NEW YORK (Press Release)–AJC is profoundly disappointed with a senior UN official’s endorsement of blatant attacks on Israel in a new UN report on economic integration in the Arab world. Rima Khalaf, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), declared that the report accuses Israel […]
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Middle East
SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–Five pro-Israel groups have written a letter calling on San Francisco State University President Leslie Wong to speak out against and provide counter programming to an anti-Israel forum scheduled on the campus on Thursday. Contending that sponsors of the forum recently met with known terrorists while traveling in the Middle East, the
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – Rabbi Steve Gutow and Larry Gold, President and Chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, on Wednesday, March 5 , released the following statement on the violence in Ukraine: “With the rest of the world, we have looked with deep concern on the recent events in Ukraine. Our hope
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InternationalBy Michael Ordman HERZLIYA, Israel — As readers of my weekly positive newsletter will know, there has been a huge surge in the volume of Israel’s medical discoveries, scientific advances, agricultural innovations, water technology and humanitarian activities recently. Despite the chaos in many other countries, I believe that better times are on their way for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationRadical Islamic sheikh sentenced to eight months in jail for inciting violence (JNS.org) Islamic Movement head Sheikh Raed Salah was sentenced to eight months in prison Tuesday, after the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court found him guilty of inciting violence. Salah was indicted following a speech he gave in a 2007 Friday prayer service held in the
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The IDF announced on Wednesday, March 5, it had seized a ship in the Red Sea carrying a weapons cargo destined to the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon declared that Iran was responsible and that it works constantly to destabilize the region. The ship was flying a
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Middle EastEAST LANSING, Michigan (Press Release)–Rabbi Ben Kamin’s new book Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers will be available from Michigan State University Press this April and is available for sale through its website www.msupress.msu.edu and at fine bookstores. The product of long-concealed FBI surveillance documents, Dangerous Friendship chronicles a
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Jewish History, USA
By Michael Widlanski IRVINE, California –People who predict population trends need to learn from weather forecasters: when your forecasts are wrong more than right, go home before they lock you at home. Many who yell “demography” when discussing Israel’s future, pretend to have the facts on their side. Actually, they do not have a clue.
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Middle EastBy Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel will fail, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference. “Beyond our traditional trading partners, countries throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, these countries are flocking to Israel” wanting Israeli technology, Netanyahu said. “The BDS
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Amidst increasing international pressure against Israel and intensifying calls for commercial boycotts of the Jewish State, former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States Danny Ayalon has released a new You Tube video entitled “The Truth About the UN.” The film, launched earlier this week, is designed to
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International, Middle East
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) – AJC welcomed the decision of the Appellate Division of the California Superior Court in Orange County in State v. Sayeed, et al. The court upheld the conviction of 10 individuals who repeatedly interrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech at the University of California at Irvine in February 2010. They had
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Middle East, USABDS movement will fail, Netanyahu says at AIPAC (JNS.org) The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel will fail, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference. “Beyond our traditional trading partners, countries throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, these countries are flocking to Israel” wanting Israeli technology, Netanyahu said.
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InternationalWASHINGTON, D.C. –Following is the text of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Monday, March 3, to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as provided by the U.S. State Department: * SECRETARY KERRY: Norm, thank you. Thank you very, very much. Thank you all, 14,000 strong or more. (Applause.) Howard, Howard Friedman
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Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM — Minister of Agriculture Yair Shamir is the first Israeli minister to visit the West African Republic of Ghana since the establishment of an Israeli embassy there in 2011. Minister Shamir is heading an agriculture-business mission comprised of 12 leading Israeli companies in the agricultural industry currently touring the country in
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