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Roman archeologists working day and night at the fourth-century church in Jerusalem discovered the rock layers underlying Constantine’s project.
Numbering just 5,000 people, Israel’s Circassian community is proud to be both Sunni Muslim and Israeli.
It is part of a series titled “An al-Yahud” (“About the Jews”), which the organization launched in 2020.
Participants find that none of what they heard about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back home corresponds to the reality on the ground.
Written in Portuguese, the document is known as “Memoria de Todos os Autos-da-Fé Que Setem Feito em Lisboa” (“An Accounting of All the Autos-da-Fé That Took Place in Lisbon”).
The Philos Project led opposition to the denomination’s overture, “On Recognition That Israel’s Laws, Policies, and Practices Constitute Apartheid Against the Palestinian People.”
In 2016, Rev. Professor Dr. Jerry Pillay compared Israel and the alleged “exclusionary and violent character of the Israeli Zionist project” to South Africa’s racial apartheid.
During the rare private audience, the two talked about “the importance of Holocaust research and remembrance in the Christian world,” according to a statement released by Yad Vashem.
![PA Chairman Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations and PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash quoted on [Official PA TV, Review, Feb, 2, 2020] via PMW.](https://static.jns.org/dims4/default/db44e74/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1283x721+0+0/resize/500x281!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-jns-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F06%2F07062022-Snap2.png)
Mahmoud Al-Habbash described the duty of the Palestinian to “defend” not only itself, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, but nothing less than “Islam, the Koran and the entire Islamic nation.”
“As I sometimes said to my interns, it is good to be in the majority opinion, but it is not terrible to be in the minority,” he remarked.
Experts weigh in on the significance of the consultative body, which holds sway over the southern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement and its political party, Ra’am.
Maj. M. was only 3 when he fled Khomeini’s Iran with his father and siblings. Years later, he found a home in Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate; now, he says his mission is to help Israel fight its main foe and free the Iranian people of the tyrannical regime in Tehran.
