Algemeiner Staff
ARTICLES BY: Algemeiner Staff
Outgoing Jewish Communal Chief Warns ‘Antisemitic’ Labour Leader Corbyn May ‘Drive Jews Out of UK’
The outgoing president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews told a prominent national newspaper on Thursday that Jeremy Corbyn -- the far-left leader...
US Ambassador Haley Leads Defense of Israel as UN Security Council Rejects Condemnation of Hamas
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley excoriated the members of the UN Security Council who opposed a draft American statement on Wednesday that...
Top IDF Officer: People of Gaza Are Prisoners of Hamas
Gaza residents are prisoners of Hamas, a top IDF officer said during a visit to a high school in the southern border town of Sderot...
Israel Studies Professor Decries ‘Nasty Personal Shaming’ Campaign After Video of Verbal Attack on Chabad Rabbi Goes Viral
An Israeli academic teaching at a prestigious Israel studies institute in the US protested on Wednesday that she was being "subjected to the most nasty kind of personal shaming,"...
Video Shows Iran-Backed Islamic Jihad Firing Mortars, Rockets Into Israel
The Iran-backed, Gaza Strip-based Islamic Jihad terrorist group published a video on Wednesday showing its operatives firing mortars and rockets into southern Israel the previous...
Vast Majority of Palestinian Fatalities in Gaza Riots Were Affiliated With Terror Groups, Study Finds
Around 83 percent of the Palestinians killed on the Israel-Gaza Strip border during the recent Hamas-orchestrated “Great Return March” riots have been identified as members...
Oxford Community Leaders Condemn Antisemitism After Local Chabad Faces Two Attacks in May
A Jewish student center serving the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom was subject to two attacks this month, drawing condemnation from community leaders. On...
Belgian Jews Live in ‘Permanent State of Siege,’ Says Head of Antisemitism Watchdog
Fear of antisemitic violence and the presence of armed police and soldiers outside Jewish institutions has left Belgian Jews living in a "permanent state of...
UC Santa Barbara Students Shut Down Senate Meeting After BDS Vote Fails to Advance
Protesters shut down a student senate meeting at the University of California, Santa Barbara on Wednesday, after a divestment resolution targeting Israel failed to pass. The...
Holocaust-Denying YouTube Video-Maker Convicted by UK Court for Hate Crimes
A 53-year-old British woman was convicted in court on Friday on hate crimes charges related to three antisemitic music videos she posted on Facebook in...
Israeli Professor Elected to Executive Board of UN Health Body
Professor Itamar Grotto -- an associate director-general at the Israeli Health Ministry -- was elected on Friday to the Executive Board of the UN’s World...
Bipartisan Congressional Group Urges Secretary of State to Appoint Antisemitism Special Envoy
A group of American legislators urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday to appoint a new Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism --...
Day After Pompeo Unveils Strategy to ‘Crush’ Tehran Regime, Trump Administration Keeps Up Heat on Iran
A day after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled a strategy to “crush” the Tehran regime with economic and military pressure unless it changes...
Report: As Tensions With Israel Peak Over Gaza, Turkey Hands Out Money to East Jerusalem Arabs
Amid heightened tensions between Ankara and Jerusalem following last week’s violence on the Gaza border in which several dozen Palestinian rioters were killed by IDF...
