Archive for The Diaspora
Sweden’s new center-left gov’t officially recognizes a Palestinian state
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Foreign Minister described Sweden’s official recognition as “a miserable decision that strengthens the extremist elements & Palestinian rejectionism.”
AP, Reuters
STOCKHOLM – Sweden’s center-left government on Thursday officially recognized the state of Palestine, becoming the first major European country to do so.
The new center-left Swedish government – Photo: AP
The EU member country joined only two other Western European countries — Malta and Cyprus — that have officially recognized a Palestinian state.
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said the Scandinavian country had decided on the move because the criteria of international law required for such recognition had been fulfilled. Continue Reading »
Nobel Peace Prize laureate gives $50K to rebuild UNRWA schools that stored Gaza rockets
Huge sum donated by Nobel Peace Prize winner to refurbish UNRWA schools in Gaza – the same buildings which harbored rockets and then returned to Hamas when ‘discovered’.
By Arutz Sheva Staff
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is to donate $50,000 (39,000 euros) to help rebuild
United Nations schools in Gaza, the UNRWA said Wednesday.
Malala Yousufzai, – Reuters
The 17-year-old Pakistani children’s rights activist won the World Children’s Prize in Stockholm on Tuesday, and said she would donate all of that prize money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA said in a statement. Continue Reading »
If you’re anti-Semitic, study reveals chances of getting rich are slim.
Study reports that Germans who live in areas where Jews were persecuted invest less & profit less, that Jewish persecution often accompanied by distrust of finance, has hindered generations from accumulating wealth.
By Haaretz
Being an anti-Semite isn’t profitable, according to a recently published study.
Anti-Semites invest less in the stock market and earn less, study finds – (illustrative) Photo: Dreamstime
The study, titled “Distrust in Finance Lingers: Jewish Persecution and Households’ Investments” found that people who live in areas where Jews have been persecuted throughout history invest less in the stock market and often distrust the financial sector. Continue Reading »
Unlike El Al, Hareidi Men Disembarked Delta Flight After Refusing to Sit Next to Women
Earlier this week, a group of Jewish Ultra-Orthodox men who refused to sit next to women opted to disembarked from a Delta flight, when the surrounding passengers refused to acquiesce and change seats.
By Haim Lev, Cynthia Blank
A group of hareidi men who were supposed to fly to Israel from the United States on Delta Airlines flight Tuesday night refused to sit next to women, who in turn refused to switch seats, causing them to disembark from the plane.
Delta Air Lines Boeing 777-200LR – Photo Courtesy: Adrian Pingstone/Wikipedia
Flight 468 was set to depart from Kennedy Airport in New York. Continue Reading »
Second Disaster in Nepal as 2 Israeli Women Killed in Bus Crash
Heavily overcrowded bus falls from cliff in second tragedy in the Himalayas this month, killing 11 – including 2 Israeli women.
By Tova Dvorin
A bus traveling from Kathmandu to Langtang has fallen off a cliff and into a ravine in the Himalayas, Nepalese sources told Arutz Sheva on Friday morning.
Nepal bus crash (file) – Reuters
The bus fell 150 meters (492 ft.) after coming off a narrow road in Belkot, Nuwakot district, about 75 kilometers (46 miles) northwest of Kathmandu, according to Kantipur Television.
Eleven people are reported to have been killed in the crash; 52 have been injured. Continue Reading »
Nazi-inspired beauty pageant seeks the most anti-Semitic of the Baltic states
A Nazi-inspired beauty pageant dubbed “Miss Hitler 2014” is calling for attractive women to participate in the contest held on the Russian equivalent to Facebook .
From Miss Hitler 2014 Contest – Alina Voronina from Moscow is the Miss Hitler for you. As a young child, Voronina became infatuated with the Third Reich when she studied World War II. Now she is intently focused on Holocaust revisionism.
IsraAID in Iraq Delivering Emergency Relief to Kurds
Tikon Olam: As winter misery intensifies, an Israeli Aid Agency is providing desperately-needed supplies to refugees (mostly Kurds) from ISIS’s onslaught, including baby milk & warm blankets.
By Ari Soffer
Israeli humanitarian workers have joined the effort to provide desperately-needed supplies to displaced victims of the brutal Islamic State terrorist group in northern Iraq and Syria.
IsraAID supplied beds, blankets, and food to over 1,000 families in the Kurdish city of Duhok, in northern Iraq. The Israeli aid agency worked with Canadian ONEXONE to deliver a convoy to a 14,000-strong refugee camp carrying 2,000 blankets and mattresses, as well as enough powdered milk for all the 1,015 babies under one year of age. Continue Reading »
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Tags: humanitarian aid, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, IsraAid, KRG, Tikon Olam, Yazidis
Holocaust heirs sue Swiss bank for selling family artwork without consent
Rather than looking for surviving relatives to deliver proceeds from art sales, Swiss banking giant USB is accused of exploiting family name in creating a bogus foundation.
By Haaretz
Heirs of a German-Jewish couple whose vast art collection was confiscated by the Nazis have filed lawsuits against a Swiss bank they accuse of cheating them out of their inheritance.
Edgar Degas’ ‘Danseuses’, which was auctioned in 2009. – Photo: AFP
The lawsuits were filed recently in New York and Switzerland against global banking giant UBS and a foundation it controls, the New York Times reported on Friday.
According to the relatives of Ludwig and Margret Kainer, the bank claimed to be acting on behalf of the couple’s heirs, but instead channeled proceeds from art sales and German reparations to a foundation created by Swiss bank officials. Continue Reading »
One name of 3 Israelis killed in Nepal avalanche has been released
Agam Luria, a 23 year old from Yifat, a kibbutz in the northern Galilee, was named as one of three Israeli hikers killed in a Himalayan avalanche on Wednesday.
Himalayan range. – Photo: REUTERS
A fourth Israeli is still missing, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. The names of the two other casualties have yet to be released to the public.
At least 85 climbers are still unaccounted for after a blizzard dumped snow and triggered avalanches along a mountain trekking route popular with backpackers, the Trekking Agencies’ Association of Nepal said on Thursday. Continue Reading »
1,200 academics charge BDS ‘violates the very principle of academic freedom’
1,200 academics challenge boycott of Israel by signing petition that charges BDS being unfairly prejudice and for stifling academic freedoms.
By i24news
After upward of 350 anthropologists from around the world have endorsed a boycott of Israel and its academic institutions, some 1,200 academics signed a pro-Israeli petition calling to oppose such measures.
Boycott Israel, BDS – Twitter
“We, the undersigned academics, (faculty, full time and part time, academic staff including librarians, researchers, post doctorates, technicians and technologists, administrators, and trustees) vigorously support free speech and free debate but we oppose faculty or student boycotts of Israel’s academic institutions, scholars and students,” reads the petition, posted on the website of the Faculty for Academic Freedom. Continue Reading »
Implications for Israel: 1st ‘Head of State’ appears before Int’l Criminal Court
The President of Kenya’s appearance before the ICC removes obstacles which may have previously blocked Palestinians from successfully getting the court to take on cases against Israeli military & political leaders.
Continue Reading »Watch: Moroccan Poet Criticizes Arab Conquest and Defends Zionism
Malika Mezzane, a Moroccan poet says ‘Jews want the right to return to their homeland, whereas Arabs want to establish a homeland at everyone else’s expense.’
By Ari Soffer
Not long ago, Arutz Sheva reported on the curious case of Malika Mezzane – a Moroccan poet and human rights activist who caused a storm by insisting that “Palestine belongs to the Jews” in a radio interview.
Malika Mezzane – YouTube screenshot
Now, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has translated a fascinating TV interview by Mezzane in which she explains why, in her view, “the Arabs are more ‘Zionist’ than the Jews”, and insists that Arab nationalism has been realized at the expense of all the other nations of the Middle East – including Jews and her own people, the Amazigh (also known as Berbers). Continue Reading »
Good News? Pollard’s release date deleted, replaced with ‘Life’
U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman reported that the change was merely ‘administrative,’ but for Esther Pollard, his wife, the change came as good news, she says.
By JTA
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons changed Jonathan Pollard’s release date on its website from “Nov. 15 2015” to “Life.”
Jonathan Pollard during an interview at the Federal Correction Institution in Butner, North Carolina, May 15, 1998. – Photo: AP
A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons was unable Monday to explain the change on the bureau’s “inmate locator,” which he confirmed occurred recently.
Under sentencing guidelines in place in 1987 when Pollard, a former U.S.
EU follows the US and gives Facebook thumbs-up on $19 bn buyout of WhatsApp
European regulators dismiss allegations that Facebook would gain ‘unfair advantage’ with its acquisition of Whatsapp messenger service.
By i24news
European Union regulators on Friday cleared the buyout of the WhatsApp mobile messaging service by Facebook, despite opposition by telecom companies afraid of the growing power of US technology giants.
WhatsApp app on smartphone – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP
In a statement explaining its approval of the $19-billon deal, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Facebook and WhatsApp were “not close competitors” and that consumers would continue to have a “wide array of choices”.
“We have carefully reviewed this proposed acquisition and come to the conclusion that it would not hamper competition in this dynamic and growing market,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement. Continue Reading »
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