The Christian Friends of Yad Vashem in partnership with International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) are delighted to announce a yearlong series entitled “Life, Hatred and Hope”. We will go on a journey covering the moving experiences of the Jewish People before, during and after the horrors of the Holocaust. “The History of Christian Antisemitism” by…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, Times of Israel-— Now that Hamas terrorists and Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President of Incitement are assaulting Israel on a wide scale, it is no surprise that the global media is once again mangling or creating their own version of “facts” matched with a total lack of context. It’s time to…
By Israel National News— IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi announced Tuesday afternoon that Israel’s military will expand its air campaign in the Gaza Strip, as rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled enclave into Israel continues. Following a situational assessment meeting Tuesday morning, Kochavi ordered the IDF to expand and intensify Operation Guardian of the Walls,…
By Joel Rosenberg, All Israel News— At 9:00pm local time Tuesday night, Tel Aviv – Israel’s second largest city – came under a withering attack of rockets from Gaza Strip. Other towns, villages, cities and suburbs around Tel Aviv – including Herzliya, Netanya, Rishon Litzion, among others — are also under rocket attack. After the…
By Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— When former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel in 1991, many Palestinians took to the streets to celebrate the attacks. Many demonstrations took place in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem even while Palestinians were being issued gas masks by the Israeli authorities to…
By Amy Zewe— Later this month we will feature short interviews with the authors of The Family Research Councils’ April publication titled The Resurgence of History’s Oldest Hatred: 100 Antisemitic Events in the U.S. in the Last 15 Months by Christopher Gacek, J.D., Ph.D. and Lela Gilbert. You may recall that Lela Gilbert is one…
By Josh Hasten, Jewish News Syndicate— Thousands of Arab protesters have been violently rioting on the Temple Mount (known by Muslims as Haram al-Sharif) throughout the “Jerusalem Day” holiday and over the course of the last several days, accusing Israel of attempting to “storm the Al-Aqsa mosque” and “Judaize” the entire city. Hundreds of rioters…
By Anna Ahronheim, Jpost— It could have gone either way. Calm can return, or Israel would have found itself at war. Though the past week has seen hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli police officers and civilians injured, the defense establishment still thought that the situation could have returned to normal. But that was wishful thinking.…
By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe— It isn’t often that a hyphen, or the absence of one, draws attention. But when the Associated Press announced recently that it was changing the spelling of “anti-Semite” and “anti-Semitism” in its highly influential style guide to “antisemite” and “antisemitism,” it made news — and drew cheers from historians and…
By ILH Staff and News Agencies-— Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters at the Temple Mount compound Monday, the latest in a series of confrontations that is pushing the contested city to the brink of eruption. Despite a calm that set in around noon, the riots continued around 4:30 p.m. as hundreds of teens celebrated…