Documented evidence doesn’t stand in the way of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s claims regarding the attempted lynching of 25 Jewish residents of Samaria by an Arab mob from Kusra last Tuesday. In talks with Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem on Saturday, Abbas declared “the residents (of Kusra) caught settlers and besieged them, and they […]
January 13, 2014 15:30 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. BDS Stories: 1. Modern Language Association (MLA) proposes an anti-Israel resolution but stops short of calling academic boycott. The proposed resolution, reached after hours of raucous debate, calls on the US State Department to […]
By BEN-DROR YEMINI Professor Richard Falk who is a top UN official. Recently he declared that Israel wreaks carnage upon the Palestinians, harboring what he termed “genocidal intent.” If we want to understand the relationship between the industry of lies and the discourse of human rights, we could do worse than examine the case of this […]
Governmental sources report that US Secretary of State John Kerry is behind the European boycott threats on Israeli products and companies operating in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The EU published its guidelines last July, boycotting Israeli companies operating over the 1949 Armistice lines. John Kerry Flash 90 At the moment, Kerry […]
by Daniel Pipes January 9, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Despite all that’s going on the Middle East – the Iranian nuclear buildup, the violence in Iraq, the shaking of Erdo?an’s rule in Turkey, civil war in Syria, Egypt and Yemen in melt-down mode, Libya unraveling, Tunisia in political crisis – U.S. […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry proposed to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas the “return” of 80, 000 Palestinian “refugees” to Israel, a well-informed Palestinian Authority (PA) official told Chinese news service Xinhua on Monday. The senior official of said on condition of anonymity that Kerry’s proposal on the “return of Palestinian refugees” was part […]
January 7, 2014 16:28 by Simon Plosker As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry continues his shuttle diplomacy, now and in the recent past, the international media have been only too willing to blame Israeli settlements or restrictive security practices in Palestinian areas as the biggest obstacles to Middle East peace. Focusing on physical structures, […]
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 […]
It’s not just Israel that is worried about Hamas terrorism. The Palestinian Authority, itself run by the Fatah terror group, is concerned that Hamas, which controls Gaza, will try to further its influence in PA-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria. A PA report quoted by Israel Radio said that such a development would be bad […]
Republican Senator John McCain, who is currently on a visit to Israel, said on Friday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has “serious, serious concerns” about Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for a framework for peace with the Palestinian Authority. McCain is in Israel along with Republican Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Lindsey Graham […]
