By Dov Lieber – Times of Israel Israeli pens first biography of Mithqal al-Fayiz, the tribal leader who put the Hashemites on the Jordanian throne — a Lawrence of Arabia-esque epic about a desert nomad On April 8, 1933, the “most powerful man” in Transjordan took a trip to the famous King David Hotel in […]
By William A. Jacobson – Legal Insurrection BDS is destroying academia, it’s time that Syracuse U and other universities stop covering up the problem I was aware of this situation of faculty supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement getting an Israeli filmmaker removed from a campus conference at Syracuse University, but had to […]
By Dalit Halevi – Arutz Sheva Azzam al-Khatib, General Director of the Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem, spewed a flurry of lies and incitement against Israel. Talking to Palestinian news, he claimed that Israeli organizations are trying to escalate tensions by “breaking into” the complex of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He said that every “break-in” to Al-Aqsa Mosque, […]
By Barry Shaw If you want to study the weakness of American foreign policy under the Obama-Clinton-Kerry Administration, just look at the Turkish-Kurdish-Syrian triangle. America’s formal position in its foreign policy is that it opposes the Assad regime, that it looks on Turkey as a close ally, and that it arms the Kurds in […]
By Omri Ariel – JerusalemOnline This decision comes amid a crisis with ultra-Orthodox leaders over railway infrastructure work on Shabbat. The Ministry of Defense will operate special means of transportation for IDF soldiers on Saturday night and Sunday morning, which will leave from railway stations where train service is out of commission due to the […]
By Natalie Madar – i24news No less than 15,000 festival goers arrived to sample more than 120 local and foreign beers The 12th International Beer Festival opened Wednesday in Jerusalem’s Independence Park, in the center of the capital. Nearly 25 pick up bars were installed to offer more than 120 different local and foreign beers during […]
By Simon Kent London’s Jewish Museum has launched a public appeal for funds to help finance a street art trail taking in Amy Winehouse’s former haunts. London’s Jewish Museum has launched a public appeal for funds to help finance a street art trail taking in Amy Winehouse’s former haunts in the capital. Organizers aim to raise around £17,000 this month […]
By Mike Brooke IT IS 1892 and the streets of London’s East End are not for the faint of heart. The expansion of free trade has decimated the once-thriving Spitalfields silk industry, there’s a desperate housing crisis—and work is hard to come by. Meanwhile, Whitechapel has a macabre reputation for violence and death after the terror […]
By Ben Ariel – Arutz Sheva Israeli official tells AFP the Jewish state will host a working group of the ICC as it probes alleged war crimes in the 2014 Gaza war. Israel will host a working group of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as it weighs whether to probe alleged war crimes in the […]
By Tovah Lazaroff – JPost Announced plan comes day after Israel’s Higher Planing Council for Judea and Samaria debated plans with regard to 463 settler housing units. The Palestinian Authority intends to accelerate its attempt to pass a United Nations Security Council resolution against Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank, according to WAFA, the […]
