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- Airbnb joins effort to fight #BDS
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- Bret Stephens: "What can’t be emphasized enough, especially among those who think of themselves as pro-Palestinian: If you want a Palestinian state to exist and succeed, you must also want Hamas to be humiliated and defeated"
- As Israel and Turkey attempt to rebuild long-strained ties, joint statement says ‘rehabilitation of relations can contribute to regional stability’
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
“The US decision to procure Iron Dome comes on the heels of a variety of joint Israel-U.S. programs and defense systems that are increasingly outfitting U.S. forces”
DEFENSE NEWS Can Iron Dome cut it for indirect fire protection? US Army is buying a couple systems to find out by Seth J. Frantzman February 6, 2019 The U.S. Army plans to buy a limited number of Iron Dome … Continue reading
“He is a committed Jew and pro-Israel advocate, and is smart as a whip. He is an extremely successful prosecutor”
JNS Iraq war veteran, grandson of Holocaust survivors Elan Carr tapped as anti-Semitism envoy by Jackson Richman February 4, 2019 After a 21-month-long vacancy awaiting the appointment of the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, the … Continue reading
The late Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein founded the IFCJ in 1983 to “help build bridges between Christians and Jews, and as a source of support for Israel and Jews around the world”
JNS Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, stalwart promoter of ties between Jews and Christians, dies at 67 by Jackson Richman February 6, 2019 Israeli American Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, whose life goal was to promote a dialogue between Jews and Christians, died on … Continue reading
S1 bill now goes to the House, “where the Democratic majority will break it up into its components, and its leadership is likely to bury the anti-BDS section”
JTA Senate passes anti-BDS measure with notable Democrats in dissent February 5, 2019 The U.S. Senate approved in a 77-23 vote a bill that codifies $38 billion in defense assistance to Israel and which provides legal cover to states that … Continue reading
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Representative Omar: Have you ever called out Jordan for establishing Islam as the religion of the state?
FREE BEACON Singling Out the Jewish State by Aaron Kliegman January 31, 2019 There are 43 countries with official state religions and another 40 that give one religion preferential treatment over other faiths. Of the former group, 27 countries enshrine … Continue reading
“Horrible as Riyadh’s behavior is, the Houthis are worse. Thus by ending support for the Saudi coalition, American would empower an even greater evil”
JNS Backing the Saudis in Yemen is right, strategically and morally by Evelyn Gordon January 30, 2019 …On the strategic side, let’s start with the fact that an organization [Iran] whose official slogan is “God is Great, Death to America, … Continue reading
“With ground support from a big tent of vitriolic groups, it was Human Rights Watch that pressured Airbnb into boycotting Israel”
WASHINGTON EXAMINER Why has Human Rights Watch become an anti-Israel activist group? by Jonathan Schanzer and David May February 4, 2019 When Airbnb, the online lodging service, announced in November that it would ban Israeli listings in the disputed West … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Airbnb, BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Human Rights Watch
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#BDSFail UK #BDS poll concluded “Muslim respondents were almost four times likelier to agree with the need to boycott Israel than the average”
JERUSALEM POST Boycotting Israel has little appeal in the UK, Despite star power by Cnaan Lipschiz February 1, 2019 …In the poll of 4,005 British respondents, only 10 percent agreed that Israel should be boycotted, compared to 46 percent who … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, United Kingdon
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New Gaza-Israel fence will sit atop tunnel-blocking subterranean wall and connect to sea barrier
TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel starts construction on 20-foot-high fence surrounding Gaza by Judah Ari Gross February 3, 2019 The Defense Ministry has begun the final phase of construction of a 20-foot high galvanized steel fence that will completely surround the … Continue reading
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