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 […]
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 […]
by Daniel Pipes Gatestone Institute April 22, 2019 Did you know that that the War on Terror actually “is a war for natural resources – and that terrorism has little to do with it”? So argues John Maszka in his book, Washington’s Dark Secret: The Real Truth About Terrorism and Islamic Extremism (Potomac, 2018), as […]
France demanded that Israel stop the freezing of tax revenues of the Palestinian Authority and transfer all the funds collected for the PA to Ramallah including the amounts paid by the PA to terrorists and their families. According to the report on Channel 12 News, the French demand received a clear response from Prime Minister […]
An anti-Semitic tirade in a Northern Ireland bar filmed by Jewish director and author Tuvia Tenenbom is being investigated by police. Someone who saw the video on social media apparently filed the complaint. Tenenbom, who has written several books that explore how Jews are viewed in the world, including “Catch the Jew,” was in Northern […]
In a tasteless example of misleading clickbait, Newsweek published this headline, comparing a small and quickly extinguished fire near the Al Aqsa mosque to yesterday’s blaze at Notre Dame. Complete with video of the blaze consuming Notre Dame cathedral, this article inspired dramatic reactions on social media, as readers had no idea of the truth, […]
The Daily Telegraph reported on the transfer of dozens of animals from a decrepit zoo in Gaza to Jordan thanks to an international NGO. Other media outlets made sure to include Israel’s role in facilitating this major cross-border operation. The BBC, for example, wrote: “Israel’s Land Crossing Authority chief said in a statement the country […]
US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who is seeking the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential election, said the United States should “call out” corruption in Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, JTA reported. Warren posted the remark on Twitter on Thursday after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced that he intends to indict Netanyahu on three […]
