June 18, 2013 16:16 by Pesach Benson 1. YNet picked up on a startling revelation about the “moderate” Hassan Rohani: . . . his elder son took his own life in 1992 in protest of his father’s close connection with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “I hate your government, your lies, your corruption, your […]
June 17, 2013 10:50 by Simon Plosker On June 12, USA Today published a story concerning efforts by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to force Alicia Keys to cancel a concert in Israel. It included some particularly nasty language such as a reference to “reports from rights organizations documenting Israel’s violation of Palestinian […]
June 17, 2013 14:58 by Pesach Benson Today’s Top Stories 1. How far has Egyptian public opinion of Hamas sunk after revelations that it intervened in Egypt’s revolution? Maan News reports that a visiting delegation of Hamas leaders — including Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniyeh — were instructed to change hotels after Egyptian security officials […]
June 11, 2013 13:29 by Pesach Benson Israel exported military equipment to Arab countries? Say it ain’t so! Israel has exported security equipment over the past five years to Pakistan and four Arab countries, according to a British government report. The report, which deals with British government permits for arms and security equipment exports, says […]
Apartheid: More Than Just a Word June 10, 2013 12:18 by GuestPost This guest post is written by Rolene Marks. Apartheid. Just the mention of the word is emotive, evocative and provocative. For millions of South Africans who suffered under the apartheid regime, the word is synonymous with suffering, discrimination and racism. Today the word […]
June 9, 2013 16:08 by Pesach Benson Worth reading: Gaza terror groups are tunneling under the entire strip, not just the Egyptian border. The new tunnels serve a variety of military uses. According to YNet, landowners have no say about what goes on underneath their property. Call it collateral damage waiting to happen. You know […]
Anti-Semitic Cartoon: Norwegian Paper Compares Jewish Reaction to Mohammed Cartoon Riots June 6, 2013 16:44 by Simon Plosker The incredibly offensive cartoon published last week by Norway’s third largest newspaper, Dagbladet, generated a huge volume of emails to the editor. While we cannot vouch for the language used by all of the complainants, it is […]
How Does the Media Relate to Anti-Semitism? May 30, 2013 15:06 by Simon Plosker This opinion piece by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished from The Times of Israel. During the 4th International Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, which has been taking place this week in Jerusalem, I was asked to […]
May 29, 2013 16:29 by Pesach Benson Uh-oh: A UN peacekeeping official confirmed to the Times of Israel that Syrian rebels stole a number of their vehicles, including “at least two sophisticated armored personnel carriers.” What could troublemakers do to Israel with these babies? Use your imagination: The RG-31 Nyala is a South African-made, mine- […]
Norwegian Paper Publishes Anti-Semitic Cartoon May 30, 2013 12:02 by Alex Margolin Circumcision has been hotly debated in Scandinavian countries in recent times, but this week, Norway’s third largest newspaper, Dagbladet, took the issue well beyond the boundaries of civil debate and straight into the realm of blatant anti-Semitism. The cartoon Dagbladet published on Tuesday ostensibly […]
