The world has long had its absolutely shortest books – “Light Jewish Cuisine,” and “Tips on Courting Israel” by Barack Obama,” to name a couple – but now it has its emptiest museum, and this time for real: The Palestinian Museum of Art, History and Culture – with absolutely nothing in it. The museum is […]
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Middle EastJewish American billionaire Sheldon Adelson is asking Republican Jews to support Donald Trump for president, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday. “I’m asking for your support” for Trump, Adelson wrote in an email Monday to more than 50 Republican Jewish leaders, according to the news agency. Adelson told them he had met with Trump recently
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Middle East, USAMethodist Church rejects Israel divestment, withdraws from anti-Israel coalition (JNS.org) The United Methodist Church (UMC) voted down four resolutions that called on the Church to divest from companies doing business with Israel. At its May 10-20 General Conference in Portland, Ore., the UMC also voted—478 in favor and 318 against—to withdraw its membership, financial support,
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The United Methodist Church has rejected several resolutions calling for the 12-million-member Protestant church to divest from companies engaging in business with Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. Church committees over the weekend voted down four Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions resolutions brought to a vote at the church’s quadrennial United Methodist Church General Conference
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Middle East, USAFrance’s planned conference on Middle East peace has been postponed, President François Hollande said on Tuesday. It is vital for France to take “a strong initiative” in the dispute, Hollande said. “If not … what will happen? Settlement building, attacks,” he said. The original proposed date falls on the US Memorial Day holiday honouring members
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Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne is currently in Israel on a five-day trade mission together 130 government officials, academics, scientists and business leaders, as well as representatives of BlackBerry, IBM Canada, Roots Canada, Scotiabank and the Toronto Stock Exchange. While in Israel the delegation will visit Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, as well as Ramallah
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LA JOLLA, California — The unorthodox historian and journalist, Tom Segev, has been intrepid in exploring and illuminating the tortured history of Israel and the Holocaust, often exposing painful truths that many would rather not have to grapple with. Born in Jerusalem to parents who fled Nazi Germany, Segev is a leading figure among the
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationIt’s just past five in the morning and hundreds of Palestinian laborers have already crossed into Israel. Many sit along the concrete ledge of the security barrier, listening to the chirping of birds while waiting for a van to bring them to a construction site. It’s a quiet day at the Qalandiya Crossing — the
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Middle EastThe results of a Channel 2 news poll published yesterday showing that the Zionist Union, headed by chairman and opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog, would get just 17 Knesset seats (down from the current 24) if new elections were held now have aroused severe criticism of him. Because of these poor results and public opposition
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Middle EastAt first blush, Lars Adaktusson hardly seems like a likely Israel supporter. A former journalist and Swedish politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament, Adaktusson”s curriculum vitae make him unique among Israel”s defenders abroad. Indeed, Adaktusson, a member of the Christian Democrats, often finds himself at odds with his own government, particularly on
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International, Middle EastIsraeli security forces arrest Hamas weapons smuggler who posed as fisherman (JNS.org) Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced the arrest of a Palestinian man who had been attempting to smuggle weapons to the Gaza-based Hamas terror group by posing as a fisherman. Salim Hassan Na’aman, 39, from the Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza, was arrested
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Amotz Asa-el is a respected Israeli journalist. Soon after the speech by Israel’s Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan in which the latter alluded to tendencies in contemporary Israeli society reminiscent of those that led to the rule of Nazism in the 1930s, Asa-el wouldn’t comment on whether the general
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Some of my American friends are unhappy. They are telling me to stick with Israel. That I no longer understand the US. Some go further. They ask to be dropped from my list, and/or demand that I give up my American citizenship. I’ll defend myself with a counter charge of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The week of Israel’s 68th anniversary, NATO invited Israel and three other countries to “establish diplomatic missions to NATO headquarters.” This is not NATO membership, something to which Israel does not aspire, but recognition that Israel has something to offer the Atlantic Alliance. Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “The
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