By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — It is no surprise that one reads in today’s international headlines: “Leading candidate in Egypt presidential race calls Israel peace accord ‘dead and buried.’” [The New York Times]. Amr Moussa, running ahead in the polls, spoke to a large rally in southern Egypt. He took the opportunity [...]
By Lloyd Levy LONDON–Billions of people around the World watched television on Friday, to witness the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton. It was a magical occasion, which even transfixed an old cynic as myself. I cannot however comment on any Jewish perspective, because there wasn’t one. British Jewry was officially [...]
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Brendan O’Neill, the editor of Spiked Online, whom I’ve come to quote lately, has written: “Emptied of its nationalist vigour and militancy, the Palestine problem, it seems, is now of little immediate interest to protesting Arabs and is instead the ultimate cause célèbre for Western liberal campaigners who like nothing [...]
LONDON (WJC)–At an event organized by the Community Security Trust of the British Jewish community, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has given a message of support for Israel. He told a dinner that after more than 100 rockets had been fired into Israel from Gaza in one year, the country within its right to search [...]
EDINBURGH, Scotland (WJC)–Education Minister Angela Constance announced the Scottish Government would pay to ensure two students from every secondary school could take part in the Lessons from Auschwitz Project, which is run by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). The four-part course involves a day-trip to Auschwitz. Pupils are given a tour of the death camp [...]
LONDON (WJC)–The second highest number of anti-Semitic incidents was recorded in the UK last year, the Community Security Trust (CST) of the British Jewish community said. More than 639 complaints about violence and abuse against Jews or Jewish institutions were received last year. They included street attacks, hate mail, threats, and the vandalism and desecration [...]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –In an interesting juxtaposition, right after Monday’s JINSA Report about the importance of temperate and truthful words, al Jazeera and The Guardian (UK) announced that leaked documents prove Abu Mazen and Saeb Erekat made far reaching peace proposals to Israel during the left-wing government of Ehud Olmert including Jewish sovereignty over [...]
LONDON (WJC)–Terry Jones, an extremist pastor from Florida, who said Judaism was “of the devil” and last year threatened to burn a Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, has been denied entry into the UK. A spokesman for the British government said the decision had been taken because of “numerous comments” by Jones [...]
“The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.” –Isaac Asimov By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Go read Melanie Phillips in her analysis of what’s going on in the world. While she focuses on the demonization of Israel and the bizarre distortion of Middle East realities in the West, her [...]
By Lloyd Levy LONDON– Sweden was the target of the latest suicide bombing in Europe, and surprise, surprise, the bomber originated in the UK. Our green and pleasant land has become” Londonistan“, perhaps the leading source of terrorism in the Western World. The latest bomber lived in the UK, as did at one time [...]
