Posts Tagged: State of Israel
Israeli Arab Party Leader Abbas Dismisses Charge of ‘Apartheid’ State: ‘Our Fate Here Is to Live Together’
Israeli Arab leader Mansour Abbas — head of the Islamic Ra’am party, which last year joined the country’s governing coalition — said he would not...
Mourning the Holocaust, but Celebrating Israel
JNS.org - At last week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel’s former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, himself a survivor, said he was incapable...
Israeli Economy Continues to Flourish
A recent preliminary report from Israel’s Economy and Industry Ministry, along with the Israel Export Institute, says that the country’s annual exports of goods and...
UK Refuses to Apologize to Palestinians for 1917 Balfour Declaration
JNS.org - The United Kingdom has rejected a request by the Palestinians to apologize for the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which helped pave the way for the...
Holy Secularism: A Visit to the Tavor Academy
One of the defining characteristics of life in Israel is the ongoing encounter and grappling with Judaism and Jewish identity. Largely unnoticed outside of the...
Parting Words to a Disillusioned Zionist
As the eulogies came to a close at a podium set up next to the freshly dug grave of a widely beloved man – an...
Jewish and Mormon Leaders Come Together to Remember Shared Values, Support for Zionism
JNS.org -- Exactly 175 years ago, an American non-Jew, under the direction of the founder of his church, climbed the Mount of Olives and offered an...
Abbas to Humanitarian Summit: We Must Erase Israel From History
Mahmoud Abbas spoke at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on Tuesday, where he did what he does best: he tried to hijack and transform...
Unity = Survival
One of the miracles of the Jewish people is that, at least as a core group, we’ve remained united as one. Taking into consideration our vast...
Yair Lapid: Report on Gaza War Proves United Nations is ‘Out of its Mind’
The chairman of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid criticized on Monday a forthcoming United Nations report on last summer's war between Israel and Hamas in...
From Comity to Commensality: Nudging the Needle of World Opinion Israelward
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to...
‘Palestine’: The Real Apartheid State
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, now serving the tenth year of his four-year term, recently defamed Israel's "apartheid government." Speaking in Cairo last weekend at...
A Woman Dressed in Black
Who could have seen this coming? Jews are being run over, stoned, stabbed, screwdrivered, hatcheted, and shot at point-blank range. It's enough to make one long...
Suicide Nation: Competing Pathologies in the State of Israel
With this Third Intifada (2014-?) overtly underway, the bleeding season is once again in full swing in Israel. Jews are being murdered in increasingly resourceful...
