Yossi Dagan, the head of media relations for the Samaria Regional Council, filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Government Press Office (GPO) against a CNN reporter for equating the terrorists involved in the Har Nof massacre with the victims. According to Dagan, American CNN reporter Ben Wedeman was responsible for the headline describing the massacre […]
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik A cartoon showing an Israeli soldier about to rape the Al-Aqsa Mosque portrayed as a woman in jail was posted today by the National Security Forces of the Palestinian Authority. A woman is weeping in a prison cell while an Israeli soldier is undoing his pants outside the […]
The US Supreme Court is about to decide Monday in the Zivitofsky vs. Hillary Clinton case, that involves a demand by a US citizen to have his birthplace denoted as “Jerusalem, Israel” on his passport. At the center of the struggle between the Congress and the presidency is Menachem Zivotofsky, who was born in Jerusalem […]
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday criticized the tone and timing of what it called the Obama administration’s “intensified critique” of Israel for movement on housing plans in eastern Jerusalem. In a statement, the ADL called the criticism “myopic” and said it reinforces Palestinian intransigence regarding reconciliation with Israel. “The Obama administration’s intensified critique of […]
Arab rioters hurling rocks, fireworks and molotov cocktails at a Jewish infant day care center on Ma’ale Hazeitim, the Jewish neighborhood on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, were caught on film on Tuesday in further testimony to the ongoing “silent intifada” in the capital. The video, which was posted by Jerusalem Council Arieh King […]
Crowds of Muslims gather at Al Aqsa mosque to celebrate rockets reaching as far as Jerusalem. [youtube e86zg3SDDxE nolink] UPDATE: Early reports state that a rocket has hit a house in the Jerusalem area after the Color Red siren was heard in Jerusalem for the first time in years. There do not appear to be injuries. […]
During a recent conference in Milan, Italy, an imam from the Al-Aqsa Mosque called on “Arab legions” to attack Jaffa and Haifa. The public address delivered by Imam Raed Al-Daan aired on the Al-Jazeera network on April 27 and were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). “In Gaza, I see orphans who […]
Following intelligence information received by Jerusalem police on plans by Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount to disrupt the public order at the end of their prayers, entrance to the holy site was limited to Muslim visitors. The decision to only allow Muslim men over the age of 50, and women of any age, to […]
As Jews marked the second morning of the Pesach holiday, Muslims rioters marred the day by hurling flares and rocks at police forces on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site. One police officer was reportedly slightly injured. The Jerusalem police are on high alert and have fanned out in large forces around the Old City, […]
An American Congressman has expressed his “shock” after witnessing anti-Jewish discrimination on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, during a recent fact-finding mission to Israel. US Rep. Bill Johnson, (R-OH) was joined by Congressman David McKinley (R-WV), on a tour of the State of Israel organized by the Israel Allies Foundation, “to see the situation there […]
