The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is hosting their Minority Health Conference (MHC) on February 22 featuring keynote speaker Linda Sarsour. Sarsour is known for her hostility towards Israel, having said “Northing is creepier than Zionism” and advising Muslims not to “humanize” Israelis. Sarsour once tweeted against the feminist Ayaan...

Anti-Semitism is back in fashion on both Right and Left. In an odd sort of way, its increasingly open expression has paved the way for a new Jewish activism. That is fortunate, because it’s sorely needed. It’s crucial that Jews stand together now as a community to combat anti-Semitic acts...

Emergency workers recently evacuated people to safety and treated those wounded in a mass-casualty event in the Chilean city of Las Condes. Luckily, no one was actually hurt, since the rescue operation was a training simulation directed by Israeli national emergency service Magen David Adom. The rescue operation was the...

A recent poll shows that there support for anti-Israel boycotts is low in the United Kingdom, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday. Despite a number of high-profile celebrities who advocate for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign — notably former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters — only ten...

A leading ally of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the party’s general secretary, Jennie Formby, has been accused by Labour MPs of protecting members of the party accused of anti-Semitism from punishment, The Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. Formby has been on the party’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) for seven years....

The United Kingdom, France, and Germany said that they are prepared to announce the launch of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), an arrangement that will allow them to trade with Iran and protect European companies from the effects of United States sanctions, the Associated Press reported. The SPV would set up...

The Palestinian Authority was blasted on Tuesday for their public show of support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela by United States Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt, JNS reported. “The Palestinian leadership should be focused on providing a better future for Palestinians, but instead focuses on supporting the morally...

British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver toured Tel Aviv this week, sampling Israeli cuisine for what is rumored to be his latest, still secret, television show, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. As part of his trip around the city, Oliver visited the Sultana vegan restaurant on Ibn Gabirol Street, where he...

With the rejection of all U.S. financial assistance over a new anti-terror law, the Palestinian Authority “has chosen terror over the wellbeing of its own civilian population,” TIP CEO & President, Joshua S. Block, said in an op-ed published in JNS on Wednesday. The PA announced earlier this month that...

A duo of debaters from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem won the 2019 World University Debating Championship in the English Second-Language category. The contest, hosted by the University of Cape Town Debating Union, wrapped up on January 4. Hebrew University students Roy Schulman (a master’s degree candidate from Yehud) and...