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Lalela Mswane, Miss South Africa 2021. Source: Lalela Mswane/Twitter.

BDS supporters harass Miss South Africa on competing in Israel-hosted pageant

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The beauty queen who will represent South Africa in the 2021 “Miss Universe” pageant set to take place in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat is facing online harassment by supporters of the BDS movement...
Estonian Ambassador to the United Nations Sven Jürgenson, who served as president of the U.N. Security Council for the month of May 2020. Credit: United Nations via Wikimedia Commons.

Five European countries ‘concerned’ by Israeli listing of Palestinian NGOs as terrorist groups

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Five European countries expressed “serious concern” on Monday at Israel’s recent designation of six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations, and said that they will be requesting clarification on the matter, AP reported. Following a closed United Nations Security Council...
Alexander Schallenberg (right) meets with Dr. Volker Türk, Deputy U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, in Vienna, June 5, 2019.

‘I understand Israeli skepticism over a nuclear agreement with Iran’

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Alexander Schallenberg never imagined himself becoming chancellor of Austria. A lawyer by training, he was born in Switzerland to an aristocratic family and raised in India, Spain and France, where his father served as...
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Credit: Igor Grochev/Shutterstock.

Report: Mossad thwarts Iranian attacks against Israelis in Africa

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Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has thwarted a series of planned Iranian attacks against Israelis in Africa, Israeli media reported on Sunday. Following the receipt of “accurate intelligence” from “Western intelligence sources,” the security forces of...
April Benayoum, “Miss Provence” 2020 and runner-up in the “Miss France” 2021 beauty pageant. Source: Instagram.

Paris court fines social-media users for hate posts targeting ‘Miss France’ runner-up

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Seven people have been fined for targeting the runner-up of the “Miss France” 2021 competition with anti-Semitic verbal abuse on social media, reported France 24. April Benayoum, 21, received anti-Semitic messages after saying at the beauty...
A still from the Netflix documentary “Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis,” November 2021. Credit: Courtesy of Netflix.

Netflix short film, ‘Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis,’ leaves viewers cringing

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It was basically the complete opposite of what they expected. A group of German Jews who fled Hitler and Nazi Germany, and who signed up to be American soldiers, wanted to exact revenge. Instead, they...
Soccer ball. Credit: Needpix.com.

FIFA president urged to take action against Polish referee’s anti-Jewish rant

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Jewish and anti-Semitism watchdog groups are urging FIFA to take a stance concerning a Polish soccer referee who went on a rant against Jews. Lukasz Araszkiewicz, a FIFA-trained referee and member of the Polish Football...
A graphic of the teams in Italy’s Serie A soccer league. Source: Football Italia.

Top Italian soccer league adopts IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

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Italy’s premier soccer league, Serie A, has agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. It made the announcement at a conference called “The Fight Against Anti-Semitism in Football: European Agreements,” the Italian-language...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett andh French President Emmanuel Macron at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 1, 2021. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Iran, spyware-abuse topics of Bennett-Macron meeting at climate summit

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Iran’s race to to enrich uranium was among the key topics discussed on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and French President Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting between the two leaders on the...
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (Wikipedia)

Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes for comparing climate to Nazi Germany

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The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby apologized on Monday for comparing climate change to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust during the 26th U.N. Climate Change Convention (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. On Twitter, he posted: “I...