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Daily Archives: December 5, 2019

L’homme politique tunisien Seif Eddine Makhlouf : J’aspire à mourir en martyr dans la...

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L’homme politique tunisien Seif Eddine Makhlouf a déclaré, dans une interview diffusée le 27 novembre 2019 sur les ondes d’IFM Radio (Tunisie), que toute forme de contact avec Israël constituait une trahison. Il a affirmé...
“Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

Gal Gadot’s production company to adapt Israeli series ‘Queens’ for US

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The production company started by Israeli actress Gal Gadot and her husband Jaron Varsano is developing a U.S. version of hit Israeli television series “Queens.” Pilot Wave is creating the adaptation with Endemol Shine North America...

Eight essential Chanukah facts

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1 In  166 BCE, the guerrilla rebel Maccabees took back the Second Temple from Antiochus’s Seleucid Empire. The Hellenistic empire had taken over the Jewish temple and desecrated it, sacrificing pigs to Greek gods and contaminating...
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What are Jewish students fighting for?

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For Jewish students, college can be demoralizing. Israel is singled out and denounced as a racist aggressor by figures of authority on campus—student leaders, professors, and esteemed visiting speakers. Israel Apartheid Week is a...
U.S. President Donald Trump with fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members at the 70th anniversary of NATO in Watford, Hertfordshire, outside of London, Dec. 4, 2019. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

If NATO is going to fight terrorism, it needs Israel

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President Donald Trump thought the 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held earlier this week was going to be a political triumph that would help distract Americans...
Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Arthur Jones has filed to run again for the Republican nomination in the Illinois 3rd Congressional District. Source: Screenshot.

Republican neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier to run for Congress (again) in Illinois

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Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Arthur Jones has filed to again run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Illinois 3rd Congressional District. Real estate broker Catherine O’Shea and Will County...
Palestinian girls pose in front of their school in Bethlehem on Nov. 19, 2019. Visible on the wall by the school entrance is a plaque honoring Ayat al-Akhras, an 17-year-old suicide bomber that killed two Israelis in 2002. Credit: Palestinian Media Watch.

Palestinian girls’ high school unveils plaque honoring teen suicide bomber

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A Palestinian Authority-run girls’ high school in Bethlehem recently unveiled a plaque in memory of the “martyrs” of the second intifada (2000-2005), in which more than 1,100 Israelis were murdered, many in suicide bombings. An...
Ali Kourani, 35, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for working as a “sleeper” agent for Hezbollah while living in the Bronx, helping the terrorist group plan attacks on New York City. Source: LinkedIn.

Hezbollah member gets 40 years for assisting group in planning New York attacks

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A former Uggs salesman was sentenced on Tuesday to 40 years in prison for working as a “sleeper” agent for Hezbollah while living in the Bronx, assisting the terrorist group in planning attacks on...
Israeli soldiers in the Neztah Yehuda (“Nahal Haredi”) Battalion complete the final stages of a 40-kilometer march, Feb. 16, 2010. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.

IDF denies cover-up over ultra-Orthodox recruitment numbers

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Senior Israeli military officials involved with the army’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) recruitment program denied on Wednesday that data was falsified to make it appear that recruitment quotas had been met, Ynet reported. The statement came in response to a report...
A memorial stone at the site of an old Jewish synagogue in the French city of Strasbourg was vandalized, following the Feb. 19, 2019 discovery of swastikas on 80 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, also near the border with Germany, March 2019. Credit: EJP.

France to open hate-crimes bureau after Jewish cemetery desecrated

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French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced on Wednesday that following the mass desecration of graves at a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, the country has decided to open a national bureau to counter hate crimes. A...