When “empress of terror” Fusako Shigenobu was released from Tokyo’s Hachioji prison on Saturday, Palestinian groups hailed her as a heroine and bemoaned what they called her …
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By Ruthie Blum
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6/1/22
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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s appointment of Noa Tishby as the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and Delegitimization of Israel raised more than a …
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By Ruthie Blum
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6/1/22
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The Muslim month of Ramadan, which began on Friday night, is already proving to be the challenge that Israeli authorities had anticipated. Palestinians and radicalized Arab Israelis swarming the …
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By Ruthie Blum
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4/6/22
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Reporters rushed to Tel Aviv last Thursday night to cover the shooting at the Ilka pub on Dizengoff Street. Less than half an hour after the deadly spree, cameras and microphones flooded the …
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By Ruthie Blum
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4/25/22
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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid didn’t boast on social media about his meeting on Sunday with Palestinian Authority honcho Hussein al-Sheikh. The latter did so immediately, …
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By Ruthie Blum
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1/26/22
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The arrest in Turkey last week of an innocent Israeli couple on holiday illustrates the utter uselessness of diplomacy when dealing with evil regimes. And that of President Recep Tayyip …
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By Ruthie Blum
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11/17/21
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On Saturday night, as Tel Aviv’s City Hall lit up with the image of the Israeli flag to commemorate the 45 killed and 150 injured in the crowd-crush two nights earlier on Mount Meron, …
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By Ruthie Blum
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5/5/21
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No single factor caused the Meron disaster. Rather, a perfect storm of elements simultaneously came together, exposing a system filled with flaws, many of them cultural in nature. …
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Analysis by Alex Traiman, JNS
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5/5/21
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When the prominent Switzerland-based chemistry journal Molecules announced that its January 2021 special issue would feature a paper by a researcher at Ariel University in Samaria, a group of …
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By Ruthie Blum
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10/14/20
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Nothing better illustrates Thomas Mann’s famous statement that “everything is politics” than the response of opposing ideological camps to their government’s handling of …
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By Ruthie Blum
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7/9/20
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