March 16, 2021

Israel to host Int’l Flag Football Championship, World Games Qualifier

Israel’s flag football team. Credit: American Football in Israel. by Josh Hasten (JNS) — The International Federation of American Football has selected Israel to host the Flag Football World Championships at the Kraft Family Sports Campus in Jerusalem from Dec. […]
March 14, 2021

Same Old Failures: Biden’s Middle East Policy Obama-era Retreads Emerge

by Mitchell Bard (JNS) — When I wrote about U.S. President Joe Biden hiring retreads — former Obama officials who contributed to his most disastrous foreign policies — I purposely left out specific names in part because I was hoping […]
March 13, 2021

Atlanta Israel Coalition hosts series of virtual Israel tours

The Atlanta Israel Coalition, in partnership with the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeastern U.S., the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Herut and the Evans Family Foundation, presents Re-Discovering the Land of Israel, a series of five virtual tours […]
March 12, 2021

Kosovo to open embassy in Jerusalem

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis in Jerusalem on March 11. Photo by Alex Kolomoisky/POOL by Ariel Kahana and Yori Yalon (Israel Hayom) — […]
March 12, 2021

Czech Republic opens embassy branch in Jerusalem

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi after inaugurating a new embassy branch in Jerusalem, March 11, 2021. Source: Gabi Ashkenazi via Twitter. (JNS) — The Czech Republic opened a branch of its Israel embassy in Jerusalem […]
March 12, 2021

South Africa’s Chief Justice exposes hypocrisy of apartheid claims about Israel

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng addresses the Judicial Officers Association of South Africa’s annual general meeting held at Kopanong Conference Hotel in Benoni. Credit: GCIS/Government of South Africa/Flickr. by Ben Cohen (JNS) — As of this writing, South Africa’s Chief Justice […]
March 10, 2021

CUFI at 15: Awakening the “sleeping giant” of Christian Zionism

Supporters of CUFI at the 2019 “Night to Honor Israel” at Pastor John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. Source: CUFI via Facebook. by Sean Savage (JNS) — This year, Christians United for Israel, one of the most powerful […]
March 4, 2021

The Imperative to Stop UNRWA’s Antisemitic Incitement

by David Bedein The recently incorporated think tank, the Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research, has covered the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s education programs for the foreign press and the diplomatic corps ever since August 2000, when […]
March 4, 2021

International Criminal Court’s Israel probe “hypocritical” and antisemitic

Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda, December 2019. Credit: Mike Chappazo/Shutterstock. by Sean Savage (JNS) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague announced on March 3 her intention to open an investigation […]
March 3, 2021

J Street and the Inconvenient Reality of Palestinian Antisemitism

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Photo by Flash90. by Moshe Phillips Dylan Williams of J Street, in a recent op-ed, called on the Biden administration to “rebuild the U.S. relationship with moderate Palestinian leaders.” Since presumably J Street would not […]
March 1, 2021

Washington Post apparently doesn’t want to get Israel vaccination story right

A COVID-19 vaccine injection is prepared at a vaccination center in South Tel Aviv, Feb 14, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90. by Sean Durns (CAMERA) — The Washington Post can’t seem to get Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination policy right. Or perhaps […]