LGBTQ Activist Students Walk Out of Class to Protest Chick-Fil-A Food Cart at Football Games
While one group of students at West Linn High School in Oregon walked out of class to protest the presence of Chick-Fil-A food carts at their school’s football games, another group walked out waving bags of the chicken franchise’s offerings and sporting MAGA (“Make America Great Again”) hats. The dueling walkouts took place on Friday, […]
Massive early morning rocket fire from Gaza shatters brief overnight calm
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip resumed firing rockets into southern and central Israel after dawn Wednesday after a brief overnight respite in the violence. The Iron Dome system intercepted several of the projectiles, and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Sirens sounded in southern Israel […]
By design or not, Gaza escalation increases chance of unity government
Opposition leader MK Benny Gantz on Tuesday said the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip will not affect his ongoing negotiations to form a coalition. “This action will have no effect on the political processes taking place,” said Gantz, giving a statement in support of Israel’s early-morning airstrike killing a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad […]
Iran now enriching uranium at 5%, claims it can go up to 60%
Iran said on Saturday that it is now enriching uranium to five percent and has a capacity for up to 60 percent, after a series of steps back from its commitments under the 2015 nuclear accord with major powers. Tehran also slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it was his “biggest lie” that Iran […]
As Israel Memorializes Yitzhak Rabin, President Rivlin, Prime Minister Netanyahu Stress Need for Unity
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin struck a message of unity and warned against incitement during a state memorial service on Sunday for the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. “Twenty-four years after the murder and it is as if the question of our joint fate still remains open,” Rivlin said. “The nightmare […]
Marking Kristallnacht, UN chief vows to fight anti-Semitism
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres pledged on Thursday to increase his organization’s efforts to fight anti-Semitism. “Since nobody is born to hate, intolerance can be prevented and unlearned,” he told a gathering at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, marking the 81st anniversary of the Kristallnacht – the violent attack in Germany […]
Poll: Majority against a Palestinian state
A poll conducted for Channel 12′s “Meet the Press” program shows that most Israelis want Blue and White leader MK Benny Gantz to succeed in forming a government in the time remaining to him, and the highest percentage of support is for a government with Likud, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and the haredi parties. […]
Netanyahu: Half of the Palestinians want to wipe us out
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part Monday morning in a Knesset meeting, organized by MK Meirav Michaeli (Labor) marking the 25th anniversary of Israel’s peace treaty with the Kingdom of Jordan. During the gathering, Netanyahu argued that there is a direct link between a resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and the larger conflict between Israel […]
Nancy Pelosi Says ‘The Growing Climate Crisis is the Existential Threat of Our Time’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) issued a statement on Monday condemning President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and declaring that the “growing climate crisis is the existential threat of our time.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had officially notified the United Nations on Monday that the United States was withdrawing […]
World War III Hell: A Nuclear War Between America, Russia, and China Would Kill Billions
“Bomb them back into the Stone Age,” ex-Air Force general Curtis LeMay is reported to have once urged as a way to defeat North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. But it turns out that had global nuclear war erupted during the early 1960s, it would have been the Russians and Chinese who would have reverted […]