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Daily Archives: July 9, 2019

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Israel on limb whoever wins U.S. election

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The more I read about Trump and Israel the more it seems clear that he wants to please not the Jews but Christian evangelicals of whom there’re many more than Jewish voters in the...
Goldene Kamera 2012 - Artur Brauner - Maria Brauner. Credit: © JCS, via Wikimedia Commons

Artur Brauner, Holocaust Survivor and German Film Producer, Dies at 100

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He was born the oldest son of a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. His father was a timber wholesaler. Brauner attended a general education liceum in Łódź, where he took the matura final exam, and then studied at a...
Ethiopian-Israelis protest in Tel Aviv Credit: Lilach Daniel Via Flickr

Protests, riots, believed fueled by non- Ethiopians

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Several days of demonstrations turned violent throughout the country. Roads were blocked for hours, property destroyed, and claims were made that Ethiopians had murdered police. It began in response to an occurrence in a public...

The Rebbe fought anti-Semitism by spreading pro-Semitism

We take it for granted that the way to address the evil of anti-Semitism is to fight it. It’s a natural part of our vocabulary. We fight, we confront, we condemn, we call out....
Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church in Toronto, Canada. Photo: courtesy.

B’nai Brith Canadia petitions to get church event honoring terrorist canceled

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Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church in Toronto has canceled a scheduled event honoring Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist Ghassan Kanafani, following a campaign by B’nai Brith Canada. The “Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announces her run for the 2020 presidential elections, Feb. 9, 2018. Credit: Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Warren presidential campaign staffer comes under fire for past anti-Israel activism

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Max Berger, a staffer for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) 2020 presidential campaign, has come under fire for his past anti-Israel activism, including posting a now-deleted tweet from 2013 that he “would totally be friends...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses a rally in Ramallah marking the 4th anniversary of the death of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, on Nov. 11, 2008. Photo: Issam Rimawi/Flash90.

Jerusalem court rules victims of terrorism can sue PA, PLO

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The Jerusalem District Court ruled on Monday that the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization can be tried in Israeli courts for 17 terrorist attacks committed during the Second Intifada, saying the organizations offered...
A man casts his vote at the central elections committee warehouse in Shoham on March 25, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

The real cost of Israel’s ‘do-over’ elections in September

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Israel’s 21st Knesset voted to disperse itself on May 30, just one month after its inauguration. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to piece together a government and chose to call for new elections...

Is there hope to end anti-Israel bias at the UN Human Rights Council?

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The United Nations Human Rights Council met on Monday to single out Israel under the anti-Israel “Agenda Item 7,” a UNHRC mandate that a discussion of Israeli human-rights abuses against Palestinians must be part...
U.S. Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt attends a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Mideast envoy Greenblatt: US not seeking regime change in Palestinian Authority

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U.S. special envoy for Mideast peace negotiations Jason Greenblatt said on Monday that the Trump administration is not seeking “regime change” within the Palestinian Authority. “Our plan right now is with President Abbas,” he...