It is bigger than Gaza
Apr 23,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Hassan A. Barari It is not clear how killing a Palestinian child by an Israeli sniper would help Israel in its desperate attempt to […]
Family accuses Israel’s Mossad of killing Palestinian in Malaysia
By AFP – Apr 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Gaza City, Palestinian Territories – The family of a Palestinian professor and Hamas member accused Israel’s Mossad spy agency on Saturday of […]
Natalie Portman pulls out of Jerusalem ceremony over recent events in Israel
Source: The Washington Post By Ruth Eglash April 20 at 8:28 AM Email the author JERUSALEM — Natalie Portman has pulled out of a ceremony in Jerusalem honoring her as the recipient of a $2 million prize, dubbed by some as the “Jewish Nobel,” the organization said Thursday. The Genesis Prize Foundation, […]
Wounded Gaza cyclist to miss Asian Games after amputation
By Reuters – Apr 19,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian cyclist Alaa Al Daly, 21, who lost his leg by a bullet fired by Israeli troops, talks with his sister while […]
‘Haifa is essentially segregated’: cracks appear in Israel’s capital of coexistence
For decades, Haifa has been Israel’s model of what a ‘mixed’ Jewish-Arab city could be. But as the country’s 70th anniversary nears, the strain is showing Cities is […]
Palestinian children still in jail in violation of int’l law
Apr 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Palestinians make special efforts to bring attention to their own who are suffering restriction in Israeli jails. April 17 marks the Palestinian […]
With Jews largely gone from Iraq, memories survive in Israel
Source: Reuters By Maher Chmaytelli, Jeffrey Heller, Stephen Farrell BAGHDAD/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Behind the high concrete walls of Baghdad’s Jewish cemetery, Violette Saul lies at rest under a weathered and cracked tombstone, one of the last memorials to an ancient community that is now all but extinct. A Torah scroll is seen […]
Israeli series exposes raw wounds from ethnic Jewish divide
Source: Associated Press By TIA GOLDENBERG JERUSALEM (AP) — An electrifying new documentary series on the problematic integration of Middle Eastern Jews by Israel’s European founders in the 1950s has reopened old wounds of an ethnic divide within Judaism ahead of the country’s 70th anniversary festivities. While Israel is marking […]
Hashemite custodianship of Jerusalem holy sites ‘a historical responsibility we are proud to carry’
Leaders renew rejection of US move to recognise Jerusalem as capital of Israel By Mohammad Ghazal – Apr 15,2018 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah delivers a speech inaugurating […]
In Gaza, family lights candles to mourn son on his 14th birthday
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Apr 09,2018 – JORDAN TIMES GAZA — Monday should have been Hussein Madi’s 14th birthday. Instead, his family sat mourning him in a tent in […]
Officials: 1 Palestinian killed, 223 wounded by Israeli fire
Source: Associated Press By FARES AKRAM and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Thousands of Palestinians, some burning Israeli flags and torching tires, staged a mass protest on […]
Rare Israeli-Palestinian compromise at UNESCO brings hope
Source: Associated Press By ANGELA CHARLTON and CHRIS DEN HOND PARIS (AP) — Diplomats at UNESCO are hailing a possible breakthrough on longstanding Israeli-Arab tensions at the U.N. cultural agency. […]
Mosque in northern West Bank torched in apparent anti-Arab hate crime
Aqraba residents believe they were targeted with ‘revenge’ and ‘death’ graffiti because the killer of Israeli Adiel Kolman last month was from village By Jacob Magid Today, 11.4.2018 Vandals torched […]
The Jewish State Has a Special Duty to Defend Syrians
Source: The New York Times By Ronen Bergman Mr. Bergman is the author of “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations.” April 12, 2018 TEL AVIV — On Wednesday, Israel observed Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is one of the most important days on the country’s calendar, […]
Israeli, Polish presidents join Holocaust remembrance march
Source: Associated Press By VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Israeli and Polish presidents sought to calm bitter feelings that have flared between their nations as they joined thousands […]
As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — While most of his fellow Jews were being killed or brutalized in Nazi death camps and ghettos, Baruch Shub and his friends were hiding in the forests of the former Soviet Union, trying to undermine the Nazis by derailing […]
Israel ministers defend soldiers rejoicing in shooting Palestinian
By AFP – Apr 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A wounded Palestinian demonstrator is evacuated during a protest along the Israeli-Gaza border demanding the right to return to their homeland, in […]
Why Israel feels threatened by popular resistance in Palestine
Apr 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud Why did Israel kill many unarmed Gaza protesters and wound over 2,000 on Friday, March 30, and on the following days, when […]
Israel ban Friday call to prayer at West Bank mosque
Source: Aljazeera Israel on Friday prohibited the Azan, the Muslim call to prayer, at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron, also known as Al-Khalil, according to Palestinian […]
We need to examine the reasons why we equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism
When approaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one should stick to ruthless and cold standards, suspending the urge to try to ‘understand’ the situation Slavoj Zizek To claim that this antisemitism articulates in […]
