The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is hosting their Minority Health Conference (MHC) on February 22 featuring keynote speaker Linda Sarsour. Sarsour is known for her hostility towards Israel, having said “Northing is creepier than Zionism” and advising Muslims not to “humanize” Israelis. Sarsour once tweeted against the feminist Ayaan...

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Emergency workers recently evacuated people to safety and treated those wounded in a mass-casualty event in the Chilean city of Las Condes. Luckily, no one was actually hurt, since the rescue operation was a training simulation directed by Israeli national emergency service Magen David Adom. The rescue operation was the...

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A recent poll shows that there support for anti-Israel boycotts is low in the United Kingdom, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday. Despite a number of high-profile celebrities who advocate for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign — notably former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters — only ten...

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British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver toured Tel Aviv this week, sampling Israeli cuisine for what is rumored to be his latest, still secret, television show, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. As part of his trip around the city, Oliver visited the Sultana vegan restaurant on Ibn Gabirol Street, where he...

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A duo of debaters from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem won the 2019 World University Debating Championship in the English Second-Language category. The contest, hosted by the University of Cape Town Debating Union, wrapped up on January 4. Hebrew University students Roy Schulman (a master’s degree candidate from Yehud) and...

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Amnesty International is under fire for its recent campaign encouraging travel websites to boycott Israel, which denies the historical Jewish connection to the land of Israel, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. A statement from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council blasted the human rights organization for...

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In a blow to the anti-Israel boycott campaign, the BBC dismissed a call from supporters of the movement to ask for Eurovision to be moved out of Israel, saying it will broadcast the show because it is “not a political event,” The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. The BBC said in...

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British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has issued an apparent apology for Britain’s 1939 policy to cap immigration into Palestine, calling it a “black moment” in history, in what is believed to be the first such remarks by a British foreign secretary. Hunt made the comment in an address to the...

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A Polish swimming star has rejected an offer to coach Malaysia’s swim team on account of the Asian nation’s refusal to allow Israeli athletes to compete, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. “I was offered a very attractive coaching position from the Malaysian Swimming Federation,” Bartosz (Bart) Kizierowski, who represented Poland...

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Israel informed the United Nations of the existence of additional “underground infrastructure” belonging to the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah along the Israeli-Lebanese border, The Times of Israel reported on Monday. The newly discovered infrastructure included tunnels heading towards Israel that were not destroyed in the IDF’s recent Operation Northern Shield,...

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