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Irony and imagination: Israel’s unseen path to survival
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971)
Emeritus Professor of International Law
Purdue University
lberes@purdue.edu
Jorge Luis Borges, the late Argentine writer and philosopher, sometimes identified himself as a Jew. Though lacking any basis in Halacha, he still felt...
Canada draws criticism for ignoring local Jew-hatred, condemning it abroad
The Canadian government condemned the Saturday bombing outside the Beth Yaakov synagogue in the seaside resort town of La Grande-Motte in southern France.
The attack “is a reminder that antisemitism is not a relic of the past—it...
‘Never see anything like that again,’ Rabbi Michael Beals says of Biden’s support of...
U.S. President Joe Biden lingered on stage as Chicago’s United Center quickly emptied on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. It was past midnight in the Windy City, and the president, whose...
Father of captive soldier pushes for bipartisan support in US
“We, the families of the hostages, would have wanted to see some calm in the region that would expedite the negotiations,” Ruby Chen, the father of American-Israeli IDF Sgt. Itay Chen, 19, told JNS on Sunday.
“But...
Already under multi-state probe, MSCI allegedly penalizes Israeli banks that operate in Judea, Samaria
The state-owned Bank of China operates a branch in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where Washington has assessed that China is committing genocide against the ethnic Uyghur population. Still, the major U.S. investment advisory firm MSCI...
B’nai B’rith pushes back against efforts by FIFA to sanction Israeli soccer
B’nai B’rith International sent a letter last week to the leaders of top soccer organizations worldwide, voicing opposition to a campaign led by the Palestinian Football Association to urge FIFA to sanction the Israel Football Association.
FIFA...
Israel tightens ring around still elusive Hamas leader
Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, 61, has abandoned the tunnels and taken to cross-dressing as a woman to escape detection, Britain’s Daily Express reported on Monday, leading social-media wags to dub the mastermind behind the Oct. 7...
Pentagon delivering final six million pounds of aid from shuttered Gazan pier project
Washington is delivering the final six million pounds of aid from the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore project—the pier anchored to the Gazan shore which was beset by problems until it was retired—the Pentagon said last...
Biden administration marks three years since ISIS suicide bombing at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan
U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin marked the third anniversary on Monday of the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate, near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on...
Iran FM: Direct response to Haniyeh killing will be ‘calculated’
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday his country’s response to the assassination of Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31 would be “calculated.”
“Iran reaction to Israeli terrorist attack in Tehran is...