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Europe

First, the London Underground was littered with anti-Israel guerilla advertising. Then, David Cameron proclaimed in the House of Commons that he was “shocked” by the “encirclement of East Jerusalem” by Israeli settlements. Now, it looks as if Israel is to be passed over by Shakespeare’s Globe theatre company on its...

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Iran

A former top official of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency wrote on Friday that the organization’s most recent report on Iran’s nuclear program is “incomplete” and “lacks relevant details” to explain how it concluded that Iran is following the terms of the nuclear deal signed last year. Former International Atomic Energy Agency...

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Israel

Members of the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) mocked Jewish victims of last year’s terror attack on a Paris kosher supermarket, according to an inquiry into anti-Semitic incidents in the club, The Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported on Sunday. Citing The Sunday Times, the JC added that students in the OULC...

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Iran

The Iranian elections did not result in the victory of moderates or reformists, several analysts have recently argued. Reuel Marc Gerecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), explained on Friday that true reformers were wiped out by the Tehran regime in 2009 – they “were silenced, imprisoned,...

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Global Affairs

JNS.org – You don’t hear that much these days about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president whose penchant for denying the Holocaust at every opportunity became legendary. If conventional wisdom is to be taken at face value, the reason for that is simple: The era of Ahmadinejad came to an...

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Featured

Responding to mounting criticism, Oberlin College Board of Trustees chair Clyde McGregor issued a statement Saturday criticizing the school’s response to the Facebook posts of Prof. Joy Karega. Karega’s claims, which included the belief that the Jewish Rothschild family secretly owns most of the world’s central banks and that Israel...

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Iran

The media narrative that “moderates” or “pragmatists” won landslide victories in last week’s Iranian elections “could not be further from the truth,” Iranian dissident Saeed Ghasseminejad wrote in the National Interest on Friday. Ghasseminejad, who is currently an associate fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explained that the...

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Human Rights

The highest-ranking Muslim officer in the IDF wrote in an op-ed Thursday in the British paper Jewish News that his life story is a direct counter to claims of Israeli racism during “Israeli Apartheid Week,” which is occurring across the UK. Maj. Alaa Waheeb dismissed the common charge that Israel is a racist state. “Forget for a second (BDS supporters...

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MidEast

The opposition newspaper Zaman, the largest Turkish daily in circulation, reported Friday that it had been taken over by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of which it is highly critical. An İstanbul court has appointed trustees to take over the management of Zaman newspaper, one of the few...

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MidEast

Joy Karega, the Oberlin College professor whose support for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories was first reported last week by The Tower, offered her thanks for an article at the conspiracy site Veterans Today that claimed she spoke “honestly about 9/11 and the two 2015 Paris false flags.” In a Facebook...

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