Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has told rival jihadists in Syria to accept independent Islamic arbitration to end three months of infighting, saying in an audio message Friday the violence is “sedition”, according to AFP. Powerful jihadist rebel groups in Syria, including the Islamic Front and Al-Qaeda’s affiliate Al-Nusra Front, have been locked in fierce fighting […]
Mk Motti Yogev (Jewish Home), Chairman of the Subcommittee of Judea and Samaria in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, established in a special hearing on Sunday over illegal Palestinian Arab building in [Israel-controlled] Area C. The hearing was convened following a similar meeting held last month, attended by representatives of the Defense Ministry of Foreign […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 3, 2014 NRO title: “Christie and Israel” A small but significant event took place on March 29 at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. Hosted by Sheldon Adelson, the mega-donor to Republican presidential campaigns, the event drew four leading potential candidates for president in 2016, including New […]
April 7, 2014 16:40 by Jeremy Zauder Our 2014 Q1 Report (click here to view or download) contains highlights from January through March, including: Media Corrections Fighting BDS: Scarlett Johansson and SodaStream Social Media Backing the Australian Jewish Community Against Four Corners Taking on an Irish Anti-Semite Interns Additional Staff Media Appearances TVEyes Joe Hyams […]
A moving bar mitzvah ceremony was held at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Monday; the 13-year-old boy called to the Torah for the first time was recently rescued with his family from an Arab village, where he was being raised as a Muslim. “If I told you a year ago that you would celebrate a bar […]
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 […]
An Israeli startup said on Tuesday that it was working to develop a bio-organic system that can recharge a smartphone battery in just 30 seconds. Tel Aviv-based StoreDot’s prototype battery and charger is currently being tested with Samsung’s Galaxy phones, but the startup’s founder and CEO Doron Myersdorf told AFP that a product compatible with […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — His voice shaking, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand Monday for the first time, testifying that he was trying to protect the girlfriend he killed and that he became so tormented by memories of the fatal shooting and panic attacks that he once hid helplessly in a closet. Pistorius also […]
Three young Polish partiers chose a terrible place to party this weekend – a concentration camp. According to Yediot Aharonot, three skinheads in their thirties infiltrated the Majdanek death camp near the city of Lublin in Poland. One of them took his friends to smoke for pleasure against the booths where prisoners were crowded – […]
The US Senate has unanimously passed a bill barring known terrorists from entering the United States as ambassadors to the United Nations. The move came in response to the decision by Iran to appoint Hamid Aboutalebi, who participated in the 1979 hostage-taking of Americans in Tehran, as its UN ambassador. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf had called […]
