Columbine school shooter Dylan Klebold revealed he was Jewish when he mentioned dreading a family Passover seder — creating a tense moment with his fellow shooter, his mother said. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had openly admired Adolf Hitler. They opened fire on students and teachers at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, on the…
Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinian assailants in separate incidents in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Friday, police and the military said, as a wave of heightened violence persisted into its fifth month. In Jerusalem, a Palestinian man stabbed two police officers outside the walled Old City before they opened fire and…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s eight remaining members, former law clerks, family members and thousands of ordinary Americans paid their respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday as his body lay in repose in the stately, white-marble courthouse. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama were due to go to the courthouse later…
An off-duty IDF soldier who is also a U.S. citizen, was stabbed to death and another Israeli man badly wounded in a knife attack by two 14-year-old Palestinian boys in a West Bank supermarket on Thursday. The assailants entered a Rami Levy supermarket in the Sha’ar Binyamin industrial zone, stabbed the men, then were shot…
An El Al passenger plane was badly damaged when its wing accidentally grazed a perimeter fence on a runway at Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands’ main hub for international traffic. The accident Friday morning at Schiphol, in which no one was injured, ruptured the tip of the wing of the El Al Boeing 737 airplane as…
A three-month hunger strike by a Palestinian journalist accused of militancy on behalf of Hamas has prompted stern questions from the United Nations and European Union over Israel’s policy of keeping prisoners in detention without charge. Mohammad al-Qiq, who was detained by Israeli forces in November, is on the 86th day of a hunger strike…
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….
