Daily Archives: March 8, 2024
Former MK calls to honor Jewish heroines on International Women’s Day
Former Israeli lawmaker Aliza Lavie is calling on Jewish women to join an online campaign titled @IconicJewishWomen to honor Jewish heroines on International Women’s Day, March 8.
This year, the campaign follows the release of Lavie’s book Iconic...
Indiana Jew-hatred bill heads to governor without IHRA examples
The Indiana state House voted unanimously on Friday to approve an amended antisemitism bill, which includes the text of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism but not its accompanying 11 examples.
House Bill 1002, which now...
Pentagon identifies deceased reserve soldier tied to Jerusalem embassy
The U.S. Department of Defense identified Lt. Col. Orlando Bandeira, 54, of Tampa, Fla., as the U.S. employee connected to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, who was found dead in his apartment on March 4.
Bandeira was...
B’nai B’rith ‘surprised, disappointed’ no SOTU mention of Jew-hatred
Seth Riklin and Daniel Mariaschin, president and CEO respectively of B’nai B’rith International, watched U.S. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday night “with a keen focus on Israel and antisemitism.”
There...
Airdropped aid kills five Palestinians, Hamas says
Hamas-controlled Gazan health authorities claimed on Friday that five Palestinians were killed by falling humanitarian-aid packages during an airdrop in the northern Gaza Strip.
Unconfirmed videos on social media appear to show some of the...
Anti-Jewish activists mob pro-Israel students at University of Exeter
As many as 100 anti-Israel students descended on the table where six Jewish students representing CAMERA on Campus at the University of Exeter in England, were distributing their group’s literature, forcing them to end their event...
Anti-Israel protester destroys painting of Lord Balfour, who paved way for modern Israeli state
A woman apparently associated with the anti-Israel group Palestine Action is depicted in video, which circulated widely on social media, slashing a 1914 painting of Arthur Balfour, the first earl of Balfour, and defacing...
Is Israel taking Ramadan restraint too far?
“Israel’s policy has always been, and always will be, to safeguard freedom of worship for all faiths,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday at the start of a special session with cabinet members and security...
Oregon man charged with ‘repeatedly’ defacing Reconstructionist synagogue
Adam Edward Braun, 34, was charged with hate crimes for allegedly defacing a Reconstructionist synagogue in Eugene, Ore., four times “because it was a place of religious worship for Jewish people,” the U.S. Justice...
In State of the Union address, Biden announces temporary port in Gaza
During his State of the Union address on Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden announced an “emergency mission” to establish a port in the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian supplies.
“Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military...