64.6 F
San Diego
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Daily Archives: March 31, 2021

Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas and party members at their headquarters in Tamra on election night, March 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Ra’am official: Party won’t support Netanyahu coalition ‘from outside’

0
Knesset member Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am Party has decided in principle to back a coalition under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while remaining outside it, a senior party official told Israel Hayom. According to the official, the...

US State Department human-rights report returns to using ‘occupied’ territories

0
The Biden administration returned to using the term “occupied” when referring to the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem in its annual human-rights report issued by the U.S. State Department. Under the...
A synagogue in the Swedish town of Norrkoping. Source: Screenshot via Google Maps.

Dolls hanged outside Swedish synagogue during Passover investigated as hate crime

0
Police in Norrkoping, Sweden, are investigating after someone left a hate-filled message and a group of dolls hanging outside a synagogue there on the first day of Passover. According to a post from the Anti-Defamation...

March 31, 1492: The Alhambra Decree was issued to expel Jews from the country

0
On 31 March 1492 the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, issued the Alhambra Decree, also known as the Edict of Expulsion, giving notice to all practising Jews to leave the kingdoms of Castile and...

March 31, 1927: César Chávez, founder of the United Farm Workers, was born

0
The founder of the United Farm Workers, César Chávez, was born on this date in 1927. Chávez, a disciple of Saul Alinsky, became a master of non-violent resistance who sparked the modern Hispanic civil...