Salzburg Austria’s Antisemitic Shadows: Finding Jew Alley

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4199&sec=1&title=Salzburg_Austria's_Antisemitic_Shadows:_Finding_Jew_Alley I had travelled to the enchanting and beautiful city of Salzburg Austria, a two hour train ride from Munich, and was just about to leave its old town when I went into a store...

Institute for Contemporary Affairs, founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation

http://jcpa.org/article/changing-historical-narrative-saeb-erekats-new-spin/ Vol. 14, No. 8 March 23, 2014 Palestinian leaders are manipulating the history of geographic Palestine/Land of Israel. They have manufactured a curious claim, expressed recently by Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, that they...

Arabs No Longer Take Obama Administration Seriously

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4236/arabs-obama-administration The communiqué issued by Arab heads of state at the end of their summit in Kuwait this week shows that the Arab countries do not hold the Obama Administration in high regard or even...

A Murderer’s Life and the Chances of Peace

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/03/30/a-murderers-life-and-the-chances-of-prisoner-releases-palestinians-israel/ The New York Times did a valuable public service today by profiling the life of Muqdad Salah. But the story, which demonstrated how unlikely peace between Israelis and the Palestinians is, wasn’t intended as...

Editor’s Dispatch from Dachau: A Concentration Camp Literally In Your Backyard

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4153&sec=1&title=_Editor%27s_Dispatch_from_Dachau:_A_Concentration_Camp_Literally_In_Your_Backyard There is a row of homeowners whose back yards face what was a torture barack in Dachau Concentration camp. Their backyard fence is actually the fence from the concentration camp, with one of the...

Book review – Heidemarie Wawrzyn’s Nazis in the Holy Land 1933-1948

Gil ZoharRehov Yoel Moshe Salomon 7Nachalat Shiva, JerusalemIsrael 94633 Nazis in Palestine 1933-1948 recounts the demise of the Palästina-DeutscheHeidemarie WawrzynNazis in the Holy Land 1933-1948Walter de Gruyter GmbH Berlin / Bostonthe Vidal Sassoon International Center...

Syrian refugee crisis brings Israelis and Arabs together in Miami Beach

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/10/3986466/syrian-refugee-crisis-brings-israelis.html Alan Gill, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, speaks about “The Syrian Refugee Crisis," part of the Jewish Funders Network Annual Conference, held at the Eden Roc, Monday, March 10, 2014. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI...

Israel’s Elbit Wins U.S. Border Work After Boeing Dumped

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-27/israel-s-elbit-wins-u-s-border-surveillance-contract.html Elbit Systems Ltd. (ESLT) won a $145 million contract for border-surveillance technology, the Department of Homeland Security announced today on a federal website. The program may eventually reach $1 billion if legislation to rewrite...

Israeli ambassador joins chorus of criticism of Amnesty report on Israel’s ‘trigger happy’ army

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10664842/Israeli-ambassador-joins-chorus-of-criticism-of-Amnesty-report-on-Israels-trigger-happy-army.html Palestinians pray during the funeral of Sami Bsharat, a Palestinian militant who was killed in operation by the Israeli army in the West Bank. Recently Israel has been returning the bodies of dead Palestinian...

Origin of the Palestinian claim of a ‘right of return’

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/origin-of-the-palestinian-claim-of-a-right-of-return/ Reports emanating from the current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations reveal that the Palestinian side continues to demand recognition of “a right of return,” under which about 5 million Palestinians now living outside Israel would migrate...