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“You can’t fight back something you don’t really understand,” Amir Epstein, director of Tafsik, one of the organizers, told JNS. “You can’t fight back something you don’t know.”
The incident took place in a primarily Jewish neighborhood of London that boasts the largest concentration of Chassidic Jews in Europe.
Riyadh hopes to generate bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate before a possible Trump re-election.
The Iranian regime’s open and explicit discussion of the issue seems to herald a change in its nuclear policy.
The reported strike in the heart of Iran’s capital marks yet another escalation in the long-simmering shadow war between the two archenemies. Neither Israel nor Iran has officially confirmed the incident.
The only issue for Riyadh is the timing of the announcement, which could come as early as the next few weeks or after the U.S. presidential election.
Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Slovenia and Malta are expected to make the move at the end of May, according to the organization’s top diplomat.
“It is shameful. Seeing this, it feels like they are winning,” said Noemi Ebenstein, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor.
A candid interview with Israeli U.N. envoy Gilad Erdan about the challenges faced by the Jewish state in the international forum.
“Hopefully the discussions can lead into a process towards reconciliation and peace,” the president of the World Economic Forum said.
Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion, lamented what she said was confusion between hate speech, incitement and what is “basically a different view of the situation in Israel”
In a letter, two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said “the United States and our allies should increase pressure.”
Dennis Francis called the holiday a “season of rebirth and renewal, the triumph of hope and faith.”
