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Yaakov Katz, in a BBC interview: Hezbollah smells Jewish blood and wants more
The BBC interviewer claims it’s reasonable for a terrorist group to fire rockets into Israel day after day for nine months. Yaakov Katz answered her appropriately.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
The geopolitical situation following Hamas’s October 7 massacre – Where do we go from here?
As part of JPPI’s annual assessment, Yaakov highlights three points of light: the degradation of Hamas, the mobilization of international forces, and the fact that peace agreements between Israel and moderate Arab states have held.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
The Academic Intifada Defeats the Association for Jewish Studies
Translating this high falutin’ doublespeak, the AJS proclaimed that while departments and universities should not boycott Israeli universities formally, it’s ok if individual professors informally boycott Israeli, Zionist, or even Jewish professors.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Yaakov Katz, in a CNN interview: The situation in the north may escalate
Since Hezbollah began firing at Israel on Oct. 8, the government has tried to limit the scope of the conflict & prevent it from expanding. Has that now changed?
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Antisemitism in France: Jews Consider Leaving – Dr. Dov Maimon in an interview with i24News
Dr. Dov Maimon was interviewed by i24News and explained the plight of French Jews due to antisemitism in the country.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
The War in Gaza – CNN interview with Yaakov Katz
Hamas uses the hostages to pierce Israelis’ hearts all day and every day and it is up to the West and particularly the US to get Hamas to understand that it will lose.
Jewish Communities Worldwide
Jewish Communities Worldwide
21 countries agree to updated guidelines on Nazi-looted art
Stuart Eizenstat, JPPI’s Co-Chair: “The Best Practices were drafted with the awareness that there are differing legal systems and that states act within the context of their own laws.”