Category: Israel

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — When the Biden administration announced new sanctions meant to stop the flow of U.S. donations to extremist Israelis, many watchdogs assumed that one charity would be especially concerned. But the Central Fund of Israel says it is unfazed by the new sanctions, which were announced amid a push by the White House […]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A major rift between Brazil and Israel has opened up after Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, likened Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust. Ties between the two countries became strained last year when da Silva, a left-wing politician known as Lula who has long been […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — An effort to expel a far-left Israeli lawmaker from Israel’s Knesset narrowly failed, the first time the parliament voted on a measure to expel one of its own members. The vote on Monday to expel Ofer Cassif, the only Jewish member of the majority Arab-Israeli Hadash-Taal party, fell short of […]

TEL AVIV ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Two Israelis were killed in a terror attack on Friday at a junction in southern Israel. Four others were wounded in the attack, one in serious condition. The attacker was a man from east Jerusalem and was killed by a civilian on the scene. He reportedly drove a car up […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The Jewish Book Council has launched an initiative to collect reports of antisemitism in the literary world, amid a wave of incidents targeting Jewish creatives during the Israel-Hamas war. A wave of intense pro-Palestinian activism within the broad literary community has included bestselling Jewish authors being targeted online as “Zionists,” despite not […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A top United Nations official said Hamas was “not a terrorist organization” on Wednesday, sparking outrage from Israel as the U.N. grapples with allegations of anti-Israel bias and antisemitism. Asked in a TV interview on Wednesday about Israel’s plan to eliminate Hamas, Martin Griffiths, the head of the U.N. Office for the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand have joined a growing chorus of voices calling on Israel not to follow through with its plan to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah. “With the humanitarian situation in Gaza already dire, the impacts on Palestinian civilians from an expanded military operation […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, open letters calling for a ceasefire have been one of the most common ways for thousands of academics, from Boston to Los Angeles, to register their opposition to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.  Now, two such statements are at the center of a new federal […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Since Oct. 7, a growing number of Democrats have called for a ceasefire in Gaza, harshly criticized Israel or refused to send it more money.  But increasingly over the past few weeks, when both chambers of Congress sit down to vote, it is a faction of Republicans, allied with Donald Trump, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Tensions are flaring at Israel’s northern border after a rocket fired from Lebanon killed a woman in the northern city of Tzfat. Israel is reportedly carrying out extensive strikes inside southern Lebanon on Wednesday in response to the deadly rocket attack from Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group, which also left eight Israelis […]