot that Islam is a reli­gion of peace. And I know some who fit that descrip­tion. Yet coun­tries that have near 100 per­cent Islamic pop­u­la­tion  –  Afghanistan, Soma­lia, Saudi Ara­bia and Yemen  –  seem any­thing but peace­ful. So why are we privy to fre­quent news reports of Islamic ter­ror­ist attacks, sui­cide bomb­ings, insur­gent upris­ings and Fat­was order­ing violence to […]