Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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(JNS) — In the wake of two major attacks on Jews in the past two weeks, I have seen appeals from the Jewish community calling on their non-Jewish neighbors to stand up and declare their outrage and solidarity. I understand the sentiment, but I believe that a more effective tactic at this point is not to urge people to stand up for my safety and well-being, but rather, to rise up for their own. Certainly, it would be nice if Americans en masse would voice their absolute intolerance for antisemitic violence, even if it did not impact them p...
(JNS) — It has been nearly a week since two unarmed, innocent Israel supporters were gunned down in Washington, D.C., without cause or provocation. I have been waiting in the intervening days for some sign of remorse or regret from the pro-Palestinian camp here in America. Not simply the compulsory condemnation of unprovoked violence (though that itself may not be a given in these confounding times), but a full-throated reappraisal and disavowal of a movement that has proven itself to be very different from what it claimed to be. From the d...
(JNS) — On March 24, Al Jazeera posted a video on YouTube that accused the Israel Defense Forces of raping Palestinian women during their recent operation in Shifa Hospital. IDF Arabic spokesman Lt.-Col. Avichai Adraee immediately and categorically rejected the rape claims. The next day, the Al Jazeera video was removed without comment or retraction. A subsequent post on X by Yasser Abu Hilalah, Al Jazeera’s former managing director, admitted that the rape accusations were fabricated and that the woman who made the claims, Jamila al-Hissi, adm...
