Jewish Telegraphic Agency – A Facebook page that calls on Israel to execute a Palestinian murderer every hour until three kidnapped Israeli teens are returned has garnered more than 19,000 likes. [Ed. Note: 5,271 Palestinians are currently being held by Israel, 196 of them minors. In the past 14 years, Israeli forces have killed 1,523 […]
By Marcy Oster. Jewish Telegraphic Agency – A new Israel education initiative for camps is launching with grants of $3.6 million. The Larry and Lillian Goodman Foundations has awarded a four-year, $2.3 million matching grant to the iCenter and the Foundation for Jewish Camp to establish the Goodman Camping Initiative for Modern Jewish History. The […]
The Jerusalem Post – The Education Ministry and Wikipedia are joining forces to enable Israeli pupils to fill in missing information on the online encyclopedia’s site, it was announced Tuesday. Education Minister Shai Piron and Jan-Bart de Vreede, chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, have agreed on a collaborative program to train history, […]
Our note: Rahm Emanuel, a dual Israeli citizen (his father was in a terrorist group) who volunteered with the Israeli military during the first Gulf War, is known as a money man for the Democratic Party. He has just announced his support for Hillary Clinton for President. Does he hope he’ll end up number two on her […]
Haaretz – Without money, a phone or identity papers, Fadel Tamimi’s 14-year-old son was thrown out of an Israeli army jeep, in the dead of night, 15 kilometers away from home, after being interrogated. By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac. If a man falls from a plane in the middle of the night God alone can raise […]
Haaretz – The Israeli embassy in London has condemned a Methodist Church report on the case for and against boycotting Israel, according to the Church Times website.While the briefing paper does not recommend that the Methodist Church join the Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions movement, it was condemned by the embassy as an attempt to “legitimize […]
Haaretz – Some 60 young, mainly Israeli, travelers have been arrested at a Peruvian archaeological site for what local media are describing as a late-night drunken, drug-addled sex orgy, Channel 2’s Mako website reported Tuesday. A Peruvian TV station billed the event as “a night of Israeli debauchery.” Stolen Inca artifacts, as well as marijuana and […]
By Richard Silverstein. RichardSilverstein.com – In the second case in which an Israeli either serving as, or running for president has been accused of sexual harassment, Israel’s News1 reveals that senior minister Silvan Shalom is being accused of engaging in a sex act with a subordinate in 1999. At the time, he was minister of science and technology. Shalom […]
By Alan Hart. AlanHart.net – On the face of it that’s a silly question and the speculation it represents – that Palestinian “President” Abbas could replaced by an Israeli agent or asset – is not worthy of discussion. But before dismissing it readers might do what I did and consider two things. The first is […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is an encouraging JERUSALEM POST news report. Until now, it has been widely assumed that John Kerry had fully and irrevocably bought into Bibi Netanyahu’s “Jewish state” gambit for ensuring the failure of the current ”negotiations” while shifting the blame to Palestine. Since the Palestinian negotiating position is fully consistent with international […]