A video commissioned by British Channel 4 for Facebook Watch called “Gaza: life in the deadly blockade” shows a horrendously context-free and one-sided portrayal of the Gaza border protests. Gaza: life in the deadly blockade Amputees have become a common sight in Gaza as Palestinians are shot during protests at Israel’s border. Children as young […]
I started my writing career roughly thirty years ago with an opinion piece for the leftist Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. The article dealt with the shocking revelations about new concentration camps in former Yugoslavia and an anti-Semitic attack on the Auschwitz monument in a park in Amsterdam. “Never again” said the text on the monument […]
Is Google Maps deliberately preventing tourists from visiting the West Bank in order to isolate the Palestinians? Writing in her Times of London column, Janice Turner raises the bizarre question: A puzzle remains from my recent holiday to Israel. Why does Google Maps try to deter tourists from visiting the West Bank? After a morning […]
The New York Times is facing a wave of censure after publishing an antisemitic cartoon in the paper’s international edition. The cartoon, and subsequent non-apology, came on the back of a week of repeatedly hostile, unbalanced and insensitive coverage of Israel. On Friday, 19 April, the New York Times published a piece, by a former […]
How Jewish organizations train people to prevent shootings like the one in Poway. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein said his Chabad of Poway could not afford to hire an armed guard. Had it been able, or if the government had helped the synagogue bring in one, he believes the deadly attack there Saturday could have been averted. […]
“Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.” Why does that simple five-word statement raise such controversy? Can most of the world really be wrong to deny Jerusalem’s capital status? What exactly are the counter-arguments, and how effective is Israel at balancing principle and pragmatism in the city? And does all the fuss — about the city’s […]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) has not condemned or otherwise reacted to the suicide bombings targeting churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the most important day of the Christian calendar. With the death toll in the bombings having risen to above 320, according to Sri Lankan authorities, the White […]
Organizers canceled a conference at a Paris university featuring an address by Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut following the threat of protests. “Security is our top priority and it’s preferable to take no risks,” organizers of the event at Sciences Po university wrote Tuesday. The conference on Europe’s future was to include other speakers, but they […]
A Chabad rabbi and his wife were violently assaulted during a home invasion at a Chabad House in Nairobi, Kenya before dawn early Wednesday morning. Burglars broke into the Chabad house in Nairobi, which is operated by Israeli native Rabbi Shmuel Notik and his wife, Chaya, who operate the Jewish center for travelers in the […]
Writing in The Guardian, academic Mick Dumper states that the Jewish historical presence on the Temple Mount is merely an “increasingly strident claim.” He also believes that: “Flushed with his electoral victory, and politically tooled-up with US support for his annexationist dreams, Netanyahu has the Islamic sites of Jerusalem in his line of fire. He […]
