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Antisemitism

UNRWA staffers share antisemitic content with no consequences, NGO says

UNRWA staff members, including teachers, regularly share antisemitic and pro-terrorism content on social media and face no consequences, according to NGO UN Watch.

In a report published on Wednesday, the Geneva-based organization exposed posts from 10 United Nations employees that included praises of terrorism against Israelis, and a picture of...

Israeli Society

Israel lets Gaza workers enter in bid to reduce tension

Israel is quietly allowing thousands of Palestinians to enter from the Gaza Strip to conduct business and work menial jobs, apparently as part of understandings with the ruling Hamas militant group aimed at preventing a fourth war in the blockaded territory.

Israel effectively revoked thousands of work-permits when it joined Egypt in imposing a...

Palestinian Authority

Greenblatt call to halt donor funding to PA, Hamas Regimes

Donor countries should stop funding the Palestinian Authority and Hamas regimes which is squandering the money, US special envoy Jason Greenblatt said in an opinion piece he published Thursday on the Fox News website.

“Donor countries must ask themselves why they should keep struggling to raise money when everyone can plainly see the Hamas regime...

United Nations (UN)

Trump at U.N.: we won’t tolerate Iran’s ‘monstrous antisemitism’

Iran’s antisemitic hatred of Israel is unacceptable, US President Donald Trump told the UN as he warned Tehran that sanctions against it would not be lifted as long as it’s “bloodlust” and nuclear drive continued.

“For 40 years, the world has listened to Iran’s rulers as they lash out at everyone else for the problems they alone have created,”...

Israeli Society

Danon: Improving Gaza connected to needs of Israeli prisoners’ families

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) on Thursday that improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza should relate to the humanitarian needs of the families of Israelis held prisoner by Hamas.

"The humanitarian deterioration in the Gaza Strip is a clear result of the Hamas regime’s control over the...

US-Israel Relationship

US Ambassador sings to Israel, Shana Tova

In a video released by the the American administration for public affairs ambassador David Friedman greeted the people of Israel to have a happy Jewish new year in the name of the Trump administration.

In the video, The ambassador goes to a bee hive in order to retrieve the freshest honey he is capable of - there he is told that bees produce...

Palestinian Authority

Dozens of West Bank Palestinians cross into Israel in illegal border breach

Dozens of Palestinians illegally crossed into Israel from the West Bank Friday in a major breach of the border fence.

The incident happened in the area of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank near the Israeli city of Netanya, the Walla news site reported.

The border-crossers burned parts of the fence, and sabotaged a mechanical gate for the second...

Iran

Anti-US murals on former embassy in Iran erased… to make way for new ones

TEHRAN, Iran — Famous murals celebrating Iran’s Islamic Revolution daubed on walls of the former US embassy in Tehran have been erased to make way for new paintings to be unveiled on the fortieth anniversary of the hostage crisis.

Three workers were on Sunday afternoon seen removing the original artwork with a sandblaster against the wall of...

US-Israel Relationship

On pre-holiday call, Trump highlights exiting Iran deal, backing Holocaust education, battling anti-Semitism

(September 27, 2019 / JNS) In the annual call on Friday ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday between Jewish communal leaders and the president of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump recalled a friend telling him that neither moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in May 2018 nor recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights last...

Iran

Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim attack on Saudi military post

Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an Iranian-backed movement, claimed on Saturday that they carried out an attack on a Saudi Arabian military post near the border with Yemen, capturing military personnel and military vehicles.

A spokesperson for the Houthis said in a statement that three “enemy military brigades had fallen” in the attack near the border...

Antisemitism

In Rosh Hashanah message, Boris Johnson vows to defend Jews from anti-Semitism

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to protect Jews against anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, in a video message to Jews ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday on Sunday evening.

“I will always be there to defend you against the shameful anti-Semitism that we are increasingly seeing and which is such a terrible blight on our country,” he...

Israeli Society

Year 5780: World leaders wish Jews a happy new year

An Indian Jew blows a 'Shofar', a musical instrument used in Jewish religious ceremonies made from the horn of a Ram during the 'Tashlikh' ceremony during Rosh Hashanah, the two-day Jewish New Year that began Wednesday at sunset, at a dockyard in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. The 'Tashlikh' ceremony is a long-standing Jewish practice...

Iran

Iran: Eliminating Israel ‘no longer a dream but attainable goal’

Warning toward Jewish state comes amid increased bellicose rhetoric in recent weeks by Tehran

The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday that destroying arch-rival Israel was an "achievable goal".

"This sinister regime must be wiped off the map and this is no longer ... a dream it is an achievable goal," Major General Hossein...

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July 11th Tifton, GA Spanish Pastors Luncheon

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July 13th St. Joseph, MI Pastors Breakfast

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July 14th Charleston, SC Why Israel Event

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July 15th La Puente, CA Why Israel- Pastors Meeting

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July 16th Memphis, TN Pastors Meeting

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July 18th Orlando, FL Pastors Breakfast

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July 19th San Bernardino, CA Pastors Dinner