Middle East

German-funded school in Gaza teaches military training

A school built in Gaza using German funds is educating their students on hatred and violence for Israel and providing children with military training At the end of March, a Hamas-affiliated news agency distributed a video showing a Palestinian teacher indoctrinating school children with hatred for Israel and support for an armed struggle against it.

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International, Middle East

Dennis Ross: Obama consciously distanced himself from Israel

Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama”s former Middle East advisor, on Sunday criticized Obama and his decision to distance himself from Israel during his time in office. Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York, Ross said that Obama “is one of five presidents in modern history who have made a conscious decision to try

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Middle East, USA

Labour member suspended for column on Muslim anti- Semitism

The UK Labour Party has suspended a senior journalist from the party for writing about the anti-Semitism scandal rocking the left-wing party. In his column, Rod Liddle, an associate editor of The Spectator, remarked on the virulent anti-Semitic sentiments held by many Muslim Labour members in particular. He said that anti-Semiitsm is “absolutely endemic within

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International, Middle East

Where did Ploughshares get money to sell the Iran deal?

WASHINGTON — Three weeks after The New York Times Magazine published its profile of deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, in which he describes creating an “echo chamber” of nongovernmental organizations, nuclear proliferation experts and journalists to sell the Iran nuclear deal, it was revealed a group he cited as disseminating the administration’s narrative had

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Middle East, USA

Toronto Jews urged to mobilize against Islamist hate rally

On July 2, thousands of Islamists, radical anti-Israel activists and members of the fringe anti-Zionist group Naturei Karta will once again march in downtown Toronto to for an end to the Jewish State amid frenzied chants of “Zionism is terrorism”, “down, down, Israel” and “Netanyahu you will see, Palestine will be free”. Jewish Defense League

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International, Middle East

Middle East Roundup: May 23, 2016

  British historian spurns Israeli prize on ‘political’ grounds (JNS.org) British feminist historian Catherine Hall of University College London declined an Israeli award, the lucrative Dan David Prize, for what she called “political” reasons. Hall did not attend the award ceremony at Tel Aviv University (TAU) on Sunday. TAU administers annual $1 million prizes, named

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Middle East

Coalition chair: ‘Death penalty for Jewish terrorists too’

Coalition chairman MK David Biton (Likud) on Sunday addressed the proposed death penalty law for terrorists initiated by Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman during coalition negotiations. “I think there needs to be a death penalty, not just for those who want to commit suicide, but those who want to carry out a deadly attack only

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Middle East

Netanyahu: ‘Enough lamenting, I’m in charge of defense’

At a press conference Sunday with the visiting French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke about Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s (Likud) sudden resignation last Friday. Ya’alon announced Friday that he intends to return and contend for the leadership, after Netanyahu decided to give his post of Defense Minister to MK Avigdor Liberman

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Middle East

France pushing on with conference bid, despite Israeli objection

Tel Aviv (dpa) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was in Israel Sunday, in a further push to convince the Israelis to accept international talks on their conflict with the Palestinians. Valls was scheduled to lunch with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Monday, before travelling to the nearby West Bank for talks with

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International, Middle East

Lauder: World Jewry will fight the anti- Semites

NEW YORK (Press Release)– World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder delivered remarks Sunday at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York, condemning the United Nations for its harmful anti-Semitic rhetoric, and for becoming little more than an anti-Israel political cartel. Lauder was joined by an array of Israeli ministers, Knesset members and officials,

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