Hasby Award:Best Pro-Israel Speech

The nominees for the 2015 Hasby Award for Best Pro-Israel Speech are:

George Deek in Oslo

Rachel Frenkel, Bat Galim Sha'er & Iris Yifrah at UNHRC

Canadian PM Stephen Harper at the Knesset

Bibi at the UNGA

Ben Shapiro at UCLA

Col. Richard Kemp on the Gaza war

This is another very difficult category.

And the winner of the Hasby for Best Speech is...

Canadian PM Stephen Harper at the Knesset

All the entries were great, but we have to give the award to Harper. 

It is one thing to hear a great pro-Israel speech from an Israeli diplomat or prime minister, or from known pro-Israel personalities. 

But when the leader of a foreign nation unabashedly supports Israel, it is a breath of fresh air. When he frames his Israel support in moral terms, it shows his own morality. When he asserts that today's anti-Zionism is just a new version of antisemitism, it shows that he is unafraid of the truth.  When he says that he takes the Iranian nuclear threat seriously, you can believe him. And when he says that terrorists who target Jews are the same ones that target all we hold dear, it shows that he gets it. 

Félicitations, Stephen!