The organizers of a Kristallnacht commemoration in the city of Umeå, Sweden, didn’t invite the local Jewish community because it was expected to be an “unwelcoming or unsafe situation for them” due to the efforts of anti-Israel activists, The Daily Beast reported Monday. “Umeå Against Nazism” is set to take...
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When ISRAEL21c President Amy Friedkin was touring Japan recently, she met with representatives of IsraAID-The Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid. “I wanted to see for myself what they’re doing in Japan four years after the tsunami, and to learn from Yotam Polizer, IsraAID Global Emergencies Director, where else they...
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Lord Robert Winston, a British academic and leader in the field of in vitro fertilization (IVF), said that anti-Israel boycotters are “mostly second-rate academics from minor universities who have never done anything,” during a dinner hosted last week in his honor by the British ambassador to Israel, Ha’aretz reported. Winston...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his two-and-a-half hour discussion with President Barack Obama on Monday was “one of the best meetings I’ve had with him,” The Times of Israel reported. “What you saw from outside is also what transpired on the inside. It was one of the best meetings...
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Despite political differences, bipartisan American support for Israel remains strong and is growing, according to a study written by Dina Smeltz, a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which was published Monday in The Washington Post. Survey trends show Americans’ favorable views of Israel have not been much affected by these...
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In the wake of the nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama can help secure Israel’s borders by recognizing its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Knesset member Michael Oren wrote in an op-ed published at CNN on Sunday. Oren argued that this recognition,...
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A group of 172 Jordanians arrived in Eilat on Thursday to begin working in that city’s hotels, an initiative of Interior Minister Silvan Shalom to bolster cooperation between Israel and its eastern neighbor. 1,500 Jordanians are expected to participate in the program. Shalom greeted the workers Thursday saying, “This is a day...
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Incitement-fueled violence against Israelis continued Friday as three teenagers were shot in two separate attacks in Hebron. The first attack took place outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where a 16-year-old was seriously hurt by gunfire to the upper body and taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, Channel 2 reported. An 18-year-old was reported...
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Former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Knesset member Michael Oren (Kulanu) placed labels on European products at a supermarket in Jerusalem as a protest against the European Union’s initiative to mark Israeli goods from the West Bank, Golan Heights, and parts of Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Kulanu...
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A letter signed by 369 members of Congress calling on President Mahmoud Abbas to stop incitement to violence within the Palestinian Authority was released by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. The letter was signed by committee Chairman Ed Royce (R – Calif.) and ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel...
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