by Michael Freund (IsraelNN.com) (Originally published by the Orthodox Union.) A few months ago, the normally hostile Iranian regime took the rather unusual step of adding a Jewish holy site to its National Heritage List. On December 9, 2008, Iranian news outlets reported that the tomb of Mordechai and Esther, heroes of the Purim saga, […]

By Editorial Board In a press availability at the end of the Gaza Reconstruction Conference in Sharm el-Sheik on Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made some very revealing comments in her opening remarks. But their significance lies not only in what she said, but also in what she didn’t say. The following is from […]

JINSA Report #867 March 6, 2009 Italy Quits Durban II We were not surprised (see JINSA Report #848) when Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers that Italy would not participate in Durban II, saying “aggressive phrases of an anti-Semitic nature” in the draft documents were “totally unacceptable.” He […]

Jewish settlers accuse Palestinians of destroying prayer, psalm books at Cave of Patriarchs Efrat Weiss Police launched an investigation Monday after Jewish settlers in Hebron accused Palestinians of destroying prayer and psalm books in the Cave of the Patriarchs. Spokesman for the Jewish settlement in Hebron, Noam Arnon, claimed a double standard was at play. […]

Mar. 9, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In an interview with Teheran Times two weeks ago, Norman Finklestein, the notorious Hizbullah and Hamas supporter and all-purpose anti-Semite, called Israel a “vandal state,” and “insane state,” a “terrorist state,” and a “satanic state.” Last week Finklestein was the keynote speaker at both Emory University […]

David Wilder March 08, 2009 On September 7, 1995 Binyamin Netanyahu, candidate for Prime Minister, while visiting Hebron, issued the following statement: The Jewish settlement will remain in Hebron permanently. If someone tries to take it away, my friends and I will be here, and they will have to take us away as well. It […]

As reported by the guardian.co.uk on March 7, 2009 “A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government using settlement expansion … ‘actively pursuing the illegal annexation’ of East Jerusalem.” March 8, 2009 | Eli E. Hertz Palestinian Arabs, supported by the EU and the U.S. have nurtured a myth that historically there were two Jerusalems […]

By Aaron Klein An investigation by this reporter has found that sections of Jerusalem have essentially been forfeited to the Palestinian Authority with Jews, including local landowners, barred from entering, The U.S. has been aiding Palestinians in developing an infrastructure in Jerusalem while the Israeli government has failed to stop Arabs from illegally building thousands […]

by Karin Kloosterman (IsraelNN.com) The film The Boy in the Plastic Bubble opened America’s eyes to the rare genetic disorder — severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) — afflicting up to 100 babies every year in the US. David Vetter, whose story the movie is based on, was a Texas boy who succumbed to the fatal disease […]

 by Hana Levi Julian and Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Closed circuit video shows the attack by an Arab tractor driver last Thursday — the third of its kind in Jerusalem in a single year.  The video is featured at the bottom of this article. The footage shows the tractor pushing a police car it had just overturned and […]