Tag: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Eurovision postpones vote on boycotting Israel
The Eurovision Song Contest board recently postponed an emergency vote on whether to ban Israel from next year’s competition in Vienna.
“The board agreed to place the issue on the agenda of its ordinary Winter General Assembly...
Propaganda by analogy
“Israel treats the Palestinians the way Nazi Germany treated the Jews.”
Few slogans in modern propaganda are as powerful, emotional and poisonous as this one. In recent years, it has become a rallying cry at...
1,152 Israeli security forces have fallen since Oct. 7, data show
More than 1,150 Israeli soldiers and security personnel have been killed, leaving more than 6,500 people bereaved since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on the western Negev, according to data released on Monday...
The latest Gaza flotilla: What you may have missed
A close look at the boats used by anti-Israel extremists aboard the so-called “Gaza Flotilla,” which attempted to evade Israeli navy vessels and land in the Gaza Strip on Yom Kippur, reveals much about...
Trump’s peace plan is Oslo all over again
U.S. President Donald Trump’s new 20-point Mideast peace plan, based in large part on his “Peace to Prosperity” plan issued during his first administration, lays out conditions that on the surface seem like common...
Palestinian Authority condemns Rubio’s ‘invasion’ of Western Wall
The Palestinian Authority on Sunday condemned Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, calling it an “invasion” and a “provocative step” that offended the feelings of the Palestinian people.
According...
‘Hamas is very popular in Judea and Samaria’
On Aug. 25, Palestinian Authority deputy leader Hussein al-Sheikh issued a striking public rebuke of Hamas, calling on it to undertake a “comprehensive re-evaluation of its policies” and describing the war in Gaza as...
Oct. 7 ‘courageous and unprecedented,’ former PA prime minister says
Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh last month praised the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of some 1,200 people as "courageous and unprecedented," according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research...
Netanyahu confronts the eighth front: The global war of lies
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not known for seeking out journalists, especially not the foreign press corps that has, for years, attacked him personally and politically while accusing Israel of the worst imaginable...
Sarajevo museum turns medieval Haggadah into ‘Palestine’ moneymaker
Money raised from the sale of a book about the Sarajevo Haggadah and from tickets sold to view the medieval manuscript will be donated to "helping Palestine," the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina...