A Cluster Bomb That Israel's High Court of Justice Will Hopefully Neutralize

Suddenly, common sense and justice seem to be prevailing: The justices have realized the absurdity of the 'tiny plot' regulations that make...

A COVID Genocide in the Americas?

Fearing insider attack at Biden inauguration, FBI vetting national guard troops

WASHINGTON (AP) — US defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing US...

For world’s 1 billion migraine sufferers, COVID a major headache, new film shows

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a huge pain for everyone, and migraine sufferers are no exception. In fact, many have reported more attacks than...

Model Bar Refaeli’s mother gets COVID in jail; doctors say her life is in danger

Family of Tzipi Refaeli, serving tax evasion term, say they’ll go to court if she doesn’t get medical care; physician says her heart condition...

Defying education minister’s ban, school goes ahead with rights group’s webinar

Yoav Gallant decides to keep ‘groups that act in contradiction to the education system’s goals’ away from schools after B’Tselem said it will...

Does 'by force and fraud' signal the end of the US democracy doctrine?

In an interview with British newspaper The Times in 2015, former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vehemently denied that exporting democracy...

Corona Has Broken Us But Vaccinations Won’t Fix Us

This past Wednesday, I was very lucky to receive my second dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine. Though I am not in the first phase age group for...

Israeli chef Assaf Granit awarded Michelin star for Paris restaurant Shabour

‘I can’t get over it,’ chef says after French establishment is granted legendary gastronomic award

Asia’s Climate Optimism

The Post-Trump Reconstruction of America and the World

In highest rate in months, 9.1% of virus tests return positive

Serious cases decline for second day in a row; cabinet to meet Tuesday on extending lockdown, health minister will suggest restricting air travel

Right-wing protesters, some armed, rally outside fortified statehouses across US

AP — Small groups of right-wing protesters — some of them carrying rifles — gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country...

PA demands Israel allow East Jerusalemites to take part in Palestinian elections

Israel has long opposed Palestinian Authority activity in East Jerusalem, cracking down on its operations in the city’s boundaries

US Jewish umbrella group: Grant to far-right group linked to DC riot was anomaly

Donor gave money via San Francisco Jewish federation to Tea Party Patriots, a group that denies funding the Capitol insurrection though organizers...

Dispute over relief funds

Gyeonggi governor should take some time before executing decision The Gyeonggi Provincial Government has decided to provide another round of...

Tech censorship is the real gift to Putin

Alexey Navalny, the opposition leader whom the Russian secret police nearly killed with military-grade poison last year, is worried about...

GOP leaders should debunk Trump's 'Big Lie'

By Trudy Rubin Our democracy cannot heal from the Jan. 6 insurrection, let alone block further violence from far-right terrorists, unless...

From the Outside Looking In: A Black Expat's Grief

By Toni Benn It was December 2019 when I informed my family that I'd be moving to South Korea to teach English. Their apprehension, fear and...

India must legalize same-sex marriage

Even after the Supreme Court of India’s landmark Indian Penal Code Section 377 judgment in Navtej Singh Johar vs Union Of India (in 2018), the...

Capitol violence obscures big attack on US interests

By Andrew Hammond The siege of the U.S. Congress on Jan. 6 by what U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has called "domestic terrorists" has dominated...

Are the Palestinians really going to the polls?

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree on Friday to hold parliamentary, presidential and Palestinian National...

Shrewd Pompeo has set his sights on being the anointed flag bearer for Trumpism in the 2024 election

Despite being hailed as the worst Secretary of State ever, and using the role to promote his own confrontational brand of politics, Mike Pompeo...

Saudi Arabia reports dramatic drop in executions in 2020

Kingdom’s Human Rights Commission says 27 sentenced to death last year, a decrease of 85% over 2019; drop partially due to moratorium on death...

AEPi exec defends his ties to campus group that sent buses to pro-Trump DC rally

Century-old Jewish frat says Andrew Borans’s independent involvement with Turning Point USA, which sent demonstrators ‘to fight for this...

In Russia, cornered Alexei Navalny fights back

Alexei Navalny likely expected to be arrested upon his return to Russia, making his decision to fly back home an extremely courageous move. But his...

It is Time to Emerge from the Darkness

This week’s Torah portion of Bo describes the debilitating impact of the ninth plague of darkness. In fact the text states that there was a thick...

Unreal city

The immersive exhibition populating London with surreal digital sculptures by Olafur Eliasson, KAWS, Cao Fei and moreBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

The ‘Young Settlement’ lie

It's no surprise that 'Hilltop Youth' have been raging unfettered for the past 2 weeks. For the masters of the land, anything goes

Belated Justice for the Mother Teresa Tank Brigade in Jenin

In idiot America, for equity investors, what difference does it make?

THE DEVIL WILL FIND WORK FOR IDLE HANDS TO DOA friend of mine said to me on Monday: “you won’t be short of something to write this week!”. Not...

The documentary, MLK/FBI, is just slick propaganda that reveals nothing new about the bureau’s harassment of Martin Luther King

The new film, released just before Martin Luther King Jr. Day and available from various video-on-demand sites, poses as an important piece of...

China's faltering performance on economic reform

Xi Jinping's reform failures share a common theme

Israel’s coming election may be decided on the religious right

Netanyahu has no coalition without Naftali Bennett. Neither does Gideon Sa’ar. The fight is on

Former Trump campaign aides played key roles in organizing Washington rally

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans of US President Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign had key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that...

Israel’s data-for-vaccines deal with Pfizer raises privacy concerns

Health Ministry releases details of agreement with coronavirus vaccine producer, but redacted document doesn’t address all questions, including...

Changing needs for volunteer workers require a new approach

Twenty-six years have passed since the Great Hanshin Earthquake devastated Kobe and caused serious damage in wide areas around the port city in...

26 years later, memories of the Kobe earthquake still haunt me

Remembering that day still arouses a painful feeling of shame mixed with embarrassment in me. On Jan. 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck...

Putting down markers

By John Burton North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made his opening bid in dealing with the new administration of President Joe Biden at the eighth...

Biden should end the trade war with China

SHANGHAI – When U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated in a few days, he will quickly move to transform most dimensions of U.S. policy. A...

Merkel Minus Angela

Akademiki, plejboji in domoljubje

Živ dan nisem izrekel žal besede proti plejbojem. Kaj je lepšega kot uživati življenje v mnogih razsežnostih, da le ni na škodo drugega. Tudi v...

What Did More Damage to the World: COVID-19 or Trump?

Out of all the hot topics in international life over recent times, there are most likely two that vie with each other for primacy: COVID-19 and...

Museum of London acquires ‘Baby Trump’ blimp

Oversized orange balloon soared above Parliament Square in protests when Trump visited the UK in 2018

Zoom bombers shout ‘Jews in the ovens’ at online Holocaust book launch in Italy

Author’s daughter says group with Hitler portraits and swastikas as their personal photos broke into meeting with threats to ‘burn you all’

U of California, Riverside prof says Zionism ‘politically toxified our schools’

Wiesenthal Center calls Dylan Rodriguez’s remarks part of a broader push in academia to ‘demonize Zionism’

The Futility of Leading the World in Vaccinations

As far as vaccinating its population, Israel is leading the world by such a huge margin that the country in second place, the UAE, is just over...

‘Last voice in the room’: Kamala Harris set for key role in Biden White House

Her potential presidential ambitions notwithstanding, trailblazing VP-elect has proven a loyal partner to Biden, rarely contradicting him publicly....

Tu BiShvat Seder – 5781 (Covid 19 Edition) part 4 of 5

6.Pomegranate – רימון We now eat fruits with inedible shells or peels. For example: nuts, pomegranate, oranges, and avocado. The edible part of...