Florida Lt. Gov. Lopez-Cantera has a quickie bar mitzvah in Israel
ed note (tony)…Ah yes, the bar mitzvah. Where one officially becomes Jewish, with all of the special rights, vanity, perks, privileges, and benefits that come with it….. link here
Fear and Loathing in the Arabian Nights
SPUTINK NEWS — US President Barack Obama landed in Saudi Arabia for a GCC petrodollar summit and to proverbially “reassure Gulf allies” amidst the oiliest of storms. The Doha summit…
Bernie Sanders Has Qualified As A Rabbi
BY GILAD ATZMON — The Times of Israel explained earlier this week “How Bernie Sanders just became the rabbi of the Jewish left.” For most of his campaign, “Sanders had…
‘Say Hello to Queen Zenobia’: A report from Palmyra rising from the ashes
MONDOWEISS – I.S.I.S is on the retreat in Syria, which is very good news for the people of that beleaguered country and for the world. However, the Syrian tragedy is…
Obama’s November surprise?
MONDOWEISS – The organized liberal Jewish community has a new vision: that President Obama will use the lame duck period of his presidency to make a major initiative on the…
Joe Biden ‘overwhelmingly frustrated’ with Israel’s Government
THE DAILY MAIL – Joe Biden voiced his ‘overwhelming frustration’ with Israel’s government which he said is leading the country in the wrong direction, in an unusually sharp rebuke of…
Palestinians Are Dying, But Only Israelis are “Vulnerable” in The NY Times
TIMES WARP – Isabel Kershner in The New York Times reports that Israelis are suffering from “a sense of vulnerability” after a bus bombing in Jerusalem this week. The event,…
Israel ‘banning’ entry of bulletproof vests for journalists in Gaza
MA’AN NEWS – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israel has been banning the import of flak jackets into the Gaza Strip, a local committee for Palestinian journalists in Gaza said Tuesday.
The hidden treasures of Gaza
ELECTRONIC INTIFADA – A small room on a rooftop in the occupied Gaza Strip’s crowded Beach refugee camp resembles a miniature archaeological museum. It is the workshop of Nafez Abed,…
Longest-serving female Palestinian prisoner enters 15th year in custody
MA’AN NEWS – Lina Ahmad Saleh al-Jarboni entered her 15th year in Israeli custody on Monday — the longest prison sentence ever served by a Palestinian woman.Al-Jarbouni, 41, is currently…
Why Israel wants these bedouins to pay for their village’s demolition
AL MONITOR — RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Bedouin al-Araqib village (status unrecognized by Israel) in the Negev (Naqab) region is facing an ongoing demolition campaign that started on the…
Israel destroys Bedouin village in Negev for 97th time
MA’AN NEWS – Israeli forces on Tuesday destroyed the unrecognized Bedouin community of al-Araqib in the Negev for the 97th time in a row, amid a record-high wave of demolitions…
WSJ runs massive ad denying Armenian genocide
RT – The Wall Street Journal ran a full-page ad on Wednesday containing links to a Turkish project that denies the Armenian genocide – the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million…
LOL!!! Killary compares BDS movement with evil Pharaoh
SPUTNIK NEWS – In a recent article published in the Times of Israel, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton used an analogy of the Passover story to reassure Israel of her support,…
FINLAND pitches in €100,000 for US study on Putin and Russia
SPUTNIK NEWS – Finland is planning to contribute 100,000 euros to an American study on Russia and Putin. The research will assess the likelihood of Russian president Vladimir Putin remaining…
Another Scandal rocks Israel’s diamond exchange
RT – Israeli police arrested a diamond dealer on Wednesday suspected of taking part in a $65 million fraud at the country’s diamond exchange. Some of his family members may…
RUSSIA – Demonstrators Call for Banning of Chabad in Russia
JP UPDATES – 19APR16 – On Saturday, more than 100 demonstrators in the Russian city of Perm protested the municipal authorities allocation of land to the local Jewish community and…
European Jewhadism, a new phenomenon of our times
RT – European terrorism, a new phenomenon of our times – chief Syrian diplomat Ja’afari Jihadists are coming to Syria with the consent and support of the intelligence services of…
UK – George Osborne pledges to honour spy who saved 10,000 Jews from Nazi persecution
“The Chancellor said he would use the money collected from “fines given to people who demonstrate the worst of British values to build something that demonstrates the very best (…)…
Why Is Netanyahu Flying Back and Forth to Moscow?
THE ALGEMEINER – ‘Netanyahu Left With No Choice But to Fly Back and Forth to Moscow,’ Russian Political Activist Says Berating the West in general and the United States in…
Dean of Harvard Law School Denounces ‘Smelly Tzipi Livni’ Comment as ‘Embarrassment to This Institution’
Sabba – I do not believe the veracity of this story anymore. It is either all made up or the student who made the comment was a (paid) jew whose…
ROMANIA – Bucharest mayoral candidate accuses Jewish community of lying about Holocaust dead
JERUSALEM POST – A Romanian watchdog group on anti-Semitism said it was worried by the mayoral candidacy of a Bucharest politician who said local Jews lied for money about the…
Shin Bet busts Jewish terror ring in the West Bank
2 minors and a soldier among suspects arrested over a series of attacks, including firebombings aimed at sleeping Palestinian families ed note–all can be assured that this–the arrest of these…
76% of Palestinian child detainees subjected to torture
Sabba – Many will be shocked or angry and then get over it and move on. What we must never forget is that before they started torturing Palestinian kids, they…
UK – Online Supermarket Apologizes for Using Quote by Joseph Goebbels in Ad
THE ALGEMEINER - An online supermarket operating in London apologized for sponsoring an advertisement that featured a quote from Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, the UK’s Jewish Chronicle reported on…
UK – Streisand: “I Could Have Been Britain’s First REAL Jewish Princess”
THE ALGEMEINER – American actress and singer Barbara Streisand joked about becoming the first Jewish princess of Britain after meeting Prince Charles for the first time, according to a new…
The Other ‘Migrant Crisis’: 15% of Jews from former Soviet Union leave Israel
MIDDLE EAST MONITOR – Some 15 per cent of the Jews who moved to Israel from the former Soviet Union have now left the country, Israel’s Channel 10 revealed yesterday.…
US Congress Holds Hearing on Islamic Extremism’s Threat to European Jews
THE ALGEMEINER – US Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) chaired a Congressional hearing on Tuesday that explored the threat Islamic extremism poses to European Jewish communities. The hearing examined how European…
LOL!!! Tzipi Livni called ‘smelly’ (jew) at Harvard
JERUSALEM POST – At an event run by Harvard’s Program on Negotiation last Thursday, current Zionist Union MK and former foreign minister Tzipi Livni was confronted with an unusual, but…