MidEast

Lebanese authorities banned the critically-acclaimed movie “Wonder Woman” on Wednesday, hours before it was set to premier in Beirut, on account of its Israeli star Gal Gadot. Grand Cinema, a chain that had planned to screen the movie in theaters across the country, cancelled the opening and began removing promotional material following the...

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Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera found itself embroiled in controversy on Wednesday after its English-language Twitter account tweeted an anti-Semitic cartoon to promote a story about climate change. Al Jazeera later deleted the tweet, but not before social media users captured the original content in a screenshot, The Forward reported. “He,...

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The head of the United Nations told leaders from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the Jewish organization announced in a press release on Tuesday. Speaking at his offices at the UN headquarters in New York, Secretary-General António Guterres discussed the UN’s role in countering growing anti-Semitism...

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Israeli trauma experts have landed in Manchester in the wake of the attack on the Ariana Grande concert to treat victims and train medical staff on the ground, Breaking Israel News reported Monday. The terrorist organization Islamic State has officially claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that left 22 people...

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Israeli Paralympic kayaker Pascale Berkowitz won a silver medal at the International Canoe Federation’s Kayak World Cup in Szeged, Hungary, last weekend. She finished the 200 meters at 56.466 seconds, in second place behind Andrea Nadezda of Russia. “I broke my personal record. I had an amazing competition, and it’s...

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The world “is no longer willing to accept” the Palestinian Authority’s glorification of terrorists, a senior Israeli diplomatic official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. “Until now, people closed their eyes and did nothing,” the official added. “Now the situation has changed, and I think it is a combination of two things....

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