By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — I have never met anyone who really gives a genuine damn about Palestinians unless it is linked with an umbilical cord to hatred of Israel. The two are so welded together that you have to think what came first – the Palestinian chicken or the Israeli egg. Those who
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Middle East, USABy TOI staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a petition Monday calling on President Reuven Rivlin to reconsider his decision not to pardon an IDF soldier convicted of killing an incapacitated Palestinian attacker. In rejecting Azaria’s pardon request last week, Rivlin said “an additional lightening of your sentence would harm the resilience of the Israel
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Middle EastIsraeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon says that Israel enjoys warm relations with many Arab countries despite the fact that these countries officially refuse to recognize Israel’s existence. “They still do not vote with us, but I can say that we have a relationship with them,” Danon told Ynet. “We are talking about
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International, Middle EastNew York City’s progressive university The New School is under fire for agreeing to host a panel on anti-Semitism featuring Palestinian-American activist and staunch Israel critic Linda Sarsour, the latest example of the left’s growing rift over Israel. The Tuesday forum, called “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice,” features Ms. Sarsour and two representatives of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Stuart Winer A lecturer at the University of California Berkeley has apologized for sharing images on social media that the college deemed anti-Semitic and beyond acceptable criticism of Israel. The college condemned lecturer Hatem Bazian of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies department after he retweeted two images, The Jewish News of California
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA[twittervideo:2035426] The Palestinian Authority (PA) envoy to the UK admitted recently that he had in the past hit an Israeli over falafel. The envoy, Manuel Hassassian, said the incident occurred during his student days in Ohio. At the time, he recalled, he assaulted an Israeli student who manned a booth in which falafel and hummus
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Middle East, USA[youtube:2035460] The Conservative Movement in the United States released a video accusing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of lying about the frozen Western Wall deal. In the video, the Conservative Movement played clips from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America earlier this month. During his address,
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Middle East, USADiaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett addressed Israel’s increasingly tenuous relationship with world Jewry in his Jewish Homer faction meeting on Monday and vowed to drastically increase funding for a program that aims to strengthen Jewish identity on American college campuses. Bennett’s comments came in the wake of a media storm that erupted after deputy Foreign
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Middle East, USABy Sue Surkes An unfortunate woman was literally washed down the street in Jerusalem on Sunday by a powerful jet of water from a police anti-riot water gun. Video footage shared around the world shows the woman, who was wearing a Muslim head-covering, trying to cross the street near the capital’s central bus station as
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Middle East(c) Edwin Black Ellen Koontz, a Kansas contract schoolteacher, is asking a federal judge to re-affirm the anti-Jewish boycott campaign begun by Adolf Hitler on April 1, 1933; openly adopted shortly thereafter by the Mufti of Jerusalem as part of the Arab-Nazi alliance during the Holocaust; internationalized against the Jewish State after WWII by the
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Edwin Black, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — According to an opinion poll just published in Yediot Achronot, Israel’s largest newspaper, more Israelis define themselves as Reform (7%) and Conservative (4%) when put together than the ultra-Orthodox haredim (10%). The largest number of religious Jews are Nationalist-Orthodox (29%). 44% of all Israelis don’t identify with any religious
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This isn’t the first column about this topic, and it won’t be the last. What follows is less than absolutely certain. It reflects months of media reports about several police investigations, with the pieces put together in a way that appears reasonable. What the police are calling File #1000 and File
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastFor the first time since the formation of the Thirty-Fourth Government of Israel in May 2015, the government has cancelled the weekly meeting of coalition leaders, amid an ongoing coalition crisis over government-sanctioned infrastructure work on the Sabbath. Each week, the leaders of each party included in the governing coalition meet with the Prime Minister
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Middle East[youtube:2035417] Israel”s Chief Sephardic Rabbi visited Jewish communities in California during a recent trip to the west coast, a spokesperson for the rabbi reported Sunday. Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef met with members of local Jewish communities across Southern California, and lectured at the Yeshiva Gedolah of Los Angeles (YGLA). Rabbi Yosef was hosted by the
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