Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Haim Zach / GPO Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} All of the major parties represented in the Austrian Parliament have agreed to support a resolution condemning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: London Metropolitan Police CCTV images of the suspects behind an anti-Semitic attack in north London on Nov. 29, 2019. Two teenagers turned themselves into police on Tuesday and were charged allegedly shouted “kill the Jews” before punching a rabbi last month in an anti-Semitic attack in North London. “Detectives investigating a racially aggravated […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS MK and former Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat Likud Member of Knesset (MK) and former mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat on Wednesday asked US Ambassador David Friedman to promote US sanctions on Turkey, after a report by the British Daily Telegraph revealed that Hamas terrorists in Turkey planned attacks on Israel, including […]

Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90‎ Geula Cohen, May 24, 2011. These days it is dangerous to claim that the late Rabbi Meir Kahane was right on a slew of issues – it is certainly political suicide in Israel, where even the most Kahanist party, Otzma Yehudit, is forced to argue feebly that it’s not really pushing […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Russia’s Rossiya Airlines takes off from Ben Gurion Airport. More than 40 Israelis, including children, were reportedly detained for hours at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, on Wednesday, after Russian authorities delayed their entry to the country for no apparent reason. Their passports were confiscated and they were fingerprinted. Israel’s Ministry of […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Royal Court His Majesty King Abdullah meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Amman on Thursday The “moderate,” “peaceful” Jordanian government recently staged a major military exercise. Guess which “friend” and “peace partner” was the target in the simulated battle? No, it wasn’t Syria or Iran. It was Israel. […]

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz Why do people hate us? What is it about us they despise? But perhaps it has nothing to do with us. There is a drop of bitter resentment deeply ingrained in the human psyche that, upon seeing the triumph of a people so small, gives birth to loathing. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ […]

Photo Credit: JPress Anti-Semitic graffiti in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Every day, on scores and scores of college campuses throughout America, Jewish students have quietly been subjected to harassment, intimidation and bullying for the crime of being Jewish or pro-Israel. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, The Western Wall Heritage Foundation website Chanukah menorah installation at The Western Wall 2019 On Tuesday the traditional, large menorah was set up in the Western Wall Plaza in preparation for the upcoming Chanukah festival. It’s a lovely menorah made of bronze, stretching more than two meters tall, and two meters wide, […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screen grab / Fox News President Donald Trump signs the Executive Order Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses. The order – advanced in large part by Jared Kushner, senior advisor to the president – effectively includes Jews as a protected class under Title […]