By CAROLINE GLICK— Last month the European Union pushed European-Israeli relations to a new low. In mid-September, the IDF enforced a High Court of Justice order to destroy 250 structures built illegally by Palestinian squatters in the Jordan Valley. The High Court acted in accordance with the agreements signed between the Palestinians and Israel. Those…
By MEDIA LINE— The parchment looks fragile, and holes dot the page, but the letters are as clear as when they were written 1,500 years ago. A piece of a prayer that at one time was meticulously set onto papyrus by a scribe. This is one of more than 200 ancient biblical objects that now…
By DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN, ARUTZ 7— A disturbing survey of the dangerous ‘denialisms’ of global anti-Semitism”: Jesus denial, Bible denial and more . They are barely recognized and therefore unchecked. Holocaust denial is widely known and widely understood to be a form of anti-Semitism and a tool to delegitimize Israel. Anti-Semites do not want Jews…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— As of today, Iran could “break out” and produce a sufficient quantity of uranium for a nuclear bomb by using its installed centrifuges and low enriched uranium stockpiles in as little as one month, a report by the U.S. Institute for Science and International Security has found. Using its existing equipment and…
By LEE KAPLAN, JEWISH VOICE— A leader of the ‘National Students for Justice in Palestine’ movement in the United States once stated that the destruction of the Jewish state and its replacement by a Palestinian one will come about through the American college system. And Stanford University is more than willing to sully its good…
By GERALD HONIGMAN, ARUTZ 7— Just within the last few weeks, while engaged in several different programs on the Middle East, I had three men come up to me with their explanation of all of the region’s woes. All were intelligent individuals. I assessed this after long conversations with them. Their conclusion: It’s all Israel’s…
By MAAYANA MISKIN, ARUTZ7— A new campaign is calling on Jews to visit the Temple Mount. The initiative has been dubbed LIBA, which in Hebrew is an acronym for Jewish Freedom on the Temple Mount. Veteran Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick has been nominated to head the new program. The program will include organized…
By MALCOLM LOWE, GATESTONE— The World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva claims to represent and serve 345 churches worldwide. What has it done to help the persecuted churches in Iraq, Syria and Egypt? Or the flood of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon? Answer: it has devoted the whole of 2013 to promoting a…
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”–George Orwell
By ALEX FISHMAN, YNET— Two months after first wave of prisoner releases – on October 27 – the State of Israel is expected to release a second wave of Palestinian prisoners. As part of the preconditions for the resumption of peace negotiations, Israel is slated to release 104 prisoners who have been imprisoned since prior…