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Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in on Thursday for the sixth time as Israel’s prime minister, while his predecessor Yair Lapid flouted the traditional handshake that occurs at the change of power and exited the Knesset plenum early.

A top aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was heard cursing the Palestinian leader as “the son of 66 whores” in leaked recordings published by a news site affiliated with the rival Hamas faction.

The ultimate aim of the Palestinian war with Israel is to conquer the planet, according to senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar, who admitted after the successful takeover of the globe, the world would finally be rid of “Zionism” and “treacherous Christianity.”

Family members of American troops killed during the battle against the Islamic State in Syria filed suit this weekend against Lafarge SA, a French construction company that pleaded guilty before a U.S. court in October to supporting ISIS and the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. 

Elon Musk announced on Monday that his SpaceX company has deployed almost one hundred Starlink Internet broadband connections to Iran.

Disney’s ABC is coming under pressure to fire “The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg after she doubled down on her comments about the Holocaust, claiming in a recent interview that the murder of six million Jewish people during World War II wasn’t racially motivated.

Russia demanded on Sunday that Israel hand over ownership of three Jerusalem churches to Russia, claiming historical precedent.

Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair Netanyahu, has accused state prosecutors involved in the corruption charges against his father of treason and said they should be sentenced to death if found guilty.

President Joe Biden “has blood on his hands” for his financing of terrorism in order to “score cheap political points with the antisemites in his party,” according to Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who announced his recent filing of a lawsuit against the current administration “to stop them from breaking the law.”

Christians worldwide celebrate Christmas today, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who was born approximately 4 B.C. in the town of Bethlehem, five miles east of Jerusalem, in the nation of Israel.

As Christmas approaches in the Middle East, persecuted Christians seeking to rebuild after the Islamic State genocide need help to build businesses, feed their families, and stay in their home communities, Father Benedict Kiely, the founder of the church charity Nasarean, told Breitbart News this week.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday took great exception to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky telling the U.S. Congress that Iran is supplying Russia with combat drones for use against Zelensky’s people. Iran leveled unspecified threats against Zelensky if he continues making the allegations.

The international soccer organization FIFA confirmed on Thursday that it had launched an investigation into Turkish celebrity chef Nusret Gökçe, popularly known as “Salt Bae.”

Pope Francis on Wednesday vowed to work towards securing the release of four Israelis being held hostage by the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

A provision in the $1.7 trillion “omnibus” spending bill currently before Congress would let the U.S. rejoin the antisemitic United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which it left in 2019.

Minutes shy of his midnight deadline Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a phone call to Israeli President Isaac Herzog he had successfully formed a government.

The Biden administration will hold Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu “personally responsible” for the future actions of right-wing lawmakers in his coalition, U.S. Politico reported citing two U.S. officials.

The Detroit Pistons trolled Kyrie Irving with a “Happy Hanukkah” message while he shot free throws on Sunday night.

A video circulating on social media shows President Joe Biden saying the nuclear deal with Iran, which is still under negotiations with world powers, “is dead” but the U.S. will not make a formal announcement.

A man was arrested Sunday night after Nazi symbols were found carved into the base of a large menorah in Beverly Hills on the first night of Hanukkah. Officers responded to reports of a man vandalizing a menorah near Sunset

BERLIN — Holocaust survivors from around the globe are marking the third day of Hanukkah together with a virtual ceremony as Jews worldwide worry about a sharp increase in antisemitism in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere.

Reports this weekend indicated that Lebanese citizens are increasingly turning to sit-in blockades, and outright armed robbery, to pry their savings out of frozen bank accounts as the national economy continues its trajectory toward total collapse.

The New York Times came under fire Sunday for publishing a crossword puzzle resembling a Nazi swastika, with readers pointing out its appearance coincided with the first day of the festival of Hanukkah, which commemorates the liberation of the Jewish people.

Pope Francis on Saturday signed a decree approving the beatification of a Polish family who were killed by Nazis for hiding Jews during World War II.

Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday charged the New York Times with “demonizing Israel for decades” in response to an editorial that accused his incoming government of posing a “significant threat.”

Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez put the hand-shaped trophy to his crotch and made a pumping gesture, shocking everyone in the stadium.

The “overthrow” of the Islamic regime of Iran is “inevitable,” as it has “failed” in quelling the current uprising, according to a leading member of Iran’s parliament-in-exile, who called on the Biden administration and international community to increase sanctions and “terminate” all diplomatic and political ties with “barbaric” Tehran.

David Beckham has made his first public statement on his controversial multi-million-dollar ambassador’s role with World Cup hosts Qatar, telling the New York Times he believed “sport has the power to be a force for good in the world.”

The New York Times on Saturday published an editorial warning that the incoming “far-right” Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu was a “significant threat to future of Israel.”

A growing number of Syrian Kurds are going to Europe on a winding course that includes Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and a boat to Spain.

Iranian authorities arrested one of the country’s most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the country, state media said Saturday.

Dan Pollak, the Zionist Organization of America’s Director of Government Relations, spoke with Breitbart News about how President Joe Biden’s roundtable to address antisemitism is a “sham” because his administration is rampant with antisemitic officials.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) stated that there are real concerns about improper vetting of people brought out of Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t let those who helped the United States “be hung

No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), a pro-human rights and democracy organization, and Fight Impunity, which seeks to bring rights abusers to book, share the same address, on prime real estate in the governmental quarter of the Belgian capital.

Thousands of protesters marched across Turkey this week after Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a political rising star and major rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and banned from participating in politics.

The international soccer organization FIFA denied a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address viewers of Sunday’s World Cup final in Qatar, left-wing outlet CNN reported on Friday.