Tag: Middle East
Labour’s Hamas connection
An admirer of Islamist extremists could win his campaign to lead Britain’s main opposition party
The idea that an admirer of Hezbollah and Hamas should be a serious contender to lead the British Labour Party...
Israel Confirms It Was Cyber Attack Target
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon confirmed Wednesday that Israel was the target of cyber attacks by Iran during last summer's Gaza war and by Hezbollah, which reportedly ran an operation going back three years.
Speaking at...
Palestinian School Textbooks Bias: Schoolbooks Omit Israel on Maps and Glorify Martyrdom
The material in Palestinian school textbooks offers a unique perspective on the Palestinian attitude towards Israel. In many ways, the textbooks mirror the political conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. For example, maps...
New Pentagon manual declares journalists can be enemy combatants
The Pentagon’s new thick book of instructions for waging war the legal way says that terrorists also can be journalists.
The description appears in a 1,176-page, richly footnoted “Department of Defense Law of War Manual”...
Partners in Hate…writes Michael Kuttner
We have just arrived back in Israel from a vacation in Switzerland.
As well as being overwhelmed by the snow-capped mountains, stunning scenery, beautiful lakes and pristine cleanliness we were also impressed by the clockwork...
Activists target ‘normalization’ march in Jerusalem
Activists confronted participants in the so-called "Jerusalem hug" march in which Palestinian and Israelis participated in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Palestinians from Jerusalem gathered near Damascus Gate, where the march took place, and started telling Palestinian...
Col. Richard Kemp: The Amoral Revolution in Western Values, and its Impact on Israel
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: To fight for Israel on the international stage is also to
fight for the values of democracy, freedom of speech and expression, and
civilized social values everywhere. Unfortunately, the morality and values
of the West...
Anti-virus Conference
Officially billed as the 5th. Global Forum for combating Anti-Semitism this gathering of delegates from most parts of the globe took place last week in Jerusalem…Michael Kuttner reports.
Judeophobia which to my mind more accurately...
A Voice Missing at this week’s Global Forum on Anti-Semitism
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, who served as the Vatican Ambassador and Papal Nuncio in Jerusalem from 1998 until 2006, died four years ago.
Had Archbishop Sambi, still been alive today, he would have been an honoree...
Draft International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Anti-Semitism
Introduction and Initial Action Plan
Clearly, and sadly, the issue of anti-Semitism has always been and remains a major recurring aspect in the international arena and narrative.
While the phenomenon is universally researched, addressed, and condemned...