December 1, 2021

Louisiana Jewish Coalition hears from Israeli, Palestinian Parents Circle participants

Rami Elhanan, Laila Alsheikh and Herb Keinon By Richard Friedman As part of its webinar series “Looking Toward the Future,” the Louisiana Jewish Coalition delved into one of the most complex of issues, one fraught with emotion and tragedy, yet, […]
November 23, 2021

A dozen Attorneys General press Unilever over Ben & Jerry’s boycott

The Attorneys General of Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Arkansas are among 12 signatories to a letter by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt calling out Unilever for failing to take action against the Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Israel. Thus far, […]
November 22, 2021

Consul General makes first visit to N.E. Alabama Cherokee

Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon (left) talks with Chief Larry Smith (right) and Seth Penn, as John Buhler of the Alabama-Israel Task Force looks on.In September, when the Northeast Alabama Cherokee issued a declaration of support for the “sovereign Jewish nation” […]
November 21, 2021

La. Senator Kennedy calls for accountability in Palestinian schools

Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana introduced the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act to address whether Palestinian students are being taught inaccurate or racist content about Israel and the Jewish people. “The Middle East will never experience peace until […]
November 15, 2021

Israel’s Elbit to build weapons plant in South Carolina

Elbit Systems of America plans to open a 135,000-square-foot facility in South Carolina to be operational in 2022. Credit: Courtesy. (JNS) — Elbit Systems of America is planning to open a 135,000-square-foot facility in North Charleston, S.C., to build weapons […]
November 14, 2021

The Dollar’s Crashing Sends Waves Throughout Israel

by Jonathan Feldstein Two seemingly parallel and completely unrelated things happened this week with an astonishing response. Running a non-profit, the end of the year is an opportunity to tie up loose ends and be sure that in the last […]
November 14, 2021

Op-Ed: Will UNRWA donors finally play constructive role this week?

by David Bedein The news and research office that I have been running since 1987 focuses on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, with the hope that the 5.3 million descendants of […]
November 11, 2021

Sheikh Jarrah shows why Palestinians will never have a state

by Mitchall Bard (JNS) — Many critics of Israel have joined Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in denouncing Israel because courts have determined that a group of Palestinian families are illegally living in homes owned by Jews in the Sheikh […]
November 11, 2021

Report: Incitement in UNRWA curriculum leads UK to cut funding in half

A Palestinian boy pedals by the closed offices of U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) during a strike of all UNRWA institutions in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 24, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. by Ariel Kahana […]
November 3, 2021

The “indigenous Palestinian” lie

by James Sinkinson (FLAME) — While Jews have been persecuted over the centuries more than perhaps any other people, they can take at least cold comfort in the fact that their enemies almost always rely on outright lies to attack […]
October 29, 2021

Palestinians facing deep crisis and internal dissent amid US aid curbs

by David Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research The Palestinian Authority is in deep crisis as the United States has sharply cut direct aid to the Palestinians and other assistance to them via the United Nations, amid reports of […]