The son of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lashed out at actress Gal Gadot in a tweet on Friday, and accused her of squandering her star power with a neutral tweet about the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Yair Netanyahu compared the Israeli actress, who stars in the 2017 and 2020 hit Wonder Woman films,…
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is heading up a group of 29 senators — a majority of the Democratic caucus — who are calling for an immediate ceasefire as the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages into a second week. Joint Statement Urging Ceasefire in Middle East pic.twitter.com/nkTNFqH7re — Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) May 16, 2021 “To…
(JTA) — Israeli paramedics said that at least two worshipers had been killed and at least 213 were injured in a bleacher collapse incident at a synagogue in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev on Sunday. The prayer gathering was held to mark the beginning of the Shavuot holiday. “Hundreds” of haredi Orthodox…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Many thousands of people protested against Israel in major European cities over the weekend as the latest Israel-Gaza conflict reached new heights. Several events featuring antisemitic rhetoric and rioting. In Brussels, London and Vienna dozens of men were filmed at rallies on Saturday shouting in Arabic: “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of…
For live updates on the conflict from our partners at Haaretz, click here. The intense battle between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip showed no signs of abating as it entered its second week, despite a United Nations Security Council meeting and other international diplomacy aimed at brokering a ceasefire. Gaza health officials…
(JTA) — The Brooklyn Nets are about to embark on a playoff run that their fans hope can bring the team its first championship trophy in over 40 years. But one of their key star players says his focus is elsewhere: the Israeli-Palestinian violence that is raging right now. “I’m not going to lie to…
(JTA) — Influential progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Israel an apartheid state in a tweet on Saturday that marked an inflection point in her increasing criticism of Israel. “Apartheid states aren’t democracies,” she wrote in a tweet that garnered 275,000 likes. Ocasio-Cortez has been unabashedly critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies since joining Congress…
At least 182 Palestinians and 12 Israelis have been killed over the last week of intense fighting between the Israeli military and militants in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza health ministry says the dead there include 52 children, and that there are about 1,2000 wounded from airstrikes and artillery fire. On the Israeli side, two…
(JTA) — Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield will not host his weeknight primetime show for the rest of the week after calling Israel the “home country” of American Jews, according to Business Insider. Stinchfield made the comments in a segment Tuesday night about continuing violence in Israel and Gaza. A spokesperson for Newsmax told Insider that…
(JTA) — International media reported that Israeli troops have begun a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip on Thursday night. It hadn’t. According to at least two seasoned analysts in Israel, the reports were part of a misdirection by Israel to lure Hamas forces into defensive positions that Israel hoped would be easier to identify…
(JTA) — Israel’s army unleashed a wider military attack on Gaza Thursday night, inaugurating a new phase in a conflict that has claimed dozens of lives in the last several days. The war has already reached several milestones in a region accustomed to conflict. Hamas, the terrorist group that controls Gaza, has sent an unprecedented…
