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 […]
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 […]
Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett published a manifesto on Sunday morning explaining why he believes that the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s application to international organizations for legitimacy will not do much harm to Israel – and, according to him, is really bound to hurt the PA itself. “Every year we renew a ‘festival of threats’: if […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s “Jewish advisors” are to blame for the impasse in the peace talks, a former minister in the Palestinian Authority (PA) government claimed on Tuesday. Speaking to the PA-based Safa news agency, Sufian Abu Zaida, a senior member of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, said, “All the members of […]
The death toll in the three-year-old Syrian civil war has topped 150,000, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, according to AFP. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 150,344 people, 51,212 of them civilians, including nearly 7,985 children. The group said 37,781 members of the armed opposition had been […]
Israeli source says Pollard deal is in the process of being secured – but at what cost? By Uzi Baruch An Israeli official has confirmed to Arutz Sheva that a deal to secure Jonathan Pollard’s release over the next two weeks has crystallized, in a bid to exchange him with over 400 Palestinian Arab terrorists […]
March 30, 2014 17:35 by Pesach Benson The UN Human Rights Council had a busy weekend of Israel-bashing. Not only did the council pass five resolutions slamming Israel, it also nominated a Christine Chinkin — a professor with her own ignoble history — for a key human rights monitoring position. See below for more on this […]
by Cinnamon Stillwell • Apr 1, 2014 at 5:18 pm Although we have only Ali Abuminah of the Electronic Intifada to rely on for this story, it’s entirely plausible that the always-unhinged Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, would have an article pulled, even by the […]
“To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to public disgrace”—Hebrews 6:6 By Raymond Ibrahim (Author, “Crucified Again.“) -The United Nations, Western governments, media, universities, and talking heads everywhere insist that Palestinians are suffering tremendous abuses from the state of Israel. Conversely, the greatest human rights tragedy of […]
