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Category Archives: Politics
American Jews write letter critical of Israel’s plans to reform judiciary
TIMES OF ISRAEL 169 liberal US Jewish leaders sign letter expressing concern over Israeli government Jacob Magid February 1, 2023 A letter signed by 169 US liberal Jewish leaders and published Wednesday expressed concern over many of the policies proposed … Continue reading
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Senator Risch re-introducing UNRWA Accountability and Transparency Act which would halt agency funding until all its antisemitic issues are thoroughly addressed
ALGEMEINER Biden Admin Announces $50 Million in New UNRWA Funding Andrew Bernard February 1, 2023 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday announced $50 million in new funding for a UN agency that is dedicated solely to the descendants … Continue reading
The idea of applying financial pressure on the PA to end pay-to-slay was inspired by the horrific murder of a young American Army veteran in Tel Aviv and legislated by the U.S. Congress long before the law passed Israel’s Knesset
FDD Time For Palestinian Leaders to End “Pay-to-Slay” Terror Bounties Enia Krivine January 28, 2023 Earlier this month, Israel’s new finance minister Bezalel Smotrich withheld just under $40 million of tax revenue that Israel collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA). … Continue reading
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Tagged Bezalel Smotrich, Palestinians
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Irfaya received no support from Palestinian groups for the murder, which shocked Israeli society and led to protests and demands to instate a death sentence for terrorists
JPOST Terrorist sentenced to life, 20 years prison for ‘cruel’ Ori Ansbacher murder Michael Starr January 29, 2023 The terrorist who raped and murdered Israeli teenager Ori Ansbacher in 2019, Arafat Irfaya, was sentenced to life in prison, another 20 … Continue reading
Palestinian leaders are calling on the international community to sanction Israel after an Israeli Military operation in Jenin resulted in Palestinian deaths
JERUSALEM POST Palestinian Authority ends security coordination with Israel over Jenin raid Khaled Abu Toameh January 26, 2023 The Palestinian Authority announced on Thursday evening that it has decided to halt security coordination with Israel. The announcement was made after … Continue reading
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Tagged Fatah, Jenin, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, Ramallah
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Activists and the political opposition say the ruling coalition’s proposals, which aim at curbing the power of Israel’s judiciary, could undermine the country’s existing system of checks and balances
WALL STREET JOURNAL Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Appointment of Key Netanyahu Ally Dov Lieber January 18, 2023 Israel’s Supreme Court struck down the appointment of a minister who is a critical ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dealing an … Continue reading
Israel’s Supreme Court president has transformed the court into a super-legislator, empowered to dictate the terms of laws to the people’s elected representatives, based on the values of the justices
JNS Esther Hayut’s war against democracy Caroline Glick January 22, 2023 Friday morning brought the first piece of good news from Israel’s Supreme Court in years. Yediot Ahronot’s top headline declared that Supreme Court President Esther Hayut intends to resign … Continue reading
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Israel’s Attorney General “has the exclusive right to decide if the prime minister has violated the conflict of interest arrangement and must therefore be declared unfit to serve”
JPOST AG pondering declaring Netanyahu unfit as PM due to conflicts of interest January 20, 2023 Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara and the State Attorney’s Office are considering declaring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unfit to serve due to a conflict of interest … Continue reading
Upper West Side Rabbi Kalmanofsky therefore decreed that the standard prayer for the State of Israel, a staple of synagogue Shabbat services, no longer be recited
COMMENTARY Jewish Hysterics and Israel’s New Government Elliott Abrams February 2023 What explains the hysterical reaction, not least among some American Jews, to the victory of Israel’s new coalition government in the elections held there in November 2022? To ask … Continue reading
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Book of Names, with the names of 4.8 million Holocaust victims, to be inaugurated at UN, underscoring individual identities of the victims
ARUTZ SHEVA Holocaust ‘Book of Names’ to be unveiled at the UN Renee Ghert-Zand, JTA January 24, 2023 …To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, Yad Vashem is inaugurating its Book of Names — a monumental installation containing … Continue reading
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