Daily Archives: January 3, 2025
Dutch archive releases names of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators
"War in Court," a Dutch project, released nearly half a million names of suspected wartime Nazi collaborators on Thursday after a law restricting public access to the archive expired on New Year's Day.
The 32-million-page...
Israeli population tops 10 million for first time
Israel’s population exceeded 10 million in 2024, but the war with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, along with rocket and missile attacks from other Iranian-based proxies, saw a large number of people...
Massachusetts hate crimes rose for fourth consecutive year in 2023
Antisemitic hate crimes reported in Massachusetts increased 70% from 2022 to 2023, according to a study released by the state’s Executive Office of Public Safety and Security.
The 2023 Hate Crime Report for Massachusetts showed 119 reported...
Imam preached hatred of Jews at mosque near New Orleans attacker’s home
The leader of a Texas-based mosque in the same neighborhood as a residence belonging to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran who killed 14 people in a car-ramming attack in New Orleans on...
‘Well-developed’ Biden admin anti-Israel ‘January surprise’ planned at UN, former US official says
The Biden administration is planning a “January surprise” that is “modeled directly on the January surprise of the Obama administration in 2016—that is U.N. Resolution 2334, which basically, to put it a little bit...
High Court rejects clause in ‘Ben-Gvir Amendment’ involving police probes
Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday, while affirming the legality of most of a law granting the national security minister authority over the police, rejected a key provision that gave him power over police investigations.
The...
IDF casualty statistics highlight toll of Swords of Iron war
A total of 891 soldiers have died and 5,569 have been wounded since the Swords of Iron war began nearly 15 months ago, according to detailed casualty statistics the Israel Defense Forces released on Thursday.
The data...
Calls to ‘end the war in Gaza’ before Hamas is defeated risk us repeating...
The question of whether American Jews should criticize Israel has nothing to do with free speech, or democracy, or peace in the Middle East. It has everything to do with the real-life consequences that...
Jimmy Carter was no saint for Jews
Forgive me if I don’t join in the rush to canonize Jimmy Carter. He deserves respect for serving as president and for some meritorious accomplishments, but he was also one of, if not the...