Israel-Jordan relations

Arab Social Media Spawns Anti-Semitic Conspiracies Over Israeli Embassy Shooting

TEL AVIV — Social media users across the Arab have taken to Twitter to express their anger and spawn anti-Semitic conspiracies over an agreement between Israel and Jordan that ended a crisis surrounding a recent shooting at the Israeli embassy in Jordan where an Israeli security guard shot and killed a Jordanian civilian in self-defense while the Jordanian was reportedly stabbing him.

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Knesset Speaker Blasts Jordanian Counterpart for Praising Terror

TEL AVIV – Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein on Monday slammed his Jordanian counterpart for praising the Arab-Israeli terrorists who killed two police officers in Jerusalem, telling the Jordanian Speaker of the House to “shut up” if he didn’t have the gumption to condemn terrorism.

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