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Daily Archives: February 28, 2019

Le conseiller d’Abbas réagit à une analyse de MEMRI : Nous mettons le Hamas...

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Dans une interview en anglais accordée à SophieCo sur Russia Today TV le 25 février 2019, Mohammed Ishtayeh, conseiller du président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas, s’est exprimé sur un rapport de MEMRI faisant état du...

Anti-Semitism is alive and well in ‘moderate’ Qatar’s schools

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To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the death of anti-Semitism in Qatar are greatly exaggerated. A major new study has revealed that anti-Semitism is widespread in the textbooks used in schools controlled by...
Republicans Overseas Israel co-chair Marc Zell speaking at their “Jerusalem Forever” rally. Credit: Republicans Overseas Israel.

Republicans seek first-ever convention in Jerusalem

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For the first time, representatives of the Republican Party living outside the United States plan on convening an international conference in Jerusalem. Marc Zell, an Israeli-American lawyer and the chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel, sent...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Dec. 4, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Charges against Netanyahu upend his plans

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Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to have elections next April and not in the Fall, when they were due, was an imaginative way of delaying, perhaps even evading, being indicted for bribery and related charges....
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a joint press conference with Yoav Galant, Newly appointed Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption at the Kneeset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 9, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Israel’s attorney general issues charges against Netanyahu for bribery, breach of trust

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With less than six weeks before Israel’s general elections on April 9, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted in all three ongoing corruption cases...
Professor Alan Dershowitz speaks at an event co-organized by Tel Aviv International Salon at the annual “Globes Business Conference,” held at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv on Dec. 11, 2016. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Dershowitz on Twitter: ‘Indicting Netanyahu would open up a Pandora’s box’

A decision to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges in Case 2000 would “endanger democracy and freedom of the press,” Harvard University Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz wrote in an open letter...
Palestinian protestors during clashes with Israeli security forces on the Gaza-Israeli border in the southern Gaza Strip on July 6, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Netanyahu: UN Human Rights Council report on Gaza riots touts ‘obsessive hatred of Israel’

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Israeli leaders have dismissed the U.N. Human Rights Council’s report accusing the Jewish state of “crimes against humanity” in responding to riots along the Gaza border in 2018. “The U.N. Human Rights Council bears no...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro on an official state visit in Brazil, Dec. 28, 2018. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Bolsonaro sets dates for first presidential visit to Israel

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is scheduled to visit Israel from March 31 to April 4, announced Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday. This visit would be his first since being sworn into office last month. The trip...

Argentine chief rabbi: It’s not clear attack was anti-Semitic

The condition of Chief Rabbi of Argentina Gabriel Davidovich is improving after he was badly beaten during a home invasion on Monday. A group of burglars entered his home in Buenos Aires on Monday morning. His wife...
U.K. Labour Party member Chris Williamson. Credit: Johnwhitby/Wikimedia Commons.

UK Labour Party suspends Chris Williamson for anti-Semitic remarks

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Britain’s Labour Party has suspended one of its members, Chris Williamson, for saying the party has been “too apologetic” about accusations of anti-Semitism. The decision was made by Jennie Formby, the party’s general secretary, who earlier...