Stories written by PhilipGiraldi

JTA — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to eight months in prison for accepting cash-filled envelopes from an American-Jewish businessman. The sentence, announced Monday in the Jerusalem District Court, includes an additional eight months probation and a $26,000 fine and could be added to the six-year sentence Olmert is already facing for […]

GOP mega-donor Paul Singer,whose financial interests and devotion to Israel combine to produce what can only be characterized as a singular obsession… By Stephen Sniegoski, May 21, 2015 Addressing leading Manhattan financiers at a private meeting in the Metropolitan Republican Club on May 5, Jeb Bush (who is doing everything possible to act like a […]

In 2013, the most recent year for which tax figures are available, Sears heiress Nina Rosenwald channeled $1,057,000 to groups that exist to make people fear and hate Islam. Photo: 2011 gala for American Friends of the Open University of Israel: Board member Nina Rosenwald, center.

A petition telling Amnesty International to focus on “anti-Semitism” is pushed by The Israel Project, which published a 116 page propaganda manual to cover up Israeli crimes… Stuart Littlewood, Shoa.org.uk – Here’s a petition that just landed in my Inbox: Amnesty International’s annual conference has rejected a motion to fight the rise of violent anti-Semitism […]

Participants in the trip were transformed into enthusiastic pro-Israel advocacy messengers… Nathan Guttman, Forward – Conservative Jewish funders and Christian donors of Hobby Lobby fame have joined forces to launch a Christian Birthright trip, modeled after the successful program that has taken thousands of Jewish young adults to Israel for the past 16 years. Covenant […]

The people were driven out, many of them long before the Arab units entered Palestine, but the houses, shops, schools, mosques and hospitals were still there. What could not have escaped the UN observers is the sound of the tractors flattening these buildings…… Israeli bohemians, yuppies and desperate newly arrived Jewish immigrants “saved” some of […]

While on the Amnesty International Board I once saw the itinerary drawn up by Amnesty USA for the visit to the United States by the then Amnesty Secretary General coming from London. On the list was almost every major pro-Israel group in New York and Washington and about one Arab Group. Given their standard operating […]

The new Justice minister, Ayelet Sheked, justified the burning alive of a Palestinian teenager by Israeli youths in East Jerusalem…. Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, the new deputy defense minister, declared: “(Palestinians) are beasts, they are not humans” and “A Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he is a homosexual.” CommDigiNews […]

The Birthright group leader made the following statement. He said he had Italian neighbors “and they’re wonderful, but if I had to decide whether to save their lives or the life of one Jew, I would choose to save the Jew. If I had to choose to save 100 non-Jews or one Jew, I would […]

Unlike West’s prejudiced conclusion, the actual reason the clerk couldn’t sell him alcohol was because the clerk was under the age of 21, a Walmart policy. MediaMatters – Fox News contributor Allen West went to Walmart and thought he was the victim of “Sharia law” because a checkout clerk under the age of 21 couldn’t […]