Daily Archives: January 19, 2024
Alabama English teacher wins award for excellence in Holocaust education
Logan Greene, who teaches eighth-grade English in Hoover, Ala.—smack-dab in the center of the state (population 92,606, according to the 2020 U.S. Census)—has been honored for what the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous calls...
Time to huddle: Antisemitism on the field
As unsettling and painful as the current wave of global antisemitism that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel is, it’s still important to remember that those bestial atrocities were an episode in,...
What they really mean when they cry ‘Islamophobia’
Islamophobia struck again in the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee this week. Or so we’re supposed to believe. During the confirmation hearings for Adeel Mangi, a nominee to the Third Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals—one...
Kanye West to release 40-minute ‘apology video’ before new album launch
“Ye” (Kanye West), the Grammy-winning musician-turned-neo-Nazi-advocate, will reportedly attempt another effort to offer forgiveness for the antisemitic invective he made on social-media platforms in 2022.
Sources told the entertainment journalism site TMZ that weeks ago, he had...
IDF eliminates Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s deputy head of psychological warfare operations
The Israel Defense Forces eliminated a senior Palestinian Islamic member who was instrumental in propagating the organization’s narrative through media, the military announced on Friday.
Wael Abu-Fanounah was the deputy head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s...
Barcelona mayor cancels meeting with Israeli official sans explanation
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, was slated to meet in Madrid with the Spanish capital’s mayor on Wednesday. The mayor ended up being sick, so she met with deputy mayor Inma Sanz.
In Madrid,...
Gaza photojournalists accused of Oct. 7 war crimes
Two Gaza-based Palestinian photojournalists who infiltrated Israel during Hamas’s massacres on Oct. 7 committed war crimes, experts say.
“I believe that this is clearly an incidence that would come under and be covered by both...
US working on grand regional bargain to end Israel-Hamas war
An Israeli source confirmed Thursday that the Biden administration was currently working on a regional grand bargain that comprises several tenets aimed at long-term stability as part of a post-war reality.
Apart from ending the...
Palestinian attack on Christian holy site raises concern
A Palestinian mob caused extensive damage to a Christian holy site in Nablus (Shechem) known as Jacob’s Well on Sunday night.
Christian sources said that Palestinians from the Balata refugee camp on the outskirts of...
Bringing laughter to the war zone
Graphic designer Kim Glassman’s first reaction when she heard of the Koby Mandell Foundation's plan to stage Comedy for Koby performances all over Israel during the war was, “What? Who do you think you...