The Facebook postings of an Austrian hairstylist calling for the killing of Jews was deemed a legitimate way to express “displeasure toward Israel,” an Austrian prosecutor recently ruled, according to a report Wednesday by Benjamin Weinthal in The Jerusalem Post. Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of...

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A German court ruled last week that an firebomb attack on a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July was motivated by a desire to bring “attention to the Gaza conflict,” not anti-Semitism, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday in The Jerusalem Post. Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense...

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The erosion in the international sanctions regime against Iran has generated what the Wall Street Journal last week described as “a steady flow of Western executives” – a signal that the outlet read as suggesting that “economic detente with the rest of the world may be on the horizon” – generating renewed concerns among journalists...

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A United Nations body in the West Bank was engulfed in controversy yesterday after leaked emails revealed that a top staffer had promoted a speaking event by an academic who supports economic warfare against Israel. A double-bylined Jerusalem Post expose by Jonny Paul and Benjamin Weinthal disclosed that Ray Dolphin, an...

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