Daily Archives: July 15, 2024
EU sanctions eight Israelis, entities over Judea and Samaria ‘abuses’
The European Council, the top decision-making body in the E.U., on Monday announced it is designating five Israeli citizens and three Israeli entities under its human rights sanctions regime, accusing them of “systematic abuse”...
White House hosted anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour last year
The White House hosted the anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour at a May 1, 2023, Eid al-Fitr celebration despite the Biden campaign stating in 2020 that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden “obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS,”...
US-sanctioned Syrian businessman dies in alleged Israeli strike
A businessman with close ties to the Syrian regime was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle on the Damascus-Beirut Highway on Monday afternoon, according to Syrian opposition sources.
“Two people were killed in an...
Republican Jewish Coalition endorses eight candidates taking on incumbents
The Republican Jewish Coalition has endorsed eight candidates who are running against House incumbents.
The “standout” challengers are Gabe Evans (Colorado-8), Austin Theriault (Maine-2), Yvette Herrell (New Mexico-2), Laurie Buckhout (North Carolina-1), Derek Merrin (Ohio-9),...
At Detroit campaign event, Biden says he gets ‘free Palestine’ heckler’s passion
At a campaign event on July 12 at Renaissance High School in Detroit, U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to endorse a protester who accused Israel of killing babies and called for a “free Palestine.”
After...
Rubio, Graham call for US probe of pro-Hamas groups linked to China
Activist groups with ties to the Chinese Communist Party have disrupted U.S. Senate hearings and “have engaged in violent, antisemitic riots in many cities across the United States,” Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Lindsey...
Biden admin yet to fix error days after admitting it sanctioned wrong Israeli
Four days after the Biden administration admitted that it accused an uninvolved Israeli citizen of “undermining peace, security and stability” in Judea and Samaria and sanctioned the wrong man, it has yet to fix...
‘Uncomfortable history’ at Nazi bunker-turned-hotel in Hamburg
Where four anti-aircraft guns used to be on the roof of a tower, hotel guests now find a restaurant, bar, café, shop and hotel foyer.
The Reverb hotel at the Hamburg Bunker is constructed on...
Lammy urges end to war on Hamas, decries ‘intolerable’ suffering in Gaza
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy during meetings with Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Sunday and Monday pressed the need for a hostage deal with the Hamas terrorist group to bring an end to the...
YIVO exhibit of Holocaust diary shows how teen retained ‘understanding of himself as a...
People who explored an online YIVO Institute for Jewish Research exhibit about the diary of Beba Epstein, a 13-year-old girl who survived the Holocaust after hiding in Vilna, told YIVO that prior to that...