By Lahav Harkov, JPost— Foreign governments were major funders of Israeli organizations making the charge that the International Criminal Court should investigate Israel for war crimes, a new report from NGO Monitor revealed this week. The report, by the research institution focused on nongovernmental organizations and their funding, analyzed the annual financial reports from 2017-2019…
By Melanie Phillips, Israel Hayom— A row over anti-Semitism that has erupted in Britain illuminates the problem that bedevils so many in the West over their understanding of what Judaism actually is. The controversy started with a tweet by the Labour Party’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, congratulating the new head of the Scottish Labour Party,…
By Caroline Glick— The Trump administration was on the verge of securing a peace agreement between Israel and Indonesia in its final weeks in office, according to a former senior Trump administration official involved in the efforts. The official divulged that the negotiations between Israel and the world’s most populous Muslim state were run by…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— The world marked another International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers just a few weeks ago on February 12. Yet the Palestinians repeatedly violate this worthy United Nations and UNICEF-sponsored goal in their textbooks. Shaping young minds with erroneous history and facts is a mental “blunt instrument” that…
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency, Jewish Press— Israeli authorities located the ship responsible for dumping crude oil into the sea which landed and covered the majority of Israel’s beaches. Minister of Environmental Protection Gila Gamliel announced Wednesday that the ship responsible for the pollution off the coast of Israel was identified. “We got our…
By Amy Zewe— Over the past 2 years I have reported on the uptick of antisemitic violence and hate crimes against the Jewish communities of New York and New Jersey (and LA, Pittsburg, and other cities in North America). The result is, to a certain degree, a bit of awareness among the broader electorate…
By Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom— Trigger warning: A missile attack that would interfere with Israel’s defenses and be difficult for the country to recover from is an extreme scenario, but one that Brig. Gen. (res.) Udi Dekel lays out in detail, without any whitewashing, in a report by the Institute of National Security Studies. Until…
By Yonah Jeremy Bob, JPost— Defense Minister and Acting Justice Minister Benny Gantz alarmed government officials on Tuesday when he told Reuters Israel estimates that hundreds of its citizens might be subject – in the near future – to war crimes probes by the International Criminal Court. Gantz, who took over the Justice Ministry when…
By Shelley Neese Purim is the holiday when Jews (and many Christians) remember the story of Esther. Esther was an ordinary Jewish girl who became Queen of the Persian Empire. God placed Esther in the right place at the right time. When the evil Haman issued a plan for all the Jews in the Empire…