TEL AVIV – The Israeli government is “rightwing and racist” and the U.S. cannot just support the Jewish state while ignoring the Palestinians, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Tuesday during a CNN town hall event in Las Vegas.
Israeli, Jewish and pro-Israel groups all applauded the publication of an ‘unprecedented’ United Nations report on anti-Semitism, that, among other issues, links anti-Semitism to criticism of Israel and the BDS movement.
Former Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked told a group of New York Republican leaders visiting the Jewish state this week that Israel’s right-wing, which unsuccessfully ran under separate banners during the recent April elections, must unify as a single political constellation ahead of Sept. 17 national elections.
TEL AVIV – Some 50 Palestinians petitioned the International Criminal Court at The Hague on Monday to launch an investigation into the Palestinian Authority for carrying out war crimes, including torture, on suspected collaborators with Israel.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel maintains covert ties with “most Arab countries.”
TEL AVIV – Sunni Arab states are moving faster than the Palestinians toward normalizing ties with Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.
TEL AVIV — The Hamas terror group on Tuesday released a video claiming that it had thwarted Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system when a barrage of some 700 rockets was launched from Gaza last month, killing three Israelis.
TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday seemed to walk back comments he made in a leaked recording last week, saying it was “inaccurate and fundamentally untrue” to think that the long-anticipated Trump administration peace proposal is biased towards Israel.
NUWEIBA – A dozen photographs have been removed from an exhibition on Israel in Mexico City Metro on the grounds of complaints filed by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state, saying the images, which included scenes from the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem, depicted territories of “brutal military occupation.”
TEL AVIV – Pop superstar Madonna finally signed a contract with Eurovision organizers to perform at the contest’s grand final on Saturday, defying boycott calls by fellow artist and BDS overlord Roger Waters who days earlier posted a bizarre rant on Twitter in which he compared “ethno-supremacist” Israelis to aliens.
TEL AVIV – Pop superstar Madonna declared that calls to boycott Israel would not stop her from coming to the country to perform during Saturday’s grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.
TEL AVIV – The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles compared “apartheid” Israel to Nazi Germany in a speech he gave to students at the University of California, Irvine on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day last Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel observed a moment of silence on Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday in memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said he hoped to forge peace with the Arab world in a speech marking the opening of the 21st Knesset.
AUSCHWITZ — The first-ever U.S. government delegation to the March of the Living annual Holocaust memorial arrived at Auschwitz on a somber Thursday morning, bringing several ambassadors and envoys in a show of solidarity against antisemitism.
TEL AVIV – In a scathing attack on The New York Times, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. on Monday described the newspaper as a “cesspool of hostility” that depicts Israel as a “force for evil” after it published an anti-Semitic cartoon.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he plans to name a community in the Golan Heights after President Trump, paying homage to the U.S. president’s recent decision to recognize the strategic plateau as Israeli territory.
TEL AVIV – Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Tuesday said previously attempts to broker a two-state solution had “failed” and the long-anticipated “deal of the century” would be different.
TEL AVIV – Sen. Bernie Sanders sparked ire from the pro-Israel group AIPAC and Israeli ministers for smearing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as “racist.”
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani used an address at an Army Day parade in Tehran on Thursday to call on “righteous” Muslim countries across the Middle East to unite against Israel and the United States.
Madonna has been urged to cancel any performance at the Eurovision Song Contest finals in Tel Aviv next month, with British rock legend Roger Waters claiming to do so “normalizes the occupation, the apartheid, the ethnic cleansing, the incarceration of children, the slaughter of unarmed protesters” in the Jewish state.
The final batch of polls conducted before Tuesday’s elections showed the centrist Blue and White widening its lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, even as the surveys unanimously indicated that the incumbent prime minister was best positioned to form the next government.
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone told a meeting of hard-left Labour Party activists “lies and smears” are being used to destroy leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights will not be recognized or sanctioned by the European Union (E.U.) , despite the U.S. policy reversal on the disputed territory.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke forcefully against the growing “cancer” of anti-Semitism on Monday, including tolerance for anti-Semitic rhetoric in the British Labor Party and America’s Democrat Party.
TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted the rise of global anti-Semitism, saying the brand of Jew-hatred tolerated by the UK’s Labour Party was a “national disgrace” while the anti-Semitism occuring in the Middle East was a “cancer metastasizing.” He also said anti-Zionism is tantamount to Jew-hatred.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday lashed the hard-left UK Labour Party’s efforts to tackle antisemitism in its ranks as a “national disgrace” in an unusually harsh appraisal of the internal politics of an ally.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II cancelled a visit Monday to Romania after its prime minister vowed to move her country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his office said.
TEL AVIV – Romania on Sunday announced its plans to follow the U.S. and move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Israel’s leaders on Thursday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the time had come for the United States to “fully recognize” Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, while the Palestinians warned the move would further destabilize the region and lead to bloodshed.
WASHINGTON — A new group was launched Tuesday to bolster pro-Israel candidates running for Congress.
TEL AVIV — A bill that would define anti-Semitism as racism, bar religion-based discrimination at schools and universities as well the demonization of Israel was unanimously approved by the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee Tuesday.
Jerusalem — Israeli Immigration Minister Yoav Gallant called Tuesday on French Jews to “come home” to Israel following the anti-Semitic vandalism of a cemetery in eastern France.
The Mideast conference in Poland starting Wednesday offers Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an opportunity to flaunt in public what he has long boasted about happening behind the scenes — Israel’s improved relations with some Gulf Arab nations.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has called for the United States to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the congressman’s office told Jewish Insider.
TEL AVIV — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit in Arkansas by a local newspaper to block an anti-BDS law against Israel, ruling that such boycotts are not protected by the First Amendment since denying a purchase on account of perceived injustices relating to Israeli policies has nothing to do with free speech.
TEL AVIV – Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Tuesday claimed she “unknowingly” used an anti-Semitic trope when she accused Israel of “hypnotizing the world” but added that that didn’t mean she would stop criticizing the Jewish state any time soon.
Despite assurances to the contrary, the European Union continues to support nongovernmental organizations that boycott Israel, according to a report from the Israeli government.
It didn’t take long for Jewish and Israel-related groups to react to the appointment of anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
During a 40-minute meeting in Vienna on Monday, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad that anti-Semitism is “unacceptable.”
