Representative Rashida Talib (D-MI) said Tuesday on the left-wing program “Democracy Now!” given that Israel has not yet included the roughly 4.5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in its coronavirus vaccines program showed it is a “racist state.”
Despite President-elect Joe Biden’s intention to create a clean break from the Trump era, several of the current administration’s major accomplishments are likely to remain intact for the foreseeable future.
Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate, veteran, and philanthropist known for his donation to conservative and pro-Israel causes, passed away Monday night at the age of 87 at his home in Malibu, California.
Israel delivered the second of two Iron Dome Defense System batteries to the U.S. Army this week.
Israel continues to lead the world by a wide berth with its aggressive vaccination rate, but the country has surpassed the U.S. and most of the world with the rate of daily new infections.
Israel has administered more vaccines to its population — more than one in nine Israelis have received the first dose — than any other country in the world by a large margin, and here’s why.
Of the one million Israelis vaccinated against coronavirus so far, 250 have been diagnosed with the virus days after getting the shot.
Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel, arrived in Israel early Wednesday morning, 35 years after his arrest.
A dozen Israeli researchers were ranked among the world’s top 50 in their disciplines, a new study from Stanford University showed, with a further 333 researchers coming in the top two percent of the world.
Israel began its third coronavirus lockdown Sunday evening, as the country ranked first in the world in the number of vaccinations per capita.
The Trump administration has ordered that all goods produced in a key area of the West Bank be labeled as “Made In Israel” for customs purposes, granting de facto recognition of Israeli sovereignty.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday promised that “many, many more countries” would be signing normalization agreements with Israel soon.
While the imminent dissolution of Israel’s Knesset was keeping the country on tenterhooks Tuesday, another smaller, but arguably no less significant, development was taking place in its Supreme Court. For the first time ever, the court debated the legality of a Basic Law — essentially challenging its own constitution — in a move that has been denounced as the “quiet death of democracy.”
A top contestant in France’s annual beauty pageant faced a tsunami of anti-Semitic abuse after revealing her father is Israeli, in an incident that sparked an outcry from French politicians and Jewish groups.
Newly elected congressman and self-proclaimed “pro-Israel progressive” Ritchie Torres, a South Bronx Democrat, said he will not be joining the radical left-wing “Squad,” comprised of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, citing the group’s anti-Israel views.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released the latest additions to its global cultural heritage list Friday, applauding the contributions made by competitive grass mowing in the Balkans and camel racing in the Middle East in helping to make the world a better, more inclusive place.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif using a derogatory term for Jews in an interview with an Iranian journalist last week, in addition to sarcastically wishing the United States would “leave planet Earth.”
Since the election of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Wikipedia editors have been downplaying or removing mention of controversies from her page. This has included minimizing mention of antisemitism controversies over her comments about Israel and its supporters, excluding mention of personal scandals, and censoring details about Turkish lobbying ties. Editors have meanwhile given considerable attention to alleged mistreatment of her by others, particularly President Donald Trump who editors tied to threats Omar received.
Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and anti-Israel Linda Sarsour were in Georgia to support Democrat Senate candidate Raphael Warnock.
Iran handed a nine-year jail sentence to a British-Iranian anthropologist for studying child marriage and female genital mutilation and ordered him to pay a fine of over $700,000 in cash, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively last week in his office that President Donald Trump directly confronting radical Islamic terrorism made the United States and the world a much safer place.
The Kingdom of Bhutan, a small Himalayan country with a majority Buddhist population, became the latest country to establish full diplomatic relations with the State of Israel on Saturday, just days after the Kingdom of Morocco did so.
Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed Friday that Israel is “nearing collapse” because of its “cowardly and brutal crimes,” such as its alleged assassination of Iranian nuclear weapons scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Soon after announcing the Moroccan government’s historic recognition of Israel on Thursday as part of his Abraham Accords initiative, U.S. President Donald Trump mused on Twitter that the United States should acknowledge Morocco’s claim of sovereignty over Western Sahara.
Rev. Raphael Warnock told his congregation in 2015 that Israel would become an “apartheid” state, and attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “clever politician” who used “racist” language.
Last Friday’s arson attack on the Basilica of the Agony in Gethsemane was “a crime inspired by an extreme ideology that seeks to drive Christians from the Holy Land,” according to a senior Christian leader in Jerusalem.
Retired Israeli general and space security chief Haim Eshed said during an interview with Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot last week that extraterrestrials have been in contact with the governments of the United States and Israel for years.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Monday posted gift ideas for “the activist in your family” this holiday season, one of which was a shirt that reads, “Justice from Detroit to Gaza.”
Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed in a state media interview on Sunday that nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated on November 27 by a “satellite-controlled machine gun” that utilized an “advanced camera and artificial intelligence.”
Vice Admiral Sam Paparo, who commands the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, said Sunday the U.S. has achieved “uneasy deterrence” with Iran, a sign that if President Donald Trump leaves office, he will hand a vastly improved situation to his successor.
