By Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday called on Canada and the international community to “stop Israeli aggressions that violate international law.” He made the appeal during a meeting in Ramallah with Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau. Garneau’s visit to Ramallah came as Abbas continues to face widespread criticism over…
By Mohammad al-Kassim, Israel Hayom— Palestinian journalists never intended to become part of the news in the days after the killing of activist Nizar Banat, but the brutal treatment and the arrest of many of them at the hands of the Palestinian Authority security forces has forced them to call for international intervention and protection.…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel-— Even before the expert Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Search and Rescue Brigade arrived in Florida, they had already mapped via satellite the collapsed Champlain Towers South. Carrying with them the hope that their survey would add to the lifesaving efforts of all rescuers on the site, Israel’s “Helping Hand”…
By Shelley Neese In June, we saw a brand new government take the reins in Israel, breaking a twelve year prime ministership for Bibi Netanyahu. That surprise political changeup is even more surprising considering that it followed a two week long war with Gaza in May. And before that, in April there were regular outbreaks…
By Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post— In the sweep of history, 76 years is a blip on the screen, a relatively brief stretch of time too short to excuse a willful and utter disregard for the past. It is precisely this basic truth that makes Poland’s latest assault on the legacy of the Holocaust so thoroughly…
By Sharon Wrobel, Algemeiner— According to a comprehensive annual report released on Monday, Germany saw a rise in antisemitic acts in 2020 driven by incidents related to the coronavirus and cases of abusive behavior at rallies against measures to control the pandemic. Antisemitic incidents documented by the Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information…
by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute— Earlier this year, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas enacted a decree-law on boosting public freedoms ahead of the Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections, which were supposed to take place on May 22 and July 31. Article I of the law provides for “establishing an atmosphere of public freedoms in…
By Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom— We are becoming used to making history, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Wednesday at the formal inauguration of the new Israeli consulate in Dubai, a day after a similar ceremony marking the opening of the Israeli Embassy in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi. The ceremony was attended by high-ranking…
By Amy Zewe— You may recollect that term, pogrom, as something from a history course in high school. Maybe you recollect that it is something bad and something to do with the Holocaust. A pogrom is …an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe.…
By Pamela Paresky, Sapir Journal—- Imagine you’ve just been accepted to college. You open your welcome packet. It contains the bestseller all first-year students are expected to read: Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility. You flip to a random page and read, “Only whites can be racist.” You flip to another page where you read that to…