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05/25/2021
The Biden administration will ask the US Congress for $75 million development and economic assistance for Palestinians, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Tuesday, and added that Washington will be moving forward with the process to reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem.
Speaking after his meeting with Palestinian...
05/25/2021
Nine people were injured in an explosion at the Sepahan Nargostar chemical and fireworks factory in the city of Shahin Shahr in Iran’s Isfahan Province on Saturday night, Iranian media reported Sunday. The cause of the blast was said to be under investigation.
The factory is a producer of industrial and commercial explosive...
05/25/2021
In a rare interview, Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar told Britain’s Sky News that Israel has no right to exist, and said the terror group’s strategy was to target Israeli population centers.
The interview, which came in the wake of the ceasefire that began on Friday, was conducted by Sky’s Middle East correspondent, Mark Stone,...
05/23/2021
Thousands turned out near the Israeli embassy in central London to show support for the Jewish state
Thousands of people took part in a pro-Israel rally in central London on Sunday close to the country's embassy, a day after a huge pro-Palestinian demonstration in the UK capital.
Rallies in support of the Jewish state are...
05/23/2021
Police in London arrested a man whom witnesses said broke into the car of an Orthodox Jewish man on Friday and began hitting the driver unprovoked.
Passersby detained the suspect until police arrived on the scene in Golders Green, a heavily Jewish part of the British capital, the Jewish News of London reported.
The incident...
05/23/2021
A 29-year-old Jewish man in New York City claims he was attacked in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood for wearing a Star of David necklace, The New York Post reported on Saturday.
Ike Tobias and his wife had been walking through the neighborhood after attending a rally in the city, which had focused on the conflict between Israel...
05/23/2021
There’s a story that US President Joe Biden has told many times over the years, about his first trip to Israel.
As a freshman senator in 1973, Biden was granted a meeting with prime minister Golda Meir, who together with Yitzhak Rabin briefed Biden on the many threats Israel faced, showing him a series of maps.
“I guess she...
05/22/2021
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has taken a suspect into custody in connection to a possible anti-Semitic hate crime captured on video outside a sushi restaurant earlier this week.
City News Service reports, “Police Saturday said a man was taken into custody, with the assistance of the U.S. Marshal Service, as one of the...
05/21/2021
In the 11 days of the Israeli Defense Forces’ “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” Israeli forces destroyed some 62 miles of Hamas’s tunnel network in the Gaza Strip, according to IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman.
Speaking hours after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire took effect on Friday, Zilberman reported that some 200...
05/21/2021
During a press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-In on Friday, US President Joe Biden said there had been no shift in the Democratic Party's commitment to the security of the State of Israel, reiterating the party's long-standing support for a "two-state solution" to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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05/21/2021
A Jewish man who was badly beaten by a pro-Palestinian mob in New York City on Thursday has spoken out about the experience, saying he thought he was “going to die” during the attack.
New York police are conducting a hate crimes investigation into the attack.
Joseph Borgen, 29, was beaten by a group of people shouting...
05/21/2021
A man was arrested and several others were being sought in connection with an attack on a Jewish man in New York’s Times Square that drew the attention of several politicians and is being investigated as a hate crime, police said on Friday.
The attack on Thursday, captured in a video that was shared on social media, followed rival...
05/21/2021
An effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to block a $735 million arms sale to Israel appears doomed in the Senate.
Progressives are mounting a late effort to try to stop the sale amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which entered a cease-fire phase on Thursday evening.
But Sanders’s effort is shaping to be largely...
05/20/2021
After more than a week since Hamas terrorists began launching rockets at Israeli cities, a growing number of non-Jewish Iranian activists, journalists and individuals in Iran and outside the country have been vocal in their support for the people of Israel.
Whether via social-media messages or by demonstrating alongside pro-Israel...
05/21/2021
One person was burned when two fireworks were thrown from a car amid an altercation with anti-Zionist protesters in a heavily Jewish New York City business district, according to police.
The fight came on Thursday evening, on what appeared to be the final day of the conflict between Hamas and Israel, before a ceasefire that took...
05/21/2021
The Israeli security cabinet voted to accept a ceasefire late Thursday as the Israeli South and Gaza remain inflamed.
The security cabinet unanimously agreed to a "mutual and unconditional" cessation of hostilities, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.
A barrage of rockets fired from Gaza into southern...
05/21/2021
IDF says that 225 Gaza terrorists killed, including 25 senior commanders
As the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel held into Friday morning, Israel touted the success of its completed military campaign against terrorist targets in Gaza, dubbed Operation Guardian of the Walls.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it destroyed...
05/18/2021
There have been 86 reports of antisemitic incidents over the past ten days, the Community Security Trust has confirmed.
New statistics published on Monday confirmed a staggering 438 percent rise in such incidents since hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians erupted on May 6.
Of the 86 antisemitic incidents, almost all...
05/21/2021
From New York and California to Illinois and Utah, the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza has generated a disturbing backlash against American Jews – who have found themselves the targets of death threats, hate speech and violent physical attacks.
"Stop telling me this is about Israel and Gaza," said a New Yorker who was...
05/20/2021
Since war broke out in Israel last week, President Joe Biden has walked a fine line. His administration has touted its high-level diplomacy in hopes of reaching a cease-fire, while also defending Israel’s right to defend itself.
On Wednesday, the president mildly increased the pressure on the Israelis, saying he expected to see...
