Open letter to Facebook after repeated violations of anti-Israel bias

 

Again Facebook has one standard for those who support the land being called Israel, and another for those who prefer the Jewish State to be called Palestine.

 

I have been trying to reach a live human being at Facebook via email and telephone but have not been successful. Therefore, I write this open letter in the hope that it will reach the proper authorities in your company.

Facebook anti-Israel Bias

Social media Facebook posts – Posters courtesy: DOV LIPMAN

Facebook is, no doubt, in a difficult position – trying to balance free speech while also preventing incitement to violence and other negative results that can arise from people’s posts. Continue Reading »

UN exploits murder of innocent Israelis in backhanded attack on Israel

Israel’s UN Embassy accused the UNHRC Commission chief of breaking a new record of cynicism and double standards by “using the murder of Israelis to attack Israel.”

By Ari Soffer

 

Israel has slammed the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) for “using the murder of Israelis to attack Israel,” accusing it of “cynicism and double standards” in its response to Wednesday night’s deadly Palestinian terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.

United Nations rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein – Photo: Reuters

In a message given during a press briefing earlier Friday, United Nations rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein’s office issued a mild condemnation of the attack itself, but then went on to say that he was “deeply concerned” by Israel’s response. Continue Reading »

CNN deletes tweet, apologizes for ‘questionable reporting’ but FOX got it right

 

By HANNAH BROAD

 

Following Wednesday night’s terror attack in Tel Aviv’s Sarona market that left four people dead and 16 wounded CNN inspired outrage with its headline when it put the word “terrorists” in quotations on its Facebook page.

The CNN building in Dubai Media City Park – Photo: REUTERS/RUSSELL BOYCE

Additionally, the news agency failed to mention terrorism even once in the article reporting the ordeal.

Similarly, the British news network SKY also neglected to use the word “terror” or “terrorism” in their report of the attack at Sarona. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Israeli dental implant technology accelerates & ameliorates bone growth

 

view videoThe Israeli firm’s miniature electrostimulation device causes the bone to grow three times faster and more densely, helping dental implant candidates who have poor bone quality.

By Abigail Klein Leichman

 

In ancient Egypt, missing teeth were sometimes replaced with carved seashells or pebbles anchored in the jawbone. Modern implant dentistry is a lot more sophisticated, but the basic idea is the same: placing an artificial root into the jawbone to hold a replacement tooth (crown).

Image via Shutterstock.com

The two-part procedure begins with screwing a titanium “root” into the jawbone and waiting three to six months until the bone grows firmly around it – called “osseointegration.” Continue Reading »

Def. Minister Liberman pledges to close gaps in West Bank security barrier

Following numerous gov’t promises in the past of closing the gap in the security barrier, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman promised on Thursday to take action and not just issue statements.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

Government pledges to fix the gap in the security barrier will do little to stop future attacks like the one that occurred in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night.

Palestinians walk near an opening in Israel’s security fence in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of A-tur. – Photo: REUTERS

That is because what’s missing is 320 kilometers out of a 790-kilometer route. Although work on the barrier began in 2002, during the height of the second intifada, the project had ground almost to halt by 2007 based on shifting defense needs in the aftermath of the Second Lebanon War. Continue Reading »

Canada Post instructed to quit delivery of anti-Semitic paper

 

Canada’s Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote, ordered Canada Post to stop delivering an anti-Semitic, Toronto newspaper that publishes “misogynist, racist, anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and homophobic hate propaganda.”

By Ben Ariel

 

Canada’s federal government has ordered Canada Post to stop delivering an anti-Semitic Toronto newspaper which repeatedly denied the Holocaust, praised Adolf Hitler and derided Jews as well as Muslims, The National Post reports.

Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote, who oversees Canada Post, made the decision less than two months after a human rights complaint accused the government and the postal service of “regularly and knowingly delivering misogynist, racist, anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and homophobic hate propaganda.” Continue Reading »

Trump condemns Tel Aviv terrorist attack, denounces “uncivilized world”

 

Trump characterized the American commitment to Israel’s security as “of paramount importance,” after condemning the actions of the “uncivilized world.”

By MICHAEL WILNER

 

Washington – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday condemned an attack on civilians in Tel Aviv as an act of terror backed by the “uncivilized world,” warning that as president, extremist militant organizations such as Hamas will find “no refuge” on his watch.

In a statement, Trump said he awaits details of the event, which involved at least three Palestinian perpetrators shooting nine Israeli civilians in a popular Tel Aviv market. Four victims have died. Continue Reading »

Israeli elementary school near Gaza generates its own electricity

 

Nitzanei Eshkol elementary school near the Gaza border has completed construction of a solar power network that completely meets all the school’s needs.

By Matan Tzuri

 

This week, Nitzanei Eshkol, an elementary school in the Eshkol Regional Council near the Gaza Strip, began operating an electrical system powered entirely from solar energy. This system is expected to meet the school’s energy demands in their entirety.

View of the school’s solar panels

After long months of planning and installing solar panels, the construction ceased this week, and connecting the new system was successfully completed. The environmentally conscious school’s pupils led the excitement: the first through sixth grades had been observing the process and learning about the environmental benefits of using solar energy for electricity. Continue Reading »

Liberman’s 1st New Policy: Terrorists’ bodies not to be returned to families

 

Defense Minister Liberman tells IDF to stop handing over dead terrorists to the PA for burial, while the National Security Council is to submit plans for creating a cemetery for terrorists.

By Hezki Baruch

 

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman instructed the IDF Thursday to desist from its policy of handing over terrorists’ bodies to the Palestinian Authority for burial.

Celebratory funeral in eastern Jerusalem – Photo: Reuters

His instruction was given despite the recommendation of the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) to return terrorists’ bodies, because not doing so could cause Arab anger and violence.
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WATCH: Israel’s new helmet allows troops to see through their armored vehicles

 

view videoIsrael’s Elbit Systems unveils new helmet deigned to allow tank & APC personnel to see 360° through their armor.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

Elbit Systems unveiled a helmet-mounted system on Wednesday designed to allow armored personnel carrier and tank crews to see straight through their armor.

The helmets give soldiers a 360-degree, real-time view of their surroundings while in the vehicle.

Called IronVision, the system has attracted the interest of the IDF, which may choose to acquire it. If it does, the product would represent a significant leap in the capability of personnel in closedhatched armored fighting vehicles to identify threats, as well as friendly forces. Continue Reading »

Added Ramadan entry permits into Israel cancelled, IDF deploys more troops to West Bank

 

Entry permits for 83,000 Palestinians, (including the permits for 204 relatives of the captured terrorists) to visit Israel have been revoked, as IDF deploys 2 additional battalions to the West Bank after deadly Palestinian terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.

By News agencies

 

Israel on Thursday imposed a series of sweeping restrictions on Palestinian movement and deployed hundreds of additional troops to the West Bank in response to a terror attack that killed four Israelis and wounded 16 others in Tel Aviv.

The shooting, carried out by two West Bank Palestinians, targeted a crowded tourist and restaurant district in the heart of Tel Aviv and was among the deadliest and most brazen attacks in a nine-month wave of violence. Continue Reading »

Analysis: 10 years of global BDS movement has had zero economic impact

#BDSfail: Even before US, Canada & European courts have illegalized BDS for being racist/anti-Semitic, foreign investments in Israel are 3 times greater since the Jewish State was 1st targeted by a coalition of Palestinian groups a decade ago, proving that efforts to isolate Israel have failed.

By Brian Schrauger

 

Foreign capital flow to Israeli assets hit a record high of $285.12 billion last year, nearly triple of what this figure was in 2005, Bloomberg News reported last week. And while the Israeli economy has been slowing as of late, it is still performing better than that of the United States and other Western nations. Continue Reading »

Palestinian terrorist still held in US lock-down 2 years after prison ‘release’

Because U.S. gov’t says Jordanian-born Mohammed Rashed is still a threat & should remain in custody, he’s been remanded to immigration’s custody since finishing his prison sentence in 2013, for the 1982 airliner bombing.

By the Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

The U.S. has a “concrete plan” to deport a Jordanian-born Palestinian who put a bomb on a passenger flight in 1982, a government lawyer said Tuesday, arguing that the man should stay in custody until his deportation because he remains a terrorist threat.

Mohammed Rashed during an appeals court hearing in Athens in 1991 [Archive] – Photo: AP

However, an attorney for Mohammed Rashed called the claim “another in a long line of delay tactics” by the government and argued for Rashed’s immediate release from immigration custody, where he has been held finishing a prison sentence in early 2013. Continue Reading »

UPDATED: Palestinian Terrorist Attack leaves 4 Israelis dead, 7 injured, 4 seriously in Tel Aviv

view videoIsrael Police confirmed that both Palestinian terrorists, cousins, were arrested, one shot after killing four Israelis with multiple casualties at Tel Aviv’s Sarona complex.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, BEN HARTMAN

 

At least four people were killed and multiple others wounded in a suspected terrorist shooting Wednesday night in central Tel Aviv’s popular Sarona complex.

Scene of Tel Aviv terrorist attack – Twitter

Police confirmed that two attackers were arrested and one was shot and wounded. Footage from the scene showed an armed civilian firing shots at one of the suspected perpetrators.

According to unconfirmed reports by police sources, two assailants had dressed up as ultra-Orthodox Jews. Continue Reading »

Russia’s Red Army returns captured IDF tank to Netanyahu

 

PM Netanyahu: “For the past 34 years we have been looking for our fighters and we will not cease until we can bring them to graves in the State of Israel. For these 34 years, the Katz, Feldman and Baumel families have not had a grave to visit. But now they will have this tank, a remnant from the battle of Sultan Ya’akov, that they can visit and touch, and which will let them feel their common memory.”

By Nitsan Keider

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara took part in an official ceremony for the return of a tank that had been captured by Syria during the 1982 war in Lebanon. Continue Reading »