PMW reports prompt debate in Danish Parliament about its funding of the PA

editor 25 May 2013
By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik.. Following Palestinian Media Watch‘s exposure of the Palestinian Authority’s glorification of terrorists and payment of high salaries to security prisoners, including terrorists convicted of murder, debates have ensued in European Parliaments, among themNorway, the UK and Holland. Now, Denmark’s financial aid to the PA is likewise being questioned in Danish Parliament. Read more »
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Israeli Eurovision delegation threatened in Sweden

editor 25 May 2013

By JWC.. Hundreds of Jews and non-Jews are planning to walk together through the streets of Malmö, host of this year’s Eurovision song contest, on Saturday, while wearing kippahs, as a sign of their opposition to anti-Semitism. Malmö, where Israeli singer Moran Mazor performed on Thursday, but didn’t make it to the Saturday final, has been seeing increasing signs of anti-Semitism and xenophobia over the last years. Read more »

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UNRWA responds with false claim to PMW report

editor 24 May 2013

By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik.. Earlier this week, Palestinian Media Watch reported that the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Ann Dismorr, posed with a map that erases the State of Israel and presents all of it as “Palestine,” at an UNRWA event in Lebanon (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East). These pictures were broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV and on the Palestinian news site pn-news.net, corroborating PMW’s report. Read more »

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IDF clears land mines from Arab fields near Bethlehem

editor 24 May 2013

By Israel Today Staff.. Once again demonstrating that it harbors no ill will toward the Palestinian Arabs, the Israeli army recently got to work clearing land mines from Arab-owned fields in the vicinity of Bethlehem. Well, of course the Israeli army should do so, it probably planted those mines in the first place! Except that, no, the IDF didn’t do so. The mines were planted by the Jordanian army prior to the Six Day War in 1967. Read more »

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‘Et tu,’ EU? No Dutch treat here

editor 23 May 2013

By Ari Briggs.. Recently, the EU formally recommended that its 27 member states “prevent” Israeli activity in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and east Jerusalem by means of discriminatory labeling of Israeli products from these areas – in effect, an economic boycott of Jewish communities in those regions. This recommendation is clearly immoral, on at least six grounds, and recently I had the privilege of setting these out before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Dutch Parliament. Read more »

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Russian warship docks in Israel for first time

editor 23 May 2013

By Yossi Aloni.. For the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel, a Russian warship docked at the port city of Haifa earlier this month. The “Azov” of Russian’s Black Sea Fleet came to Israel at the request of the Association of Russian War Veterans to help celebrate the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. Jewish veterans of the Red Army who later immigrated to Israel were invited to participate in a ceremony aboard the massive ship. Read more »

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Bring them together Arabs and Jews in high-tech Israel

editor 23 May 2013

By The Economist.. Can Israeli Arabs benefit from the country’s start-up boom? On A biblical outcrop overlooking the Jezreel valley near Nazareth, Israel’s largest Arab town, a state-of-the-art complex has opened its doors to high-tech companies. “We’ll be famed for computing as well as Jesus,” quips Ramez Jaraisi, mayor of the city where Christ grew up. Read more »

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IAF Chief: S-300 is En Route to Syria; Surprise War is Possible

editor 22 May 2013

IAF Commander, Major General Amir Eshel, spoke Wednesday (May 22, 2013) about the IAF’s preparedness for a surprise war scenario with Syria, and said that the S-300 anti-aircraft system is on its way to Syria. ”A surprise war can come about through many scenarios at present,” he said at a conference of the Fisher Institute for National Security in Herzliya. Isolated incidents can escalate very quickly, he explained, and added that “we are committed to being ready in a matter of hours and to operate up to the end of the spectrum.” Read more »

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Focus on the Future (Series 3 / Episode 6)

editor 22 May 2013

By Rev Willem Glashouwer.. I travel around the world to many countries. Many churches invite me to speak about the future, about the coming of Jesus, about Israel, about the fulfillment of prophecy. Now I come to churches and the people say: “Well this is wonderful, you speak about Israel, about the coming of Jesus. You speak about the Kingdom of Peace that will come to this planet earth. But our pastor doesn’t speak much about it, hardly ever. Why not? Read more »

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Shabbat Shalom letter – Syria, Baghdad, Abu Ghosh

editor 22 May 2013

By Sheila Raviv.. Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this letter finds you well. Here I am sitting in our salon looking out at the veranda blooming. It really looks amazing. More of that later, first to the news not much of it is good so we will need cheering up later!!! I was thinking about the dreadful word used by most hasbara speakers – delegitimization. I hate the word, it isn’t even in the Oxford dictionary I am sure. Read more »

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