Daily Archives: December 13, 2018
Born too soon, dead too soon
Born too soon. Dead too soon. Laid to rest without having had a minute of peace during his short life. A pure soul, unmarred by sin.
The profound bewilderment caused by savage murder has no...
Israel, counter-terrorism and the future of immortality
In the final analysis, there can never be any greater form of power in world politics than power over death. Paradoxically, this preeminent form of power is almost entirely unrecognized by both scholars and policy-makers. The...
Hundreds attend funeral for premature baby murdered by Arab drive-by shooter
Some 300 mourners huddled under umbrellas in the steadily falling rain at Jerusalem’s ancient Mount of Olives cemetery on Wednesday night to lay to rest the newborn boy whose mother was shot Sunday night...
Reservists on Duty: Using personal experiences to combat anti-Israel sentiment on campus
campuAs American university campuses continue to be an active battlefront in the fight for Israel, well-trained reinforcements can be useful, even necessary. That’s where Reservists on Duty (RoD) comes in.
Established in 2015 by reserve...
YouTube censors MEMRI TV clip for so-called ‘hate speech’
WASHINGTON, D.C.–A MEMRI TV clip posted on Dec. 10, 2018 on the MEMRI TV YouTube channel translating and exposing Jordanian political commentator Sufyan Tal calling the Holocaust “the greatest lie in modern history” has been censored by...
Haley: Trump wanted to cut funding to those that voted down UN Hamas resolution
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a Dec. 6 speech that U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to cut funding to countries that voted against a United Nations that condemned Hamas...
Jews in EU see anti-Zionism as form of anti-Semitism
European Jews increasingly see anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism according to a report released earlier this week by the European Union, Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, wrote in an op-ed published on Tuesday in The Wall...
Knesset members back mandatory life sentence for convicted wife killers
The Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Wednesday voted in favor of imposing a life sentence on men convicted of murdering their wives.
The decision was made during a discussion on an amendment to...
‘Forbes’ reports Airbnb policy ‘growing headache’; app now to ban Palestinian listings
A recent article in Forbes magazine reported that Airbnb’s decision to delist 200 Jewish residences in Judea and Samaria from its popular travel rental site is becoming a “growing headache” for the company, with new reports...
Pompeo slams UN: ‘The level of accountability on Iran has diminished’
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday for not holding Iran accountable for testing ballistic missiles, thereby violating Security Council resolutions.
“Since 2006, this Council has been telling Iran...