Two more universities have withdrawn their membership from the American Studies Association (ASA) in protest of decision to support an academic boycott of Israel. The two universities, Kenyon College and Indiana University, thus joined Brandeis and Penn State, which were the first universities to announce that they reject the boycott and quit the ASA. In […]
The US financial aid designated for the Palestinian Authority (PA) is set to grow considerably in 2014 to $440 million, up from $426 million in 2013. The aid aims to bail out the PA, which in June was revealed to owe $4.2 billion in internal and external debt. Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) representative in Washington DC, Maen Erekat, […]
Two Turkish history students avoided jail Monday after giving the Nazi salute at the former Auschwitz death camp, Polish police said. The 22-year-old man and woman were detained on Sunday while taking pictures of each other performing the salute at the gates of the former Nazi German death camp in the southern Polish city of […]
The Temple Mount is a difficult issue because there is a total imbalance between the rights of Muslims and the rights of Jews. And even those who feel Jews should not ascend the mount for halakhic reasons are appalled by that injustice. For the Jewish People, the center of our individual and national being, the […]
Jewish groups in Canada, and foremost among them the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), are trying to advance a parliamentary committee’s recommendation calling on the government to recognize the refugee status of Jewish refugees as part of its policy around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Roughly 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries around the time of […]
Human rights activists and Jewish groups sounded the alarm Monday over the surprise election of a Slovak neo-Nazi as regional governor, AFP reports. Marian Kotleba’s weekend victory appears to be due in part to his anti-Roma rhetoric. The move comes as several European nationalist parties, including France’s anti-immigrant National Front and Hungary’s far-right Jobbik, plan to join forces ahead of next year’s European […]
President Obama’s cowardly deal with the Iranian regime – a regime dedicated to the destruction of Israel, pursuing nuclear weapons in violation of multiple United Nations resolutions, and the persecution of Christians – marks the most ignominious moment in western foreign policy in decades. The easy comparison is to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement […]
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people; no such thing as a Palestinian history; and no Palestinian language exists. There has never been any independent, sovereign Palestinian state in all of recorded history. They are the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. They are indistinguishable from those Arabs who live in the surrounding artificial […]
Truth meets fiction as Oscar winner George Clooney will show his Nazi-era art thriller “The Monuments Men” at the Berlin film festival in February. The film comes amid the controversy following last year’s discovery of over 1,400 works of art stolen by the Nazis The artworks were found in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a powerful Nazi-era […]
An Israeli academic is suing one of the UK’s largest trade unions, as well as a mental health trust, for racial discrimination, after his speaking engagement he was due to deliver was canceled because he was Israeli. Professor Moty Cristal was due to lead a workshop on “conflict resolution” for managers and union officials at the Manchester Mental […]
