(JTA) — Yad Vashem’s chief historian Dina Porat said Tuesday that “we can live with” much of the joint Holocaust declaration by Israel and Poland that has come in for criticism, including from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Porat in an interview with Israel’s Kan national broadcaster said the declaration should be changed but not canceled. The declaration made…
Israel has stepped up its monitoring of social media, questioning or convicting users whose posts are flagged for being potentially harmful, The Washington Post reported. Security forces and intelligence agencies are also using computer algorithms to predict the likelihood that a given person will carry out a lone-wolf attack to intervene before it happens. Israel…
Author and journalist Ari Shavit called new sexual assault accusations against him “blood libel” on Israeli army radio station Galatz on Monday. “This is a blood libel,” he told host Yael Dan in Hebrew. “Murder in cold blood, [the accuser] shed my blood and my daughter’s blood.” Shavit was responding to an account by an…
(JTA) — Germany has agreed to increase its funding for social welfare services for Holocaust survivors by $88 million. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany in its announcement Tuesday said the increase brings global allocations by Germany for 2019 to $564 million. The Claims Conference and representatives of the German government negotiated the…
A new report from the research firm Twiplomacy found that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most retweeted tweet ever lauded President Trump’s plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Netanyahu wrote, evoking…
The National Republican Campaign Committee pulled its support from New Jersey Republican congressional nominee Seth Grossman after Media Matters revealed that he had shared articles on social media from well-known white nationalist websites, The Weekly Standard reported Monday. “Bigotry has no place in society—let alone the U.S. House of Representatives. The NRCC withdraws our support…
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet admitted the paper has had too much coverage of lawyer Alan Dershowitz, The Daily Beast reported. After Dershowitz, an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School, wrote an op-ed for The Hill lamenting how his liberal friends on Martha’s Vineyard shunned him for his defense of President Trump, the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee amended legislation on surrogacy to make single women eligible for the procedure but not same-sex couples. The surrogacy bill will now go to the Knesset for its second and third reading before becoming law. Currently, only couples who are married and heterosexual have the right to hire a surrogate…
(JTA) — A day after Roseanne Barr announced that she would be interviewed on television, she tweeted that she will film her own interview and post it on-line. Barr’s tweet promised her 891,000 Twitter followers “the entire explanation of what happened and why.” After a lot of thought, I decided that I won’t be doing…
(JTA) — A welcome sign of the Hillel at University of Oregon was defaced with a pro-Palestinian message and obscenities. The vandalism at the Hillel building on the campus in Eugene was discovered on Friday. The Hillel posted a photo of the sign in the building’s parking lot on Facebook. One message read: “Free Palestine…
An Israeli non-profit group plans to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon in February in the first landing of its kind since 2013. The craft, which is shaped like a round table with four carbon fiber legs, is set to blast off in December from Florida’s Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,…
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