By Shelley Neese This week, on Monday, Israel celebrated Jerusalem Day, the 54th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem after defeating the Jordanian army in the battle for the Old City. But as the events over the last seven days have shown, Jerusalem has yet to know lasting peace. For…
By Ynetnews— The IDF and the Shin Bet domestic security service said Wednesday that 16 high-ranking members of the Hamas terror group, including a senior commander and weapons developers, had been killed in Israeli targeted attacks on Gaza City and Khan Yunis. The dead were members of the Hamas high command and close associates of…
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 Joel C. Rosenberg, AllIsrael.com— The longer I live in Israel, the more complicated I find it to be. Like the seeds of a pomegranate, the more you open it up, the more beliefs, narratives, emotions and divisions you discover. For Evangelicals who have not been here, or have only visited a few times, the…
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…
Christopher Gacek and Lela Gilbert of Family Research Council have published a major paper detailing 100 Antisemitic events in the U.S. in the last fifteen months. Download the PDF here. Summary: There is no denying that we experienced an amazingly difficult year and more in 2020. With a global pandemic, an upsurge of racially charged…
By Amy Zewe I am delighted to let you all know that The Casualty of Contempt is now available! I authored a chapter called “When Compassion Goes Awry—Young Christian college students and professionals are abandoning their faith to join social justice causes: An Examination.” The pages of this book serve as a clarion call for…
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 Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Israel365— This year, like most years, the month-long Muslim fast of Ramadan has been marked by extreme violence, most notably, though not limited to, Israel’s capital of Jerusalem. Dubbed the TikTok Intifada, the violence began last month when young Arabs began attacking Israelis, especially targeting the visibly religious, and posting videos…
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…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— The United Nations initiated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 after the Nazi genocide of six million Jews. Its words affirmed the dignity of all world citizens, regardless of who or what they were or where they lived. Indeed, it was a fine and desperately needed effort…
By Shelley Neese In February, I began to share some of Jim Hutchen’s commentary on the “One New Man,” a teaching that is especially important for us in these unprecedented times. You can see the other parts on our channel. But now I want to finish it up the One New Man teaching over the…