MidEast

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Monday that the UK government will adopt a new, clearer definition of anti-Semitism. May outlined the new definition, which was set out by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, in a major speech to a Conservative Friends of Israel event. The definition includes claims that...

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The United Kingdom and Gulf countries will work together to counter Iran’s “aggressive regional actions,” British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Wednesday. May was in Bahrain for the Gulf Cooperation Council summit, which also included leaders from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The UK and those countries signed...

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Ohio’s Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill to prevent taxpayer funds from being used to support entities that participate in discriminatory boycotts of Israel. House Bill 476 was approved by a vote of 26-5, a week after it passed the state’s House of Representatives by an 81-13 margin, the Cleveland Jewish...

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Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s leading public intellectual, returns to the United States in January to promote his new book, The Genius of Judaism, perhaps the fullest expression yet of his commitment to the Jewish faith, Jewish culture, and the continued flourishing of the State of Israel. Newly-returned from the Iraqi city...

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When her son was diagnosed with autism 13 years ago, Hadijah felt terribly alone. The stigma attached to children with disabilities in her village in central Israel led Hadijah to withdraw into a world of herself and her son. That changed only after she met Amal abu Moch, a social...

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Throughout President Barack Obama’s administration, key members of the Democratic Party have rejected efforts to impose the terms of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement through the United Nations Security Council, warning that such unilateral actions would damage attempts to secure Israeli-Palestinian peace within the framework of a two-state solution. Former President Jimmy Carter’s recent proposal to reverse...

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