A tale of two tweets from UN head marking six months since Oct. 7
On April 7, six months after Hamas’s terror attack in southern Israel, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, posted a single message on social media—about the Rwandan genocide, which occurred 30 years ago.
The U.N. leader...
Freed Israeli hostage: ‘Gazan civilians sold me to Hamas’
Nili Margalit, 42, on a tour of Europe to raise awareness of the 133 Israeli hostages still in captivity, told France’s Le Point magazine on Monday that it was Palestinian Arab civilians, not Hamas, who abducted...
‘Hitler has won’ due to Israeli ‘genocide,’ Jewish ‘Harry Potter’ actress says
Miriam Margolyes, an Australian and English actress of Jewish descent who played Pomona Sprout in Harry Potter, believes that Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza is a victory for Adolf Hitler.
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Canadian politician urges all to ‘bring your Israel flags to Iranian rallies’
The first woman of Iranian descent to become a member of a Canadian provincial parliament wants Jews to know that they are not as isolated as they may think.
“The Jewish community has more allies...
Letter: Jewish personalities ‘shooting the Israeli ambulance,’ scapegoating Netanyahu
French “personalities” should stop disgracing themselves “before the tribunal of history, as useful idiots of ‘Palestinian-ism’ and of information that has lost all credibility,” a group of some 35 French intellectuals, some of them...
Jewish boy, 13, youngest to make South Africa’s Chess Olympiad national team
Caleb Levitan, an eighth-grader at King David High School Linksfield in Johannesburg, has set a new record, becoming the youngest person to make the elite chess team representing South Africa at the Chess Olympiad global...
‘Ethicist’ advises on what to do with inherited World War II-era German helmet
The delicate situation of how to handle a historical item associated with the German Third Reich and the Nazi Party has made headlines before. This week, The New York Times weighed in on its approach to...
At capitol in Albany, New York state senators call for Hamas to release hostages
A bipartisan group of New York’s political leaders participated in one of the weekly events led by an organization committed to the release of the 134 men, women and children being held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas...
Head of UN humanitarian affairs office calls for arms embargo on Israel
Ramesh Rajasingham, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and OCHA’s representative in Geneva, called for an international arms embargo of Israel during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Friday.
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Canadian Conservative leader calls Jews ‘a true indigenous people’
Pierre Poilievre, a member of the Canadian parliament and the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, recently spoke to members of the Orthodox Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec. His address on...