Monthly Archives: June 2021
Congress pursues bill to sanction entities aiding Palestinian terror groups
A group of 16 Republican senators signed on to a reintroduced bill that would require the imposition of sanctions on any individual, entity or state that provides support for Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and...
Israel’s ‘change’ bloc attempts hasty move to replace Knesset speaker
Israel’s “change” bloc, headed by Yesh Atid Party chairman Yair Lapid, initiated a move to replace Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, multiple media outlets reported on Thursday.
The move followed Lapid’s announcement to Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin on...
UAE becomes first Arab Gulf country to open Holocaust-education exhibit
In a continuing cultural relationship with Israel and the United Arab Emirates as part of the Abraham Accords, a museum in the United Arab Emirates debuted an exhibition about the Holocaust that also aims...
EU envoy confident of breakthrough in next round of Iran nuclear talks
As the fifth round of talks on reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement drew to a close in Vienna on Wednesday, the European Union’s chief negotiator said that the next...
UNRWA Gaza chief to take leave of absence amid uproar over Israeli airstrike remarks
The Gaza director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will be taking a “long leave of absence,” a spokesman for the agency said on Wednesday, according to Hebrew media...
Netanyahu calls emergency meeting of right-wing bloc
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called an emergency meeting of the right-wing bloc, after Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid informed President Reuven Rivlin late on Wednesday night that he had managed to form a...
Hamas and its sense of victimhood
One aspect of the situation with Hamas that wasn’t really discussed very much in the last article is its sense of victimhood. Victimhood is a state of mind, an ongoing internal experience that exists...
Google removes diversity chief over anti-Semitic 2007 blog post
Kamau Bobb “will no longer be part of our diversity team going forward,” the tech giant Google announced Wednesday, after the surfacing of an anti-Semitic blog post its Global Lead for Diversity, Strategy and...
What does a Bennett-Lapid government mean?
Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid and Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett announced on Wednesday that they have secured an agreement to form Israel’s next government, thereby likely ending the 12-year consecutive term of...
Jordan is ‘the eastern security zone against Iran’
As the fallout from the latest Israeli conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip continues, Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz has spoken repeatedly in recent days of the need to strengthen a “coalition of...