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Textbooks promote jihad and glorify martyrdom, as well as emphasize a neo-Ottomaonism that sees Turkey as a world power.
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said he has an issue with organizations that don’t disavow “very, very violent tactics” towards Israel, though he doesn’t have an issue with individuals or activists “making a case for what they think is right.”
“It’s an extremely strong secular offensive ... but necessary for the republic,” says French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last Shah of Iran, believes that the majority of the Iranian people see the Islamic Republic’s track record in the global theater as a failure, and would be happy to renew relations with the Jewish state.
“From demonizing Jews to glorifying anti-Semitic terrorists, Tehran’s current curriculum is brimming with state-sponsored bigotry,” writes the Anti-Defamation League’s David Weinberg in a new report.
A Waqf-run elementary school for girls has students explore and venerate the phenomenon of deadly terrorist attacks.
“COVID held a mirror up to the Arab rulers and showed them that no one is immune to the pandemic, so if they wanted to maintain their regimes’ stability, they needed to address the pandemic and find ways to deal with it,” says Middle East scholar Michael Barak.
It joins a network that mobilizes support for Israel based on shared Judeo-Christian values, a movement that the Israel Allies Foundation calls “faith-based diplomacy.”
P.A. Grand Mufti Muhammad Ahmad Hussein’s remarks were broadcast on official P.A. television.
Police are investigating the apparent arson outside the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.
Awad Suleiman will serve as the head of the IAF’s Drone Warfare Unit.
As Israel prepares to begin its inoculation campaign and with the Health Ministry yet to launch a PR effort, an “Israel Hayom” study finds widespread resistance to vaccination.
