JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli soldiers raided the offices of PalMedia, a Palestinian media production company, in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Saturday morning. The forces seized equipment and documents from at least one of the offices, on suspicion of “incitement to terrorism,” according to the Israel Defense Forces. PalMedia provides broadcast services to…
Before visiting Jerusalem in several days, President Trump will stop in Saudi Arabia for meetings with Islamic leaders to discuss joint efforts against extremism. He may wish to start with Saudi Arabia’s own mixed record on incitement against Israel and the Jewish people. Breathless observers have recently declared that Saudi Arabia and Israel are becoming…
Israel’s left wing Meretz Party filed criminal suit against Yoav “The Shadow” Eliasi after the far-right social media personality posted an image to Facebook that painted the faction’s members as traitors. מפלגת מרצ הגישה הבוקר תלונה במשטרה נגד יואב אליאסי, הראפר הצל, בגין הסתה • @akivanovick pic.twitter.com/O4EKe0Qr9i — חדשות 10 (@news10) April 20, 2017 The…
Israel’s Knesset is getting closer to passing its “Facebook bill,” legislation that when implemented would allow the police to seek court orders for the removal of content that it deems amounting to incitement to violence. “[Facebook’s] policy of removing [content] is very, very, very strict and the bar is set very high,” a spokesman for…
A Jewish-Israeli teenager is in police custody for allegedly planning an attack on left-wing demonstrators at a Tel Aviv march. The 18-year-old man was arrested at the Dec. 19 rally after throwing a glass bottle at protesters, according to the Times of Israel. No one was injured, and the arrest was not reported in the…
A far-right German politician has been charged with incitement for publicly displaying a large tattoo of the Auschwitz death camp on his back. Prosecutors announced Wednesday that Marcel Zech, a county council member near Berlin, is accused of violating Germany’s ban on the public display of Nazi symbols, The Associated Press reported. Zech’s tattoo was…
A member of the Palestinian parliament will spend 15 months in an Israeli prison for incitement to violence. Khalida Jarrar was convicted in Israeli military court of incitement to violence and belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an illegal organization banned by Israel. The plea agreement reached Monday also carries a…
Google has denied an Israeli government claim that it has agreed to jointly monitor YouTube videos that incite attacks on Israelis. Google, which owns YouTube, denied that it had made such an agreement at a meeting last week of the company’s executives with Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Tzipi Hotovely. A statement about the meeting released…
די ענטפֿערס וועלן געניצט ווערן ווען מע פֿירט דורך די שפּיל אויף דער ייִדיש־וואָך אין קאָפּייק, ניו־יאָרק.
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