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TEL AVIV –  Sunni Arab states are moving faster than the Palestinians toward normalizing ties with Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.

TEL AVIV – In a scathing attack on The New York Times, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. on Monday described the newspaper as a “cesspool of hostility” that depicts Israel as a “force for evil” after it published an anti-Semitic cartoon. 

TEL AVIV – Senator Ted Cruz blasted the “anti-Semitic left” Sunday for becoming more radical, pointing to anti-Israel remarks made by Ilhan Omar and an anti-Semitic cartoon published by The New York Times.

TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) slammed the New York Times‘ “naked antisemitism” in publishing a cartoon featuring anti-Semitic tropes, saying the caricature was more befitting for a white supremacist paper.A Times response — which notably didn’t contain

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on Sunday stripped Malaysia of the right to host the 2019 world para swimming championships after the Muslim-majority country banned Israeli athletes from entry.

TEL AVIV – Nearly 90% of European Jews feel that anti-Semitism has been on the rise since 2013 and close to 40% say they have considered leaving their home countries, a European Union poll — the largest of its kind in the world — revealed.

In the aftermath of the deadly shooting massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder warned of the rising tide of anti-Semitism and exclaimed that “we will not let terror win.”

TEL AVIV – American Jewish leaders and Israeli politicians on Tuesday hailed outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley for standing up for Israel at the global body.

Anti-Semitic incidents in Germany have risen by 10 percent over the course of the first half of 2018 when compared with the same period in 2017, latest figures reveal.

JERUSALEM — Sarah Idan, Iraq’s 2017 Miss Universe beauty pageant contestant, is visiting Israel this week, a trip that has enraged people back home.

The emergence of  “another form of anti-Semitism” from refugees of Arab origin arriving in Germany has been denounced by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The German government’s efforts to combat growing anti-Semitism will now be driven by a newly-appointed special commissioner.

A video posted online of a man delivering vile anti-Semitic abuse outside an Israeli restaurant in Berlin has sparked a police investigation in the German capital.

German researcher and historian Günther Jikeli has found that anti-Semitic attitudes are common among asylum seekers as the federal government’s Facebook page was inundated with anti-Semitic messages this week.

A bomb threat forced the cancellation of an event at the Jewish Museum of Florida on the Balfour Declaration.

The German Interior Ministry has announced that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the country has risen by four per cent since last year as some accuse the government of presenting the crimes as coming from right-wing sources rather than radical Islamists.

The German government has been accused of abandoning its Jewish community as a surging tide of anti-Semitism means there are parts of the country where it is considered dangerous to be a Jew.

Israel took nine visiting UN ambassadors on a tour of the City of David archaeological park in Jerusalem on Sunday in a bid to highlight the Jewish heritage of the holy city following a spate of UN resolutions denying that historic link.

WASHINGTON – Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer said that those criticizing President Donald Trump’s lack of action on his campaign promise to “rip up” the Iran deal should be patient as the administration is working through how to address the deal’s flaws.

A leading American Jewish advocacy organization praised Donald Trump’s speech to Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, saying the president had demonstrated “refreshing honesty…in describing the Islamist extremist threat that developed in the Middle East years ago.”

Columnist David Reaboi joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his column rebutting the left-wing Forward’s latest attempt to smear Dr. Sebastian Gorka – deputy adviser to President Trump and former Breitbart News National Security editor – as an anti-Semite.

TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee has launched a campaign to procure signatures of all 50 state governors on a petition to divest from companies engaged in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

A luxury hotel in Berlin has been accused of erasing Israel dial codes from its in-house telephone directory. The allegation was made by French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann who added that the omission was made for the sake of the hotel’s Arab clients.

TEL AVIV – An article in the largest German broadsheet Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) mimicked Nazi rhetoric by blaming Israel for Palestinian terrorism, the Jerusalem Post reported.Titled “Israel suffers for its cycle of revenge,” the article quoted Said Zidani, a Palestinian

The Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion today ruling in favor of the Kountze Cheerleaders who had Bible verses on their school football banners. The case has received national media attention.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC), one of the oldest, largest, and most influential Jewish organizations in the United States, announced on Wednesday that it opposed the Iran deal.