Daily Archives: June 12, 2020
Nazi headstones, Confederate statues: America’s battle over memory
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) agreed last week to the removal of a small number of headstones in U.S. military cemeteries that were engraved with the Nazi swastika and the Iron Cross.
The stones marked...
If AIPAC isn’t supporting Israel’s government, what is its purpose?
Some 25 years ago, I sat in on a briefing of some pro-Israel activists conducted by Steve Rosen, who was then AIPAC’s director of foreign-policy issues. It was the heyday of the Oslo Accords,...
Israeli Supreme Court reverses land decision in midst of sovereignty debate
Israel’s Supreme Court just reversed the 2017 Regulation Law, which gave Israel the authority to appropriate private Palestinian land in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria with compensation to the owners.
Eight of the...
Lawsuit: Qatar secretly gave funding for terror attacks that killed Americans, Israelis
Qatar secretly provided funding for several terror attacks that killed Americans and Israelis, according to a lawsuit filed in New York on Wednesday seeking reparations for the families of the dead.
As part of an alleged funding...
AIPAC denies overlooking congressional criticism of planned Israeli annexation of West Bank areas
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the top pro-Israel lobby, has denied a report that it gave permission to U.S. lawmakers to criticize Israel ahead of the Jewish state’s expected move to apply...
New York Jewish cultural center to host imam with anti-Israel background
The prominent New York Jewish cultural center the 92nd Street Y, now known as 92Y, is scheduled to host a virtual event on June 18 featuring an imam who has defended the call for...
Report: Far-right spreads anti-Semitic conspiracies amid COVID-19, Floyd’s death
Far-right anti-Semites have been active online in spreading coronavirus conspiracies, according to a new report by the watchdog Canary Mission.
Since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., which was marked by violence between far-right...
Jewish groups react to more anti-Semitic tweets by Ice Cube
Rapper and film actor Ice Cube has been getting a chilly reception, including from Jewish and pro-Israel groups, for sharing on Twitter anti-Semitic images amid the backlash over the death of 46-year-old African-American George...
June 12, 1899: The famous photographer Ascher Fellig was born
Ascher Fellig, an immigrant from Lemberg, Galicia who gained fame as Weegee, the photojournalist, was born on this date in 1899.
Weegee worked mostly at night and built a network of social contacts and short-wave...