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Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar was unable to enter the 26th U.N. Climate Change Convention (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday due to several entrances she attempted being inaccessible for handicapped participants.  “This is scandalous...

Part of a 140-member Israeli delegation to Glasgow, Scotland, to attend the 26th U.N. Climate Change Convention, Environment Tamar Zandberg tells JNS how she assesses the role that the Jewish state can play in...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh blamed Israel’s “occupation” for his people’s environmental issues in his address to world leaders at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland on Monday. “In #COP26, we affirmed...

Paris, 29 October The UN Palestine Committee, which is otherwise the “UN Committee on the Excercise of the Inalieable Rights of the Palestinian People” (CEIRPP), which is related to UNISPAL under the UN Division for...

Vertical Field, an Israeli agro-technology company that develops vertical farming systems, announced partnerships with major retail chains in Russia (Magnit) and Ukraine (Varus). As part of the joint venture, Vertical Field—owned by Israeli businessman Mikhael...

Paris, 27 October On 13 February, the Wiesenthal Centre noted the march of Fascist tribute to Franco’s Blue Division, sent to Hitler to fight in Russia. A young woman took the podium on that occasion...

French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated on Tuesday the first permanent museum dedicated to Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army who was wrongly convicted because of anti-Semitism, reported France’s RFI. The Maison Zola-Musée Dreyfus museum in...

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations and the United States, Gilad Erdan, met on Wednesday with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)’s anti-Semitism envoy Miguel Moratinos to encourage the...

The German government criticized Israel’s decision on Oct. 22 to name six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist groups. “We are very concerned by the Israeli decision,” said a spokeswoman from the German foreign ministry on Wednesday, reported AFP. “We...

A watchdog group called on the U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees to reveal which employees were recently suspended for allegedly inciting anti-Semitism and violence. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees...