JERUSALEM (JTA) — Incendiary balloons ignited three fires Tuesday in the Kissufim forest on the border with the Gaza Strip. A day earlier, incendiary balloons ignited four fires — several in the same forest and another in a wheat field — that burned dozens of acres. The balloons, carrying flammable materials, are lit and sent…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Iran’s foreign minister accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of threatening to destroy the Islamic Republic and warned that Tehran would not remain passive. “You should ask a regime possessing nuclear weapons about how Netanyahu stands next to the Dimona (reactor), a nuclear weapons site, and says Iran should be destroyed,” Mohammad…
Armed members of a white supremacist group marched on what organizers said was Michigan’s biggest LGBT event on Saturday, with police intervening to keep the neo-Nazis and marchers separate, Fox News reported.. Members of the National Socialist Movement, which the Southern Poverty Law Center described as “one of the largest and most prominent neo-Nazi groups…
YouTube’s decision last week to ban videos promoting Nazism and Holocaust denial also led to the deletion of archived videos from the Hitler regime — which history teachers relied on when educating students about World War II and the dangers of fascism, the Guardian reported. Scott Allsop, a teacher at an international school in Romania,…
(JTA) — A handful of protesters demonstrated at the DC Dyke March over a ban on the Jewish Pride flag, a rainbow stripped flag with a white Star of David in the middle. The flag looks too much like the flag of Israel, organizers had said before the march, which banned the flags of countries…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Israel did not rule out an Israeli move to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, land that the Palestinians seek for a state, in an interview with the New York Times published on Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the run-up to an April election…
Two swastikas were found in the span of two weeks at a New Jersey high school, the North Jersey Record reported on Thursday. One was found on Thursday etched into a classroom wall at Glen Rock High School in Bergen County, and the other was discovered on May 28 on the wall of a bathroom…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Five Democratic senators, including the party’s deputy leader in the chamber and two leading presidential candidates, introduced a resolution decrying any Israeli plan to annex West Bank territory, an apparent shot across the bow at Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent election pledge. “Unilateral annexation of portions of the West Bank would jeopardize prospects for…
(JTA) — Prosecutors in Belgium dropped criminal complaints against a Turkish café owner who put up a sign banning Jews. A café in the town of Saint-Nicolas had displayed a sign saying dogs are welcome at his business, “but Jews are not.” The La Dernière Heure newspaper on Friday reported that the Prosecutor’s Office in…
(JTA) — British Jews protested the election to Parliament of a candidate for the Labour party who “liked”a Facebook post saying Prime Minister Theresa May has a “Zionist Slave Masters agenda.” Lisa Forbes on Thursday won a special election in the eastern English city of Peterborough, defeating a Brexit Party candidate and leaving the Conservative…
(JTA) — A security lapse at the JCrush dating application for Jews left sensitive personal data of about 200,000 users exposed. The breach, rooted in the site’s failure to encrypt its data, gave anyone who knew where to look access to users’ real name, gender, email address, IP address, location, age, sexual preferences and religious…
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