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| January 16, 2015
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France Honors Muslim Who Saved Jews in Terrorist Attack With French Nationality

An official ceremony will be held on Jan 20, giving Lassana Bathily his French passport for his bravery during the hostage taking in the Hyper Casher market.

By Reuters

 

A Malian Muslim who hid shoppers from an Islamist gunman during an attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris will be given French nationality, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Lassana Bathily – Photo: Le Parisien

After the gunman had already killed people during a hostage taking in the store on Friday, 24-year old shop attendant Lassana Bathily hid several people.

Bathily saved the lives of six people whom he took to the supermarket’s freezer – sparing them from the scarring scene that was underway. Continue Reading »

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| January 15, 2015
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British Survey: Most UK Jews feel they have no future in Europe

UK poll finds a quarter of Britain’s Jews have considered leaving the country in the past 2 years.
• Additionally, 45% of all Brits agree with at least 1 anti-Semitic sentiment.
• Most French Jews are weighing pros & cons of immigration to Israel.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

A quarter of Jews in Britain have considered leaving the country in the last two years and well over half feel they have no long term future in Europe, according to a survey published on Wednesday.

Jewish men talk in Golders Green, London, January 10, 2015 – Photo: Reuters

Additionally, anti-Semitic beliefs are widely prevalent among the wider public with 45 percent of Britons agreeing with at least one anti-Semitic sentiment, the YouGov poll for the Campaign Against Antisemitism group found.

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| January 14, 2015
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SA Jews Condemn BDSers For Inviting Convicted Palestinian Hijacker to South Africa

Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, convicted in 2 separate incidents of air piracy in 1969 & 1970, is invited to South Africa for a speaking tour, where she’s compared to Mandela, by local BDS activists.

By SAM SOKOL

 

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has announced that it will bring convicted terrorist Leila Khaled to South African next month for a speaking tour, drawing harsh condemnations from the country’s Jewish community.

Hijacked planes – Palestinian terrorism

Khaled, now 70, is a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and took part in two airplane hijackings between 1969 and 1970. Continue Reading »

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| January 14, 2015
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Palestinian Authority Defendant in First Ever Trial in US, Linked to 6 Terrorist Attacks

Plaintiff’s lead Attorney: “More than a decade after these 6 horrific terrorist attacks left Americans dead or wounded. Today marks the day that survivors brought the perpetrators to face justice.”

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, FRANK G. RUNYEON

 

With the first trial ever in US history against the Palestinian Authority for terrorism charges kicking off on Tuesday, plaintiffs’ lawyer Kent Yalowitz said, “More than a decade after these six horrific terrorist attacks left Americans dead or wounded, today marks the day that survivors brought the perpetrators to face justice.”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greets released Palestinian prisoners at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Dec.

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| January 13, 2015
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PLO Faces $1Billion Civil Trial in US Over Multiple Terror Attacks in Israel

 

New York court to decide whether PLO & Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority should pay $1 billion in compensation over 7 ‘Palestinian’ terrorist attacks that killed 33 people & wounded hundreds during 2001-2004.
• Expectedly, the PLO & PA deny the allegations.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

More than a decade after a series of shootings and bombings in the Jerusalem area, a trial in New York this week is slated to determine whether the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority should pay up to $1 billion in compensation to victims.

Palestinian soldiers lower the Palestinian flags to half mast at the Muqataa Compound in Ramallah on July 20, 2014, to honor the people killed in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s Operation Dove.

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| January 12, 2015
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Did ‘Smiling’ Palestinian president Abbas go to Paris to Honor the Victims or the Terrorists?

Op-Ed: Abbas’ arrival in Paris was brazen hypocrisy. He names streets, city squares & schools after mass murderers, so who did he really come to honor, the fallen victims, 4 of whom were Jewish or the 3 killed Muslim terrorists?

By Jack Engelhard

 

One man came to the party and ruined it for anyone who believed in the sanctity of the occasion. Mahmoud Abbas showed up.

The only one smiling in the Paris ceremony (2nd from right; front row), marking the murder of innocent civilians, the Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas seems to be enjoying the memorial protest. – Photo: AP

As the result of Islamic terror that bloodied Paris and ripped out the heart of civilization, a million people, citizens and visitors, assembled in Place de la Republique in a march of support for free speech and tolerance.

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| January 11, 2015
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French Jewish Community Living in Fear

Friday’s antisemitic terrorist attack didn’t rattle the already nervous Jewish community, but it did instill genuine heartache and concern.
• Paris’ major synagogues suspended their Shabbat services for the 1st time since World War II.

By Boaz Bismuth

 

The last time I saw a Jewish minyan relocate from a synagogue to a private residence for security reasons was in 2010. I was in Rayda, Yemen, where the Jews were still reeling from the assassination of Moshe Nahari, the brother of a prominent rabbi.

I never thought I would find myself at the same exact same setting in Paris, only four years later.

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| January 11, 2015
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French PM Declares, ‘If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France’

 

With possibility of 100,000 Jews fleeing France, French PM urges Jews not to leave the country, in an interview with The Atlantic.
• European Union rabbi urges Jerusalem to help fund security for French Jews, as 2nd option, not just urge Aliyah.

By Ynet

 

“If 100,000 French people of Spanish origin were to leave, I would never say that France is not France anymore. But if 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France. The French Republic will be judged a failure,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday ahead of a memorial rally in honor of those killed in France in recent days. Continue Reading »

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| January 11, 2015
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How a pro-Israel Muslim was ambushed by Australian breakfast TV

A Muslim physician had been reduced to an instrument of rank media opportunism on Australia’s Channel 7, by producers who shamelessly exploited her Israeli-Palestinian goodwill project at Hadassah hospital, & turned it into a ‘Pallywood’ production for Hamas.

By Dr. Qanta A Ahmed

 

On a recent trip to Australia I was booked by Ch7′s Weekend Sunrise to discuss Project Rozana, an Israeli-Palestinian initiative to train West Bank physicians (predominantly Palestinian Muslims) in Israel’s Hadassah hospital. As an ambassador for the Project, I was lock step with my ideals both as a physician and as an observing Muslim opposed to virulently anti-Semitic Islamism. Continue Reading »

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| January 8, 2015
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US Senator Rand Paul introduced bill to stop Palestinian aid

Republican Sen. Rand Paul files motion to cut all American assistance to Abbas’ Palestinian Authority until PA ends efforts to join International Criminal Court.

By The Associated Press

 

Republican Senator Rand Paul introduced a bill on Wednesday that would immediately halt US aid to the Palestinians until they halt their effort to join the International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.

Senator Rand Paul – Photo: AP

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ recent turn to the international court at The Hague marked a major policy shift and transformed his relations with Israel from strained to openly hostile.

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| January 7, 2015
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US State Department: Palestine can’t qualify for ICC membership; it’s not a state

State Department officials examining if Abbas’ PA move violates US appropriations law for maintaining the yearly $400 million Palestinian aid.

By MICHAEL WILNER & YONAH JEREMY BOB

 

WASHINGTON – Palestine is not a state, and therefore does not technically qualify for membership to the International Criminal Court, the State Department said on Wednesday.

Jen Psaki – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US would oppose the Palestinian move to join the body, and several others at the United Nations, a step it sees as technically flawed.

“It doesn’t qualify to join the ICC,” Psaki told reporters. Continue Reading »

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| January 5, 2015
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British activists begin ‘war crimes’ lawsuit with 5 Israelis involved with Gaza flotilla

Lawyers for British pro-Palestinian activists informed London police of information claiming it proves five Israeli military commanders committed war crimes during the 2010 Gaza flotilla.

By Eli Leon & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Pro-Palestinian activists who were aboard the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla that attempted to breach the Gaza blockade are looking to launch a British investigation into the Israeli military’s conduct during the interception of the flotilla.

The Mavi Marmara – Photo: AP

According to a report in British newspaper The Independent, activists in England have approached the Greater London Metropolitan Police Service to investigate whether Israeli soldiers had committed war crimes during the raid.

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| January 4, 2015
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Surprise, surprise: A not anti-Israel NY Times op-ed

 

The NYT, which usually bashes Israel’s PM, had kind words in Friday’s op-ed for Benjamin Netanyahu, penning David Brooks: “Like Churchill, he is wisest when things are going wrong,” & “Bibi’s instincts have basically been proven correct.”

By Yoni Hirsch

 

It isn’t every day that Benjamin Netanyahu receives a sympathetic article in The New York Times, which usually doles out harsh criticism against the Israeli prime minister. But this week, Netanyahu received rare approval in an article titled “The Age of Bibi.”

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In Friday’s op-ed, columnist David Brooks, who attests to having visited Israel nearly 20 times, compares Netanyahu to several prominent historical figures, including one of Netanyahu’s own heroes, Winston Churchill.

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| December 29, 2014
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Lower Egyptian court forbids Jews from celebrating at Jewish mystic’s grave

The Egyptian court said its ruling was based on “moral offenses” committed during previous years at the 3-day Jewish festival celebrating Rabbi Jacob Abu Hasira’s birth.

By REUTERS

 

CAIRO – An Egyptian court permanently banned a Jewish celebration that has taken place since the 1979 peace deal with Israel and asked the government to remove the tomb where it takes place from a list of official shrines, judicial sources said on Monday.

Jacob Abu Hasira

Jacob Abu Hasira.- Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

The court said its decision was due to “moral offenses” committed in previous years at the three-day festival celebrating the birth of Rabbi Jacob Abu Hasira. Continue Reading »

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| December 12, 2014
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PA Panics, Files Another ‘Desperate’ Writ to Postpone Terror Trial – Again

Palestinian Authority legal team tries once again to stall January court date on $1 billion terror lawsuit in NY Circuit Court.

Israel Law Center: ‘Families of victims deserve their day in court.’ 

By Ari Yashar

 

After losing a landmark decision on November 20 allowing them to be tried for terrorism charges in a $1 billion case, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have now filed a very rare appeal to the Second Circuit of courts trying to squash the case.

Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) is leading the legal charge against the PA and PLO.
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