By Jonathan Schachter and Jonathan Schanzer, Jerusalem Post— Last week’s announcement about the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE appears to have put annexation plans on ice. But the debate was revealing. The hand-wringing in America about annexation struck a stark contrast to Israelis and Palestinians, who have been more concerned about the…
DetailsBy M.H. Bolí Over the July Fourth holiday, which came in the middle of the current outcry from the African American community, Philadelphia Eagle’s star wide receiver, DeSean Jackson, posted an anti-Semitic quote falsely attributed to Hitler. In it, he claimed that Jews are “blackmailing America” to keep secret that “the Negroes are the real…
DetailsBy the BBC— Israel and the United Arab Emirates have reached a deal to normalise relations, with Israel agreeing to suspend its controversial plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. In a surprise statement by US President Donald Trump, who helped broker it, the countries called the accord “historic” and a breakthrough toward…
DetailsBy Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost— Egypt has demanded that Hamas and other Palestinian groups stop the incendiary balloon attacks on Israel, Palestinian sources said on Wednesday. Senior Egyptian intelligence officials contacted leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and warned them that the continued attacks on Israel could lead to an all-out military confrontation…
DetailsBy Amy Zewe To follow up on last week’s report on Twitter: The social media platform removed Stars of David and locked out users claiming use of the image, and the user, were violating community standards. Couple that with the revelation from The Washington Post about Twitter’s response to Israeli ministers requesting Iran’s leaderships’ posts…
DetailsBy Aaron Boxerman, Times of Israel— Israeli helicopter gunships and tanks attacked at least three sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in response to a rash of airborne arson attacks that sparked more than 60 fires in Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said. The IDF said its forces targeted “a military base, underground infrastructure…
DetailsBy Algemeiner— Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi urged the UN Security Council on Tuesday to enforce Resolution 1701 — the measure that ended the Second Lebanon War exactly 14 years ago and mandated the disarmament of the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Ashkenazi addressed ambassadors from the US, France, Britain, Russia, China, Germany, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa,…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN— Imagine for a moment that the United States Congress fulfills a biblical promise in a tangible way. Lawmakers may not connect their legislative decisions to the Bible, but the Lord moves among them in what I call a “divine covert operation.” It is a fact—based on one of the most…
DetailsBy Amy Zewe— Late in July, Twitter’s community standards’ mechanism banned the use of the Star of David in posts, claiming it was a symbol of hate speech. This resulted in many Jewish or Zionist supporters’ accounts to be shut down or locked out. This all while many a Twitter account holder tweets and retweets…
DetailsBy Rabbi Marvin Hier, Israel Hayom— One of the most frightening twists of the global coronavirus pandemic is the worldwide uptick in anti-Semitism. This almost included a prime-time slot on Fox’s “Soul TV” for America’s most notorious anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan. Just a few days ago in his Final Call magazine, Farrakhan’s defenders tried to cover…
DetailsBy Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— Ahmed Erekat, a 26-year-old Palestinian from the village of Abu Dis, south of Jerusalem, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on June 23 after ramming his car into an Israeli military checkpoint. One soldier was lightly wounded in the attack. Footage released by the Israeli authorities leaves no room for…
DetailsBy JNS News Service— The Jordanian Foreign Ministry called on Israel it to “respect the sanctity” of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and end “all provocations and violations there.” According to Jordan’s Petra News Agency, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Deifallah al-Fayez conveyed the message of protest through diplomatic channels, condemning what it called “Israeli violations” on…
DetailsBy Lahav Harkov, Tovah Lazaroff, and Omri Nahmias, JPost— Israel may still apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Likud faction meeting on Monday. “It has not been taken off the agenda,” Netanyahu told Likud MKs. “The option still exists.” The prime minister said the matter is…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPost— In under a week, two events happened at The New York Times—the arbiter of liberal news and opinion—which highlight the growing precariousness of the American Jewish community’s position in the Democratic Party. On July 8, the Times published an op-ed by Peter Beinart, a far-left American Jewish writer and self-anointed spokesperson…
DetailsBy Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom— Two weeks after the 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the eviction and destruction of the settlements in Gush Katif, then-Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert informed then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he intended to present then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with the notion that the disengagement from Gaza…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel Blog— The longer we live, the more reflective every Tisha B’Av gets. It is a natural development of course, on a border of cliche: the more one knows, the more one reflects. Tisha B’Av, the 9th of Av in Hebrew calendar, is so special day for Jewish people who…
DetailsBy Michael Freund, JPost— Fifteen years ago today on the Hebrew calendar, on the 10th day of Av, Israel committed one of the gravest self-inflicted catastrophes since the founding of the state in 1948. Hiding behind the harmless-sounding euphemism of “disengagement,” the government of prime minister Ariel Sharon revved up the bulldozers and utterly destroyed…
DetailsBy Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” 1. Remembrance breeds deliverance, while forgetfulness feeds oblivion. According to a legend, Napoleon heard lamentations emanating from a synagogue, while walking one night in the streets of Paris. When told that the wailing commemorated the 586 BCE destruction of the First Jewish Temple in Jerusalem…
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