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Benjamin Weinthal

Benjamin Weinthal is a Jerusalem-based journalist who covers the Middle East and is a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum. Follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal.

‘It took Russian use of Iranian drones in Ukraine to prompt the Europeans and Biden to realize that the mullahs are not cuddly, the Middle East Forum’s Daniel Pipes says.
Terminology used by Bishop Gerhard Ulrich in a 2017 sermon “smacks of old Germanic antisemitic tropes and later Nazi antisemitism,” says Hebron’s Jewish community spokesman.
“Nobody in Tehran can be allowed to believe that they can get away with committing crimes,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.
Outgoing administration slammed for concessions to Lebanon, praised for increased elimination of terrorists, shadow war against Iran.
“The people know if they go back to their homes, the regime will go after them,” exiled dissident tells JNS.
Sunni Arab states are hedging their bets as the U.S. tries to satisfy Iran, experts tell JNS.
An 80-page Swedish intelligence report reviewed by JNS claims Iran “conducts industrial espionage such as primarily aimed at Swedish high-tech industry and Swedish products that can be used in a nuclear weapons program.”
“How can a city claim to be a good friend of the Jewish State of Israel and at the same time has a partnership with another state that [says] it wants to wipe Israel off the map?”
Officials will continue giving a public platform to the anti-Israel Palestine Committee Stuttgart.
Germany’s continued failure to take action against a Turkish suspect who fled the country following an attempt to burn down the Ulm synagogue in 2021 has sparked outrage.
German Jews want Stuttgart to appeal the decision.
Islamic studies professor Mohammad Mahallati allegedly covered up the mass murder of political prisoners in Iran, and has called for global jihad against Israel.