War in Israel – October 2023  On October 7, 2023, Hamas perpetrated the worst terror attack in the history of modern Israel.  As of the afternoon of October 8, 2023, it is the worst civilian massacre in Israeli history, and the largest number of Jews murdered in one day since the Holocaust.  Beginning the morning […]

On December 29, 2022, the 37th Government of the State of Israel was formed in the aftermath of the November 2022 election. With this new government, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving premier, is once again Israel’s PM, for the third time. There is no doubt that this new government is the most right-wing […]

Holocaust denial is, at its core, an antisemitic conspiracy theory. The Holocaust was a genocide perpetrated by the Nazi regime against European Jews between 1941-1945. Six million Jews were murdered in death camps, concentration camps, ghettos, killing fields and elsewhere. There is an ongoing effort to distort, disprove and conceal the facts of the Holocaust. […]

Golda Meir once quipped that when the Arab armies put down their weapons, there will be no more war, but if the Israeli army put down its weapons, there would be no more Israel.  Every military action that Israel has taken, or takes, is done for the purpose of securing the safety of the country, […]

The West Bank refers to the territory of what was once Judea and Samaria, west of the Jordan River.  When proposed plans for Jewish and Arab states were drawn up in 1947, a green pencil was used to draw the border of the territory, thus the “Green Line” demarcates the border between the West Bank […]

Gaza is a territory that is today controlled 100% by Hamas, a recognized Islamist terror organization.  Though there has been Jewish history in Gaza from Biblical times, in modern history, it was largely settled by Arab communities.  In 1949, when the dust settled after the War of Independence, Gaza was occupied by Egyptian military forces. […]

In 1937, the Peel Commission suggested a partition of what was then British Mandatory Palestine into two states: one for the Jews, and one for the Arabs. It was accepted by the Jews, but not by the Arabs who refused to accept the existence of even a small Jewish state.  In 1947, partition into two […]

The word “Palestine” has referred to several different entities, at different times. The word likely derives from the “Philistine” people who lived in the territory of what is today Israel, during Biblical times, though the Philistines have no connection to modern-day Palestinians. In about 135CE, the Romans began to refer to the region of what […]

The Holocaust refers to the systemic destruction of the Jewish community of Europe which took place during World War II. From about the year 1941 to 1945, over six-million Jews across Europe were murdered, either by mass-shootings, gassings, or being herded into concentration, labour, or death camps, by the Nazi regime. During the Holocaust, about […]

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, who sought to restore their freedom and independence in their ancestral homeland in the Land of Israel.  The Jewish people trace its ancestry back to the Land of Israel. And though they were dispossessed through successive imperial conquests, always maintained a connection to its historic […]