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Global march for Israel organized by Blacks in South Africa
28/06/2012 07:31
From United with Israel
South Africans will demonstrate in support of Israel this Thursday, June 28. The march has been initiated by non-Jewish Black groups which is very significant, especially in South Africa. Victims of apartheid are coming out in strong support of Israel – and...
Israel accuses Iran of anti-Semitism after drug speech
28/06/2012 07:25
(Reuters) - Iranian allegations that Zionists were inciting drug trafficking and Jewish religious law called for annihilation of gentiles prompted a sharp response from Israel on Wednesday which said Iran was governed by fanatical anti-Semites.
The verbal clash highlighted...
German court ruling on circumcision riles Jewish community
28/06/2012 07:20
BERLIN (JTA) -- Germany’s top Jewish leader called on the federal Parliament “to ensure religious freedom” following a Cologne court ruling that said circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.
Though Monday's decision by the District Court of Cologne...
Der Spiegel: Neo-Nazi aided Palestinian massacre of Israeli athletes
18/06/2012 22:16
By Richard Mather, Defence of the Israeli People
Newly revealed intelligence reports show that Palestinian terrorists were aided by a German neo-Nazi in 1972, according to Der Spiegel.
German neo-Nazi Willi Pohl provided weapons and fake passports to the Black September...
Israeli minister calls to recognize Armenian genocide
13/06/2012 01:28
(Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister said on Tuesday that the Jewish state ought to change its policy and recognize the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as an act of genocide.
Gilad Erdan, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, answered a motion in...
Assad retains control of Syria chemical arms - Israel
13/06/2012 01:26
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM, June 12 (Reuters) - Israel believes there is no immediate risk of Syria's chemical weapons falling into the hands of militants, a senior minister said on Tuesday, despite its growing worries about fighting there which has prompted Israeli calls for outside...
Pro-Hitler graffiti found at Israel's Holocaust museum
11/06/2012 11:57
By Menahem Kahana (AFP)
JERUSALEM — Hebrew graffiti thanking Hitler for the Holocaust and denouncing Zionism was sprayed at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Monday, with suspicion falling on ultra-Orthodox opponents of the state of Israel.
"Thank you Hitler for your...
Abbas ready for talks if Israel frees prisoners
10/06/2012 10:44
(AFP)
AMMAN — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said he is ready for a dialogue with Israel if it frees Palestinian prisoners taken before the 1993 Oslo peace accord.
Speaking aboard a plane after talks in Paris, Abbas laid out his requirements to resume the comprehensive peace...
Israeli minister accuses Syria of genocide
10/06/2012 10:42
By Dan Williams
(Reuters) - A senior Israeli minister accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday of committing genocide during his crackdown on a 15-month uprising, in an unusually harsh censure of the Jewish state's Arab neighbour.
Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz also...
Israel to decide on settlement university
09/06/2012 08:30
By Diaa Hadid, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — In the fraught atmosphere of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an approaching decision on whether to award coveted university status to a college has taken on powerful political overtones.
For critics of Israel's policy of...
