A leading European body aimed at combating discrimination has accepted a representative of a Greek neo-Nazi political party. On Monday, Golden Dawn party member and lawmaker Eleni Zaroulia became a member of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League,…
Britain said it would seek to extradite Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States as soon as possible after the one-eyed radical preacher failed in a last-ditch legal attempt to avoid deportation on Friday. Washington accuses the Egyptian-born 54-year-old of supporting al Qaeda, aiding a kidnapping in Yemen and plotting to open a…
Israeli police hurled stun grenades to disperse dozens of protesters who threw stones outside the al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, after Friday prayers. Two people were slightly injured and one person was arrested for attempting to stab a policeman as he was being taken into custody, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. The mosque…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will decide before parliament reconvenes on October 15 on whether to seek a snap election, a government official said on Friday. Citing growing friction among Netanyahu’s allies, including disputes with Defence Minister Ehud Barak, Israeli media has said elections might be held in February, eight months ahead of schedule. The…
Israeli forces shot dead an American man who opened fire in a seaside hotel packed with tourists on Friday, killing one person. Police and military troops swiftly surrounded the hotel in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat after the man – a former employee of the hotel – “grabbed a weapon from a security…
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin has called on the Israeli parliament to disband itself and begin preparing for early elections. “There can be no doubt that the decision to go to early election has been made and all the parties are preparing for elections,” Army Radio and other media quoted Rivlin as saying on Thursday. “It…
Israeli police reportedly pushed back rioters on the Temple Mount. Police used shock grenades to subdue hundreds of rioters throwing stones after the end of Friday prayers, Israel Radio reported. There were no reports of injuries, it said. The site in Jerusalem’s Old City, overlooking the Western Wall, is home to two mosques and is…
Former NBA Most Valuable Player Allen Iverson reportedly will play for Maccabi Haifa in its two exhibition games against NBA teams – and perhaps longer. Iverson, 37, will suit up for the Israeli squad when it takes on the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves this month in the United States, the Israeli Sport5 site reported….
The founder of the Free Gaza Movement, which uses flotillas in trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, tweeted that Zionists were responsible for the Holocaust, then apologized. Greta Berlin tweeted that she meant to post the tweet to her private Facebook account rather than the organization’s Twitter account. The original tweet, sent Sept. 30…
Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said on Thursday a deadly Syrian mortar strike on a Turkish town had to be considered an attack on a member of the NATO alliance. Israel is technically at war with Damascus and occupies the Golan Heights that it seized in the 1967 war and later annexed, but it…
Irving Cohen, the maitre d’ at the popular Concord Hotel in the Catskills for 50 years, died in Florida at 95. Cohen, who started working as a waiter at the Concord in the late 1930s and stayed there until the resort shut down in 1988, died Oct. 1 at his home in Boca Raton, The…
