Defense Secretary Ash Carter and his Israeli counterpart, Moshe Yaalon, agreed at a Pentagon meeting to increase cooperation in the cyber domain, but did not announce agreement on a 10-year military aid package. Carter “reaffirmed the United States’ unshakable commitment to the security of Israel and the importance of the U.S.-Israel defense relationship” during Monday’s…
The Labour Party in Britain has suspended a member for the second time for saying Jews have “big noses” and “slaughter the oppressed.” Vicki Kirby, a former parliamentary candidate, was suspended Monday. Her comments in old tweets resurfaced after she was made a local vice chair of the party last week. Other tweets claimed that…
(JTA) — New York Rabbi Marc Schneier two weeks ago met with Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in the country’s capital city of Manama. A day earlier, the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-state body composed of Bahrain and its neighbors, had adopted a Bahraini-sponsored resolution declaring Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group committed to…
JERUSALEM — The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel said religious law obligates one to kill a terrorist brandishing a knife who is trying to stab someone. “If a terrorist is coming with a knife, it’s a mitzvah to kill him,” Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef declared in his weekly Torah lesson on Saturday night, which was first…
A Boston-area Catholic school banned its students from attending a state semifinal basketball game in the wake of anti-Semitic chants made at a game against a predominantly Jewish public school. Catholic Memorial School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, announced in a statement hours before its game Monday night with Cambridge Rindge and Latin that its students…
(JTA) — When Israel Apartheid Week came to Columbia University in early March, there was potential for great agitation at the heavily Jewish campus. The local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the nation’s leading campus proponent of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, set up a mock “Israeli apartheid wall” in…
The Arizona state House of Representatives approved legislation that would bar state and local governments from doing business with companies that boycott Israel and its settlements. On Monday, the bill passed the House by a vote of 42-16. The Arizona Senate passed the bill last week. The House bill’s sponsor, Speaker David Gowan, told the…
Vandals painted anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas on a synagogue in the French city of Verdun but failed to break in. Congregants discovered the vandalism on Saturday morning, Jean Blacharz, the local community’s vice president, told the L’Est Républicain daily. He added that the incident was the first of its kind in recent memory in Verdun,…
JERUSALEM – A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not be harmed by the winding down of Moscow’s intervention in the Syrian civil war, but Israel’s armed forces chief said the ramifications were not yet clear. Israeli officials have privately said Russian forces sent in last year to help…
JERUSALEM – Israel has appropriated large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho, Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday. Israel’s Peace Now movement, which tracks and opposes Israeli settlement in territory captured in a 1967 war, said the reported seizure of 579 acres (234…
Did Donald Trump’s white supremacist problem just get a little bit smaller? A KKK leader has just retracted his endorsement of Trump and conferred it instead on Hillary Clinton, according to the Telegraph. Will Quigg, a Grand Dragon in California, had emphatically endorsed @realDonaldTrump on Twitter in September, calling Trump his great white hope. But…
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