Settlements

A Christian former Chicago Public Schools student said she was allegedly coerced into participating in “Hinduistic rituals.”

A school district in the transgender “sanctuary state” of California settled for $100,000 with a mother who said her daughter was “socially transitioned” to a boy without her knowledge or consent.

“The real war is actually between liberals and Christians because liberals don’t believe in absolute truth,” Gabriel Rench told Breitbart News.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back at Sky News, stating that Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are part of the Jewish “ancestral homeland” to which Jews have been attached for 3,000 years and the notion of banning Jews from settling in those areas is the true “obstacle to peace,” after the British news outlet attempted to depict the territories as “occupied” lands.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy highlighted Friday that the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights has shelled out nearly $20 million taxpayer dollars in the past few decades to settle “cases of sexual harassment & other misconduct committed by members of Congress.”

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) stated that he completely supports releasing the names of members of Congress who had taxpayers pay to settle misconduct claims against them and that what they did is

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) reacted to reports that former President Donald Trump has been indicted by pointing to Congress paying to settle misconduct allegations against members of Congress who have then run

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is introducing a measure to prevent taxpayer dollars from being spent in settlement payments stemming from litigation against the federal government filed by illegal immigrants.

St. Louis County, Missouri, agreed to pay out a $10.25 million settlement to a police lieutenant who said he was ordered to “tone down” his “gayness” and was passed over for a promotion 23 times.

TEL AVIV – Speaking to a group of high ranking pro-Israel Christians on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent declaration that the U.S. no longer considers Jewish settlements in the West Bank unlawful. 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the U.S. had reversed the policy of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, who declared Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) illegal.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. is fully aware of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flat rejection of the creation of a Palestinian state along with his plans to annex West Bank settlements, the Israeli premier said on Monday.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is still undecided about whether he will travel to Israel in May to inaugurate the new U.S. embassy to coincide with Israel’s 70th anniversary, the White House said Tuesday.

TEL – AVIV – President Donald Trump’s special Middle East envoy slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday for calling the U.S. ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog” and choosing “hateful rhetoric” over bettering the lives of his people.

TEL AVIV – Settlement building is not an obstacle to peace, but refusal to accept the Jewish state is, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday at the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC’s annual conference.

TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian official said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is locked in “confrontation” with the Trump administration over its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and that the days when the world is led by the U.S. are numbered, the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration’s plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely include U.S. and international recognition of a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem, the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration on Monday issued a flat denial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the U.S. and Israel were in discussions regarding the annexation of West Bank settlements, prompting the Israeli leader to walk back his remarks.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is not convinced that either Israel or the Palestinians are committed to peace, he said in an interview Sunday with Israeli daily Israel Hayom.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority formed a committee on Tuesday that will plan a “disengagement” from Israel, including replacing the Israeli shekel with another form of currency – possibly a Palestinian one.

TEL AVIV – The Irish Senate on Tuesday postponed voting on a bill that would criminalize trade with Israeli settlements, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s condemnation of the proposed legislation.

Former President Barack Obama told a Jewish congregation in Manhattan that he is “basically a liberal Jew” as he defended his administration’s record on Israel and his decision to criticize Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria.

TEL AVIV – Egypt on Sunday categorically denied a New York Times report that claimed Cairo had tacitly accepted President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and took surreptitious steps to persuade the Egyptian public that it was a good thing, despite vociferous public declarations in protest of the move.

TEL AVIV – Arab nations will push for recognition of “Palestine” with eastern Jerusalem as its capital following President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last month.

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein used highly restrictive non-disclosure agreements and large cash payouts to silence victims of his alleged sexual abuse for decades, according to the latest investigative effort from The New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow.

TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. into pressuring Israel to delay the “Greater Jerusalem” bill that would see the connection of satellite settlements to the capital, the Hebrew news site Ynet reported Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – U.S. pressure on Israel resulted in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponing an initial vote on a bill that would annex 19 settlements surrounding Jerusalem to the capital.

TEL AVIV – In a dramatic departure from the party’s traditional position, Labor chief Avi Gabbay said that any deal with the Palestinians he would be involved in would not include evacuating West Bank settlements. 

TEL AVIV – The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations slammed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, for reportedly “blacklisting” companies with business dealings in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.

TEL AVIV – Human Rights Watch has charged Israeli banks with proliferating and financing construction in the West Bank and called on them to stop, adding that there is legal justification for doing so, according to a new report released by the group Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – China’s ambassador to the United Nations urged the international community on Monday to embrace Chinese President Xi Jinping’s four-point plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and establish an independent Palestinian state.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party will vote against the creation of a Palestinian state on Tuesday, a move which will trigger a chain of events including the probable collapse of the Palestinian Authority.

Israel on Wednesday denied that it agreed to a slowdown in settlement construction as part of any future peace talks.

The United Nations is preparing to release yet another anti-Israel report, blaming Israeli settlements for a host of Palestinian grievances for everything from excessive use of force to building parks on the West Bank so as to “entrench” Israeli presence — the report coming just days after the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

TEL AVIV – Jordan’s Foreign Minister said Saturday that Arab countries would ensure Israel’s security in a future peace deal with the Palestinians as long as it withdraws from the West Bank.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not meet with Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday after a spat over Sigmar Gabriel’s planned meetings with leftwing groups critical of the IDF.