A petition calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits Britain in September has reached more than 100,000 signatures and must be considered for debate in Parliament. The online petition was uploaded on Aug. 7 to the United Kingdom Parliament’s official website. “Under international law he should be arrested for…
Two Jewish extremist teens were indicted for an arson attack last month on a Bedouin tent in the West Bank. Avi Gafni, 19, and a minor were indicted on charges of incitement, threats, conspiring to commit a felony, and obstructing justice in the mid-August attack , the Shin Bet security service said in a statement…
Lawmakers will begin a high-stakes debate on a resolution disapproving the Iran nuclear deal when they return from a summer recess on Tuesday, ready to resolve an issue that stirred a passionate partisan division in Washington. Although there is strong support for the resolution in the Republican-controlled Congress, President Barack Obama has said he will…
(JTA) — With hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring across the borders of the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a landmark change in policy last month: Germany would begin to accept Syrian refugees, no matter how they got there. Four days later, Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom made a statement on the same…
The chief rabbi of France called on his country and the European Union to find solutions for the tens of thousands of immigrants streaming in from the Middle East. Rabbi Haim Korsia spoke of the immigrants – among them many refugees from Syria – at an annual ceremony in Paris’ Synagogue de la Victoire on…
South African Jewish leaders condemned an African National Congress review of their country’ s dual citizenship policy in what they say is a bid to prevent its citizens from serving in the Israeli military. Banning dual citizenship is scheduled to be discussed anew at the ruling party’s national general council meeting next month, the Sunday…
The mother of a Palestinian toddler killed in a July arson attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank died on Monday of her burns, the third fatality after her husband succumbed to his injuries last month. Soon after the announcement by medical authorities, Palestinians rallied in the family’s home village of Duma, calling for a “day…
A Jewish teenager was knocked unconscious in what Manchester, England, police are treating as a hate crime. The boy, 17, was one of four young people assaulted Saturday night by three men at a Metrolink train station near Heaton Park, located in the heart of north Manchester’s Jewish community, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. He…
A banner towed by a plane over the tailgate party of the University of Oklahoma’s opening football game called for University President David Boren to “#return the stolen art.” The banner flown for about two hours on Saturday refers to a piece of artwork donated to the university that is believed to have been stolen…
An elderly Dutch Jewish couple said they were subjected to anti-Semitic abuse by robbers who broke into their Amsterdam home. Two men in their 40s or 50s, who the couple said had a Middle Eastern appearance but spoke fluent Dutch, presented themselves as police officers on Aug. 4 to Samuel and Diana Blog, Holocaust survivors…
The Palestinian resident of Hebron who sheltered five American yeshiva students from fire bomb attacks in Hebron said he has been receiving death threats since the incident. Faiz Abu Hamdiah, who on Thursday took five American yeshiva students into his home to prevent their lynching after they drove into a Palestinian neighborhood of Hebron, told…
