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Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent

In the 25 years since Palestinians gained a degree of self-rule over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, their authorities have established machineries of repression to crush dissent, including through the use of...

Chelm is alive and well…writes Michael Kuttner

Chelm was a mythical Yiddish-speaking town which had a disproportionate share of shlemiels and shlemazels whose mind-boggling stupidity provided an endless source of merriment and mirth. Interestingly, the characters and behavioural traits portrayed have seemingly...

On the frontline

The Jewish People have been on the frontline throughout their long three thousand years history…writes Michael Kuttner. After seventy years of re-established independence, Israel, the Jewish homeland, still finds itself manning the battlements against those...

Jerusalem to Remove UN Agency for Palestinians From City

Jerusalem's mayor said Thursday that he planned to remove a U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees from the city, accusing the body of operating illegally and promoting incitement against Israel. Nir Barkat said schools, clinics and...

Annual UN carnival

Coinciding with the High Holyday period in our calendar is the annual carnival of farce and hypocrisy known as the UN General Assembly…writes Michael Kuttner. There can hardly be a bigger contrast between our prayers...

Summary of Recent Escalation Along the Gaza Strip Border

Since mid-September 2018 Hamas has raised the level of its anti-Israel violence. It increased the number of riots and propaganda demonstrations along the border and their accompany violence. Events peaked during the “return marches” on...

From Munich to Oslo and beyond

If anyone believed that the New Year would usher in an era of peace and harmony they should have had their fantasies rudely shattered…writes Michael Kuttner. I use the word “should” because unfortunately there are still...

PM Netanyahu’s Speech to the UN General Assembly

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Thursday, 27 September 2018), addressed the UN General Assembly: "Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I spoke here, three years ago, Israel stood alone among...

EU to withhold €15 million from PA over incitement in textbooks if bill passes

{The "Knesset Lobby for UNRWA Reform" asked the Belgian govt to look into our investigation of PA/UNRWA school books - Belgium was the main publisher of the PA/UNRWA school books, between 2001 and 2016....

David Bedein, Rabbi Abraham Cooper and the Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi visited the new Japanese...

On Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and David Bedein, director of the Center for Near East Policy Research, visited with the Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi,...