Settler Violence Against Palestinians Only Grows During Harvest Time

France has paid an appalling price for its lax attitude to radical Islam and a clampdown on extremists is long overdue

The headline on national broadcaster France 24 said it all: “French police raid dozens of targets suspected of extremism after teacher...

Fear of right-wing PragerU classroom infiltration overlooks double standard: BOTH left and right should stop brainwashing kids

After the mother of a 10th-grade student alerted Maumee City Schools administrators and the media to her daughter’s history teacher’s...

Jewish people can be gay, so why are Orthodox schools refusing to teach kids about LGBT issues?

Homophobia is not a lifestyle choice. It’s a form of hatred and discrimination. So that’s the charge that must be levelled at the Orthodox...

Knesset speaker overturns vote after MKs approve inquiry into submarine scandal

The Knesset plenum on Wednesday voted to form a parliamentary inquiry into a major corruption scandal that has previously ensnared several close...

Army chief: Uncovered Gaza attack tunnel was ‘major asset’ to the enemy

Military chief Aviv Kohavi described the cross-border attack tunnel uncovered by the Israel Defense Forces this week on the Gaza border as a...

A Jewish state is not racist or ‘apartheid’. It’s essential

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has hosted a series of webinars during October accusing Israel of being an apartheid state. So far not much...

The Truth About the Submarine Affair

Is the Long-Awaited Constitutional Crisis at Hand?

CHICAGO – Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, legal academics like me have been bombarded with emails from journalists asking whether the...

Cause that they didn't live up to

By Kang Hyun-kyung Back in the late 1980s, one of my high school classmates made me think about the cause she was then fighting for. She was a...

Khashoggi fiancee sues Saudi prince in US over journalist’s murder

WASHINGTON — The fiancee of journalist Jamal Khashoggi sued Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and other officials Tuesday in a US court, seeking damages...

Netanyahu ally admits political considerations behind failure to pass budget

Coalition whip Miki Zohar, a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, openly admitted Tuesday that there were political considerations...

Algeria-Morocco competition exposes the closed shop nature of influence within the AU 

According to specialist news reports, Algeria has failed to nominate any candidates for key positions in the African Union. Seven positions are...

The Whispering Prussian: Clausewitz and Modern Wars

The relevance of past wisdom to our modern affairs has always been debatable. Carl von Clausewitz and his theory of war are not an exception. Since...

Finance Minister Katz has a budget. Netanyahu should be worried

On Saturday night, Finance Minister Israel Katz called a surprise press conference to announce he intends to present the long-delayed 2020 budget,...

Florida, Israel call on firms to bid for joint aerospace R&D funding

Space Florida and the Israel Innovation Authority are calling on Israeli and Florida-based for-profit companies to bid for funding for a total of...

Israeli startup Aleph Farms eyes making test-tube steaks on Mars, Moon

Aleph Farms, Ltd., a startup that grows meat directly from cattle cells, said it is launching a program to set up long-term collaborations with...

Japan’s old ‘kao’ signatures a fun anachronism worth preserving

"Kao" is a kind of personalized hieroglyphic signature on official documents in Japan in lieu of a handwritten full-name signature. Those used by...

The pointless fight. Is Suga’s honeymoon over?

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga started off surprisingly well, despite his noncharismatic personality and selection by the Liberal Democratic...

Africa’s WTO Moment

BOSTON – The selection of the World Trade Organization’s next director-general has entered its final phase, with two candidates left in the...

The Nagorno-Karabakh crisis is helping to shape US foreign policy

As the war gets fiercer between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, the mountainous region of just 150,000 people in the South Caucasus,...

Arctic comes in from the cold

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― Whether we are heading for a future of cooperation or of increasing confrontation in the Arctic remains to be seen. But...

Virus outbreak continues to abate, but experts warn of potential new surge

The coronavirus outbreak is continuing to abate, according to figures published Wednesday morning by the Health Ministry, with new daily cases...

Gantz shouted down by protesters against domestic violence outside Knesset

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday expressed support for a protest held outside the Knesset decrying violence against women, but when he...

In Thailand, the king has no clothes

Commentary. Regardless of what the short-term consequences of these protests will be, these slogans, which from one day to the next have become the...

Pediatric hotspots in Northern Italy are pushing health care to the brink

Reportage. In Turin, the situation is chaotic and inefficient. Lines of responsibility are unclear, and parents are frantic. The rising contagion...

With cakes, lonely Shabbat sweetened for older Israelis

YAVNE (AP) — For thousands of older Israelis like Sara Weinsten, being housebound alone during the country’s second nationwide lockdown is...

The Noah’s Ark—A Model of a Living Cell

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch” (Genesis 6:14) A light...

Trump, Israel, and Dr. Waxman

Dr. Dov Waxman has published a featured post headlined with a question, “So, you think Trump has been good for Israel?”  As the provocative...

Israeli Morality: A Light to the World

Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman wrote a very interesting article in today’s issue of the JERUSALEM POST. In it, she affirms that Israel’s top priority at...

Seger Sameach: Home for the High Holidays

When synagogues are forced to close, it typically comes at the hands of a governmental or religious majority’s desire to suppress and alienate...

The Orange Man Is My Man

He’s orange, he’s brash, sometimes crass, sometimes mean, sometimes is more pro wrestler than presidential, but he’s my pick. Now, there are...

Butler Students Must Vote on IHRA

Butler Students Deserve a Vote on IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Radical activists want you to believe that reasonable people disagree on what...

The Truth Behind Israel and Egypt's Submarine Affair

America’s Multilateralism Election

MADRID – When Donald Trump became the US Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2016, many predicted that he would tone down his...

Why it took a black British MP to expose the madness of teaching critical race theory and the ‘pet n***er’ abuse of police by BLM

When an elected MP stands up in the British Parliament and denounces the Black Lives Matter movement, citing an incident where a black protester...

Ministers warned against hasty virus reopening as cabinet debates schools, shops

As ministers met to discuss the second stage of the exit from the lockdown, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein cautioned on Wednesday against reopening...

What is the fate of the Lebanese revolution?

On 17 October, many people wondered what has happened to the Lebanese revolution on its first anniversary. Did it fail? Why didn’t it achieve its...

Bolivia returns to the Movement for Socialism, defying predictions

Analysis. Accused of having taken an excessively conciliatory attitude towards the coup-installed government since Añez's self-proclaimed ascent...

Trump traverses US as Obama steps up support for Biden

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former US President Barack Obama was set to hold his first rally Wednesday in support of election front runner...

US files landmark antitrust case against Google

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising — the...

Lebanon complains it is still waiting for satellite photos of port blast

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s outgoing premier complained Tuesday that his country has yet to receive satellite images from France and Italy, as requested...

Reproductive Rights and Religious Liberty

This letter was mailed and hand-delivered to Senator Sasse’s office in July 2019. As we discuss a new Supreme Court Justice and religious views...

Turkey’s NATO membership and S-400s

Last Friday, Turkey tested S-400 missile defense systems it purchased from Russia. On the same day, it signed a defense cooperation agreement with...