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‘Hate speech is never OK or excusable’: Kim Kardashian on Kanye West’s anti-Semitic comment

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Kim Kardashian came out against anti-Semitism on Monday. Her ex-husband Kanye West’s harsh comments against the Jewish community received criticism. Kim’s mother Kris Jenner, sister Khloé Kardashian, and half-sisters Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner also posted on Instagram. Kim Kardashian came out against anti-Semitism on Monday, after her ex-husband Kanye West’s harsh comments against the … Read more

Morocco’s king Mohammed VI endorses new Jewish organizations

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Morocco’s Jewish population is estimated at 3,000 individuals, making it the largest in North Africa. 700,000 Israelis claim Moroccan ancestry and maintain close ties to their nation of origin. The new organisation of Moroccan Judaism coincides with the expansion of links between Morocco and Israel. RABAT: King Mohammed VI of Morocco has ordered a reorganisation … Read more

Israeli forces, Palestinians clash at West Bank shrine

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Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Jewish worshippers at a volatile holy site in the occupied West Bank. One Palestinian teen was injured by live fire and 16 others were injured by rubber bullets. A military officer and two civilians sustained minor injuries, according to the Israeli army. Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Jewish worshippers at … Read more

Israel thanks Turkey for thwarting Iranian assassination plot

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Israel last week urged its citizens to leave Turkey because of the “real and immediate danger” coming from Iran. It is still keeping Istanbul at its highest level of travel warning while putting the rest of Turkey on the second-highest alert. The two countries are also probing the prospects of reviving an abandoned gas pipeline … Read more

Anti-Semitism suspected in elderly Frenchman’s murder: prosecutor

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A prosecutor suggested Friday that an 89-year-old man who was thrown out of his 17th-floor window by a neighbor may have been murdered because he was Jewish, following many tragic anti-Semitic murders in France in recent years. The victim’s body was found at the foot of his building in Lyon, southeast France, on May 17 … Read more

Jewish praying inside Al Aqsa; Israeli court’s ruling calls for controversial

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Jewish praying inside Al Aqsa; Israeli court’s ruling calls for controversial  Israeli Magistrate’s Court Judge Zion Sahrai decided Sunday that three Jewish adolescents were not disregarding security conditions when they recounted a Jewish supplication at the challenged blessed region referred to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram Al-Sharif. Police had accused … Read more

Israel approves ultranationalist Jewish march in Jerusalem

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Israeli authorities on Wednesday said they have given the go-ahead for flag-waving Jewish nationalists to march through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City later this month. The decision threatens to re-ignite violence in the holy city. The office of Internal Security Minister Omer Barlev said the march would take place … Read more

US removes Jewish extremist Kahane movement from terror blacklist

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An official said Sunday that the US will remove a Jewish extremist organization related to late rabbi Meir Kahane as well as a Palestinian militant group from a terror blacklist after years of no bloodshed. In 1997, three years after its follower Baruch Goldstein slaughtered 29 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, … Read more

Jewish pilgrims back in Tunisia after Covid absence

Hundreds of Jewish worshippers came to Tunisia’s oldest synagogue on Wednesday, renewing an annual pilgrimage that had been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic for the past two years. Pilgrims passed through airport-style scanners and passed a heavy, armed police guard to enter the whitewashed Ghriba synagogue on the southern Tunisian resort island … Read more

After the incident on Israel’s Independence Day, two individuals were apprehended.

Following a pistol and axe assault Thursday night in the central Israeli city of Elad that left three people dead, Israeli security forces said they captured two suspects on Sunday. Assad Yussef Assad Al-Rafa, 19, and Subhi Imad Subhi Abu Shakir, 20, were previously recognized by the police. According to a police statement released on … Read more

More violence after Israel arrests Palestinian axe murderers

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On Sunday, Israeli troops killed a Palestinian in the West Bank and wounded another who stabbed a police officer in Jerusalem, only hours after two Palestinians were arrested for axing three Israelis to death. Since late March, dozens of people have been killed in a wave of violence that includes Palestinian and Arab-Israeli attackers. In … Read more

Syria’s Assad meets Iran’s head of state, President Ebrahim Raisi

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi during a brief visit to Tehran on Sunday, Iranian state television said. “Assad has left Iran for Damascus after meeting separately with the supreme leader” and the president, the report said. Iran is a major ally of Assad, backing him alongside Russia in Syria’s … Read more

Putin, did you apologize to Israel for Hitler remarks? what Kremlin said

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The Kremlin refused to disclose on Friday whether President Vladimir Putin had apologised to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett following Russia’s foreign minister’s claim that Adolf Hitler had Jewish ancestors. Israel slammed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the comments, calling them an “unforgivable” lie that downplayed the Holocaust’s atrocities. Bennett stated on Thursday that … Read more

Israel slams Russian claims on Hitler over Ukraine war

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday slammed his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for alleging Adolf Hitler may additionally have “had Jewish blood” and summoned Moscow’s ambassador for “clarifications”. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Israel has sought to preserve delicate stability among the 2 aspects, but remarks through Lavrov to an Italian … Read more

Palestinians clash with Israeli police in Jerusalem

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Jerusalem: At least 31 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday, according to Palestinian doctors. Four Palestinians were hospitalized, two critically, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service. Hundreds of protesters began tossing rocks and fireworks near the Western Wall, where Jews were praying. … Read more

Israel bans Jewish groups from entering Al-Aqsa until end of Ramadan

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Israel’s government has agreed to shut Al-Aqsa Mosque to Jewish groups until about the end of Ramadan in response to local, regional, and international pressure following deadly incidents at the sensitive site. According to the Israeli publication Yedioth Ahronoth, the administration has decided to ban the courtyards of Al-Aqsa to Jewish settlers from April 22 … Read more

Clashes rock W.Bank as Palestinian attacker killed in Israel

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Fresh clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants rocked the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday as a Palestinian was killed after stabbing an Israeli police officer, adding to a surging death toll. Israeli troops launched a fourth day of military operations around Jenin after an assailant from the flashpoint district last week shot … Read more

Israeli PM contracts Covid-19

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Covid-19 tests came positive on Monday, after his meeting with US Secretary of the State Antony Blinken. Bennett, who met Blinken in Jerusalem on Sunday on the sidelines of a “historic summit” of Israeli and Arab diplomats, “is feeling well and will continue his schedule as planned from his home,” a statement … Read more

Portugal detains rabbi over Abramovich naturalisation

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LISBON: Portuguese prosecutors have detained a rabbi and carried out raids over the naturalisation process of a number of Jewish people, including Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea football club. Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service said late Friday that it has detained the leader of Porto’s Jewish community, Daniel Litvak, as part of their investigation … Read more

Russian strike stirs symbolism at Kyiv Holocaust site

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KYIV – Eighty years after the ravine at Babi Yar served as the mass grave of 30,000 Jews murdered by Ukraine’s Nazi occupiers, five more corpses lay on the ground Wednesday covered in dust and fine layer of snow. A father, a mother and their teenage son and daughter were killed as they left a … Read more

South Africa has liberal justice system

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CAPE TOWN – Even after the riots that shook South Africa last year, anti-apartheid hero and former top judge Albie Sachs believes the progressive constitution he helped draft will protect the country. He is not naive about the challenges facing his admittedly imperfect nation. But at 87, he has lived through enough of the arc … Read more

French minister condemns headscarf ban for Muslim footballers

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France’s gender equality minister threw her support on Thursday behind Muslim women footballers who are seeking to overturn a ban on players wearing headscarves on the pitch. Rules set by the French Football Federation currently prevent players taking part in competitive matches from wearing “ostentatious” religious symbols such as Muslim headscarves or the Jewish kippa. … Read more

Racism target cricketer Rafiq apologises for anti-Semitic messages

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LONDON: Azeem Rafiq, a former English cricketer who this week said he had lost his career to racism, admitted Thursday he had sent anti-Semitic messages as a teenager. The Times newspaper uncovered messages sent to former Warwickshire and Leicestershire player Ateeq Javid, in which Rafiq is seen to make disparaging comments about an unnamed Jewish person. … Read more