Daily Archives: July 9, 2019
Israel on limb whoever wins U.S. election
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...
Artur Brauner, Holocaust Survivor and German Film Producer, Dies at 100
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...
Protests, riots, believed fueled by non- Ethiopians
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....
B’nai Brith Canadia petitions to get church event honoring terrorist canceled
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...
Warren presidential campaign staffer comes under fire for past anti-Israel activism
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...
Jerusalem court rules victims of terrorism can sue PA, PLO
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...
The real cost of Israel’s ‘do-over’ elections in September
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?
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...
Mideast envoy Greenblatt: US not seeking regime change in Palestinian Authority
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...