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Italian pro-Israel resolution shows power of ‘quiet diplomacy’

Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF), opening the 2024 IDSF conference, Jan. 25, 2024. Credit: IDSF.

Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF), opening the 2024 IDSF conference, Jan. 25, 2024. Credit: IDSF.

The lower house of the Italian Parliament passed a multifaceted pro-Israel resolution in July while condemning the surge in global antisemitism following the Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel.

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Jewish Students Visit Israel, Learning How to Confront Campuses ‘Rampant with Antisemitism’

A delegation of pro-Israel student leaders from prominent U.S. universities who have witnessed significant rising antisemitism visit Israel to learn firsthand about the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks, Dec. 28, 2023. Credit: Office of Knesset member Danny Danon.

A delegation of pro-Israel student leaders from prominent U.S. universities who have witnessed significant rising antisemitism visit Israel to learn firsthand about the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks, Dec. 28, 2023. Credit: Office of Knesset member Danny Danon.

During a visit to the Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday, Jacob Klatzker, a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, told JNS his campus has been “rampant with antisemitism” since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel and the ensuing military response by the Israel Defense Forces, now in its third month of battling the terrorist organization based in the Gaza Strip.

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For Now, Ceasefire Prompts Calm as Israel Institutes ‘Law and Order’ Campaign

Israeli police officers secure a Jewish school following recent clashes between Jewish and Arab residents of Lod, in central Israel, on May 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Israeli police officers secure a Jewish school following recent clashes between Jewish and Arab residents of Lod, in central Israel, on May 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Even though the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on May 21, the fact that Hamas isn’t launching rockets and the Israeli military isn’t striking back at terror targets in the Gaza Strip doesn’t mean that peace has broken out between Israelis and Arabs.

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Eurovision Trump & Daniel Pipes Article: 15-05-19

In this week’s episode of Israel Victory Podcast Joshua Hasten, Daniel Seaman and Daniela Giulia Traub discuss making sense of Palestinian logic, as described in Daniel Pipes’s latest article in The Jerusalem Post/JPost.com. and why Palestinians are deserting the Gaza Strip; Why the Trump plan will not work and the end of “occupation” will not end the conflict; and how the Eurovision contest in Israel celebration is tainted by Israelis who do not understand foreign mentality, as seen in embarrassing promotion films that used anti-Semitic themes.

Posted by Josh Hasten in Israel Victory Podcast