Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Kurdishstruggle on Flickr CC Kurdish YPG fighters {Originally posted to the BESA website} Turkey’s policy of suppressing Kurdish identity and denying the Kurds their cultural and political rights midwifed the birth in the 1970s of militant groups like the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which only recently dropped its demand for Kurdish independence. The […]

Photo Credit: TPS Remains of a Second Temple era palace. Israeli officials on Sunday saved a rare Second Temple period archeological site in the Jericho area, including palaces of the Hasmonean Dynasty, from potential destruction due to illegal Arab construction in the area. The Archaeology Unit at the Civil Administration (AUCA) and the Coordinator of […]

Photo Credit: Flickr via WikiCommons Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announces her run for the 2020 presidential elections, Feb. 9, 2018. {Originally posted to the JNS website} The Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy: Shnerb family Rina Shnerb, HY”D The Association France Palestine Solidarite (AFPS), a pro-Palestinian organization that has declared itself part of the anti-Israel boycott movement, is also involved in funding the activities of an organization tied to the Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization, TPS has learned. AFPS describes […]

Photo Credit: Yitshak Schlissel/TPS IDF soldiers watch over worshipers at the tombs of Joshua and Caleb, at Timnath-heres near Ari’el. Ari’el, May 2, 2019. Some 600 Israeli worshipers on Sunday night visited the tombs of Yehoshua Ben-Nun and Kalev Ben Yefuna, located in the Arab village of Kafel Harath, near the city of Ariel. The […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Mourning Israelis light candles in memory of the 10 pre-military Bnei Zion Academy students who perished. The state prosecutor’s office on Monday filed charges in Be’er Sheva District Court against Yuval Cahan, dean of the pre-military academy Bnei Zion, and against Aviv Berdichev, formerly the academy’s educational program director who served […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS Miriam and Shelson Adelson participated in the festive ceremony of inaugurating the Ariel University medical school, Oct 27, 2019. Israel’s sixth medical school got underway at Ariel University in Samaria on Sunday. At the festive ceremony inaugurating the new Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson School of Medicine, the new dean, […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Auschwitz I Gas Chamber – Scratches on wall {Originally posted to the Elder of Ziyon website} Okay, so it’s the Daily Mail, it’s sensational. So you don’t exactly trust it. Still, it was disturbing to read: “Teacher is sacked for ‘joking’ to Jewish primary school pupils that she would ‘ship them off […]

Photo Credit: Maya Tsaban, spokeswoman for Padeh-Poriya Medical Center The three siblings are recovering from their gastric bypass surgery. Muhammad Masoud, 23, his sister Shehiva, 21, and their younger sister Maysaloun, 19, all underwent gastric bypass surgery last week – on the same day – by Dr. Muad Farage, director of the surgical department at […]

Photo Credit: Dunk via Flickr Despite early objections from the French government, the EU appears ready to approve a Brexit extension until January 31, 2020, in response to a request by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for another delay. The UK can decide to exit earlier if it so wishes. The Guardian cited a source […]