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| February 9, 2015
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A self-declared Pakistani Jew crusades to save Karachi’s only Jewish cemetery

One single Pakistani Jew fights for the remembrance of the once thriving Jewish community in Karachi, that had been forsaken and is now under threat from an encroaching Muslim cemetery.

By in Karachi

 

There are few clues as to the identity of the last Pakistani Jew to be buried in Karachi. A heart-shaped piece of marble set into a slab of rough concrete in the city’s Jewish cemetery in February 1983 has none of the detail or Hebrew script of the more elaborate tombs built a century earlier, when Jews were a self-confident minority in a country where they are now often demonized. Continue Reading »

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| February 8, 2015
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Kuwait Airways Bars Wife From Accompanying Husband on Flight Because She’s Israeli

Iris Eliazarov, an Israeli citizen who lives in NYC says this discrimination is reminiscent of the old European ‘selection process.’
• Airline’s attorney claims policy is against citizenship, rather than religion.

By Ynet

 

Iris Eliazarov, an Israeli who lives in Queens, has filed a lawsuit against Kuwait Airways after she was barred from boarding its flight out of Kennedy Airport because she’s an Israeli citizen, the New York Daily News reported on Friday.

Iris Eliazarov and husband David Nektalov

Eliazarov and her husband David Nektalov bought tickets from a travel agent to fly from New York to London with the flagship Kuwaiti airline.

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| February 6, 2015
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VP Biden to Skip On Netanyahu’s Congressional Speech

Refraining from specifying his destination, the U.S. Vice President’s office announces Biden will not attend Israel’s PM’s address on March 3 because he will be abroad.

By The Associated Press

 

US Vice President Joe Biden will miss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint meeting of Congress, his office said on Friday. 

Netanyahu and Biden at a meeting in the White House – Archive Photo: Avi Ohayon/GPO

Biden’s office said he will be traveling abroad.

This will be the second time Biden has ever missed an address by a foreign leader to a joint session of Congress, according to Politico. Continue Reading »

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| February 6, 2015
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Iranian Diplomat Expelled By Uruguay For Planting Bomb at Israel Embassy

Previously unreported, Uruguay kicked out senior Iranian diplomat 2 weeks ago for planting dummy bomb at the Israeli embassy, in likely prep for future terrorist attack.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Uruguay has expelled a senior Iranian diplomat over last month’s planting of a dummy bomb near Israel’s embassy in Montevideo, Haaretz reported on Friday.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Reuters

Citing an unidentified “senior official in Jerusalem,” it said the diplomat was expelled two weeks ago, and although Uruguayan officials briefed Israel on the move they made no public announcement, reports AFP.

“Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the Iranian embassy,” the report revealed.

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| February 4, 2015
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Did Argentine President Murder State Prosecutor Nisman to Hide Lucrative Oil Deal With Iran?

State Prosecutor Alberto Nisman had drafted arrest warrants for Argentina’s President & FM before his death, fueling additional speculation of murder from the highest office.

By Ari Soffer

 

Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman had drafted arrest warrants for Argentina’s president and foreign minister before he died under suspicious circumstances, it was revealed Tuesday.

Murdered Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman (ז”ל)- Photo: Reuters

In a 26-page document – found in the trash at his apartment and revealed by Argentina’s Clarin newspaper – Nisman had written a request for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her Foreign Minister Hector Timerman to be arrested on charges of covering up Iran’s involvement in the deadly 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in exchange for lucrative oil deals.
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| February 3, 2015
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NGO Monitor: Time the UN Should Investigate its Own Incompetence and Bias

With United Nation’s constant revelations of ‘incompetence & bias’ on display in the world’s media, Israelis demand the world body take a good look in the mirror.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Following the revelation that the appointed head of the UN commission of inquiring into last summer’s Gaza war had previous associations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor suggested that the world body investigate its own ineptitude and overriding prejudice against the Jewish state.

“The United Nations should suspend its investigation into Israel and immediately investigate the disturbing revelations of its own incompetence and bias,” read a press release by NGO Monitor.

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| February 3, 2015
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BREAKING: Knife-wielding man attacks 3 soldiers on patrol near Jewish Community Center in Nice

 

3 French soldiers were lightly injured by Muslim attacker with same surname as the terrorist that killed 4 Jewish patrons at a Paris kosher supermarket last month.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Three French soldiers were stabbed outside of a Jewish community center in Nice, France, AFP reported on Tuesday.

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A French soldier guards a Jewish institution in Neuilly-sur-Seine. – Photo: REUTERS

None of the soldiers were seriously wounded and the attacker was detained. French media reported that the name of the attacker was Moussa Coulibaly, who shares the same surname as the attacker that killed four Jewish patrons at a Paris kosher supermarket last month. Continue Reading »

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| February 1, 2015
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British Pro-Palestinian Priest Suggests Jews Planned 9/11

 

Controversial UK vicar Stephen Sizer under official investigation by the Church of England over his latest anti-Semitic blood libel posted on Facebook.

By Ryan Jones

 

The Church of England has launched an investigation into charges of anti-Semitism made against one of its more controversial vicars, Dr. Stephen Sizer.

Dr. Stephen Sizer addressing the Christ at the Checkpoint conference in 2012 – Israel Today

Sizer, it would seem, has joined the ranks of what the Americans call “truthers” – those who insist that the truth has been concealed regarding who was behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.

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| February 1, 2015
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Mysterious death in Saudi Arabia of US employee of Israeli defense firm prompts investigation

 

Investigation by the US State Department started when Saudi authorities claimed Chris Cramer committed suicide and his family insisted that Chris was murdered.

By GLOBES, YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

There is a major mystery surrounding the death of Chris Cramer, an employee of Kollsman Inc., a US subsidiary of Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabi – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The authorities in the Saudi city of Tabuk claim that Cramer committed suicide, after falling from his hotel window on the third floor of the Sahara Makarim Hotel. However, his family and friends in the US insist that he was murdered as part of a complicated arms deal, reports “Fox News.”

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| January 30, 2015
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Following Spain’s moral conscience, Portugal grants citizenship to descendants of exiled Jews

 

Like Spain, Portugal says its sole reason for granting citizenship to descendants of its expelled Sephardi Jews, is to right a historic wrong.
• A local Jewish leader says, “We regard this as an act of justice.“

By Erez Linn, The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Five centuries after it burned thousands of Jews at the stake, forced thousands of others to convert to Christianity and expelled the rest, Portugal is granting citizenship rights to their descendants as part of an attempt to make amends.

A synagogue in Lisbon, Portugal [Illustration] – Photo: AP

The Portuguese cabinet on Thursday approved a law offering dual citizenship to the descendants of those Sephardi Jews, the term commonly used for those who once lived in the Iberian peninsula.

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| January 27, 2015
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Christians that support State of Israel attacked by Lausanne Movement

While ignoring Muslim atrocities against African & mid-East Christians, the Lausanne Movement targets Christians who support Israel.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The Lausanne Movement, the world’s leading Christian evangelism movement, has once again taken aim at what it believes to be the sinful practice of Christian support for the State of Israel, or Christian Zionism.

Lausanne, like many evangelical groups today, fails to take on overt Muslim oppression of Christians, while leaping on each and every allegation of Israeli wrong-doing.

“For over 60 years, many evangelicals have clung to a very narrow theological narrative that weds Christian theology with a political ideology known as Zionism,” writes Steve Haas, vice president of World Vision US, in the latest issue of Lausanne Global Analysis.

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| January 22, 2015
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Argentine President’s Latest Letter: Prosecutor did not commit suicide

In President Cristina Kirchner latest letter, she professes no doubt that Nisman’s death was not a suicide, contrary to her previous claims but goes on to say the Prosecutor’s report was riddled with inaccurate information.

By Ynet

 

In a strange turn of events, the president of Argentina says the death of prosecutor who tried to pin her with covering up Iran’s role in the deadly bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 was not a suicide, saying she had no doubt there was foul play.

President Cristina Kirchner. – Photo: Getty Image

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner took to Twitter to voice her opinion on the death of Alberto Nisman, which many have said she might have played a role in. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2015
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10 Israeli tourists terrorized & injured in protracted anti-Semitic attack in Argentina

 

In a long, drawn-out attack lasting hours, that took place at a hostel that seeks Israeli tourists, the local residents shot guns and threw fire-bombs with impunity.

By JTA

 

Ten Israeli tourists were wounded in an anti-Semitic attack at a hostel in a small Argentine village.

Lago Puelo National Park – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia

Three assailants burned, robbed and beat the tourists at the Onda Azul hostel in Lago Puelo, in southern Argentina, between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. Monday, the Argentine media reported. Police in the Chubut province are investigating.

“It was a terrifying moment, several hours of fear,” hostel owner Sergio Polak told the local media.

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| January 20, 2015
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US Supreme Court tells Federal Circuit Court: Rethink Teva decision

Supreme Court rules for Israel’s Teva generic drug manufacturer over multiple sclerosis drug patent.

By REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd in its fight with generic drug manufacturers over patent protections for Copaxone, its top-selling multiple sclerosis drug, by sending the case back to a lower court for further review.

Israel’s Teva’s factory in Hungary – Photo: Bloomberg

On a 7-2 vote, the justices said that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had not used the correct approach in analyzing whether the patent in question, due to expire in September 2015, was valid. Continue Reading »

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| January 16, 2015
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Argentine prosecutor accuses his President of hampering 1994 Jewish center bombing

Argentina’s state prosecutor accuses President  Fernandez of trying to cover up Iran’s part in the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, where 85 people were killed.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

An Argentine prosecutor accused President Cristina Fernandez on Wednesday of trying to orchestrate a cover up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

The aftermath of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires [Archive] – Photo: AP

State prosecutor Alberto Nisman, investigating the blast that killed 85 people, said Fernandez has pushed to drop the criminal investigation and normalize relations as a way of tapping Iranian oil needed to narrow Argentina’s $7 billion per year energy gap.

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