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Known anti-Israel critic appointed head of UNHRC Gaza probe (JNS.org) Known anti-Israel critic William Schabas, a Canadian professor of international law, has been selected to head a three-person investigation by the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) into the Gaza conflict, which the Israeli government slammed as a “kangaroo court.” Schabas in the past has called

By Laurie Baron August 11, 2014 (Tune : When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin Along) I’ve been sobbin ‘bout the death of Robin, today, today. I’ll recall the laughter, for ever after, oy veh, oy veh, Retell, retell his funny jokes, For all, for all us mourning folks. Ad lib, ad lib,

Egypt’s El-Sisi and Saudi King Abdullah meet in Jeddah (JNS.org) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah at a royal palace in Jeddah on Sunday. The two leaders of the Arab world’s most populous and wealthy states met to discuss both regional and international issues, including the conflict in Gaza and

The Greatest Missions of the Mossad by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO —  In 1965, Ezer Weizman was Chief of the Israeli Air Force and Meir Amit was Head of the Mossad (Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations). The USSR had recently begun flying its newest MIG-21 fighter. This plane

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — Time is marching inexorably on. 6 a.m.: I wish the clock would stop for an hour so that I can stay in bed—it doesn’t, and I get up reluctantly. In the waiting room of the doctor’s office: I wish time would speed up. I wish it would

Poll: Most Israelis satisfied with leadership’s conduct during war (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) According to a poll conducted by Israel Hayom and the New Wave Research Institute to sum up the recent fighting, 74 percent of the Jewish public in Israel think that operation Protective Edge should be called a war. An even higher percentage

NEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC )is calling on world leaders to urgently focus on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq, due to the advances of the ISIS terrorist organization, which aims to wipe out any population it deems heretical. “ISIS barbarity is now a top threat to security and stability

NEW YORK (WJC) – The international media will have to answer for the intimidation by Hamas of journalists working in Gaza, which has produced a one-sided anti-Israel narrative in the mainstream press, World Jewish Congress spokeswoman E.J. Kessler declared on Thursday, Aug. 7. “The reports from journalists testifying to Hamas intimidation are troubling and call

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Jack Rosen, American Jewish Congress president and American Council for World Jewry chairman, is in Washington, D.C. this week attending the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. On Tuesday, August 5, Mr. Rosen attended the White House state dinner where he continued conversations with a number of African heads of state and dignitaries, advancing the working

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to emerging and strong evidence that the death of Arab Gazan civilians blamed on an Israeli strike upon an UNWRA school earlier this week — for which the Obama Administration condemned Israel — was in fact staged by Nazi-like  terrorist group Hamas. The