Persistent accusations and documentation of antisemitism have dogged Labour under Corbyn since the start of his term. London, September 27 – Newly-reelected Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn promised to improve his approach to addressing concerns of anti-Jewish prejudice in the ranks ...
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“This man has the Gaul – excuse me, the gall – to dictate to followers of Islam what their values should be.” Paris, September 26 – Muslim community organizations and individual adherents of Islam voiced surprise and anger today upon ...
Read More »Those Dying Syrians Are Making Us Look Like A Bunch Of Crybabies
By Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian National Authority Under many circumstances I’d feel sorry for our Syrian brothers being subjected to barbaric cruelty at the hands of Assad’s air force and Russian warplanes, but these are not those circumstances. Not when their ...
Read More »New Rule Would Keep Knesset Sessions From Going Past Herzog’s Bedtime
Plenum sessions have challenged him, since Knesset rules preclude his bringing his enormous teddy bear into the chamber as he nurses a glass of warm milk and listens to a favorite story. Jerusalem, September 25 – A proposed amendment to deliberation rules ...
Read More »Migrating Birds Reject BDS, Fly Over Israel
One of the challenges to avian BDS would be identifying and selecting an alternative migration route that suits the ecological needs of the birds. Hula Valley, September 25 – Advocates for the economic, cultural, and political isolation of Israel expressed ...
Read More »Waqf Horrified To Discover Every Moment Of Jewish Day A Talmudic Ritual
Even when it looks like they’re involved in a mundane activity, Jews are doing that activity Talmudically. Jerusalem, September 20 – Members of the Islamic religious council governing affairs at the Temple Mount compound found to their shock and dismay ...
Read More »UN Demands Israelites Supply Anti-Arrow Defenses To Philistines
“These Israelites claim to represent the ideals of the Living God, but I don’t see them doing the ethically proper thing and giving us the tools to repel their counteroffensives,” argued Akhish, potentate of this city-state. Gath, September 21 – ...
Read More »Justice Dept. To Reclassify Antisemitic Incidents As Islamophobia
The change will take place at the urging of President Barack Obama, who is eager to help reduce racial and religious tensions. Washington, September 22 – A spike in antisemitic incidents in the last eighteen months has led the Department ...
Read More »Gulf States Consider Thaw With Israel, Maybe Importing Some Jewish Slaves
“It would be an excellent first step toward establishing the kind of relations we might want to develop with Israel and the larger Jewish world.” Dubai, September 22 – New strategic alignments and a growing appreciation of geopolitical realities around the ...
Read More »Tsk, Tsk, That Assad, He- WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO MORE BRANGELINA??
By Melody Connors, USA Today reader The news coming out of Syria is heartbreaking. All those suffering people, including children, denied basic necessities and care because of a bombing by Assad-backing-Russian jets. When is the world going to wake up ...
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