MidEast

Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union Flags

The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt rejected on March 4 a clause in a statement by the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (APU), which called for a stop to normalization with Israel, laying bare a growing divide between Arab governments and individual parliamentarians in their approach to the Jewish State....

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On March 11, Santa Clara-based NVIDIA announced that it will acquire all issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox of Yokne’am, Israel, in a deal representing a total enterprise value of approximately $6.9 billion. Founded in 1999, Mellanox pioneered the InfiniBand interconnect technology, which along with its high-speed Ethernet products is now...

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anti-Semitic Incidents Increase in Netherlands in 2018

The Netherlands on Tuesday became the latest European country to report sickening levels of anti-Semitism with a 19 percent increase in recorded anti-Jewish incidents in 2018 to a record 230 cases, Ben Cohen reported in The Algemeiner. The Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) — a Dutch Jewish watchdog...

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Despite the media attention she’s been getting for her controversial remarks about Israel and American Jews, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D – Minn.), and the movement she represents will not “succeed in breaking up the U.S.-Israel alliance,” a prominent historian said in a column published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal....

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Convicted terrorist Mehdi Nemmouche

A French jihadist, who shot dead four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014 in the first terror attack on European soil by a returning foreign fighter from Syria, has been sentenced to life in prison, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted last...

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A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail on top of the five-year term she is already serving for defending protesters against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab laws, the BBC reported Monday. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an award-winning women’s rights activist, was arrest last...

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