The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed outrage that a group of participants in the UNESCO-affiliated Aalst festival dressed as Nazi SS officers and paraded through the streets of Aalst, Belgium on a rail car reminiscent of those used to deport Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust. Photos in the Belgian media showed the men […]
It was reported last May that nearly 70% of Arabs living in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are in favor of suicide attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers. Yes, seven in ten of the so-called ‘Palestinians’ are willing to send their own children to their deaths in the name of Jihad. Why? Why are these people […]
Members of a Maine high school girls’ basketball team have been disciplined after a picture surfaced online of team members giving a Nazi salute. The picture shows two players of the Greely High School girls’ basketball team facing each other, smiling, and giving the Nazi salute with one arm in the air, while a third […]
A woman was arrested on Tuesday after trying to stab a student at the Ohr HaTorah Jewish day school in Toulouse, France. The school was the target of a terror attack last year which left four people dead, including a rabbi and three students. It was known at the time as the Otzar HaTorah school, […]
by David J. Rusin • Feb 6, 2013 at 11:03 am Islamist Watch (IW) maintains an extensive archive of news items on nonviolent Islamism in the Western world. The complete collection can be found here; lists organized by topic are accessible on the right side of the IW homepage. The following are some of the […]
February 6, 2013 12:39 by Simon Plosker Conspiracy theories involving Israel are the usual fare of anti-Semitic Arab media or neo-Nazi websites. Iranian claims that Israel itself was responsible for the deaths of five Israelis in a bus bombing last summer at Bulgaria’s Burgas airport are unsurprising. What is shocking, however, is the following tweet from […]
President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, faced a brutal line of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearings on Thursday, as he grappled for an adequate defense of his record on Israel and Iran, as well as other pressing issues with which he will be faced if confirmed for the top Pentagon […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. Big Media discovers Yair Lapid, but do press reports unreasonably raise expectations of peace? Mark Heller (NY Times) explains that voters are preoccupied with economic and social issues — so don’t expect aggressive Israeli peace making and other foreign initiatives: The reason is not that Israelis are opposed to the conventional […]
by Daniel Pipes January 28, 2013 Three thoughts as the U.S. Senate gears up to consider on Jan 31 the nomination of Chuck Hagel for the position of secretary of defense: (1) It’s more than a bit curious that Barack Obama should nominate a politician of no distinction, with no significant bills to his name, […]
The United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the PA Territories, Richard Falk, has once again illustrated his lack of objectivity and deep bias against the State of Israel by comparing Hamas terrorists to French resistance fighters during World War II. Richard Falk, who has become notorious for his blatantly anti-Israel views, made the comments in a piece […]
