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February 8, 2023

Roger Waters: The Leni Riefenstahl of rock and roll

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Oct. 28, 2017. Credit: James Jeffrey Taylor/Shutterstock. by A.J. Caschetta (JNS) — Marcel Proust’s advice that people never meet their heroes lest they be disappointed fits to a T the […]
February 8, 2023

Senators introduce bill to sanction International Criminal Court

The judges and guests of the International Criminal Court at the opening of the ICC judicial year on Jan. 18, 2019, in The Hague. Credit: International Criminal Court. (JNS) — U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill with Sens. […]
February 7, 2023

Normalization pact means Israel-Sudan peace within reach

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets in Khartoum with General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, leader of Sudan’s transitional government, Feb. 2, 2023. Source: Twitter/Sudan Transitional Sovereign Council. by Andrew Jose (JNS) — Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with General Abdel Fattah […]
February 4, 2023

Meet the Israeli doctor providing eye care to thousands of Ethiopians

Volunteers test patients for short- and near-sightedness. Photo by Elisa Hartstein. by Andrew Jose (JNS) — When Israeli ophthalmologist Morris Hartstein visited Gondar in 2014 for a family volunteering trip, he did not know he would start an initiative that […]
February 3, 2023

University of Michigan dismisses calls to condemn intifada-themed rally

The University of Michigan. Credit: Shutterstock by Bradley Martin and Menachem Wecker (JNS) — In 2021, a University of Michigan music professor showed a 1965 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” which featured a white actor in blackface, in class. The […]
February 3, 2023

Israel, Sudan lay groundwork for historic peace agreement

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets in Khartoum with Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, leader of Sudan’s transitional government, Feb. 2, 2023. Source: Sudan Transitional Sovereign Council/Twitter. (JNS) — Israel will sign a peace agreement with Sudan later this year in […]
February 3, 2023

American Muslims for Palestine’s overt Jew-hatred at Rutgers University Newark

by Aaron Goren and Walter Holzberg (CAMERA) — When the New Jersey Chapter of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) announced plans to host a conference titled “Liberating Palestine: The Time is Now” at Rutgers University, Newark, a major university that […]
February 3, 2023

To media, not even an attack on a synagogue is considered terrorism

Israeli security forces at the scene of a terrorist shooting attack in Jerusalem’s Neve Ya’akov neighborhood, Jan. 27, 2023. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90. by Mitchell Bard (JNS) — Seven Jewish souls were massacred by a Palestinian as they left their synagogue […]
February 1, 2023

Israel Allies honors Governor Mike Huckabee

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is honored by a group of Israel activists and Jewish and Christian friends of Israel, Jan. 30, 2023. Credit: Courtesy. by Etgar Lefkovits (JNS) — Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was honored on Jan. 29 […]
February 1, 2023

South Africans expose “Israel apartheid” fallacy

by Paul Schneider (JNS) — More and more these days, people are calling Israel an apartheid state. For some, it’s a socially acceptable way to channel antisemitic impulses. For others, it’s a form of virtue signaling. And of course there […]
February 1, 2023

Growing Russia-Iran ties may prompt West to look at Israel differently

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Yerevan, Armenia, to take part in the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on Oct. 1, 2019. Credit: Gevorg Ghazaryan/Shutterstock. by Fiamma Nirenstein (JNS) — Media claims that last weekend’s terror attacks […]