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Daily Archives: October 12, 2020

A Paris bagel shop with the German word “Juden” (“Jews”) spray-painted in yellow on the front door in February 2019. Source: Screenshot.

Suspect arrested in connection with anti-Semitic graffiti in Paris

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A 31-year-old suspect has reportedly been arrested nearby and an investigation launched in connection with some 20 swastikas that were found scrawled on Rue de Rivoli in Paris, near the Louvre Museum, on Sunday. Deputy...
Israeli police officers on duty at a temporary roadblock on Highway 40, Oct. 9, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Poll: Israelis’ faith in police drops amid second lockdown

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The public’s faith in police work is dwindling, according to a survey by the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University, the results of which were published on Sunday. Initially conducted in April, during the...
International Atomic Energy Agency director Rafael Grossi in Vienna, Austria, Oct. 2, 2019. Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA via Wikimedia Commons.

IAEA: Iran lacks sufficient uranium for nuclear bomb

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Rafael Grossi told the Austrian daily Die Presse on Saturday that Iran still lacks enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear bomb. This, said Grossi, is in spite of the fact...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Turkish Presidency via Twitter.

‘Turkey stands and will continue to stand with our dear friend and brother, Azerbaijan’

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a recent speech that Turkey stands with “brotherly country” Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia and expressed his hope that the fighting would continue until Nagorno-Karabagh was “liberated.” In an...
Maytal Yasur Beit-Or and Ariel Kahana

Slow and steady: Israeli Health Ministry rolls out lockdown exit strategy

The Israeli Health Ministry released its COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy late Saturday night, detailing a gradual lifting of the measures limiting economic and public activity over four months. According to Channel 12 News, if morbidity data...

The Erasure Of Work From The Human Narrative

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The other day I attended a zoom meeting of the Chicago Ethical Humanist Circle, where the guest speaker was a man who specialized in sustainable investments for a very large asset manager from the...