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US lawmakers, local politicians and Jewish groups blasted the City University of New York and its law school on Tuesday for a commencement ceremony that featured a keynote speech seen as discriminatory against Jews.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday blasted a Palestinian columnist for the Qatar daily paper Al-Watan who authored a commentary in May calling on Palestinians to carry out terrorist attacks on Israelis, including calls for Arab countries to go on war footing against the Jewish state.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East arrived in Israel on Tuesday, a day after the Israeli military launched a two-week drill simulating a multi-front war.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Five terrorists died overnight Tuesday in an explosion at a base in Lebanon belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, according to Arabic-language media.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli troops came under attack on Monday night on Highway 60 near Kiryat Arba in Judea. The forces returned fire, and a search was launched for the assailants.
An Israeli military ambulance was damaged, but no injuries were reported, according to the Israeli military.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Taliban threatened on Sunday that it could conquer Iran as tensions increase over water disputes between Afghanistan and Iran, leaving at least three people dead.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel has successfully tested a naval version of its land-based Iron Dome air-defense system, the C-Dome.
The interceptor was installed on the Israel Navy’s Sa’ar 6-class “Magen” corvette and was on target when faced with simulated threats such as rockets, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A 32-year-old Israeli man was killed on Tuesday in a terrorist shooting near the Jewish community of Hermesh in northwestern Samaria.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Organizations that celebrated terrorist attacks against Israelis and support boycotting Israel have advised Meta, Facebook’s parent company, on its content moderation regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Iran enjoys an increasingly friendly environment in parts of Latin America, Colombia’s former president Ivan Duque said while in Jerusalem this week.
“That’s the case of Nicolas Maduro, who has become a strong friend of Iran,” Duque said Tuesday, referring to Venezuela’s socialist president.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday fired back at Israel following a series of warnings from Jerusalem directed at his Lebanese terror group.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An attempted terror attack was thwarted in the West Bank settlement of Teneh Omarim, close to Hebron, on Friday morning.
Shortly before 10 a.m., a terrorist infiltration alert was sounded, and the Home Front Command issued instructions for residents to immediately go inside, lock the doors and close the windows, adding that they must remain…
Roger Waters projected Anne Frank’s name at recent concerts to draw comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, leading Germany’s Orthodox rabbinical association to call for a ban on Waters’ performances in the country.
Read more: The Times of Israel
PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s accusation that America backed Israel’s creation to expel its Jews is outrageous, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Wednesday as she denounced antisemitic and racist rhetoric fueling Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
U.S. and Israeli officials have made multiple threats in recent weeks regarding the possibility of a joint strike on Iran’s nuclear program. According to experts spoken to by JNS, these declarations are part of a complex American messaging campaign.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iran unveiled a new version of a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles), enough to hit areas of Israel.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Ziad al-Nakhalah, the secretary-general of the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group, recalled the latest armed escalation with Israel in a Tuesday interview, saying the senior members killed were “immediately replaced.”
Read more: i24 News
A review of Saudi schoolbooks shows that practically all antisemitism has been removed, even if Israel does not appear on the maps.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate