International

Middle East Roundup: March 9, 2016

  Netanyahu to Biden: Israel’s ties with Arab states ‘solid base’ for peace, stability (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) In a joint press conference with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s failure to condemn Tuesday’s Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel. Speaking of […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East

American Jewish Report: March 8, 2016

Bernie Sanders mental health joke slammed by Jewish disability rights group (JNS.org) The Ruderman Family Foundation, a Jewish organization that prioritizes disability rights and inclusion, called on Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to apologize for a joke directed at Republican candidates that questioned their mental health. During Sunday’s Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.,

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USA

Madrid mayor takes stand against anti- Semitism

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK  – Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena on Monday, March 7, signed on to Mayors United Against Anti-Semitism, an American Jewish Committee (AJC) initiative calling on municipal leaders across the United States and Europe to publicly address and take concrete actions against rising anti-Semitism. “Anti-Semitism is unacceptable,” declared Mayor Carmena. Carmena is the first

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International, USA

Middle East Roundup: March 7, 2016

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah claims Israel assassinated Palestinian fugitive in Bulgaria (JNS.org) Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, on Sunday accused Israel and its foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, of killing fugitive terrorist Omar Nayef Zayed in the Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria last month. “The Mossad assassinated him and the Arab regimes don’t raise

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Middle East

Germany puts judge who helped Survivors on trial

  JERUSALEM (WJC) — Colette Avital, chairwoman of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, has launched a petition to Germany over the treatment of a German judge who has helped many survivors in Israel. Writing to Germany’s ambassador to Israel, Clemens von Goetze, Avital – a retired Israeli diplomat and former member

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International, Jewish History

Leftist Christians seek to erase Jesus’s Jewish identity

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — It’s that crazy time of year in Bethlehem where traditional Christian beliefs are thrown out of the church window by anti-Israel extremists. March 7-10 will see the fourth rendering of that anti-Israel libel ‘Christ at the Checkpoint’ played out yet again. It is bad enough when devious Arab Islamic

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Barry Shaw, Middle East

College campuses should ban SJP for anti- Semitism

By Susan B. Tuchman, Zach Stern and Morton A. Klein NEW YORK–Campus anti-Semitism is a growing national problem and frighteningly, it has infected The City University of New York (CUNY), historically a haven for Jews and other minorities seeking an excellent, affordable college education.  We work closely with students and others at CUNY and implore

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA