MidEast

After two years of leaving the post empty, the Trump administration has selected Los Angeles prosecutor Elan Carr as the State Department’s new Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, JTA reported Monday. Carr, a Jewish-American army veteran who served in Iraq, is the grandson of Holocaust survivors. He also...

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Excerpted and adapted from the introduction to What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Post Hill Press). In June 2014, a jihadist group linked to Al Qaeda conquered large tracts of Syria and Iraq. After this swift rise to power, which took the world by surprise, the group declared...

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Adam Scott Bellos founded The Israel Innovation Fund (TIIF) to tantalize young adults with what he calls “cultural foreplay” in the form of Israeli wine, art and music. “Through cutting-edge contemporary culture, lifestyle and travel, young diaspora Jews and non-Jews are discovering new ways to personally connect to the Israeli experience in...

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Hezbollah supporters rode their motorcycles near the border with Israel, in a show of defiance against the Jewish State, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The demonstration prompted the IDF to declare that Hezbollah was “making a mockery” of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and the...

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The Chief Rabbi of Britain has defended Israel’s right to host the 2019 Eurovision song contest and blasted the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction’s (BDS) movement for its effort to pressure artists not to perform in the Jewish State. In an interview with The Daily Mail that was published on...

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Israel’s Diplomatic-Security Cabinet is expected to announce in the coming weeks a major slash in the tax revenues that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, with the amount the PA pays to terrorists and their families to be deducted from the aid Israel hands over to the Palestinian...

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