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US ambassador demands that Belgium drop ‘ridiculous and anti semitic’ investigation of mohels

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — The U.S. ambassador to Belgium is demanding that Belgium end an investigation into mohels who may have been using unsafe practices while circumcising Jewish babies.

Bill White made the demand, an unusual intervention into another...

Hamas says it has never targeted civilians, Israel carried out Oct. 7

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org – Hamas has never targeted civilians, hospitals, schools or mosques, a senior spokesman for the terrorist group declared in a televised interview aired this week.

Osama Hamdan called all such accusations lies and blamed Israel exclusively...

Mass shooter at Canadian elementary school tweeted antisemitic content 2 days before attack, ADL finds

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG

(JTA) — The shooter who killed eight people and wounded dozens more in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings Tuesday allegedly tweeted antisemitic content two days before the attack.

“I need to hate jews because the zionists...

Human Rights Watch’s top Israel-Palestine staffer quits over shelved report criticizing Israel

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — The former executive director of Human Rights Watch is defending the group after two staffers quit over allegations that a report accusing Israel of a “crime against humanity” was blocked from publication.

Omar Shakir, the...

Former Moscow rabbi says he rebuffed proposal to convert a million Russians discussed in Epstein files recording

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV

(JTA) — When newly released audio recordings revealed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak discussing mass conversion and selective immigration with Jeffrey Epstein, disgraced financier and the convicted sex trafficker, the reaction in Israel was swift and...

Protests roil Australia ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s planned visit

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s planned visit to Australia this weekend, which was scheduled in the wake of the Bondi massacre in December, has drawn widespread opposition and planned protests, including from some Jews.

Following Herzog’s...

Israel orders Doctors without Borders out of Gaza after broken pledge

By DAVID ISSAC

(JNS.org) – Israel announced on Monday that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, must cease its activities in the Gaza Strip and leave by Feb. 28 after failing to hand over a list...

Anti-Israel, former president of Chile nominated to be next UN secretary-general

By MIKE WAGENHEIM

(JNS.org) – Backed by Mexico and Brazil, Gabriel Boric, Chile’s outgoing president, nominated former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, a harsh critic of the Jewish state, to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations.

Boric, who is...

France issues arrest warrants against 2 right-wing French-Israeli activists for ‘complicity in genocide’

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — France has issued arrest warrants for two French-Israeli activists for “complicity in genocide,” a charge that stemmed from the pair allegedly blocking humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

The arrest warrants were issued in...

Prominent British LGBTQ activist arrested for carrying ‘globalize the intifada’ sign in London

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — British LGBTQ activist Peter Tatchell was arrested for holding a sign with the phrase “globalize the intifada” at a pro-Palestinian march in London on Saturday.

Tatchell’s arrest comes weeks after the police in London announced...