Jordan is sharply criticizing the Palestinian Authority’s rejection of an initiative to install security cameras on the Temple Mount, veteran Palestinian affairs reporter Khaled Abu Toameh wrote Tuesday in The Jerusalem Post. The proposal was first introduced by Jordan’s King Abdullah II and accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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The recent vote by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to declare the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem “an integral part of Palestine” without mentioning their Jewish history, as well as to condemn Israel for archaeological digs in the Old...
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The brother-in-law of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received life-saving surgery in an Israeli hospital, i24 News reported Friday. The brother-in-law of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas underwent life-saving heart surgery at a private hospital in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli media reports Thursday. According to the reports, Abbas’s wife’s...
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In his opening statement at the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on Palestinian incitement on Thursday, ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) put the onus for the recent escalation of violence in Israel on the Palestinian Authority, saying that “the Palestinians will never get their state on the...
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Recent news has renewed interest in Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem and founder of Palestinian nationalism, and has also shined a spotlight on the ties between Palestinian nationalism and Nazism. Here is what you need to know: 1) Husseini used the “Temple Mount libel” to drive the 1929 Arab massacre of Jews...
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Bedouin leaders have condemned the “despicable” terrorist attack committed on Sunday by a young Bedouin man at the Beersheba bus station. The Times of Israel reported more: “Following [Sunday’s] terrorist attack at the Beersheba central bus station in which two innocent people lost their lives, we utterly and unreservedly condemn this...
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The former chairman of the BBC, Lord Michael Grade, has criticized the network for its recent biased coverage of Israel, The Jewish Chronicle reported Monday. Grade wrote a letter to the BBC’s director of news and current affairs regarding a recent dispatch by correspondent Orla Guerin. Lord Grade said the report had implied “equivalence between Israeli...
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The head of UNESCO, UN’s cultural agency, said that she “deplores” a resolution proposed by Arab country members of the agency’s executive board that would deem the Western Wall to be a Muslim holy site. Irina Bokova said in a statement that the plan, which is scheduled to be voted on today, “could be seen to alter the status...
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Terrorist groups across the Middle East have called for increased violence against Israeli civilians in the past 48 hours. The Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas has called for a resumption of suicide bombings against Israeli civilian targets, while the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released five videos glorifying the knife attacks against...
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As Israeli officials attempted to quell the violence against their citizens this past week, officials of the Obama administration made a number of controversial statements that they later retracted. The most prominent of these statements came from Secretary of State John Kerry, who in a speech at Harvard on Tuesday...
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