Published by DPA International Several thousand protesters in Tel Aviv have called for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing his government of not doing enough to bring home the hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The protest came on the eve of what will mark 100 days since the beginning […]
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Published by Euronews (English) The case, filed to the top UN court by South Africa last month, claims Israel’s siege of Gaza amounts to genocide and breaches the post-Holocaust 1948 Genocide Convention. The Convention gives party countries, which include both Israel and South Africa, the collective right to prevent and stop crimes of genocide. Such
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Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], January 12 (ANI): Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed South Africa over its genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague during its war against Hamas in Gaza on Thursday. “We are fighting terrorists, and we are fighting lies. Today, again, we saw an
Published by Chicago Tribune A singular affront, in ways more conventionally wrenching movie treatments of the Holocaust such as “Schindler’s List” never were, “The Zone of Interest” withholds as much as it reveals, reorienting the audience’s perspective on the 20th century’s defining atrocity. It is not for everyone, needless to say. Nothing is. But writer-director
Published by The Kansas City Star A Missouri Democratic lawmaker launched a campaign for governor on Monday following her removal from the House Democratic Caucus after she promoted conspiracy theories on social media and made antisemitic comments against a former political opponent. State Rep. Sarah Unsicker, a Democrat from Shrewsbury in St. Louis County, posted
Published by Reuters Ruling Went Against Heirs of Cassirer Family of La Mesa, California By Catarina Demony and Elena Rodriguez MADRID (Reuters) – One of Spain’s top museums welcomed a U.S. court decision allowing it to keep a French impressionist painting looted from a Jewish woman by the Nazis, which the museum said it had
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Published by Reuters UK Decision is a Set Back for the Cassirer Family of San Diego By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court said on Tuesday that Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza museum may keep a painting by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro that the Nazis looted from a Jewish woman, rejecting an ownership claim that
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Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — A dozen students at Brooklyn’s Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters were arrested as they tried to stop efforts to block a secret illegal tunnel they had dug in a bizarre attempt to expand the house of worship, officials said Tuesday. Police were called to the famed Orthodox
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Published by Reuters By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice will hold hearings this week on a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza war and seeking an emergency suspension of its military campaign. WHAT IS THE ICJ? The ICJ, also called the
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Natalie Portman isn’t able to practice method acting because she is a woman. The 42-year-old actress – who has Alpeh, 12, and six-year-old Amalia with husband Benjamin Millepied – has carved out a successful career in Hollywood since starting out in showbusiness as a child and has even won an
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Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — Earlier this year, Yair Lev was trying to organize Jews to speak out against Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government and draw attention to its right-wing backers in the Philadelphia region. The Israeli American doctor at Jefferson Health always had an activist streak, but his mission changed on Oct. 7.
Published by DPA International A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says the military structure of Islamist Hamas has been dismantled in the north of the Gaza Strip. IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said that Hamas had two brigades with 12 regiments in the north of the coastal strip before the war began three months
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Published by Kyiv Independent President Volodymyr Zelensky was said to have “resembled a walking corpse” in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion, which he did not believe would happen “until the final hours,” the Telegraph reported on Jan. 4 in an excerpt of a book on Zelensky by Time journalist Simon Shuster. Zelensky and
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Published by GB News The BBC has sparked outrage after omitting the word “Jewish” from its promotional material for a film about World War Two hero Sir Nicholas Winton. Winton, who died in 2015 at the age of 106, rescued hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis with the kindertransport scheme. A new film,
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