The United States on Wednesday condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution that calls for setting up a database of businesses operating in the occupied West Bank, a move that Israel has called a “blacklist.”
Ynet news reports: The fight against BDS has now extended to the artistic arena. A significant number of key figures and politicians have joined forces for the good of hasbara (Israeli public relations) in its struggle against the propaganda of organizations
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the Israeli army Sunday as controversy gripped the country over a soldier caught on video shooting a Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground. The incident on Thursday led
The Times of Israel reports: Top Israeli military officials on Saturday night rejected assertions that a soldier who shot an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the head was right to do so as he feared the man could be wearing an
On a special edition of Breitbart News Daily entitled “The Global War on Christianity,” Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon interviewed legal editor Ken Klukowski, who is also senior counsel and director of strategic affairs for First Liberty Institute, the largest
The Times of Israel reports: The soldier who was arrested Thursday after he was filmed shooting a disarmed Palestinian assailant in the head in the West Bank city of Hebron said he shot the man as he believed him to be
The Jerusalem Post reports: The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday created a blacklist of companies that are either located in West Bank settlements or have any economic connection with those communities. The decision was part of a sweeping resolution designed
Two Palestinians who attacked an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday were shot dead by troops at the scene, the military said in a statement. Footage filmed by a bystander moments after the attack
TEL AVIV – Donald Trump’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday was followed closely by the main Palestinian jihadist factions here, and those factions were eager to comment to Breitbart Jerusalem on the GOP frontrunner’s statements about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A new poll indicates that a majority of Palestinians back near-daily stabbing attacks on Israelis, but that support dropped by nine points to 58 percent over the past three months. Monday’s survey also shows that
TEL AVIV – Anyone who buys settlement products is an accomplice to an act of war, PLO Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi (pictured) told the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, the Jerusalem Post reported. The UNHRC met in Geneva toward the
TEL AVIV – In an unprecedented move, Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to bar companies from doing business with the state if they boycott Israel or its settlements, the Jerusalem Post reported. The Illinois Investment Policy board on Friday
The Jerusalem Post reports: A fire tore through a Palestinian house in Duma, near Nablus, on Sunday morning, in what police and Shin Bet investigators are probing as a possible arson attack. A video of the attack appears below: An official
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed a paramilitary officer in the West Bank city of Hebron before being shot dead. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says officers asked the 17-year-old Palestinian to identify himself Saturday and then he
Ynetnews reports: A Border Police soldier was lightly wounded on Saturday morning when a 17-year-old from Hebron stabbed him in the head. The attacker was shot and killed. The terrorist came to a checkpoint near the Cave of the Patriarchs,
LOS ANGELES – The governing board of California’s flagship public university system is to vote next week on a statement condemning anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Jewish bigotry, a proposal sparking sharp faculty debate over the line between free speech
Hamas’s military wing said Wednesday one of its members was involved in an attack in the occupied West Bank, in what was thought to be the first such acknowledgement since a wave of violence began in October. In a statement,
The Jerusalem Post reports: The military wing of Islamic Jihad, operating in Gaza, released a propaganda video Tuesday night threatening IDF soldiers in response to the recent “Israeli escalation” in the Gaza Strip. The minute and a half long video, titled
The Times of Israel reports: Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Gadi Eisenkot (pictured) said a recent covert Israeli offer to end IDF operations in parts of the West Bank was part of an effort to bolster security measures
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian civil society organizations that receive foreign funding are inciting terrorism, according to a new report by MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute) and shared exclusively with The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Palestinian organizations in
Three Palestinians carried out two attacks — a shooting and a car-ramming — on Israelis in the southern occupied West Bank on Monday before they were shot dead, the Israeli army said. “Two assailants opened fire at pedestrians waiting at
The Times of Israel reports: The Shin Bet, together with the IDF, has seized dozens of homemade weapons and gun-making equipment in Palestinian cities in the West Bank over the past few months, the security service announced on Sunday. During
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian schoolteachers agreed to end a month-long strike on Saturday, heeding a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to go back to work despite only some of their demands being met, the teachers’ union said. More
Israel Hayom reports: An Islamic Jihad-affiliated media outlet urging Palestinians to carry out terrorist attack has been taken off the air, a Shin Bet security agency statement revealed Friday The order to shut down the Ramallah-based Falastin al-Yom outlet, which
The Jerusalem Post reports: A lion in declining health was rescued from a zoo in Gaza and transferred to a zoo in the West Bank on Wednesday the Defense Ministry reported. The relocation of the lion to a zoo near
The Times of Israel reports: The family of a Palestinian terrorist who carried out a shooting attack in Jerusalem earlier in the week were expelled from the capital to the West Bank, the Israel Police said Thursday. Fouad Tamimi seriously
“Fatma”, a mother of twins with a demanding workload, was distraught to discover she was pregnant again. Her doctor agreed to perform an abortion, she says, only after she promised to pretend the procedure had been a medical emergency. “He
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s governor says he supports a proposal to have the state’s public employee pension fund oppose a boycott seeking to punish Israel for its treatment of Palestinians. The bill won tentative approval in the state Senate on
The Jerusalem Post reports: The IDF on Tuesday night imposed a blockade on the West Bank villages of the Palestinian terrorists who carried out stabbing attacks earlier in the day in the Israeli cities of Jaffa and Petah Tikva. Also
The Jerusalem Post reports: Vanderbilt graduate student Taylor Force, 29, was killed Tuesday evening by a Palestinian terrorist who went on a stabbing rampage in Jaffa in which 12 other people were wounded. “This horrific act of violence has robbed
Citing defense officials here, the Jerusalem Post reported Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel “may have served as the trigger for Palestinian assailants to commit attacks against Israelis on Tuesday.” The Post provided no further information on the matter. An
A global Muslim body called for a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and pledged full support for the “inalienable rights” of the Palestinians. The demand came at the end of an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
TEL AVIV – Israeli company SodaStream released a video over the weekend dedicated to the 74 Palestinians who were laid off last week after Israeli authorities refused to extend their work permits. The video, which has gone viral on social
A Palestinian man was arrested Saturday near Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs in possession of a knife. Border Police officers stationed at the religious site were alerted by the 19-year-old and found a blade on his person. The suspect was taken
The Jerusalem Post reports: The most senior Arab lawmaker in the Knesset told a Saudi-owned satellite television station on Friday that “it’s not my place to tell the Palestinian people how they should resist” Israel. Ayman Odeh, the chairman of the
Ynetnews reports: Since the beginning of the current escalation of violence, there have been 13 attacks committed by pairs of terrorists from the West Bank or East Jerusalem. This trend is slowly beginning to challenge the perception that attacks are
TEL AVIV – Forty Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition in favor of divestment from companies related to Israel, the Columbia Spectator reported. The petition, which was signed on Monday – the first day of so-called Israel Apartheid Week, urged the Ivy League college to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.”
The Jerusalem Post reports: The IDF this week returned 1,700 dunams (420 acres) to Palestinian landowners by rescinding military seizure orders from the 1970s and 1980s. The land was taken on the basis of four different seizure orders – two in
TEL AVIV – Israel Ambassador to the UN slammed Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki’s call to countries all around the world to bar entry to Jewish residents of the West Bank as “pure anti-Semitism.” At a meeting of the United Nations Human
Ynetnews reports: Two terrorists infiltrated the settlement of Eli in the West Bank early Wednesday morning, and attacked a local resident at his doorstep with clubs. They ran away but were killed by security forces soon after. Roi Harel recounted
