Exposed: Church BDS activists enter Israel on tourist visas to avoid detection

 

Christian Empowerment Council leader: Activists distort Christianity to promote an extremist agenda. “I will continue to work toward exposing any organization or program that claims to be Christian while working against the State of Israel, the safest place for Christians in the Middle East.”

By Yair Altman

 

An investigation by the Christian Empowerment Council revealed that one of the better-known boycott, divestment and sanctions groups is engaging in illegal activities in Israel, and Israeli authorities appear to be completely oblivious to the phenomenon.

Father Gabriel Naddaf led the investigation into the Christian BDS activists – Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon

The Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel, which is run by the World Council of Churches, has been active in Israel since 2002. Continue Reading »

Israeli legislators bring bill to Knesset due to Facebook’s indifference to incitement

 

The anti-Facebook legislation would enable courts to force the social media platforms to immediately remove the posted content Israel deems to be promoting terrorism.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

 

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan took their fight against Facebook to a new level on Tuesday, publicizing a proposed bill for removing terrorism-promoting content from the Internet and various social media platforms.

Facebook – Photo: REUTERS

After lies, broken promises, incitement, Israeli intellectuals reject meeting Abbas

 

Despite 2 previous meetings with PA Chairman Abbas, the esteemed Israeli delegation rejected the latest invitation to meet after failing to condemn countless murders, including the butchering of 13 yr-old Hallel Ariel while she slept, refusing to accept President Rivlin’s invitation to meet, and breaking his promise to meet with Netanyahu ‘anytime, anywhere.’

By Itamar Eichner

 

Dozens of Israeli intellectuals and cultural figures who met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the past have recently rejected another invitation to meet with him due to his refusal to condemn the murder of 13-year-old Hallel Ariel and his refusal to meet with President Reuven Rivlin in Brussels.

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IDF closes down 16 illegal Palestinian weapons factories

Terror groups underwent a serious setback with the closing of 16 underground weapons manufacturing workshops, and IDF’s seizure of 200 weapons, ammunition & grenades that Palestinian terrorists would have used in future attacks on Israelis.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Israeli army has closed 16 Arab weapons factories in Judea and Samaria in a major crackdown an IDF officer said on Tuesday.

“As part of our war against the production of homemade weapons, we have seized 200 weapons, ammunition and grenades and closed 16 illegal workshops since early 2016,” Colonel Roman Gofman said.

In a conference call with reporters, he said the campaign also targeted Palestinian shops selling firecrackers, which can be used to make grenades and improvised explosive devices.

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Controversial Turkish Muslim Advocates Israeli Sovereignty Over Jerusalem

 

Welcoming a delegation of rabbis and politicians from Israel, a Muslim leader in Turkey encourages good relations with the Jews & Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The following is a press release from Turkish religious figure Adnan Oktar (pictured, center), who recently hosted a number of Israeli Jewish officials during Ramadan and very interestingly expressed his anticipation for the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem.

Adnan Oktar and his harem of peace activists

Adnan Oktar and his harem of peace activists – Turkish media

Mr. Adnan Oktar, prominent Muslim opinion leader from Turkey, welcomed a delegation of rabbis and politicians from Israel for the iftardinner he hosted in Istanbul on June 22, 2016. Continue Reading »

Israel security forces find illicit arms dealers, cache near Nablus, arrest terrorists

After confiscating weapon manufacturing equipment, makeshift guns, & ammunition, Israel arrests 2 from Abbas’ security forces, along with 2 other Palestinians for illicit arms dealing & manufacturing.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

Israeli forces have arrested several Palestinians who were allegedly involved in illicit arms dealing and manufacturing.

A gun confiscated in the raid Sunday night  – Photo: Shin Bet security agency

The arrest raid, in the town of Urif near Nablus in Samaria, took place overnight Sunday and was carried out by the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Duvdevan unit and Nahal Brigade, with the help of the Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency. Continue Reading »

Facebook sued by relatives of Palestinian attack victims for $1 billion in US court

 

Having already proven how the social media giant discriminates against Jews & Israelis, the NGO legal group seeks punitive action over what is seen as Facebook’s reluctance to help track potential Islamic militants & curb Palestinian incitement to violence.

By REUTERS

 

A group of Israelis and Americans bereaved in Palestinian attacks said on Monday they would seek $1 billion in damages from Facebook Inc. for alleged complicity, as part of a suit filed in the United States against the social media giant.

Phillip Pasmanick demonstrates against Facebook's disregard to incitement - Photo: IsraelandStuff:PP

Protesting against Facebook’s reluctance to stop Palestinian incitement to violence against Jews, outside its main offices. – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The plaintiffs, relatives of four Israeli-US dual nationals and one visiting US citizen who died in attacks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or the West Bank between 2014 and 2016, accused Facebook of helping Hamas terrorists operate. Continue Reading »

Planned UNESCO vote to repudiate Jewish connection with Western Wall

 

A joint Jordanian-Palestinian draft accusing Israel of misconduct on the Temple Mount including deliberate vandalism, will also deny Jewish affinity to the mount and the Western Wall, will be voted on during the annual UNESCO meeting.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The subject of the Jewish connection with the Temple Mount has once again been returned to the UN as Palestinians and Jordanians seek to repudiate Jewish affinity with any part of the compound.

Photo: AP

The draft decision presented by the Palestinians and Jordanians includes a number of problematic points in relation to Israel. Firstly, the draft calls on Israel to return the Temple Mount and the al-Aqsa mosque to “the historic status quo,” a new phrase implying that the sites should be returned to their pre-1967 status.The Continue Reading »

Another Gaza terror-tunnel collapses, Another Islamic Jihad terrorist dead

 

In the latest in over a dozen tunnel cave-ins this year, Islamic Jihad reports of an Al-Quds Brigade terrorist recovered dead after a terror-tunnel in northern Gaza collapsed.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A tunnel collapse in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed a member of the terror group Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, it said, in the latest in a series of such incidents.

The collapse occurred in the northern Gaza Strip, the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement, without providing further details.

It identified the terrorist killed as Ibrahim Hassan Al-Masri, 28, of Al-Quds’s northern command.

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The northern Gaza Strip, controlled by the radical Islamist terror organization Hamas, shares a border with Israel. Continue Reading »

Pro-Palestinian group blames Israel for US police killings

 

NYU chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine exploits yet another tragedy by hijacking another completely unrelated event to interject the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in order to push their agenda of demonization, delegitimization and hatred of the Jewish State.

By Matt Wanderman

 

As demonstrators in the United States protest against recent incident in which police officers killed African American men, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has found a way to blame Israel.

SJP protest – Photo: William Stadtwald Demchick

New York University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine shared a post on its Facebook page claiming that “the same forces behind the genocide of black people in America are behind the genocide of Palestinians.” Continue Reading »

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 »

Arab leader seeks to rid ‘Joint List Party’ of rabid anti-Israel parliamentarian

 

Arab Joint List head Ayman Odeh, inquired how he can remove detrimental MK Haneen Zoabi from his non-Jewish party.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Even Joint List head Ayman Odeh has come out against MK Haneen Zoabi (Joint List).

During a conversation with a senior Knesset member, MK Odeh said: “Suggest something. How can I get rid of her? She’s hurting us and I want to get rid of her.”

Channel 2 reports that Odeh blamed the changes made in the last elections for allowing Zoabi to remain in the Knesset.

“If it wasn’t for the changes that you Jews did to increase the threshold, she probably wouldn’t be in the Knesset. Continue Reading »

Photo Essay: Israel’s Tel Aviv to Jerusalem train route, tunnels, bridges & terminal

 

The construction seems endless, but only a projected 18 months remain until the 28-minute high-speed train route, with Israel’s longest bridge, its highest, a nature reserve, and the Mideast’s largest tunnel, from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is to open.

By Ofer Petersburg

 

For years, we’ve heard talk of the fast train between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Innumerable data, schedules, company names, problems, disagreements—but as of late, this grandiose project has been transforming into something real. You can already sense its impending grandeur: passing on bridges over beautiful abysses, travelling several minutes in a dim tunnel, and emerging from the earth to discover Jerusalem before you. Continue Reading »

Palestinians bicker, skeptical of Israel’s plan for off-coast island port for Gaza

 

view videoStrategic affairs adviser to West Bank based PA President Abbas, accused Israel of trying to reinforce the split between the West Bank & Gaza, “a lethal blow to the prospects of a two state solution.”

By BEN LYNFIELD/THE MEDIA LINE

 

A proposal by an Israeli minister to construct an island to serve as a port that would open up the blockaded Gaza Strip to the world has gained adherents from Israeli security experts, who view it as a way to avoid further rounds of conflict with the coastal enclave run by the militant Hamas movement.

But the initiative by Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz is receiving a cold reception from both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, both of which doubt Israel is actually interested in alleviating the suffering of Gazans. Continue Reading »

IDF under fire to explain how Jordanian successfully infiltrated undetected

 

After a kibbutz security officer shot and apprehended the infiltrator, the IDF opened an investigation on how a Jordanian citizen crossed the border into Israel to throw rocks at a moving car, and then assault its driver.

By Yoav Zitun and Ahia Raved

 

A Jordanian man managed to infiltrate Israel on Friday south of the northern site of Hamat Gader. After entering Israel, the man began to throw rocks at passing cars, causing an Israeli driver named Rotem Aharoni to drive off the road. Following the crash, the man ran over to the car and attempted to remove Aharoni and steal the vehicle. Continue Reading »