Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: IJF website Logo of the International Judo Federation (IJF) The International Judo Federation (IJF) announced in a statement on Saturday that Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei has received official notice from the German Office for Migration and Refugees that he may now legally benefit from the status of “Recognized Refugee.” Mollaei, 27, made headlines […]

Photo Credit: Marc Israel Sellem / POOL Israel’s Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea. January 31, 2019 Delek Group, Noble Energy and Egypt’s East Gas Company has taken control of a natural gas pipeline that connects southern Israel with the Sinai desert. The move eliminates one of the final […]

Photo Credit: Israeli Ambassador Christian Cantor via Twitter Menorah monument in Bogota vandalized in anti-Semitic attack An anti-Semitic attack on a menorah monument in the Columbian capital city of Bogota has drawn condemnation from that country’s government as well as Israel’s ambassador. Rechazamos la vandalización del monumento en la Av. del Estado de #Israel en […]

Photo Credit: amazon {Originally posted to the Elder of Ziyon website} Right after the reading of the book “P is for Palestine” – the book that glorifies terrorism by saying “I is for Intifada” – in Highland Park NJ two weeks ago, I received an email describing some of the things that happened inside the […]

Photo Credit: screenshot {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Two students at the University of Connecticut have been charged with the crime of ridiculing African Americans by shouting the N-word as part of a childishly inappropriate game. A video of the incident went viral and generated protests on and off the campus. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90 A PA resident casts his vote in the municipal elections in Al-Bireh, Oct. 20, 2012. Palestinian Authority Central Elections Commission Executive Director Hisham Kahil on Sunday told state-owned Palestine Radio that Chairman Mahmoud Abbas would soon issue a decree to hold legislative elections in February, followed shortly thereafter by presidential elections. […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Sara Netanyahu with their son Yair, December 13, 2015. Roy Rosen, the chauffeur who secretly recorded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair in 2018 will pay him 30,000 shekel in compensation and has issued an apology, according to a compromise agreement signed last week between the parties. In his apology, Rosen […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Naftali Bennett and Bezalel Smotrich, November 13, 2017 Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday morning tweeted that “dismantling the rightwing bloc would be an irresponsible folly, which would result in the establishment of another Oslo government – the last time it was established it caused catastrophes.” Smotrich continued: “New elections are […]

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr Senator Bernie Sanders Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress (AJC), last Wednesday sent Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders an acerbic letter regarding his campaign surrogate Linda Sarsour, accusing her of having “a long history of flagrant anti-Semitism.” Rosen, 70, CEO of New York real estate firm Rosen […]