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Israel gets flak over human rights record in Geneva

Israel gets flak over human rights record in Geneva

Geneva, Switzerland – UN member states have criticised Israel during a heated Human Rights Council (HRC) session for failing to abide by human rights laws and UN resolutions, with some calling it an “apartheid state”. The criticism came as Israel was undergoing in this Swiss city on Tuesday its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a […]

Israel apologises for deadly embassy shooting in Amman

Israel apologises for deadly embassy shooting in Amman

Israel has formally apologised for the the fatal shooting of two Jordanian citizens by an Israeli embassy guard in Amman last year, Jordan’s foreign ministry said. The guard, identified as “Ziv”, shot two Jordanians in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan’s capital in July 2017. The two victims were […]

Tensions Rise Following Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement

Jesus Was Not White. Here Is Why That Matters

Three U.S. imams have called for the death of Jews since December, a trend that has followed President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In the latest incident, Abdullah Khadra, a Syrian-American imam, announced during a sermon in a Raleigh, North Carolina-area mosque on Monday that Jews should be killed. The […]

Hundreds of US Jewish clergy urge Netanyahu not to demolish Palestinian village

J-Street initiated letter calls on PM to allow residents of Susya to remain in homes deemed illegal by Israeli authorities WASHINGTON — More than 300 US Jewish clergy have written to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him not to carry out a planned demolition of nearly half of the buildings in a Palestinian village that […]

Israel Bars BDS Activists From Entering The Country

U.S. Puts $5 Million Bounty On Pakistani Taliban Leader

Israel published a list of activist organizations whose members will be barred from entering the country due to their support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, on Sunday. The so-called “BDS blacklist” was released by the Strategic Affairs Ministry under Gilad Erdan, member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing party, Likud. The ministry plans…

France Says U.S, Israel and Saudi Arabia Want Iran War

U.S. Puts $5 Million Bounty On Pakistani Taliban Leader

French President Emmanuel Macron has accused the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia of instigating a war as their mutual foe, Iran, was rocked by a week of protests. Macron on Wednesday joined several other world leaders to weigh in on protests that began as demonstrations against austerity measures under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and later […]

Israeli Official Proposes to Name a Future Jerusalem Railway Station After Trump

Israeli Official Proposes to Name a Future Jerusalem Railway Station After Trump

Israel’s transportation minister has proposed naming a future railway station near Jerusalem’s sacred Western Wall after President Donald Trump following the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The plan, which minister Yisrael Katz advanced at a recent meeting with Israel Railway executives, calls for an extension of Jerusalem’s soon-to-open high-speed rail line to the […]

Poll: Most Jewish, Arab youth want to interact with each other

A poll conducted by the Rafi Smith Institute for the Dov Lautman conference on democracy among Israeli youths found that 79% of Arab youths had never spoke to a Jewish youth about democracy and coexistence before. The poll also found that 85% of Jewish youths had never spoken on those subjects with Arab youths. Most […]

UN votes 128-9 to reject US decision on Jerusalem

UN votes 128-9 to reject US decision on Jerusalem

The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted by a decisive vote of 128 to nine, with 35 abstentions, a motion rejecting the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. President Donald Trump had warned ahead of the vote in the 193-nation assembly that “we’re watching” and threatened reprisals against countries backing the measure, which […]

UN General Assembly rejects Trump’s Jerusalem move

UN General Assembly rejects Trump's Jerusalem move

The United Nations General Assembly has defied unprecedented threats by the US to resoundingly adopt a draft resolution rejecting President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The non-binding measure passed at an emergency meeting on Thursday with 128 votes in favour, and nine against. Thirty-five countries abstained. It passed despite intimidation by Trump, […]