Middle East

StandWithUs Calls Out Jew-hating UC Merced Professor

Should faculty at the state-funded University of California at Merced be teaching the following? “The Zionist Brain” is divided into such sections as “Frontal Money Lobe,” “World Domination Lobe,” “Control,” “Land Usurpation,” and “Elitism.” Or how about this? “The Zionists and IsraHell interest have embedded themselves in every component of the American system, media, banking, policy, commerce … just a veneer of serving US interest and population – everyone pretends that is the case.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Moroccan lawyers petition Supreme Court to halt Israel normalisation deal

A group of Moroccan lawyers have demanded a reversal of the country’s normalisation deal with Israel, saying it would contravene the constitution as well as a number of international conventions that Rabat has signed up to, according to media reports. The lawyers filed a case at Morocco’s Supreme Court saying the agreement with Israel would

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Middle East

Owner confronts Israeli team’s racist past in interview with AP

At the age of 39, Moshe Hogeg has made millions of dollars trading in cryptocurrency, bought one of Israel’s most prominent soccer teams and brought in a wealthy Emirati sheikh as his new co-owner. Now comes what may be his biggest challenge. As owner of Beitar Jerusalem, the only major Israeli soccer club never to

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Middle East, Sports & Competitions

Alignments shifting as Israel heads for new elections

Less than three months to the election, there are clear signs that things are changing. New parties; individual activists, some abandonment of Likud; lots of anti-Bibi. The major new players are Gideon Sa’ar, Naftali Bennett, Ofer Shelah, Ron Huldai, and Gadi Eizenkot. Shelah has left the party of Yair Lapid, Huldai is the Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Eizenkot is a former head of the IDF. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

There are museums for so many interests

The Reader’s Digest in July 2019 highlighted one quirky museum per state: the Alaska Hammer Museum;  the Banana Museum in Mecca, in California’s Riverside County; Colorado’s Washing Machine;  Mississippi’s Apron;  Iowa’s Matchstick;  and Ohio’s Pencil Sharpener museum. These are brick and mortar museums with street addresses, not the burgeoning online website museum. The author, Marissa Laliberte, overlooked the venerable Kool-Aid Museum in Hastings, Nebraska, in favor of the Klown Doll Museum in Plainview. I’ve been to the Mustard Museum in Horab, Wisconsin, and Idaho’s Potato Museum in Blackfoot. [Oliver B. Pollak, Ph.D]

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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USA

Biden says Trump Pentagon stalling transition, posing risks

Wilmington (United States) (AFP) – President-elect Joe Biden said Monday that Donald Trump’s appointees at the Pentagon were stalling on the transition and warned that the United States faces security risks as a result. After he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were briefed by their transition teams on national security, Biden said that political appointees

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International, Middle East, USA

Legendary Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis dies age 98

Ivry Gitlis, arguably the last great 20th-century violinist, died on December 24 in Paris aged 98.Born in 1922 in Haifa into a family of immigrants from Ukraine, he got his first violin at age five.At eight, as a child prodigy, he was introduced to the founder of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Bronislaw Huberman. The latter

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Health Ministry: Israel first country in the world to repackage vaccines

The Health Ministry announced that Israel is the first country to repackage vaccines to fight coronavirus, which will allow maximum public accessibility to the vaccine.”We at the Health Ministry broke our heads over how to get the vaccine to every point in the country, and evidently, the Israeli mind never ceases to surprise: Israel is

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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions

Good News from Israel (December 27, 2020)

In the Dec. 27, 2020 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
A woman and a Druze Arab make Israeli Air Force history.
Historic signing of agreements between Israel and Morocco.
Two new Israeli fabric coatings protect against Covid-19.
Europeans are buying millions of Israeli flowers this month.
They will all come to Jerusalem. [Michael Ordman]

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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

Critics slam Wonder Woman 1984 for ‘anti-Arab racism’

Hotly anticipated superhero film “Wonder Woman 1984” has been met with terrible reviews – and accusations of anti-Arab racism. Viewers took to social media to express their concerns after the film premiered on the HBO Max streaming service on Friday. Critics online were quick to pan the DC Comics film, calling the movie “hard-to-follow” and

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after rockets fired

Israel’s military said early Saturday it had struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. A rocket manufacturing site, underground infrastructure and a military post were targeted, the Israel Defence Forces said in a Twitter post. The IDF said it was responding to rockets fired from Gaza towards southern Israel the previous night. “Hamas will bear

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Middle East

Tunisia refuses normalisation with Israel, says ‘global changes’ won’t affect stance

Tunisia will not normalise relations with Israel and its position will not be influenced by any international changes, the foreign ministry said after Morocco formally signed a normalisation agreement with the Jewish state. “Tunisia respects the sovereign positions of all states. However, we reaffirm our firm and principled position and we will never be affected

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Middle East

Algeria Islamist party slams Morocco PM as ‘traitor’ after Israel normalisation deal

The head of Algeria’s Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP) party, Abderrazak Makri, has slammed Morocco’s prime minister as a “traitor” over his country’s decision to normalise ties with Israel. Makri’s remarks followed Moroccan premier Saad Eddine El Othmani’s signing of a formal deal with Israel in Rabat on Tuesday. “The Head of the

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International, Middle East