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Hamas planned terrorist attacks in Europe, says Israel

Published by DPA International The Palestinian militant group Hamas has been planning terrorist attacks on targets in Europe, including Israel’s embassy in Stockholm, according to the Israeli government. “In a continuing intelligence effort, considerable information has been uncovered that proves how the Hamas terrorist organization has acted to expand its violent activity abroad in order […]

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International, Israel, Nordot

Why is the EU mostly silent on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel?

Published by Euronews (English) The case, filed to the top UN court by South Africa last month, claims Israel’s siege of Gaza amounts to genocide and breaches the post-Holocaust 1948 Genocide Convention. The Convention gives party countries, which include both Israel and South Africa, the collective right to prevent and stop crimes of genocide. Such

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International, Israel, Middle East, Nordot

“We are fighting terrorists, and we are fighting lies”: Netanyahu slams South Africa over genocide case at ICJ

Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], January 12 (ANI): Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed South Africa over its genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague during its war against Hamas in Gaza on Thursday. “We are fighting terrorists, and we are fighting lies. Today, again, we saw an

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International, Israel, Middle East, Nordot

‘The Zone of Interest’ review: In this unforgettable Holocaust film, life outside of Auschwitz is devastatingly normal

Published by Chicago Tribune A singular affront, in ways more conventionally wrenching movie treatments of the Holocaust such as “Schindler’s List” never were, “The Zone of Interest” withholds as much as it reveals, reorienting the audience’s perspective on the 20th century’s defining atrocity. It is not for everyone, needless to say. Nothing is. But writer-director

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Holocaust, Nordot, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Missouri lawmaker who spread antisemitism, conspiracy theories announces run for governor

Published by The Kansas City Star A Missouri Democratic lawmaker launched a campaign for governor on Monday following her removal from the House Democratic Caucus after she promoted conspiracy theories on social media and made antisemitic comments against a former political opponent. State Rep. Sarah Unsicker, a Democrat from Shrewsbury in St. Louis County, posted

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Antisemitism, Nordot, USA

Madrid museum welcomes ruling it can keep painting looted by Nazis

Published by Reuters Ruling Went Against Heirs of Cassirer Family of La Mesa, California By Catarina Demony and Elena Rodriguez MADRID (Reuters) – One of Spain’s top museums welcomed a U.S. court decision allowing it to keep a French impressionist painting looted from a Jewish woman by the Nazis, which the museum said it had

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California, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Nordot, USA

Madrid museum may keep Pissarro painting looted by Nazis, US appeals court rules

Published by Reuters UK Decision is a Set Back for the Cassirer Family of San Diego By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court said on Tuesday that Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza museum may keep a painting by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro that the Nazis looted from a Jewish woman, rejecting an ownership claim that

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Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Nordot, San Diego County, USA

Melee over secret tunnel at Brooklyn Chabad headquarters ends in 12 arrests

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — A dozen students at Brooklyn’s Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters were arrested as they tried to stop efforts to block a secret illegal tunnel they had dug in a bizarre attempt to expand the house of worship, officials said Tuesday. Police were called to the famed Orthodox

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Nordot, Shanda File, USA

Explainer-What is the genocide case against Israel at top UN court?

Published by Reuters By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice will hold hearings this week on a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza war and seeking an emergency suspension of its military campaign. WHAT IS THE ICJ? The ICJ, also called the

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International, Israel, Middle East, Nordot

Natalie Portman: ‘Method acting is a luxury not afforded to women!’

Published by BANG Showbiz English Natalie Portman isn’t able to practice method acting because she is a woman. The 42-year-old actress – who has Alpeh, 12, and six-year-old Amalia with husband Benjamin Millepied – has carved out a successful career in Hollywood since starting out in showbusiness as a child and has even won an

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Jewish Celebrities, Nordot, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

How Philly’s pro-Israel Jewish community has grieved, rallied, and raised millions since Oct. 7

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — Earlier this year, Yair Lev was trying to organize Jews to speak out against Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government and draw attention to its right-wing backers in the Philadelphia region. The Israeli American doctor at Jefferson Health always had an activist streak, but his mission changed on Oct. 7.

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Israel, Nordot, USA

Israel Defense Forces says Hamas structures dismantled in North Gaza

Published by DPA International A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says the military structure of Islamist Hamas has been dismantled in the north of the Gaza Strip. IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said that Hamas had two brigades with 12 regiments in the north of the coastal strip before the war began three months

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Israel, Nordot

Book excerpt reveals details of Zelensky’s bunker routine during first weeks of invasion

Published by Kyiv Independent President Volodymyr Zelensky was said to have “resembled a walking corpse” in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion, which he did not believe would happen “until the final hours,” the Telegraph reported on Jan. 4 in an excerpt of a book on Zelensky by Time journalist Simon Shuster. Zelensky and

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