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Titles from Maus – a Pulitzer Prize-winning series about the Holocaust – made up nearly half of Amazon’s 10 best-selling comics and graphic novels Friday after one of the books was controversially banned by a Tennessee school district. was released, a collection of the complete Maus titles is the top-selling graphic novel on Amazon, and it’s ranked 16th on the platform’s list of best-selling books from all genres. Maus I, a Maus I and Maus II paperback box set and Maus II are also all in the top 10 of Amazon’s graphic novel best sellers. The surge in sales followed...

Unilever has lost 26 billion dollars since announcing its boycott of Judea and Samaria. Half a year after notifying Avi Singer, the owner of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, of the termination of the company’s contract with him due to his refusal to boycott Judea and Samaria, Unilever shares are in an unprecedented dive. Within six months, the company’s stock plunged 20.7%, translated into a 26-billion-dollar loss. For comparison, the stock of major competitor Nestle has risen 5% in the last six months. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Jewish communities abroad, who are currently waging a wide-ranging struggle against Unilever...

Jewish watchdog group has selected the chair of Ben & Jerry’s board of directors as its “Antisemite of the Year” for withdrawing the company’s ice cream from Israeli settlements. StopAntisemitism.org announced Monday that thousands of people had voted for Anuradha Mittal, the executive who announced in July that Ben & Jerry’s would boycott more than 140 Jewish communities in the occupied territories This woman seems to have an obsession with the Jewish nation,” said Liora Rez, who founded the advocacy group in 2018. “It’s nothing but an anti-Semitic ploy to vilify the Jewish nation and people.” Unilever, which owns Ben...

On the morning of January 1st, 2022, Palestinian Arab terrorists in the Gaza Strip ushered in the new year with a barrage of rockets aimed at Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities. The Israeli Air Force and IDF artillery teams responded with pin-point precision retaliatory strikes against rocket-launching positions. Hamas, the terrorist organization controlling the Gaza Strip, claimed that it was recent mildly bad weather, namely a drizzling rain storm, that — somehow, inexplicably — launched the rockets, not human militants. In reality, the Israel Defense Force has claimed that members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organization allied...

At a time when the statues of good people who had done bad things are being torn down, the world must reckon with the mixed legacy of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, even in the immediate aftermath of his death. He did much good in fighting apartheid but he also has long history of ugly hatred toward the Jewish people, the Jewish religion and the Jewish state. He not only believed in anti-Semitism, he actively promoted and legitimated Jew hatred among his many followers and admirers around the world. Tutu minimized the suffering of those killed in the Holocaust. He has...

these confusing times, many people are rightfully turning to the Torah for clarity and guidance. Unfortunately, it is easy for those with ulterior motives to cherry-pick Torah sources, take them out of context, misinterpret them, and misapply them to suit their agenda. It is therefore necessary to elucidate the 15 main religious reasons that it is forbidden according to the Torah to take the so-called “Covid-19 vaccines”. 1. The Torah commands us in Devarim 4:15 to exceedingly guard our lives. Ironically, this is the main source for those who claim we are obligated to take these injections. In reality, this...

Just as Anti-Vaxxers are not “Refuseniks,” Palestinians are not experiencing either “apartheid” or “genocide.” Recently, heroic human rights activist Natan Sharansky, who spent over nine years in Soviet prisons as part of his very personal and also very public fight for Jewish freedom in the Soviet Union, commented on how the use of the term “Refusenik” to describe people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 “cheapens” the term. Sharansky (who coined the “3-D” test for determining when criticism of Israel is actually antisemitic”) described how the term “Refusenik” came to be: “Half a century ago, a modest Russian language...

There is almost nothing Democrats can do to damage America, or Israel, that would change most American Jews' political leanings. The latest example took place just last week. A college student speaking to the vice president of the United States, a Democrat, condemned America for supporting Israel, and charged Israel with committing "ethnic genocide" against Palestinians. Harris's response? "Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth cannot be suppressed, and it must be heard." It was indeed the student's truth -- which means it was a lie. "Your truth" always means "a lie." When a person says something that is...

A high-ranking school official told teachers in Southlake, Texas that if they had books in their school about the history of the Holocaust, they should make sure that they have other books that “other perspectives.”On Friday, Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, was leading a training session on which books teachers can have in classroom libraries. The session came amid an uproar over new regulations concerning curriculums teaching about race and racism and which books should be permitted into the classrooms and libraries. A staff member secretly recorded the session. Peddy discussed House Bill...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whom the former head of the DNC once anointed as the future of the Democrat Party, faced widespread condemnation across the political spectrum on Friday after she attempted to explain why she voted “present” for a bill that would have provided Israel with funding for a missile defense system that protects them for Palestinian terrorist attacks. In a roughly 900-word statement, AOC explicitly stated that she wanted “to be clear” that she was “opposed to this bill.” After explaining over the course of several hundred words why she really opposed helping one of America’s top allies defend...

Anuradha Mittal, who was involved in orchestrating the ban on Ben and Jerry's sales in settlements, has been accused of funneling money from the company to her own personal non-profit organization. The head of the board of directors of Ben & Jerry's, Anuradha Mittal has been accused in a watchdog complaint to the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of self-dealing - funneling tens of thousands of dollars of profit from the company into funding her pro-Palestinian nonprofit group, according to the New York Post.The complaint, issued by the right-leaning nonprofit group, National Legal and Policy Center (NPLC), reads: "It is...

Over 1,500 rabbis say ADL 'no longer competent' to identify, let alone combat, anti-Semitism. 'Only someone with no sense of Jewish history could claim BDS isn't anti-Semitic.' The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) took renewed aim at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, after the ADL announced a partnership with Hillel International, the Jewish college organization, to document anti-Semitism on American campuses. While such an effort is noble and worthwhile, the ADL, CJV pointed out, demonstrated that it lacks the moral clarity to properly identify anti-Semitism, let alone combat it. An ADL spokesperson, describing the new initiative, wrongly claimed that,...

BRIEF America’s largest teachers union to vote on boycott of Israel, Palestinian statehood The multi-day conference that began Wednesday will consider calling on the United States to cut material support and funding to Israel and promote Palestinian causes. View of the main entrance to the National Education Association (NEA). Credit: John M. Chase/Shutterstock. View of the main entrance to the National Education Association (NEA). Credit: John M. Chase/Shutterstock. Republish this article (July 1, 2021 / JNS) At its annual conference this week, the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union, will debate and decide on whether to adopt...

The Twitter account of Ben & Jerry’s, the Vermont-based ice cream company founded by Jewish businessmen Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, has been uncharacteristically silent for nearly a month after being relentlessly attacked for doing business in Israel, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported. Ben & Jerry’s, which maintains a production facility and offices south of Tel Aviv, was tweeting almost daily until May 18 when the company posted an advertisement for its new Thick Mint ice cream flavor and was flooded with negative responses. “Love mint but hate being complicit in ethnic cleansing and apartheid, so I won’t be...

Former Democrat state Assemblyman Dov Hikind strongly criticized prominent politicians from his own party for their reaction to anti-Semitic attacks occurring in the state. He did not hesitate to name names either. He said: “Jews are being viciously attacked in NYC. Where is [de Blasio]? Where is [Cuomo]? Where is [Schumer]? Where is [Nadler]? …Terror directed against the Jewish people of New York and all over the country. But in New York, Jews are being beaten up in Brooklyn, in Manhattan. Jewish blood is running on the streets of New York; people being intimidated; people being assaulted; people ending up...

"You cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves."

Left-wing US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday blasted New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang for his tweet expressing support for Israel. On Tuesday, Yang tweeted, “I’m standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists.” The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere,” he pledged. Responding to news that a planned Yang campaign event had been cancelled, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “Utterly shameful for Yang to try to show up to an Eid event after sending out a chest-thumping statement...

On November 3rd 2020 the American dream breathed its last. It was laid to rest on January 6th 2021.

Sarah Halimi was beaten before she was thrown off her Paris apartment building's roof in April 2017. (Courtesy of the Halimi family) (JTA) — Lawyers for the family of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman whose killer was deemed unfit to stand trial in France, say they want to have him tried in Israel. The idea articulated Wednesday in a statement by lawyers Francis Szpiner and Gilles-William Goldnadel is based on the fact that Israeli citizens may litigate in Israel over alleged anti-Semitic attacks abroad. Sarah Halimi’s sister, Esther Lekover, is an Israeli. “We regret that the situation has come to...

You need a strong stomach to be a Jew on Twitter, says Nicole Lampert Stock image of a smartphone user Stock image of a smartphone user (Credit: Getty Images/ oatawa) You need a strong stomach to be a Jew on Twitter. For every genuinely warm feeling you get from someone wishing you Shabbat Shalom, or the fun you’ll have arguing over whether that round doughy thing is pronounced baygel or beigel, you’ll be exposed to ten messages of hate. They come from the far right and they come from the far left and all sorts of random places in between....