A U.N. report on establishing a database of companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been delayed, the U.N. Human Rights Council said on Monday. Reuters reported on Friday that the politically sensitive report, due this month from the office of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad…
Benjamin Netanyahu opposes a Palestinian state, a senior Israeli cabinet member said on Monday, but left it unclear whether the prime minister would say that publicly in talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this week. Netanyahu has never explicitly abandoned his conditional support for a future Palestine, and his spokesman did not respond…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Israel says Peru’s fugitive former president, Alejandro Toledo, who is wanted on corruption charges, would not be allowed to enter the country. Toledo’s arrest was requested in Peru last week over allegations he took $20 million in bribes. He was said to have chosen to flee to the Jewish state because his wife,…
Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) members voted on Monday to expel one of the party’s state leaders who criticized a memorial in Berlin to victims of the Nazi Holocaust and said history should be rewritten to focus on German victims. The AfD is expected to become the third-largest party in the Bundestag federal lower house…
(JTA) — A large swastika was spray painted on the side of a car in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Boca Raton, Florida. The incident occurred early Sunday morning, according to local report. The white swastika took up the entire driver’s-side door of the black Ford Mustang. The owner of the car is a teenager…
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Palestinians should be granted Israeli citizenship should Israel annex the West Bank. Speaking at the pro-settlement B’Sheva Jerusalem Conference on Monday, Rivlin said that “Zion is entirely ours,” including the territory where Palestinians hope to build a state, according to the Times of Israel. Rivlin warned against a piecemeal annexation…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An historic church in northern Israel has reopened more than a year after an arson and vandalism attack. The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, where Christians believe Jesus performed a miracle in which he fed thousands of people, reopened on Sunday after renovations costing about $1 million. The…
British writer and convicted Holocaust denier David Irving held a secret event at a Hilton hotel in Glasgow on Friday, according to the Sunday Herald, where he expounded in length on his anti-Semitic views and conspiracy theories. Irving, 78, is the author of several books which defend Adolf Hitler and deny that the Nazis murdered…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Over 100 years ago, Barnett Levine was greeted by the New York skyline and the Statue of Liberty as he arrived in the United States, having fled anti-Semitism and pogroms in his native Poland. Today his grandson saw those very same sights when he joined about 700 others in New York’s…
(JTA) — Sales of Ivanka Trump’s fashion line at Nordstrom’s dropped sharply before the November election, the Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper cited internal data from the department store chain to show that sales of Trump’s fashion line fell by nearly one third in the last fiscal year, and dipped the most just before the…
(JTA) — The “He Will Not Divide Us” performance art project which protests Donald Trump’s presidency has been closed by New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image. The project, spearheaded by Jewish actor Shia LaBeouf, encouraged members of the public to stand in front of a camera outside of the museum and recite the…
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