European Broadcasting Union bans Palestine, ISIS flags from Eurovision song contest

 

The venue hosting the contest published the European Broadcasting Union’s guidelines on spectator conduct which includes a ban displaying Palestinian, ISIS flags.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

If there’s excitement and anticipation in the air, if there’s about to be an explosion of glitz and glamor, you know what that means – the Eurovision song contest is upon us.

The flags of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Islamic State. – Photo: Courtesy

The annual display of over-the-top kitsch is just less than two weeks away, but if you are one of the lucky ones who will be attending the extravaganza at Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, don’t bother taking your flags of Palestine or Islamic State. Continue Reading »

ISIS Attacks on Vatican & Israeli Embassy in Rome Foiled by Italian Security Forces

 

Italian authorities successfully thwarted an ISIS attack on the Israeli Embassy in Rome & the Vatican, but 2 members of the cell have left Italy & entered ISIS controlled territory.

By Associated Press

 

Arrest warrants were issued for six people affiliated with ISIS on Thursday evening, four of which planned to attack the Israeli Embassy in Rome and the Vatican.

Two of the Muslim terrorists who planned to carry out an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Rome – Photo: EPA

Milan prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli told reporters that investigators intercepted communications from within ISIS held territory ordering attacks in Italy, “with particular attention to the city of Rome” and focusing on the Holy Year pilgrimage now underway. Continue Reading »

UK Labour party head supports ‘charity’ that indoctrinates 7 yr-old Palestinians to kill Jews

 

view videoVIDEO: Heavily backed by MP Jeremy Corbyn, Interpal, banned in the US & Israel as a terrorist organization, was recently exposed funding a Hamas festival in Gaza where a 7 yr-old girl ‘stabs Jews’ to the audience’s amusement.

By Ari Yashar

 

An horrific children’s play in which a seven-year-old Palestinian girl “stabbed Jews” took place at a recent event partly funded by Interpal, a UK charity supported by Labour party head Jeremy Corbyn and MPs of his party, reports the UK Daily Mail on Thursday.

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn – Photo: Reuters

Footage of the play, in which the girl pretends to stab two boys dressed as IDF soldiers who “shoot” her before a boy in a mask “shoots” them back with a toy semi-automatic weapon, was aired last week on Hamas TV. Continue Reading »

2 female Palestinian attackers attempt to stab IDF soldier, 1 shot, both captured

 

IDF forces shoot & subdue one Palestinian terrorist at West Bank checkpoint near Jerusalem, the 2nd fled the scene but was eventually nabbed by security forces.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Two female terrorists attempted to stab an IDF soldier stationed at a military checkpoint near the Palestinian village of Beit Ur al-Tahta in the West Bank on Thursday night, the military reported.

MDA ambulance – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

The assailants failed to carry out the attempted attack. Security forces shot and subdued one of the attackers. She was wounded in moderate-to-serious condition, according to initial reports.

The second assistant fled the scene but was later apprehended without being fired upon. Continue Reading »

Poll: Palestinians Support Terror Over a Negotiated Peace

 

67% of surveyed Palestinian youths insisted that peace talks alone would not produce an acceptable outcome.

By Israel Today Staff

 

A survey published this week revealed that most young Palestinians are only interested in the kind of solution to the current conflict that can be brought about by terrorist violence.

Angry Jew-hating Palestinians – Twitter

Conducted by the Palestinian NGO Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, the survey was conducted among Palestinians aged 16–30 in both Gaza and the so-called “West Bank.”

An overall majority of respondents said they support the current wave of terrorist stabbings and other attacks against Israeli Jews, and a similar majority felt the violence was beneficial to the Palestinian national cause. Continue Reading »

After decades of boycott, Egyptian Copts now flock to Israel in the thousands

 

The visit by Egypt’s Coptic Pope Tawadros II, who went to Jerusalem for the funeral of the Holy Land’s Coptic Archbishop Abraham, was taken as a sign that the late Coptic Pope Shenouda III’s travel-ban was rescinded.

By i24news

 

Thousands of Egyptian Copts flocked to Jerusalem this year in celebration of Palm Sunday.

The current Copts Pope, Theodoros II – Photo EPA

According to Egyptian media, at least 5,700 Coptic Orthodox Christians have travelled to Jerusalem so far this year, an increase of more than a thousand compared to the Coptic pilgrims who undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Places of Jerusalem in 2015. Continue Reading »

PA Doublespeak: Palestinian UN envoy compares Israel to Nazi Germany

 

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon says, “Any comparison between the Nazi regime and the democratic State of Israel is despicable & must be condemned by the int’l community.”

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

Palestinian Authority (PA) envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour held a provocative press conference Wednesday, in which he compared the actions of Israeli security forces in Judea and Samaria to the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising by the Nazis in World War Two.

Palestinian Authority UN envoy Riyad Mansour – Reuters

“Any comparison between the Nazi regime and the democratic State of Israel is despicable and must be condemned by the international community,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, responded Wednesday night. Continue Reading »

#BDSfail: French gov’t indicates giant bank violates anti-BDS law

 

France’s Credit Mutuel Bank is now in the cross hairs of a 2-front legal war, at home in France, and on the other side of the Atlantic, where Credit Mutuel has a branch office in NYC, as the state’s legislature is presently negotiating a tough anti-BDS law.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

 

NEW YORK CITY – The French embassy in Israel announced that an account held by Campaign BDS France with Credit Mutuel bank appears to violate the law.

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When Palestinian leaders avoid sovereignty, only option is returning land to Jordan

 

Op-ed: Acknowledging the only viable option left for the Palestinian people is the return of 96% of the West Bank to Jordan is now, since every Palestinian leader has proven himself averse to actively running an independent state or founding a sovereign Palestinian country when time after time, opportunity was dismissed.

By Sever Plocker

 

With the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank coming up, the time has come to return to the idea which guided the opponents of annexation in the 60s and 70s—the Jordan Option, or the Jordanian-Palestinian option.

Who am I to decide whether or not the Palestinians have defining cultural and nationalistic characteristics to differentiate it from the rest of the Arab world? Continue Reading »

Israeli doctors save 3 yr-old Gaza child from paralysis

 

Because of a massive tumor extending to his neck & spine, 3 yr-old Sliman was “on the brink of paralysis” in his lower extremities until doctors at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem performed a procedure done only a handful of times in history.

By Maytal Yasur Beit-Or

 

A rare procedure performed at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem has prevented a 3-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip from becoming paralyzed. The boy was released from the hospital walking on his own.

Three-year-old Sliman from Gaza recovers from surgery at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem – Photo: Hadassah Medical Center

Sliman, 3, had developed a benign tumor in his chest, which not only interfered with his respiratory system but also caused a malformation in his spine and limited his range of motion. Continue Reading »

Palestinian ‘Dictator’ Fires Nablus Governor After Criticism Posted on Facebook

 

PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas whose presidential term ended 6 years ago, allegedly dismissed Akram Rajoub, the governor of Nablus after posting on his Facebook page criticism of Abbas’ leadership.

By MAAYAN GROISMAN

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued on Tuesday a surprising decision to fire the governor of Nablus, Akram Rajoub, Palestinian media reported Wednesday.

After receiving a phone call from Abbas informing him of his dismissal, Rajoub wrote a post on his Facebook page, blasting the PA president for his decision.

“The president’s order is a sword pulled at my throat. I am required to leave Nablus, which I have served with all my heart, implementing my leadership’s orders with great honor,” Rajoub commented. Continue Reading »

Female & male Palestinian terrorists shot dead attempting to stab Border Policemen

 

Both assailants were killed by security forces at the Qalandiya checkpost north of Jerusalem just as a female assailant took out a knife from her bag, throwing it at a Border Guard policeman.

By Yoav Zitun

Two Palestinian terrorists Wednesday morning attempted to stab Border Policemen at Qalandiya checkpost north of Jerusalem before being shot and killed by security forces. No injuries were reported.

Terrorists shot dead at Qalandiya checkpoint

Two terrorists, one female and one male, attempted to walk through a passage intended for vehicle entry and began speeding up in the direction of Border policemen stationed at the scene.

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EXPOSED: Abbas’ PA Continues in Billion Dollar Scam Using ‘Aid’ to Fund Terror

 

A new report proves how Western governments, including the U.S. & EU, continue sending mass amounts of aid to the Palestinian Authority after it was told to stop paying jailed terrorists’ salaries, pensions and benefits.

By Ari Yashar

 

A shocking report on Wednesday reveals that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has fooled Western governments, raking in over a billion dollars in aid from them annually despite breaching their demands that it stop paying salaries to terrorist prisoners.

The report by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which can be read in full here, exposes how the PA has coped since August 2014, when – in the face of demands by the US and European donor countries that it stop paying salaries to jailed terrorists – it announced it would stop the terror funding.

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Report: ISIS may use chemical weapons in Golan against Israel

 

According to a TV10 report, the Yarmouk Martyrs’ Brigade, identified with ISIS and operates in the southern Syrian Golan, may attempt to test-fire artillery or mortar shells with chemical agents attached.

By i24news

 

Israel’s security apparatus is concerned that an Islamic State branch located on the other side of its border with Syria may have acquired chemical weapons and could be planning to test them, according to a Channel 10 report aired Tuesday evening.


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The Yarmouk Martyr’s Brigade is identified with IS and operates in the southern Syrian Golan. Continue Reading »

Poll: Israelis Pleased Obama’s Almost Gone

 

Although most Israelis surveyed see Clinton winning upcoming elections, they feel Netanyahu would get along far better with Trump.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Everyone knows that the current Israeli and American governments don’t get along very well. And the Obama Administration’s hostility toward Jerusalem only seems to be increasing in its waning days.

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The Obama White House has experienced “overwhelming frustration” in its dealings with the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said US Vice President Joe Biden last week.

Speaking at a gathering of the left-wing Jewish organization J-Street, Biden accused Netanyahu of “moving us and more importantly…moving Israel in the wrong direction.” Continue Reading »