Britain’s opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said he regrets supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, and that comments by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone asserting that Hitler supported Zionism were “wrong.”
TEL AVIV – A United Nations ban on an Israeli exhibit at the organization’s headquarters in New York has finally been lifted in its entirety after Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon’s petitioned Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to reverse what he termed the “scandalous” decision.
Haaretz reports: Sadiq Khan, who was sworn in as London’s first Muslim mayor last week, reiterated plans to lead a trade delegation to Israel.
The Times of Israel reports: Former London mayor Ken Livingstone on Wednesday called the creation of Israel “fundamentally wrong,” and “a great catastrophe.” The existence of the Jewish state in the Middle East, he said, could ultimately lead to nuclear war.
Arutz Sheva reports: The radical Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has pursued an Islamic Caliphate since 1953, held a massive conference in Ramallah on Saturday, calling upon the armies of Jordan and Egypt to intervene directly and “free Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – In comments to Breitbart Jerusalem, Hamas said on Monday that it “welcomed” Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s reported refusal to condemn the Islamist organization. Taher A-Nunu, a spokesman and senior Hamas official, further said Hamas views Corbyn’s willingness to engage with his Gaza-based group as a “painful hit that the Zionist enemy received.”
TEL AVIV – Anti-Semitism sweeping Britain’s Labour party has “crossed a red line” and British leadership must condemn it, Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev said on Sunday to the BBC.
The Times of Israel reports: British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn rebuffed calls Sunday to denounce contacts with terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, while declaring that his party is against anti-Semitism, amid a roiling scandal over accusations of widespread anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiments among Labourites.
The Guardian reports: Ken Livingstone persists in mangling facts to suit his argument in his continued attempt to defend his comments on Hitler and Zionism.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday vowed to defend Muslim countries against terrorism and Israel while insisting that its neighbors should not feel threatened.
Arutz Sheva reports: Britain’s former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (pictured) has written a blistering op-ed slamming modern-day anti-Zionism as the “new anti-Semitism.” In his Newsweek article, published Sunday, Rabbi Sacks refers to figures showing how escalating anti-Semitism has left many
TEL AVIV – An American scholar and radio personality said that the “Zionist-controlled media” was behind Islamophobia, according to an interview released by Iranian state news agency PressTV on Tuesday. Dr. Kevin Barrett, a former professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the wave of terror attacks all over the world was not carried out by Islamists, rather they were perpetrated as “false-flag” operations by the American and Israeli armies.
Ynet news reports: “Bunch of wimps,” “Traitors,” “They’ll be back when their child reaches first grade” — all these affronts were hurled throughout the years at the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who chose, whether for a fixed amount of time
Sen. Bernie Sanders has a troubling personal record on the Jewish state and consults Israel critics for foreign policy advice, Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein stated in a radio interview.
TEL AVIV – After losing in New Hampshire, there are indications Hillary Clinton will use Sen. Bernie Sanders lack of significant support for the Jewish state as a campaign tactic to woo Jewish and pro-Israel voters.
TEL AVIV – Bernie Sanders admitted to seeking foreign policy advice from critics of the Jewish state. In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, the Democratic candidate gave the following reply when asked about his plans for Secretary
TEL AVIV – In the 1960s, Sen. Bernie Sanders volunteered at a kibbutz in northern Israel as the guest of a Marxist-socialist youth movement with a revolutionary mission, it was revealed on Thursday.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the website for Ali Khamenei, the dictator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, posted a video in which he expresses doubts about the Holocaust.
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) will host a conference in Los Angeles on Monday to “challenge Palestinian lies” and address efforts to undermine Evangelical Christian support for the State of Israel.
The Metropolitan Police have been called in to investigate a BBC Radio phone-in show that gave an anti-Semitic Londoner almost 15 minutes of airtime to air his views on the topic of Jewish world domination. As Breitbart News reported, during the
The London Daily Telegraph reports: Varda arrived in Israel from Holland as a 17-year-old Jew brimming with Zionist fervour. She wanted to do her part for the Jewish state so she moved to Jerusalem, became an Israeli citizen and found
TEL AVIV – A BBC Radio phone-in show gave an anti-Semitic Londoner 13 minutes of airtime to air his views on the topic of Jewish world domination. You can hear the exchange below: The caller claimed that the world is “dominated
TEL AVIV – Jewish actress Mayim Bialik took to Facebook to slam people who boycott her because she supports Zionism and Israel. Bialik posted this (original at right) on Tuesday: “For those of you who refuse to follow me and discourage
An American rabbi has accused British academics of undermining the nation’s traditions of free speech by allowing students to refuse Jewish speakers a platform at their establishments. He said that the UK was becoming well known for its hostility towards
Pope Francis says direct attacks on Jews are not the only form of anti-Semitism, but that attacks on the State of Israel and its right to exist are also anti-Semitism.
Speaking in an interview with Iran’s Al Alam TV on Monday, Iranian Brigadier Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said the “Zionist regime’s” collapse may happen in less than 25 years.
George Galloway has confirmed that he will refuse to host Israeli mayors at London’s City Hall if he wins the London Mayoralty in 2016. In the interview with Jewish News the controversial Respect Party leader also insisted that there is
Kaukab Siddique, an associate professor of English at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, has called me and other defenders of free speech “dirty Jewish Zionist thugs” – and of course, he refuses to retract. On the contrary, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports Kaukab Siddique spewed, “I would say it again.”
With the rise in anti-Israel (anti-Semitic) activities capturing more headlines in recent years, especially on college campuses, Christians United For Israel is combating the trend with a new program that has been part of the Progressive playbook for nearly a generation.
Earlier this month, over 1,000 students gathered on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans to celebrate Zionism. Defined as “the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel,” the term has been hijacked in recent years by anti-Israel advocates who have attempted to redefine Zionism as racism.
The Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the Palestinian territory in the West Bank under President Mahmoud Abbas, has taken the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day to call into question the actual death toll of the Nazi’s genocidal campaign, Palestinian Media Watch reports.
The Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar University, who is perhaps the most prominent cleric in Egypt, has called for the crucial need for reform in the teaching of Islam to the country’s people.
