Shabak (Israel Security Agency) and the IDF on Wednesday cleared for publication that 10 Gazan Arabs were arrested March 12 for planning a terror attack on an IDF ship.
All of those arrested by Shabak and the Israeli Navy were suspected of gathering intelligence and planning a terror attack. One of those arrested, Amin Saadi Mohammed Jamaah, 24, is a fisherman and resident of Rafah, active in the Islamic Jihad terror group. Islamic Jihad leaders took part in planning the attack, using several boats.
Andrew Pessin, the once popular Connecticut College philosophy professor, was subjected to an academic smear campaign for his August 11, 2014 Facebook post in defense of Israel during Operation Protective Edge against Hamas.
Pessin resumed teaching last fall after an extended paid sabbatical and together with a colleague convinced the school to establish a Jewish Studies program. Recently, Pessin edited a new book with Fordham University’s Doron Ben-Atar on the general campus trend “Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS.”
Artuz Sheva writer Noah Beck interviewed Pessin. Read the interview HERE
England’s Momentum organization has warned its supporters that accusations of antisemitism in Labour are not rightwing smears or conspiracy, saying unconscious anti-Jewish bias is “more widespread in the Labour party than many of us had understood even a few months ago”.
The police registered 1,453 anti-Semitic incidents in Germany last year, more than in five of the previous seven years, and organizations including the American Jewish Congress say fewer than a third of such incidents get reported. Their stubborn persistence in the country where the Holocaust was plotted and executed is raising concern that decades of work to eradicate anti-Semitism are slowly being undone as prejudice against Jews spreads beyond its traditional home in the far right.
A Palestinian Arab attempted to stab a security guard at the Te’enim crossing near the Jewish community of Avnei Hefetz in Samaria Monday afternoon but was shot and neutralized.
The Israeli military on Saturday night identified 10 of the 15 people reported killed during violent protests, dubbed the “March of the Return”, along the Gaza security fence asmembers of Palestinian terrorist groups, and published a list of their names and positions in the organizations (photo and names further below).
Many on the left are incorrectly placing blame on Israel for being too “harsh” on the Gazans. Once again we must remind them of the facts: the PA does not wisely invest the money it’s given into developing infrastructure, building hospitals and schools, upgrading sanitary conditions and education for its own people. Instead, they continue to wage terror on Israel with the goal of destroying it.
We suggest those placing blame on Israel stand at the border in place of an IDF soldier and experience first hand why the IDF defends the country in the manner it deems in Israel’s best interest. It’s long overdue for the left to stop blaming Israel – a free and sovereign nation that has a right to defend itself against harm.
AFSI mourns the passing of Mae Lobel, z’l, who was a tenacious and ardent defender of Israel in the Philadelphia community for decades and was very active as a key organizer with the Philadelphia chapter of AFSI. In the 1990’s she served as a member of AFSI’s National Council.
May her family be comforted among all the mourners of Zion and know no more sorrow.
Members of the Harevei Makom Eilah movement report that fifteen Jewish families have joyously moved into two reclaimed buildings in Hebron, Beit Rachel and Beit Leah. The families have purchased the buildings with the approval of the Civil Administration. This was a positive answer to the removal of Jewish families from Beit Machpela, another home purchased by the Jews which remains a contested property because of the failings of the Israeli Supreme Court. AFSI’s dear friends, Yifat and Shalom Akobi, with whom AFSI stays in close touch, will be celebrating Passover with their family and friends in one of the new homes. We know this will be an especially happy Pesach for them.
AFSI has consistently been partners with the wonderful Women in Green, Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover, in their efforts to have Sovereignty applied to Judea and Samaria. CLICK HERE to read an uplifting report from them about the belief in Sovereignty within the youth of Israel.
Click HERE for additional material on Demography written by Nadia and Yehudit.
