By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — I have never met anyone who really gives a genuine damn about Palestinians unless it is linked with an umbilical cord to hatred of Israel. The two are so welded together that you have to think what came first – the Palestinian chicken or the Israeli egg. Those who
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Middle East, USABy TOI staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a petition Monday calling on President Reuven Rivlin to reconsider his decision not to pardon an IDF soldier convicted of killing an incapacitated Palestinian attacker. In rejecting Azaria’s pardon request last week, Rivlin said “an additional lightening of your sentence would harm the resilience of the Israel
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Middle EastIsraeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon says that Israel enjoys warm relations with many Arab countries despite the fact that these countries officially refuse to recognize Israel’s existence. “They still do not vote with us, but I can say that we have a relationship with them,” Danon told Ynet. “We are talking about
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International, Middle EastNew York City’s progressive university The New School is under fire for agreeing to host a panel on anti-Semitism featuring Palestinian-American activist and staunch Israel critic Linda Sarsour, the latest example of the left’s growing rift over Israel. The Tuesday forum, called “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice,” features Ms. Sarsour and two representatives of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Stuart Winer A lecturer at the University of California Berkeley has apologized for sharing images on social media that the college deemed anti-Semitic and beyond acceptable criticism of Israel. The college condemned lecturer Hatem Bazian of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies department after he retweeted two images, The Jewish News of California
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA[twittervideo:2035426] The Palestinian Authority (PA) envoy to the UK admitted recently that he had in the past hit an Israeli over falafel. The envoy, Manuel Hassassian, said the incident occurred during his student days in Ohio. At the time, he recalled, he assaulted an Israeli student who manned a booth in which falafel and hummus
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Middle East, USA[youtube:2035460] The Conservative Movement in the United States released a video accusing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of lying about the frozen Western Wall deal. In the video, the Conservative Movement played clips from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America earlier this month. During his address,
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Middle East, USAJACKSON-Some Orthodox Jewish residents are calling for the resignation of Jackson Township Councilman Robert Nixon after documents released by the township displayed Nixon’s intent to curb Orthodox Jewish population growth here. Jackson Township has become a town divided since an upswing in Orthodox Jewish residents started approximately two years ago. While few in town would
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USADiaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett addressed Israel’s increasingly tenuous relationship with world Jewry in his Jewish Homer faction meeting on Monday and vowed to drastically increase funding for a program that aims to strengthen Jewish identity on American college campuses. Bennett’s comments came in the wake of a media storm that erupted after deputy Foreign
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Middle East, USAA communications student from Karlsruhe has become become the first ever Jewish woman to progress to the final stage of the Miss Germany contest, the The Jerusalem Post reports. Tamar Morali, 21, is now among the final 20 candiates for the crown, the furthest that a Jewish woman has progressed in the competition. Morali was
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InternationalMagazine publisher and broadcast company Meredith Corp. said it will acquire Time Inc. in a deal valued at $2.8 billion, a further sign of the steep challenges facing the print magazine industry. The Des Moines-based company said it agreed to pay $18.50 a share for New York-based Time Inc., the publishing company that owns the
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USABy Sue Surkes An unfortunate woman was literally washed down the street in Jerusalem on Sunday by a powerful jet of water from a police anti-riot water gun. Video footage shared around the world shows the woman, who was wearing a Muslim head-covering, trying to cross the street near the capital’s central bus station as
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Middle EastPope Francis has arrived in Myanmar on his first trip to the Southeast Asian nation, where tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees have faced brutal military crackdown in the past three months. His trip comes as the Myanmar government is accused of “ethnically cleansing” its Rohingya Muslim minority, more than 600,000 of whom have taken
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InternationalJon Hendricks, the pioneering jazz singer and lyricist with the vocal ensemble Lambert, Hendricks & Ross who helped create an inventive jazz vocal technique called ‘vocalese,’ has died. Hendricks died Wednesday in New York City, his daughter, Aria Hendricks, said. He was 96. When Hendricks arrived on the jazz scene in the ’50s, his mastery
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