February 12, 2021

The next chapter: BDS, anti-IHRA bills fail at Florida State

Florida State University. Credit: Flickr. Continuing a year of drama over the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the student senate at Florida State University dealt a large setback to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement by soundly rejecting three anti-Israel resolutions. The resolutions […]
February 10, 2021

Israeli study: Those with Pfizer Covid vaccine less likely to pass virus to others

An Israeli woman receives a Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine on Feb. 7, 2021, in Hadera. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90 by Abigail Klein Leichman (Israel21c) — People who’ve received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination against Covid-19 seem significantly less likely to “shed” or transmit […]
February 10, 2021

How the Palestinian Authority weaponizes Palestinian children to manufacture fake news

by Donna Edmunds and Jacques Zilberdik (JNS) — Just over a week ago, 17-year-old Atallah Muhammad Rayyan approached a female Israeli soldier, not much older than he, at the Ariel junction in Samaria. He was armed with a knife, and […]
February 9, 2021

International Criminal Court ruling on Israel is baseless — but dangerous

by Eytan Gilboa (BESA Center) — The decision of the International Criminal Court in The Hague last week that it has jurisdiction to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, the West Bank, and eastern Jerusalem is baseless […]
February 7, 2021

Personal remembrance of George Shultz: Great friend of Israel and the Jewish people

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and US Secretary of State George Shultz. (JNS photo) by Richard Friedman The news that long-time American statesman and diplomat George Shultz had died at age 100 on Feb. 6 brought back a pivotal memory […]
February 2, 2021

Peace from the Grassroots: Meet “Palestinian Populist” Ashraf Jabari

From left: Wesam Seder, a Palestinian member of the Judea-Samaria Chamber; Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.); Ashraf Jabari; Heather Johnston, executive director of the Birmingham-based USIEA; and Avi Zimmerman. Credit: JS Chamber. by Orit Arfa (JNS) — With a mask resting […]
February 2, 2021

Andrew Yang got it right on BDS

Entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang at the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit on July 31, 2019. Credit: Screenshot. by Stephen H. Norwood and Rafael Medoff   We’re used to politicians mangling history, whether out of carelessness […]
January 29, 2021

Why Biden’s concessions to the Palestinians don’t help them, but hurt them

Palestinians hold photo printouts during a rally in support of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Tubas on Sept. 27, 2020. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — The Biden administration’s first Middle […]
January 28, 2021

Understanding B’tselem’s “Apartheid” Libel

The town of Ararat an-Naqab, which Israel built for the Bedouin community by Gilead Ini (CAMERA.org) — If you’re looking for examples of spin in B’tselem’s latest anti-Israel document, in which the organization slings around the inflammatory terms “apartheid” and […]
January 27, 2021

Million Refugee Math: The Palestinian Numbers Hoax

by Mitchell Bard (JNS) — The negotiation affairs department of the PLO tweeted on May 15, 2020, “Every nakba commemoration day, we mark the catastrophe that befell our people in 1948, when 957,000 Palestinians became refugees.” The truth is that […]
January 25, 2021

Using bacteria to disintegrate, recycle single-use plastics

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash by Yael Mor (Israel21c) — Every year, more than 300 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide, and around half of the produced materials are designed for single-use purposes. In fact, more plastic has […]