Daily Archives: February 28, 2024
Investigation explodes myth that Israel targets journalists
Despite Israel’s herculean efforts to avoid killing noncombatants in the Gaza Strip, a new wrinkle has been added to media charges of indiscriminate Israeli killing—a kind of blood libel within a blood libel—namely that...
Netanyahu counters Biden: Most Americans support Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night hit back at U.S. President Joe Biden for claiming that the Jewish state’s “incredibly conservative government” risked losing it international support.
“Since the start of the war,...
Captives’ loved ones begin four-day protest march
Families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza embarked on a four-day march on Wednesday, from Kibbutz Re’im near the Strip to Jerusalem’s Paris Square.
“Right here, where we stand, I survived the Shoah we...
Who is dehumanizing whom?
There have been countless accusations against Israel since the Oct. 7 massacre and the ensuing war. Some can be understood in the context of the desire to protect civilians at any cost despite the...
Rubio: ‘Unsettling’ that foreign courts can block US arms shipment to allies amid war
Washington must prevent foreign courts and activists from vetoing U.S. national security and military decisions, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote to Lloyd Austin, the U.S. defense secretary.
The senator’s Feb. 27 letter comes more than two weeks...
IDF-Shin Bet-IAF nab one terrorist, kill another in Jenin op
In Jenin, in northernmost Samaria, IDF troops arrested a wanted terrorist under the guidance of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and located explosives intended to harm soldiers overnight Tuesday. In addition, an IAF...
Hamas’s Haniyeh calls for terror attacks during Ramadan
Ismail Haniyeh, the Doha-based leader of Hamas’s “political” wing, on Wednesday urged the Iran-led “Axis of Resistance” to step up attacks on Israel during Ramadan, calling for a “broad and international movement to break...
Religion essential to British communities, founder of new research institute says
Jake Scott, an Anglican Christian, and Rakib Ehsan, a Sunni Muslim, launched the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life in London in November, shortly after Hamas terrorists killed some 1,200 people in...
Some 200 anti-Israel activists force evacuation of Berkeley event
Some 200 people protested violently outside an event with a former Israel Defense Forces soldier at the University of California, Berkeley on Monday night, forcing Jewish students at the event to evacuate.
Anti-Israel students banged...
How a Jewish museum in Florida landed the Wiesel Collection
For about a year, officials at the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) in downtown St. Petersburg kept a closely guarded secret that the museum was seeking to become the permanent home of a treasure trove...