OTTAWA – Canadian Greens voted at their convention Sunday morning to add boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel to their roster of party policies, despite their leader opposing the resolution. A polarizing debate took over the convention floor during the weekend’s final plenary session. The resolution was brought forward by the party’s shadow justice critic,
Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev on Sunday decried the Lebanese Olympic delegation’s refusal to travel on the same bus as their Israeli counterparts as “anti-Semitism” and “the worst kind of racism.” On Friday, Lebanese Olympic athletes attempted to block the Israeli team from traveling with them to the opening ceremony, according to a report
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Alan Baker is a distinguished, British-born Israeli expert in international law and Israel’s former ambassador to Canada. According to Baker, the US State Department promulgates the notion that, “Israel’s settlement activity is the source of all evil in the world, and the US is waging a massive war of
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Recently retired NBA all-star Amare Stoudemire and current NBA star Omri Casspi on Friday afternoon, Aug. 5, gifted their friend, Entourage TV actor Jeremy Piven, with a life-saving ambucycle. The ambucycle immediately became part of Israel’s national emergency medical services (EMS) organization, United Hatzalah’s, response team. “Just the idea that we can use
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTehran (dpa) – Iran defended its mass execution of criminals as a means of tackling terrorism on Saturday, days after 20 men described as members of an extremist and criminal Sunni group were hanged in a single day. “We are doing everything to protect our people from terrorists,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi was quoted
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Middle EastWashington (dpa) – The United States killed three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in an airstrike in central Yemen, US military authorities announced Friday. The airstrike, which took place on Thursday, occurred in Shabwah Governorate, US Central Command said in a statement. “AQAP remains a significant threat to the region, the United
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — After Rep. Lee Zeldin created a firestorm for publicly musing whether US President Barack Obama is “playing for some other team,” liberal Jewish organizations castigated the GOP congressman for suggesting their commander in chief is secretly acting as a foreign agent. In a statement Wednesday, Zeldin responded to a Wall Street Journal report
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Middle East, USAIstanbul (dpa) – Two members of a pro-government local militia were killed by a roadside bomb in south-eastern Turkey on Saturday, the Dogan news agency reported, adding that officials were blaming the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The explosion took place in Sirnak province, near the border with Syria and Iraq. The area has seen
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Middle EastIndiana Gov. Mike Pence said Friday that while President Obama might claim otherwise, the whole world knows that a $400 million payment to Iran in January as American hostages were being released was a “ransom.” “Most Americans are reeling this week with the news that the Obama administration delivered 400 million in cash to the
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Middle East, USARussia on Friday hit back at American criticism over Syria, accusing Washington of lacking trust in Moscow and not behaving as a true partner. “The United States sometimes don’t behave as partners when dealing with us on Syrian issues and are not always ready to negotiate on equal grounds,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told
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International, Middle East, USAMembers of the Lebanese delegation to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games refused to travel on the same bus as their Israeli counterparts, with some attempting to block athletes from entering the vehicle, according to a report by an Israeli trainer who claimed to have witnessed the scene. “I kept on insisting that we board the
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsA Jordanian court on Thursday sentenced a man to death for killing five intelligence agents in their office in a Palestinian Arab “refugee camp” in June, AFP reported, citing state media. Amman’s state security court “sentenced the criminal Mahmud Masharfeh to death by hanging for his terrorist act against the intelligence agency,” the kingdom’s official
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Middle EastThe U.S. Treasury Department is considering whether to approve the sale of commercial aircraft to Iran by Boeing and Airbus – and 42 former top national security officials have written a letter raising serious concerns about it. The nuclear deal signed last year with Iran by the U.S. and other Western countries enables such sales
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Middle East, USAEgypt’s armed forces claim to have killed Abu Duaa al-Ansari, the head of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in the Sinai peninsula. The military said it targeted the leader in several airstrikes, which also killed more than 45 members of the affiliate group, known as Sinai Province. Sinai Province is currently Egypt’s most dangerous
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