Posts Tagged: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Former Israeli Lawmaker: Anti-Zionism on Campus Is ‘Socially Respectable’ Cover for Antisemitism
Jew-hatred is rising on campuses around the world while giving itself the "socially respectable" cloak of anti-Zionism, a former Israeli lawmaker told the student newspaper the Kenyon Collegian. In...
Poll: Majority of Palestinians Oppose State Along 1967 Borders
JNS.org - Nearly 60 percent of all Arab residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip oppose the future creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines,...
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Sidelined at UN General Assembly, as World Deals With Other Crises
They took the stage, one after the other, two aging actors in a long-running drama that has begun to lose its audience. As the Israeli...
Obama Tells UN Israel Can’t Permanently ‘Occupy’ Palestinian Land
JNS.org - US President Barack Obama summarized his analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his final address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York...
US Senators Urge Obama to Veto Anti-Israel UN Resolutions
JNS.org - A bipartisan group of 88 US senators sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Monday urging him to veto any anti-Israel resolutions regarding...
International Law Expert: UN’s Obsession With Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Robs It of Ability to Deal With More Serious Problems (INTERVIEW)
The UN’s obsession with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has robbed it of the ability to deal with other more serious problems around the world, an international...
Former State Department Negotiator: ‘Cash-for-Prisoners’ Controversy Has Bolstered Image of Growing US Weakness in Middle East (INTERVIEW)
The recent “cash-for-prisoners” controversy has played into the hands of Iranian hardliners and helped bolster the image of growing US weakness in the Middle East,...
Baseless Israeli Self-Hatred
On the eve of Tisha B'Av, which marks the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians and the Second Temple by the Romans, most...
European MP Setting Up First Pro-Israel Caucus Promoting Judea, Samaria Building
JNS.org - A European member of parliament is forming the first official caucus group that will support building homes in Judea and Samaria, and promote free...
Potential Payoffs and Pitfalls for Israel if the GOP Wins the Presidential Election
Rejecting decades-old policy, the Republican Party approved on July 12 a [2016] platform that does not include a call for a two-state solution to the...
Reinstated Labour MP Denies Antisemitism, Acknowledges Use of Antisemitic Language
JNS.org - British Member of Parliament (MP) Naz Shah — who was suspended in April from the Labour Party for suggesting that Israel should be relocated...
Rivlin Asks European Lawmakers for Greater Respect of Israel’s Sovereignty
JNS.org - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday addressed the European Parliament in Brussels, emphasizing Israel’s strong ties with Europe but also stressing that the continent’s...
In EU speech, Abbas Accuses Rabbis of Encouraging Poisoning of Palestinian Water
JNS.org - In a speech to the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed that global terrorism will come to an...
EU Dismisses Israeli Accusations of Colonialism as ‘Offensive and Inaccurate’
The European Union on Wednesday dismissed strident criticism by an Israeli official — who, among other things, had accused the organization of “colonialism” — as...
