It’s not every day Queen Elizabeth invites a British citizen from Israel to garden party, but Lucy Fensom’s charity for donkeys apparently was enough to prompt an invitation to last week’s event as Britain celebrates the Queen’s 60 years as monarch. She invited Fensom in recognition of her ‘Safe Haven for Donkeys in the Holy […]
by Daniel Pipes June 2, 2012 updated Jun 3, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online The broad lines of U.S. government, other government, and generally establishment policy toward Islamism were laid down on June 2, 1992, when Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Edward P. Djerejian delivered a major speech, […]
The IDF’s Operations Department has recently defined the essence of IDF cyber warfare, putting together instructions that define the military’s operational methods in cyber space and clarify its goals in facing potential enemies. The IDF Website revealed on Sunday these instructions for the first time and, according to the IDF document, cyber space is to […]
The Educational Alliance’s 14th Street Y revoked its decision to host an event organized by Young, Jewish and Proud (YJP), the youth affiliate of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an organization that supports targeted divestments against the State of Israel. The cancellation, which came within 48 hours’ of the event, seemed to have been triggered […]
Defense Minister Ehud Barak suggested Wednesday in a speech to the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies that Israel consider a unilateral disengagement from Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron, also called “Yesha“) — similar to that carried out by the Israeli government in the Gush Katif region of Gaza in August […]
Boycott Switzerland’s Migros Supermarket Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros, announced on Tuesday that it will tell its customers if products have come from Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria (Shomron) and east Jerusalem. According to a report on SwissInfo, the reason for the decision is Migros’ desire to offer customers greater transparency. The report noted that […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed his disappointment on Tuesday over the way the negotiations between world powers and Iran, over its disputed nuclear program, were going. Speaking at the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said, “Not only should the sanctions on Iran be increased, the demands for […]
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that Israel will not be “dragged into provocations with Turkey” over its indictment of four former senior IDF commanders. Meeting with German president Joachim Gauck in Jerusalem, Lieberman said, “We hope that European countries refuse to cooperate with Turkish authorities over these absurd charges against former IDF chief of […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online May 29, 2012 The fetid, dark heart of the Arab war on Israel, I have long argued, lies not in disputes over Jerusalem, checkpoints, or “settlements.” Rather, it concerns the so-called Palestine refugees. So called because of the nearly 5 million official refugees served by UNRWA (short for the […]
What JStreet is to American Jews, Yachad is to the U.K. Jewish community – a group that purports to support Israel, even though it is a harsh critic of the “occupation” and the right wing polices of the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. But Yachad is no supporter of Israel, says Ari Soffer of […]
