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| May 8, 2012
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In surprise move, Netanyahu, Mofaz agree to form unity government, cancel early elections

PM, opposition leader reach dramatic late-night agreement to form national unity government, in which Kadima head Mofaz expected to be appointed deputy prime minister.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition chairman MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) reached a surprise agreement early Tuesday morning to form a national unity government.

Netanyahu (left) and Mofaz.

Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shaul Mofaz - Photo by Tomer Appelbaum

The move came as the Knesset was preparing to disperse for early elections, which were expected to be scheduled for September 4.

Under the agreement, Kadima will join Netanyahu’s government and commit to supporting its policies through the end of its term in late 2013.

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| May 5, 2012
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B’nai B’rith names winners of 2012 Journalism Award

B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem announces Channel 2 News reporter Lee Abramovitz, as winner of 2012 Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage

 

The B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem announced on Wednesday that Channel 2 News reporter Lee Abramovitz, is the winner of the 2012 “B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage.”

Lee Abramovitz

Lee Abramovitz

The Jury also decided to present a “Foreign Correspondent Citation” to AP correspondent Diaa Hadid (general media category), and Jana Beris (Jerozolimski), editor of Uruguayan Jewish weekly newspaper, Semanario Hebreo (Jewish media category).

Since its establishment in 1992, the B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism has recognized excellence in reportage on contemporary Diaspora Jewish communities and on the state of Israel-Diaspora relations today in the Israeli print and electronic media. Continue Reading »

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| May 4, 2012
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Methodists reject motion to divest from Israel

General conference of United Methodist Church votes against divesting from three companies that trade with Israel.

Methodist Church - Photo by REUTERS

Methodist Church - Photo by REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON – The general conference of the United Methodist Church voted not to divest from three companies that trade with Israel.

Two-thirds of the approximately 1,000 delegates to the conference voted Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., against a motion to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard.

Divestment advocates claim that products manufactured by these companies are used to repress Palestinians.

The conference passed motions opposing Jewish settlements in the West Bank, recommending the boycott of products manufactured in settlements, and investment in the Palestinian economy.

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| May 4, 2012
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Anti-Semitism in Belgium: Jews Told ‘Get Off at Buchenwald’

Reports of an anti-Semitic “prank” on Belgium train.

Passengers on a train in Belgium got a shock this week as the following announcement came over the speaker, “Welcome to the train to Auschwitz. The Jews are asked to get off at Buchenwald.”

Trains in Belgium

Trains in Belgium - Photo by Reuters

More than 55,000 were murdered at the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust.

A railroad employee who heard the announcement ran to the room with the microphone, but found it empty. A short time later a second employee took to the sound system to apologize for the “unsuccessful joke.”

The Belgian national railroad, SNCB, denounced the incident, which took place on the Brussels-Namur line. Continue Reading »

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| May 1, 2012
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Ex-Birthright Guide Says Non-Jews Infiltrate

“Birthright” says it free trips to Israel are only for Jews, but a former guide says non-Jews join. Birthright: There are only a few.

The Birthright-Taglit program, partially funded by Israel, restricts free trips to Israel to Jews, but a former guide says that non-Jews have no problem joining.

Birthright group arrives in Israel

Birthright group arrives in Israel - Israel news photo: Birthright PR

Birthright responded that “the process is involved,” the number of non-Jews discovered on the program is “minimal” and every one of them “is flown back home immediately.”

The organization’s policy states, “Taglit-Birthright Israel gift is open to all Jewish young adults, ages 18 to 26, post high-school, who have neither traveled to Israel before on a peer educational trip or study program nor have lived in Israel past the age of 12.” Continue Reading »

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| April 30, 2012
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Benzion Netanyahu Eulogized by Left and Right

MK Rivlin: “He never compromised.” President Peres: “He was a great historian and a great Jew.”

Public figures from both sides of the political spectrum eulogized Prof. Benzion Netanyahu, the prime minister’s father, after he passed away on Monday.

Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin, said, “I have known Benzion Netanyahu ever since my young adulthood. This is a man who tied his life to Jerusalem and Zionism, who was an assistant to Ze’ev Jabotinsky and was one of the great Revisionists.

“Benzion was an eminent researcher and historian who founded a house of pure political Zionism, without compromises, and his offspring have imbibed his observations and his world view. Continue Reading »

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| April 29, 2012
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Attempt to Abduct Israeli Girl at Disney World

Channel 10: nine year old girl was found drugged, with her head half shaved.

A nine-year-old Israeli girl was nearly abducted from her parents at Disney World, in Orlando, Florida, during the Pesach holiday.

A Disney park

A Disney park - Photo by Reuters

Channel 10 news reported that two Israeli parents and their two children were standing in line for one of the rides in the huge theme park when they discovered that their daughter had disappeared.

They immediately ran to the park’s security officers, who locked all of the park’s exit gates. The parents were taken to a control room, where they were asked to look for the girl on the numerous security cameras. Continue Reading »

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| April 29, 2012
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Dutch queen knights Orthodox rabbi

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands makes Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs an officer of the Order of Orange Nassau.

 

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on Friday morning made Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs an officer of the Order of Orange Nassau.
RABBI BINYOMIN JACOBS with Queen Beatrix [file] - Photo: RCE
RABBI BINYOMIN JACOBS with Queen Beatrix [file] – Photo: RCE
The head of state gave the title to the 63-year-old rabbi, who is the religious leader of the country’s Jewish communities outside Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, in a festive ceremony.

“This is an important day for Jews in this part of the world,” said Benoit Wesly, the head of the Jewish community of Limburg.

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| April 29, 2012
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Major British supermarket chain announces boycott of produce made in West Bank settlements

Co-op, fifth biggest supermarket chain in Britain, emphasizes it will continue doing business with companies that can guarantee none of their products come from outside the Green Line.

 

One of the largest supermarket chains in Britain has announced that it intends to boycott Israeli agricultural exporters that market also produce from the West Bank settlements.

Boycott - AP - May 2012

A Palestinian man throw a product from Jewish settlements in a fire in the West Bank village of Salfit - Photo by AP

While British food retailers have for some years now been labeling products that are grown or manufactured in settlements and in some cases boycotting them entirely, this is the first move by a major company to end all dealings with companies that export products from within the Green Line and from the settlements.

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| April 28, 2012
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American Jew hater running for U.S. Senate.

It’s hard to swallow so much Islamic revisionism and deep prejudice from Lee Whitnum, Democratic nominee for Connecticut’s US Senate, without getting choked up (see http://www.jewishledger.com/) That she can still be considered an American boggles the mind. She is an Islamist who repeats the rhetoric of hate and the Palestinian victimhood narrative with particular ease — the ease of taqiyyah.
Lee Whitnum, candidate for U.S. Senate.

Lee Whitnum, candidate for U.S. Senate.

• Whitnum: “In every culture in the world except Israel, if you take something that doesn’t belong to you it’s stealing. In every culture in the world except Israel if you kill someone it’s murder.” Continue Reading »

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| April 28, 2012
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China’s prime minister visits Auschwitz

Wen Jiabao pays visit to death camp during official visit to Poland; says ‘the tragedy of Auschwitz is the tragedy of all humanity’

 

China’s prime minister paid homage on Friday to the victims of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp, saying lessons drawn from it should help build a safer world.

Laid yellow and red flowers . Auschwitz death camp Photo: Shutterstock

Laid yellow and red flowers . Auschwitz death camp - Photo: Shutterstock

Wen Jiabao paid the visit to the Auschwitz memorial on Friday, following two days of political and business talks with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Bronislaw Komorowski in Warsaw

At the memorial in southern Poland, Wen walked through the former camp’s main gate and laid yellow and red flowers at the Death Wall where the Germans executed masses of people during World War II. Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2012
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Holocaust Memorial, Synagogue Defaced in Geneva

Members of the Jewish community in Geneva find anti-Semitic symbols on a Holocaust monument and local synagogue.

Members of the Jewish community in Geneva, Switzerland, woke up on Friday morning and discovered that anti-Semitic symbols had been sprayed overnight on a monument to Holocaust victims who had lived in the city, according to a Channel 2 News report.

Anti-Semitism (illustration)

Anti-Semitism (illustration) - archive photo

The report said that symbols had also been sprayed on the outer wall of a local synagogue.

Dr. Yitzhak Dayan, the Chief Rabbi of Geneva, told Channel 2 News that he believed the timing of the incident was not accidental. Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2012
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Israelis to sue Swiss banks for refusing to return money deposited during Holocaust

The plaintiffs say they intend to file the lawsuit next week in U.S. court, under a U.S. law enabling them to sue foreign states in matters pertaining to the Holocaust.

 

Two Israelis are preparing to file a NIS 1 billion lawsuit against the Swiss government and two Swiss banks for allegedly refusing to return money and valuables deposited by their parents shortly before World War II.

Credit Suisse bank in Zurich.

Credit Suisse bank in Zurich - Photo by: AP

The plaintiffs say they intend to file the lawsuit next week in U.S. court, under a U.S. law enabling them to sue foreign states in matters pertaining to the Holocaust.

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| April 27, 2012
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Essay by Kasim Hafeez – Muslim, Zionist and proud

Op-ed: His father praised Hitler, but Kasim Hafeez writes about love for Israel, Jewish people

 

I am a Zionist, a proud Muslim Zionist, and I love Israel, but this was not always the case. In fact, for many years I was quite the extreme opposite. I experienced the high levels of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity taking place on British university campuses, because I was the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel activist.

Growing up in the Muslim community in the UK I was exposed to materials and opinions at best condemning Israel, painting Jews as usurpers and murderers, and at worse calling for the wholesale destruction of the “Zionist Entity” and all Jews. Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2012
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New York Times Ad Slams BDS

An ad placed in the New York Times on Wednesday accused BDS supporters of contributing to anti-Semitism worldwide.

American conservative writer and advocate, David Horowitz, placed an advertisement in the New York Times on Wednesday, accusing supporters of the Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement of contributing to anti-Semitism worldwide.

“The Holocaust began with boycotts of Jewish stores and ended with death camps,” the ad begins. “The calls for a new Holocaust can be heard throughout the Middle East and Europe as well.”

It also references Mohammed Merah, the terrorist who killed 4 people at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France last month, claiming that “ancient blood libels” supported by the BDS movement contributed to the murders. Continue Reading »

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