Canada stands poised to reject the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign against Israel. The Liberals, who comprise the majority of seats in the House of Commons, said the party will support an opposition motion introduced Thursday calling on the House to formally reject the goals of the BDS movement. The motion was introduced by two…
More than 93 percent of fresh Israeli poultry reportedly is infected with a bacteria known to cause food poisoning. The widespread presence of the Campylobacter bacteria was reported in a still unpublished study by Israel’s poultry council presented Wednesday at an internal meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Veterinary Services, according to The Marker, a…
In a statement that reaffirmed the seriousness of Hezbollah’s threats toward Israel, the Israeli army’s chief of staff said the Shi’ite militia was the biggest threat bordering on the Jewish state. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot spoke about Hezbollah Wednesday during a talk with teenagers in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, Israel…
A U.S. soldier wounded in World War II who later became an outspoken Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Willis Carto, who died at 89 in October, was interred at the military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported. He founded the Liberty Lobby, a white supremacist…
A Brooklyn assemblyman has called on Brooklyn College to discipline the 10 or so students who participated in a protest that interrupted a faculty meeting with anti-Israel statements. “The university needs to act on this and enforce disciplinary action on the students that participated,” state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat, said in a statement Thursday….
Zion Square in downtown Jerusalem will be renamed for the teenage girl who was stabbed to death last summer at the city’s gay pride parade. The area will be called Tolerance Square in memory of Shira Banki, 16, who was killed in July by a haredi Orthodox assailant who had just been released from prison…
Rivlin addressed a delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Thursday, the last day of its five-day mission to Israel. “Many of you have different political views, support different candidates, and possibly vote for different political parties. But whichever party or candidate you support, there are important issues on which…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to Jeb Bush’s controversial gun tweet by posting an image of a Jewish deli sandwich captioned “America.” America. pic.twitter.com/211oQK5qeU — Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) February 17, 2016 The image in Bush’s tweet, posted Tuesday, was of a handgun engraved with the words “Gov. Jeb Bush,” also with…
A Knesset worker and his fiancee, both with special needs, have petitioned Speaker Yuli Edelstein for permission to be married there. Nadav Halperin and Hodaya Lowenstein made their request to help promote tolerance for people with special needs, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Thursday. The couple met under the auspices of the Alei Siach organization, which…
Some $80,000 in equipment and valuables were stolen from two Los Angeles-area Jewish institutions. The sound and audio equipment and other valuables were stolen from Hollywood Temple Beth El and the Iranian American Jewish Federation, which share a building in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported on its website Wednesday, citing local police….
Jewish students are being urged to think twice before applying to York University in Toronto following accusations that its faculty association was endorsing a “censorship campaign against Israel and the Jewish people.” Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies said in a statement issued Tuesday that it was “concerned for the safety and…
