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David Isaac

David Isaac

David Isaac, an expert on Jewish history, politics and current events, is an Israel bureau correspondent for JNS.

In Memoriam
Besides Israel, she wrote on topics that ranged from the mentally ill to global warming, to the persecution of small American farmers by the Legal Services Corporation.
After the shooting of a police officer and the death of a Jewish civilian in Montreal, Israeli Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli said he had warned Canada’s government that it was heading down the same path as Australia.
Sixty-five percent of Victory’s 152 million shekel ($50 million) first-quarter year-over-year growth came from Gaza, according to a supplemental report released on June 14.
“Friends of Israel keep winning,” said Fitzgerald Haney, managing director of Latin America for the Genesis Prize Foundation. “I think we’re going to see a lot more positive things come out of Latin America.”
“What started a little more than 30 years ago as basic relations of seller and buyer has evolved dramatically to the highest level,” said former Israeli Ambassador to India Ron Malka.
It’s “difficult to believe” anyone would look to the P.A. as a viable partner, said Maurice Hirsch, director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority Accountability and Reform.
COGAT insists it “continues to allow and facilitate the entry of humanitarian supplies on a large scale.”
“The Iranian regime, as always, is lying. Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, is the one that attacked Israel again this morning, completely unprovoked,” the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem posted to X.
“The UN’s methodology is unreliable, as it has traditionally counted as ‘settler violence’ even incidents of self-defense by Jews,” international law expert Eugene Kontorovich told JNS.
NGOs abused the system to carry out political advocacy, and even justify cooperation with terrorists.
“These acts amount to the war crimes of murder and torture, and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law,” according to the report.
Pramila Patten also boasted that she had informed the Israeli mission to the United Nations that she would refuse to visit its detention facilities “even if they offered.”