Daily Archives: August 14, 2019
Forgotten heroes: The Jewish resistance and ‘Exodus 1947’
This July and August mark the 72nd anniversary of the journey of the Exodus 1947 (originally named the SS President Warfield), perhaps the most dramatic post-World War II attempt to breach the British naval blockade and bring...
May Dvir Sorek’s legacy be a lesson to the Jewish left
The slaughter last week of 19-year-old yeshivahstudent and Israel Defense Forces’ recruit Dvir Sorek from the Judea and Samaria community of Ofra was not exceptional. Palestinian terrorists with hatred in their hearts and weapons in their hands...
Israel’s Home Front Command revolutionizes the ability to respond to emergencies
Personnel from Israel’s Home Front Command walked on the stage in San Diego on July 10 and collected an award for something extraordinary. The personnel had turned the Esri Geographic Information System (GIS) software,...
Buttigieg calls US recognition of Golan ‘interference’ in Israeli politics
DES MOINES, Iowa—Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, denounced on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s official recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan...
Sanders pledges to ‘leverage’ US funding to ‘end some of that racism’ in Israel
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on Tuesday that, if elected, he would be even-handed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and even leverage U.S. funding “to end some...
In first-ever review, UN racism panel presses Palestinians on fomenting anti-Semitism
The United Nations’s anti-racism committee began a mandatory two-day review on Tuesday of the policies and practices of the Palestinian Authority, whose delegation responded by criticizing experts of the 18-member panel for asking about...
The big parties head into final stretch as Israeli elections near
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a living example of how an election campaign can be decided at the last minute, on the days the polls open. In 2015, he amazed everyone when he...
Jordan stops production of fictional film for referencing Jewish ties to its land
The Jordanian government has suspended the production of a film set in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra because it references historical Jewish ties to the land.
The film, called “Jaber,” is fictional and based...
Jordan outraged after Israeli minister calls for new Temple Mount status quo
A spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry warned on Tuesday that a change of the status quo on the Temple Mount would have serious consequences. The statement came in response to Israeli Public Security...
Abbas ‘aggressive’ in talks with Democrats, rejected overtures to working with US on peace...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas avoided answering whether or not he believes that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state and seemed “aggressive” in talks with U.S. lawmakers regarding the Trump...