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The Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Iran last week railed against the “Zionist enemy” and expressed his hope that the Islamic Republic will develop nuclear weapons, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported. Palestinian Ambassador to Iran: I Pray that Iran Will Produce 1,000 Nuclear Bombs pic.twitter.com/4XXP0Qsfjd — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) February 26, 2017 In...

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Washington

A bill has been introduced in the South Carolina state legislature that would help fight anti-Semitism on college campuses by fully defining what exactly “anti-Semitism” means. Bill H 3643 seeks to protect college students by employing the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, which includes the following examples: • Calling for, aiding, or justifying...

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Diplomacy

Bibi’s Diplomacy Down Under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warmly received as he visited South Asian allies this week. In Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong noted during their joint meeting on Monday that the two young nations have a long history of friendship: “When we became independent, the IDF helped us...

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In his magnum opus “A Lethal Obsession,” the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of the murderous pathways of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the character of anti-Semitism at the turn of this century. “The old-new anti-Semitism can itself be as inventive as it is repetitive,” Wistrich wrote. “It often...

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Israel

Developers of Israel’s Leviathan natural gas field committed on Thursday to investing $3.75 billion in the reservoir, marking a significant blow to efforts to economically attack the Jewish state, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post. The development of the offshore field, which is slated to take three years, is the largest financial investment...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was still airborne on Wednesday morning when Australians opened The Australian over coffee and Tim Tams to read an op-ed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describing Israel as a “miraculous nation.” The “mateship” between the two leaders was palpable later that day when Netanyahu, the...

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Israel

An Israel fighter plane on Thursday shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as it flew from the Gaza Strip to the Mediterranean Sea. The drone was intercepted before it entered Israeli airspace and landed harmlessly in the sea. “The IDF will not allow any violation of [Israel’s] airspace and...

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The Israeli tech company Mobileye will introduce Global RoadBook, its road management data-generation technology, into newly developed BMW models entering the market in 2018. The technology will provide real-time info on traffic density, potential road hazards, weather conditions, on-street parking, and other data. “This agreement to crowdsource real-time data using vehicles...

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Israel

Archaeologists have discovered and restored a stone column with Hebrew inscriptions from an 1,800-year-old synagogue in the town of Peki’in in the western Galilee region, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced this week. The column was found as part of the Authority’s work on the ancient synagogue in Peki’in. “The stone was...

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Israel

The winning performance at a recent Palestinian youth dancing competition in Nablus called for violence against Israel and featured the lyrics “jihad is needed, pull the trigger,” the watchdog organization Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday. The event took place at the Yafa Cultural Center, which is funded by Germany, Norway, and the European...

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