The Agency’s Executive convened yesterday for “extensive deliberations” and announced the following decision: It will “involve itself in planning, at this stage, and if the need arises in the future, also in building new communities and expanding existing communities in the Negev, Galilee and Gilboa funded by the Government of Israel.” The Agency was responding […]

(Editor’s note: Ms. Bayefsky delivered this speech at the U.N. at a conference on Confronting Anti-Semitism: Education for Tolerance and Understanding, sponsored by the United Nations Department of Information, this morning.) I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you at this first U.N. conference on anti-Semitism, which is being convened six decades after the organization’s […]

Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denies that he ever agreed to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights. The issue has risen once again with the release of ex-US President Bill Clinton’s autobiography, in which he claimed that four Israeli Prime Ministers with whom he worked agreed to leave the Golan. The three were Yitzchak Rabin, […]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, on the campus of Harvard University, Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (AVOT) will host the fourth in a series of teach-ins at universities across the nation. Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Time: 7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Where: Harvard University, Lecture Hall C, Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 […]

IDF troops arrested three Palestinian suspects in the West Bank on Monday night, including a senior Tanzim official, who the army said tried to escape from authorities by traveling in an ambulance. Earlier in the day, a laborer from Thailand died after being hit in the chest by a mortar fired at the Kfar Darom […]

Last Thursday, Secretary of State Colin Powell engaged in the Bush Administration\u2019s latest outreach to members of the Arab-American and Muslim-American communities. Unfortunately, as with virtually every one of the Administration\u2019s previous efforts of this kind, those embraced by Mr. Powell are part of the problem – not the solution – in the war of […]

Today is the 16th of June. The government decision that left the people of Israel nine months to temper the evil decree was on the sixth of June. That means that the period of grace has already been shortened by ten days. What have we done in that time to save ourselves from catastrophe? The […]

It now appears that Israel’s “unilateral” disengagement from Gaza will only occur if Egypt sets the precise terms. Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleimon is expected to arrive in Israel this week, and will lay down the conditions that both Israel and the PA must fulfill for Egypt to agree to the Israeli withdrawal. Among the […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the chancellor of the University of California at Irvine to reverse his decision to permit students to wear green sashes glorifying suicide bombings at the university’s commencement ceremony on June 18, 2004. The sash, or “Shahada,” is a symbol worn by Muslim extremists as a […]

US President Bush has, once again, suspended the relocation of the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem. Bush did this by asserting that US national security will be harmed if he implements the US law requiring the move. Bush\u2019s refusal to take concrete measures recognizing Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital has […]