Daily Archives: August 20, 2024
As Erdan leaves UN post, he urges creation of world body with βnoble valuesβ
Gilad Erdan, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, has called out the United Nations for a new display that fails to include Israeli victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.
In an...
Blinken suggests recent terror attacks, including suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, arenβt escalations
With his hands clasped, Israeli President Isaac Herzog detailed βongoing terror attacks by Palestinian terroristsβ in the prior 24 hours, during a Tel AvivΒ press conferenceΒ alongside U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. Those...
Upstate New York mosque issues apology for guest imamβs anti-Jewish rant
A mosque in Rockland County, N.Y., issued an apology this week after a guest cleric called for Allah to βdestroy the Zionist Jewsβ and βliberate the Al-Aqsa Mosqueβ in the course of delivering an...
Australian media company CEO βunreservedlyβ sorry for photo of Nazi salute
The CEO of the Australian media company Foxtel, which has nearly 4.7 million paidΒ subscribersΒ and which made about $330 million last quarter, has apologized βunreservedlyβ after a decade-old image surfaced of him performing a Nazi...
Hamas is exploiting dead hostages
The news that Hamas was planning to dig up corpses from an old British cemetery in the Gaza Strip to pressure the British government to turn against Israel shines a spotlight on a question...
Petition to fire UN special rapporteur surpasses 40,000 signatures
UN Watch published aΒ petitionΒ urging for the removal of Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, that so far has received more than 40,000 signatures towards a goal of 51,200.
The latest initiative says...
Harris βlast person in roomβ with Biden on foreign-policy decisions, former US envoy says
During the presidency of Barack Obama, Thomas Nides attended foreign-policy meetings as U.S. deputy secretary of state for management and resources. Just as he saw Obama include Joe Biden, then-vice president, Nides has seen...
Beirut files complaint with UN Security Council about Israeli flyovers
The Lebanese government has filed a complaint with the U.N. Security Council after Israeli Air Force fighter jets repeatedly broke theΒ sound barrierΒ over Beirut, the countryβsΒ LBCΒ TVΒ channel reported on Monday.
The protest, whichΒ was filedΒ by Beirutβs mission in...
Ramaz School graduates not headed to Columbia University this fall
Not a single graduate of the Ramaz School, a Jewish college-prep institution in New York City, willΒ headΒ to Columbia University this academic yearβsomething that hasnβt happened in decades.
βFor the first time in over 20 years,...