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Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) came under fire after condemning Israel’s decision to demolish the home of a Palestinian terrorist while not mentioning he murdered a teenager and critically wounded two others.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday made a rare offer to assist Lebanon as it experiences an unprecedented economic crisis, saying it was his responsibility “as a Jew and as a human” to alleviate suffering.

A Jewish man was subjected to abuse and death threats twice within the space of an hour on London’s public transportation, amid a major rise in antisemitic incidents in the UK.

Record numbers of antisemitic incidents have been recorded in the UK since last month’s rocket attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists, figures released by the Community Security Trust (CST) reveal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday slammed the new emerging coalition that will unseat him from power as “dangerous and leftwing,” and accused his political rival Naftali Bennett, who will succeed him as prime minister, of “selling out.”

A former Miss Iraq who was forced to flee her native country after posting a selfie with Miss Israel said at a pro-Israel rally that 25 percent of the global Muslim population are radical Islamists who want to eradicate the U.S. and Israel. 

Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog has been elected the 11th president of Israel after receiving the majority of votes from Knesset members in a secret ballot.

In order for the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to hold up, Jews must be barred from visiting the Temple Mount — Judaism’s holiest site — in Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers.

Aaron Keyak, Jewish Engagement Director at Biden for President, said Friday, “take off your kippah (head covering) and hide your magen david (star of David)” if you fear for your life as a Jew. 

Every time I write something like the following, it feels silly and obvious, but sometimes the silly and obvious still must be said: Imagine the media landscape today if roving bands of white supremacists were flying the confederate flag out of their vehicles and stopping only to assault Jews.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas backed Israel’s right to self defense Thursday while calling for a ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Gaza Strip’s Islamist rulers Hamas.

Gaza has spent millions on terror rockets in a week but has no money for vaccines or education. Let that sink in for a moment.

The Israeli embassy in Beijing on Wednesday accused China of “blatant anti-Semitism” after a state TV report on U.S. foreign policy broached Jewish conspiracy theories to explain the ongoing Palestinian Hamas terrorist violence.

Antisemitic conspiracy theories in which Jews are blamed for the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the resultant economic crisis have “skyrocketed” over the past year, a new report revealed.

Following the Biden administration’s decision last month to rejoin the anti-Israel U.N. Human Rights Council, the U.S. representative of the Geneva body has now authored a statement hailing the notorious anti-Semitic hate-fest that was the 2001 World Conference against Racism in Durban, sparking outrage among Jewish groups.

JERUSALEM — Half a year after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain established diplomatic relations with Israel, discreet Jewish communities in the Gulf Arab states that once lived in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict are adopting a more public profile.

Israeli officials have demanded an apology from the NBC television network after a Saturday Night Live comedian joked Israel has only been vaccinating half its population, the Jewish half — a lie made all the more absurd in light of Israel’s heavy — and successful — campaign to persuade its Arab population to get the vaccine.

ROME — The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Sunday hailed Pope Francis’ “tremendous compassion” after he visited a Holocaust survivor in Rome, praising his “moral integrity and sense of history”.

“There is nothing holier than a man truly lusting after his wife,” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach said on Valentine’s Day.

VIENNA — Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia were poised to get their first coronavirus vaccination Wednesday, acknowledging their past suffering with a special tribute 76 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where the Nazis killed more than 1 million Jews and others.

BERLIN — Germany is moving to rid itself of a cluster of laws introduced by the Nazis, still lingering on its books 75 years after World War II.

Mainstream media outlets, including NPR, the Associated Press and the UK’s Guardian newspaper, have adopted the antisemitic canard that Israel is denying Palestinians access to the coronavirus vaccine while its own vaccine drive enjoys stunning success.

A delegation from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain took part in a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday, in what was hailed by the holy site’s chief rabbi as a “Hanukkah miracle.”

A Jewish ER doctor in California opened up about his shock at encountering Nazi tattoos – including a swastika – on the body of a severely ill coronavirus patient he was treating.

A member of the Bahraini royal family said Sunday his delegation visited Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Friday without revealing their identity to the Muslim authority that administers the holy site for fear of being attacked by Palestinians, saying barring people from praying there was a “new form of terror.”

Former President Barack Obama’s new book about his eight years in the White House is a “revisionist” account of Israel’s history that proves he is “anti-Israel,” a former Knesset member said.

Call him a blowhard and a bully, declare him vulgar and vain, just stop the comparisons with Hitler. And Goebbels. And Nazism in general. Stop invoking the Holocaust and Nazi Germany when describing Trump’s America in 2020. Stop it. Failing to do so means you are guilty of the very crimes you accuse Trump of: immorality, spreading lies, false equivalence, and sowing division.

Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was one of the true giants of the Jewish world. He died on November 7 at age 72. His impact was profound, his reach universal.

A United Nations General Assembly committee on Thursday adopted a resolution, backed by 139 member states, that referred to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount only by its Muslim name and ignored any connection to Judaism — despite it being the religion’s holiest site.

Liberal Jews who are “closet” supporters of President Donald Trump paid a high price for revealing their loyalties, a hawkish New York-basked Jewish newspaper reported on election day, saying they lost decades-old friendships and were told they would be mourned as if they were dead.

Vienna — “It might sound strange but when I came here for the first time… I fell in love with this place,” says Jennifer Kickert, spokeswoman for an association striving to clean up a long-neglected Jewish cemetery in Vienna’s north-eastern suburbs.

The number of Jews living in Europe today is just a tenth of what it was just 140 years ago, a new study reveals, as France leads a surge in emigration due to antisemitism.

YAVNE, Israel — For thousands of older Israelis like Sara Weinsten, being housebound alone during the country’s second nationwide lockdown is difficult and depressing.

Just days after a similar move by Facebook, Twitter has said it will remove all posts that deny the Holocaust — which the platform says violates its policy against spreading hateful content.

Democratic challenger Joe Biden is favored by 70 percent of Jewish Americans for the November presidential election, a new Pew Research Center survey showed.

Facebook on Monday announced that it was finally banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.