Zionist Union MK under fire for saying Palestinian stabber ‘not a terrorist’ (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Member of Knesset (MK) Zouheir Bahloul (Zionist Union) drew sharp criticism, including from his own party, for saying Thursday that a Palestinian who recently launched a stabbing attack against Israel Defense Forces soldiers in Hebron was “not a […]
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Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters, calling for the liberation of Palestine “from the river to the sea,” disrupted a lecture being delivered by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at San Francisco State University on Wednesday. Carrying Palestinian flags, they called for the continuation of the current wave of violence and an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian
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This week marks an important moment of remembrance and reminder, of bearing witness and public warning. For it marks the 22nd anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide – an unspeakable atrocity where one million Rwandans were murdered in a three-month genocidal onslaught that began April 7, 1994. Indeed, what makes the Rwandan Genocide so unspeakable was
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InternationalNEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC ) today acknowledged the correction by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, of his statement that “over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza” in 2014. At the same time, it called on the Senator to clarify his charge that Israel’s self-defensive response to deadly
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Middle East, USAA sign in front of a green-domed Shiite mosque on a busy boulevard north of Toronto reads, “Walk with Israel — Stand with Israel.” You read that right. A mosque. It is not an act of vandalism. Nor is it evidence of Muslims-gone-Zionist. The sign is actually an ad for a fundraising event at the
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InternationalBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Israel, at the moment, is suffering a crisis, a sharp division between the people, the majority of whom are Sephardic or Oriental, and the right wing government, which is mostly Ashkenazic. The country is in turmoil over the execution of a wounded would-be terrorist, lying helpless on the
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Muslim rioters attacked a group of dozens of Jewish worshipers at the tomb of the Biblical Jewish patriarch Joseph in Shechem, during a pilgrimage to the site. Israeli Border Police forces and IDF Kfir Brigade soldiers accompanied 20 busloads of Jewish worshipers to the holy site last night. Under the Oslo Accords and other agreements
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK– An AJC survey of Latino Jews in the United States offers fresh insights into a portion of the American Jewish and U.S. Latino communities that until now has received scant attention. Estimates of the number of Latino Jews in the U.S. range from 200,100, or 3 percent, to 227,700, or 5
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(Editor’s Note: Yoni Peres recently stood-in for his father, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, at an awards ceremony sponsored by the TAEDA Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this series of articles he shares his impressions of Buenos Aires and the ceremony that brought him there.) Second in a Series By Yoni Peres BUENOS AIRES,
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supporters of President Obama’s Iran deal (JCPOA) are starting to worry — but that is because they believed him when his lips moved. They heard “snapback sanctions” and pretended those were an actual “thing.” They are not, and never were. They heard Treasury Secretary Jack Lew say
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAVIENNA (JNS.org) The number of anti-Semitic incidents that occurred last year in Austria increased by more than 80 percent from 2014, the Austrian Forum Against Anti-Semitism said on Wednesday. The Austrian organization, which has been monitoring anti-Semitic incidents since 2003, said that 465 such incidents were recorded last year, among them 200 relating to Internet
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InternationalAnonymous claims to hack 55 Israeli websites in annual #OpIsrael (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The computer hacking collective that calls itself Anonymous claimed that it attacked at least 55 Israeli websites on Thursday, including some belonging to the government, the Knesset, and the Israel Defense Forces. The hackers publicized the addresses of the websites,
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Dear President Abbas, Mr. Meshal, and Prime Minister Haniyeh, I am writing this open letter to you because I believe that it’s time for you to take a hard look at the dismal reality to which your people have been subjected for nearly seven decades, especially since 1967. It is time to reconsider your
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of Jerusalem’s benefits is the opportunity for Jews from different backgrounds, and Arabs, to converse and come to understand what one another brings to the encounter. Some would say that Jerusalem’s ethnic and religious mixture is dangerous, and it can be. It was part of the downside when this
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