Archive for The Diaspora

| August 31, 2016
No comments

New Czech atlases replace Jerusalem with Tel Aviv as Israel’s Capital

 

After Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic complained, Prague ordered all governmental atlases to identify Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital instead of Jerusalem.

By Rachel Kaplan

 

Jerusalem is no longer the capital of Israel, according to atlases being distributed to primary and secondary schools of the Czech Republic.

Old Mideast map – Photo: Thinkstock

The Czech education ministry announced the intended change on August 23, after receiving complaints from the Palestinian Authority’s embassy in Prague, led by ambassador Khaled Alattrash.

“The ministry will resolutely demand a change of the given data,” the Czech education ministry wrote in response to the complaint. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: ,
| August 28, 2016
No comments

Israeli Knesset Member Takes Sweden to Task for Distorted Moral Attitude

 

MK Lapid: “We are standing here in Wallenberg Square, in memory of the Swedish diplomat who during the Holocaust saved my father…Your gov’t and, in particular, your Foreign Minister, are now on the wrong side morality. However, Wallenberg’s legacy, the legacy of moral courage, still exists in Sweden.”

By Yoel Domb

 

The head of the “Yesh Atid” party, MK Yair Lapid, attended a pro-Israel rally today (Sunday) in Stockholm, Sweden, together with hundreds of supporters of Israel, members of the Swedish Parliament, students and representatives of the Jewish community in Stockholm.

Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid

The rally took place in the wake of a surge in anti-Semitic statements over the past few months in Europe in general and specifically in Sweden, and in the wake of the delegitimization campaign recently orchestrated by BDS. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: ,
| August 22, 2016
No comments

Israel’s PM to offer African leaders new technology at September UN meeting

 

Exhibition featuring Israel’s cutting-edge technology in the fields of science, agriculture, and medicine is organized by Israeli envoy to the U.N. Danny Danon, with the purpose of assisting rural African villages and further strengthen Israel-Africa ties.

By Mati Tuchfeld

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with African leaders in New York in September, as part of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting.

Netanyahu visited Africa in July for a four-day trip that included meeting with the leaders of Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia.

The meetings scheduled for September will take place as part of a special exhibition organized by Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, The Diaspora, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: , , ,
| August 20, 2016
No comments

White House to end Israel’s use of military aid to fund its own weapons research

 

The new aid-deal: The Obama administration is removing the unique provision allowing Jerusalem to invest money for research & development of future Israel-made products.

By i24news

 

The White House is seeking to cancel a provision in its upcoming 10-year arms deal with Israel that allows the Mideast ally to spend part of the funds on Israeli-made goods, Foreign Policy reports.

IDF tanks equipped with Israel’s Rafael’s Trophy defense system – Courtesy of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems

Since the 1980s, Israel has been permitted to dedicate some of the money to home-produced arms, thus boosting the country’s defense sector. But in 2015, Israeli security companies sold $5.7 billion worth of arms – almost double what it exported in 2003, according to the magazine. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora |
| August 12, 2016
No comments

Palestinian rights activist at the Hague receives death threats

 

Dutch authorities confirmed they were investigating threats against a legal researcher at the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq, who says she’s received multiple death threats since the beginning of the year.

By REUTERS

 

Amsterdam – Dutch authorities are investigating death threats against a Palestinian rights activist in The Hague targeted because she has made submissions to the International Criminal Court’s inquiry into the 2014 Gaza conflict.

icc palestinian

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki (C) leaves the ICC at the Hague [File]. – Photo: REUTERS

Nada Kiswanson, a legal researcher at Palestinian rights group Al-Haq, said the threats began early this year and have continued on a regular basis since. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags:
| August 5, 2016
No comments

Australia ends funding World Vision after transferring Million$ to Hamas

Israeli legal NGO Shurat HaDin says it exposed World Vision years ago – but no one was listening: “Foreign aid organizations are directly responsible for the murder of scores of Jews in Israel.”

By Rachel Kaplan

 

Australia has suspended funding to humanitarian NGO World Vision, pending investigations into the nature of its funding to the Hamas terror organization in Gaza.

Australian flag – Photo: Thinkstock

Israel exposed World Vision’s Gaza branch leader Muhammed al-Halabi for funneling 60 percent of his annual humanitarian aid budget into Hamas’ military wing. Although al-Halabi has already been arrested, the extent of the damage, both to security and to humanitarian causes, has yet to be assessed. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: , , ,
| August 4, 2016
No comments

Official ‘pro-settlements in the West Bank’ caucus forming in European Parliament

 

Czech MEP Petr Mach has begun establishing the first official intergroup to support Jewish West Bank settlements, to combat BDS in the European Parliament, and to assert support for Israel.

By Elisha Ben Kimon

 

Soon, an official intergroup of friends the West Bank in the European Parliament will come into being for the first time. The intergroup, a form of , will be composed of more than ten members of European Parliament (MEPs) from several countries, headed by Czech MEP Petr Mach (Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group).

European Parliament – Photo: Michael Zeff/TPS

The parliamentarian met on Wednesday with Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan in Prague to formalize the intergroup’s formation.
Continue Reading »
Category: The Diaspora | Tags: ,
| July 29, 2016
No comments

Pope Francis visits Auschwitz in memorial of Polish priest who died there

Pope Francis, after visiting the Nazi concentration & extermination camp in Poland, wrote in the visitor’s commemorative book: ‘Lord, have mercy on your people. Lord, forgive us for so much cruelty.’

By REUTERS

 

OSWIECIM, Poland – Hunched on a bench near the gate to the Auschwitz death camp site in Poland, Pope Francis prayed silently on Friday in tribute to 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, gassed there by Nazi occupiers during World War Two.

Pope Francis walks through a gate with the words “Arbeit macht frei” (Work sets you free) at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, July 29, 2016.

Continue Reading »
Category: The Diaspora | Tags: ,
| July 15, 2016
2 comments

Trump’s GOP Becomes More Pro-Israel Than Ever

 

U.S. Republican Party updates its official policy platform, taking an unprecedented pro-Israel position including Jerusalem, as the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish State.

By Israel Today Staff

 

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday declared on Twitter that the party’s platform is now more pro-Israel than it has ever been.

Trump

Indeed, the Republican Party’s Platform Committee did make surprising policy changes that no previous candidate would or could have represented.

The new platform erases all reference to a “two-state solution” and utterly rejects “the false notion that Israel is an occupier.” It further states that Jerusalem is the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish state. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: , ,
| July 14, 2016
No comments

German police raid 60 authors of anti-Semitic internet postings

In a nationwide attempt to identify & arrest the sources of hateful, anti-Semitic postings on the internet, police in 14 German states conduct coordinated raids on 60 individuals.

By JTA

 

BERLIN (JTA) — Police in 14 German states reportedly conducted raids on 60 individuals in an attempt to root out the sources of anti-Semitic and other hate postings on the internet.

Facebook – Photo: Thinkstock

According to German news reports, the raids followed months of observing one Facebook group that glorified National Socialism and broke German laws against promoting hate.

RELATED:

Suspects were accused of posting anti-Semitic, extremist and xenophobic messages, including denial of or relativizing the Holocaust, celebrating aspects of National Socialism and using Nazi symbolism, and calling for attacks on refugees and politicians. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: , , , , ,
| July 10, 2016
No comments

Muslim & Jewish coalition united to defend Donald Trump

 

Republican candidate’s controversial statements often make undertaking of bringing their diverse communities to support Trump more difficult, though change in discourse is now happening, says Sajid Tarar and Eve Stieglitz.

By DANIELLE ZIRI

 

NEW YORK – Over the course of his campaign, the discourse of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offended many groups in the United States: Hispanics, African-Americans, women, Jews and Muslims have all felt targeted at least once.

MEMBERS OF the National Diversity Coalition for Trump pose following a meeting in Washington last we

MEMBERS OF the National Diversity Coalition for Trump pose following a meeting in Washington last week. – Photo: Courtesy

Jewish groups came out against Donald Trump last week after he tweeted an image depicting Hillary Clinton against a backdrop of cash and a six-sided star, which he later said was meant to be a sheriff’s star. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: , , ,
| July 7, 2016
No comments

Watch: Congressman concerned over US aid to Palestinians used as payments to convicted killers

 

view videoWatch Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee outraged that financial assistance to the Palestinians is used to pay killers, inciting more and more to murder Jews, which is sustained indirectly with US foreign aid.

By MICHAEL WILNER,  ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

WASHINGTON — Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee agreed on Wednesday to strategize an end to a Palestine Liberation Organization program that offers monthly stipends to convicted murderers and terrorists.

Chairman Royce’s Opening Statement at Hearing on Financially Rewarding Terrorism in the West Bank
At a hearing on the matter, Democratic and Republican members vowed to coordinate on closing a loophole in US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority, which allows parent and subsidiary Palestinian organizations, such as the PLO, to continue the decade-old practice.
Continue Reading »
Category: The Diaspora | Tags: , , , ,
| July 1, 2016
No comments

Scanning technology locate Jewish escape tunnel at Nazi massacre site

 

In Lithuania’s Ponar forest, an int’l research team using ground scanning equipment locate the tunnel which Jewish prisoners secretly dug out with spoons to escape their Nazi captors.

By The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

In a Lithuanian forest, an international research team has pinpointed the location of a legendary tunnel that Jewish prisoners secretly dug out with spoons to try to escape their Nazi captors during World War II, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday.

Preparation for electrical resistivity tomography scan of the pit used to hold the victims before their execution at Ponar massacre site near the town of Vilnius, Lithuania – Photo: Ezra Wolfinger

The tunnel in the Ponar forest, known today as Paneriai, outside the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, is the site where some 100,000 people, including 70,000 Jews, were killed and thrown into pits during Nazi occupation. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: , , , , ,
| June 29, 2016
No comments

Berlin gov’t: Display of Hezbollah flag is incitement to genocide

 

Berlin state interior minister Frank Henkel, “Anyone who calls for the destruction of an entire people and promotes war and violence is abusing the right” of free speech and assembly.

By JTA

 

The Berlin State Senate has agreed to ban Hezbollah flags, with their image of an upraised assault weapon, from an anti-Israel Al Quds march, likening the symbol to a call for genocide.

Hezbollah

Anti-Israel Hezbollah parade in Lebanon

The announcement came following a request by the American Jewish Committee in Berlin. The march is scheduled for Saturday.
Berlin state interior minister Frank Henkel, on the advice of the Berlin police, said that the flags would be added to the propaganda material that is not permitted to be displayed publicly. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: , , , ,
| June 24, 2016
One comment

Palestinians were ‘invented’ to cause trouble for Jews

 

view videoWild Bill For America: “By far the most creative invention of Islam is the Palestinian: a person who has never been seen before in the modern world who supposedly lived in a nation that never existed… And the Palestinian came into existence with the express purpose of causing trouble for Israel.”

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A man calling himself Wild Bill described his support for Israel in a video that’s been seen about 280,000 times on YouTube.

“We all know that Islam is giving the world a lot of things that will be long remembered. They invented the fine art of skyjacking, suicide bombers and taqiya – the art of lying to infidels,” he began. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: , ,
« Older Entries   Recent Entries »