The New York City Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign on Wednesday, The New York Daily News reported. The resolution, which rejected “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people of Israel,” passed...

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The United Nations’ use of the word “occupation” to describe Israeli-held territories beyond the 1949 armistice agreement lines, which it does not use while describing seven other cases of occupation, shows that the world body “has no interest in battling injustice unless Israel is the country accused,” Eugene Kontorovich and Penny Grunseid wrote...

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One of Israel’s most prominent authors said on Tuesday that advocating against Israel’s very existence is where “anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism.” “I can tell you exactly where I draw the line. If people call Israel nasty, I to some degree agree. If people call Israel the devil incarnated, I think they are obsessed –...

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An editor of Newsweek Middle East launched into a Twitter tirade invoking several anti-Semitic tropes late last week, including that Jews are greedy and are not descended from biblical Hebrews, and therefore have no historical connection to Israel. After the magazine was criticized by pro-Israel bloggers last week for creating an inaccurate documentary video about...

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After nearly a year of negotiations, Israel and the United States have signed a record $38 billion, 10-year military aid package. The deal is “the single largest military assistance package—with any country—in American history,” American ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said earlier this week. The current U.S.-Israel military aid agreement, which expires in 2018,...

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Israel’s minister of construction signed a deal last week to build thousands of public housing units for the country’s Arab population. MK Yoav Galant (Kulanu) agreed to allocate 1.41 billion shekels ($374 million) toward building public housing for Israeli Arabs and to lift restrictions from construction on private land, Ynet reported. The deal, which was reached with...

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The international charity World Vision has suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip after the director of its branch in the Palestinian territory was charged with funneling millions of dollars in aid to Hamas, Reuters reported on Friday. Israel froze World Vision’s accounts in Jerusalem following last month’s arrest of Mohammad el-Halabi, who is accused of diverting 60 percent...

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The Israeli Air Force struck Syrian army positions near the border overnight Monday after a mortar shell hit the Israeli side of the Golan Heights hours earlier, Haaretz reported. Israel denied a claim by the Syrian army that it shot down two Israeli aircraft with surface-to-air missiles during the retaliatory raid. Monday’s mortar attack from Syria...

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In Prof. Amir Amedi’s world-renowned Laboratory for Brain and Multisensory Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, people with vision impairment can “see” their environment with the aid of sensory substitution devices (SSDs) that provide visual information from sound and touch. Now, two of the lab’s groundbreaking inventions are being...

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A rocket launched from Syria struck the Israeli Golan Heights on Monday night, the Israeli military said. No injuries were reported. Earlier today a projectile launched from Syria, hit the northern #Israeli Golan Heights. No injuries have been reported. #Syriaceasefire — Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) September 12, 2016 On Saturday, the...

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