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The ongoing violence in Jerusalem is a political game Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is playing in order to boost his popularity following his cancellation of the elections that had been scheduled for later this month, the head of a watchdog told Breitbart Jerusalem on Monday in an exclusive interview.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Americans and Israelis will be murdered as result of the Biden administration’s decision to send hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority (PA) during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and seventeen other GOP Senators wrote to Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Thursday, objecting to the Biden administration’s plan to spend $250 million on the Palestinians, arguing that the proposal violates anti-terror law.

Ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday, a series of programs were aired on the Palestinian Authority’s official television network that spread lies about Jews, including the claim European Jews were helped by Arabs to escape the Nazis only to later betray them.

The Biden administration announced $250 million in spending Wednesday on the Palestinians, despite a 2018 law that prevents U.S. taxpayer dollars from supporting the Palestinian Authority while it pays stipends and pensions to terrorists and their families.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah party has included convicted terrorists as well as the relatives of terrorists in senior positions on its list for May’s parliamentary elections, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported Thursday.

A coalition of students at the University of Michigan (UMich) called the “Students of Color Liberation Front” is demanding that the school end all university-sponsored trips to Israel, along with replacing Sabra hummus in the cafeteria with an “Arab-owned brand.” Additionally, the students demand to work towards a  “police-free campus.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has slammed Israel for sending COVID-19 vaccines to overseas allies before sending them to the Palestinians, even though Jerusalem has sent Ramallah far more vaccines than any other foreign nation.

Saturday Night Live is being criticized for a joke by Michael Che during the show’s most recent broadcast that suggested the State of Israel is only offering the coronavirus vaccine to Jews.

Israel on Sunday condemned the International Criminal Court after it ruled The Hague has jurisdiction to open a criminal investigation against Israel for alleged war crimes.

The Palestinian leadership’s claim Israel is preventing the Palestinians from accessing coronavirus vaccines is a “false and grotesque” blood libel, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. and U.N. Gilad Erdan told the Security Council on Tuesday.

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said he was “addicted and intoxicated ” with what the Trump administration achieved for Israel in four years, and expressed his confidence the measures couldn’t be reversed by the Biden administration. “I’m frankly somewhere

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.

Days before the killing of an Israeli mother of six last week, the Palestinian Authority, on its official television network, praised the murderer of another Israeli mother and her five-year-old son as “heroic.”

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday approved five anti-Israeli resolutions, but they passed with less votes than in 2019, providing Israel a glimmer of hope at the usually hostile 193-member body.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The coronavirus has cast a pall over Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, all but shutting down the biblical town revered as Jesus’ birthplace at the height of the normally cheery holiday season.

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.”

Palestinians hailed the end of “the worst era” of President Donald Trump’s administration on Saturday night, saying “an evil has distanced itself from us” and calling the incumbent “dangerous and destructive.”

If Democrat Joe Biden wins the election, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will walk back promises to hold elections for the first time in 14 years, a former PA advisor said.

While Jewish Israelis are overwhelmingly hoping and praying for a Trump re-election, the Palestinians have long awaited a Trump defeat which could reverse much of the strong policies that the Biden campaign has indicated it would not seek to uphold. 

The Palestinian Authority prime minister on Monday said ensuring President Donald Trump didn’t win reelection is critical for the Palestinians, Europe and the entire world.

The Palestinian Authority’s official al-Hayat al-Jadida daily published a front-page editorial claiming President Donald Trump may have “fabricated” his COVID19 diagnosis in order to garner sympathy and avoid his upcoming debate with Democratic opponent Joe Biden.

The Palestinian Authority has instructed Muslim clerics throughout the West Bank to deliver a sermon on Friday warning against the deals signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain this week, saying these “alliances with Jews” amounts to “high treason” and are condemned by Allah himself.

Donald Trump needs allies in the House of Representatives, said former Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), commenting on congressional campaign.

The Palestinians need to want to help themselves and understand that the normalization deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel will aid their cause if they allowed it to, a senior Emirati diplomat told The Times of Israel ahead of the inking of the deal at a White House ceremony on Tuesday.

The Palestinian Authority as well as the Hamas terror group have both lambasted the Israeli-Bahraini normalization accord as another “stab in the back” and act of “aggression” by an Arab country.

Israel’s plans to make the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron wheelchair accessible has sparked outrage among the Palestinian officials, who slammed it as a “war crime” that merits the launch of a bloody third intifada.

In a blow to the Palestinians, the Arab League on Wednesday refused to vote in favor of a resolution condemning the normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates at its annual summit.

Stuart Force, whose son Taylor was killed by Palestinian terrorists during a visit to Israel, is urging former Vice President Joe Biden not to resume assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if elected in November.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called President Donald Trump “the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.” Indeed, decades of U.S. policy towards Israel has been reversed under Trump.

A small group of protesters is demonstrating against former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, claiming that his political group took money from a company associated with the late American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Apple and Google have been accused of deleting Palestine from their online maps — even though it was never being labelled in the first place — sparking outrage among pro-Palestinian activists and prompting the Palestinian Authority’s communications minister to reportedly shun Ramallah’s use of the search engine.

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority has arrested several Palestinians who said they were in favor of Israel’s plan to apply its laws to parts of the West Bank, the AFP news wire reported Tuesday.

JAFFA — Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has demanded Israel seal off the West Bank, saying the Jewish state was to blame for a spike in coronavirus infections among Palestinians.

TEL AVIV — Israel clocked 980 new cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, marking the highest daily tally since the beginning of the outbreak in mid-March.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Israel on Wednesday it should drop plans to extend Israeli law over parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley, cautioning that London would not recognise any changes to existing boundaries.