Monthly Archives: July 2023
Nazism and the Palestinians
In 1921, Herbert Samuel, the British high commissioner of Mandatory Palestine, appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini grand mufti of Jerusalem. It would prove to be a mistake. Husseini would spend his career fomenting violence against...
Philanthropic teens feel more passion for Judaism, survey says
Young people who take part in charity programs feel more connections to Judaism. That’s according to a new survey from Honeycomb, a Jewish youth philanthropy resource.
“By creating space to blend these passions with Jewish learning and...
Any deal with Iran requires congressional approval
Iran is pretty much a nuclear threshold state, having enriched enough uranium to build multiple nuclear bombs within a few weeks while hard at work weaponizing them in a timeframe that is so far...
3 arrested in Nazareth for planning Hamas-inspired attacks
Israel has arrested three suspects in the Nazareth area for plotting to carry out terrorist attacks, Israeli authorities announced on Monday.
Indictments were due to be filed on Monday in the Nazareth District Court.
An investigation...
Knesset set to vote on judicial reform bill
The Knesset will vote Monday evening on a bill to restrict the use of the "reasonableness" standard by the Supreme Court.
The Knesset debate on the amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary is scheduled for...
Anti-BDS bill advances in House of Commons
Britain's House of Commons passed in its second reading a bill that would bar public bodies from boycotting foreign states that the UK government hasn’t sanctioned.
The measure passed by 268 votes to 70 in the 650-member...
Herzog compares political turmoil to Roman destruction of Jerusalem
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday compared Israel’s current political conflict to those that the Jewish people went through in the period leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70...
Biden rebukes ‘most extreme’ Netanyahu government
U.S. President Joe Biden sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition in a CNN interview with Fareed Zakaria on July 7, calling it "one of the most extreme" Israeli governments he's ever seen.
Biden blamed Israel's government...
Palestinian envoy to UK memorializes PFLP terrorist
The PLO's envoy to the United Kingdom commemorated a Palestinian terrorist over the weekend accused of orchestrating a 1972 attack that killed over two dozen of people at Israel's international airport.
"Rest in eternal power...
The Washington Post’s scattershot reporting on Jenin
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present,” former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir purportedly said. But The Washington Post, which fancies itself an arbitrator...