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Tunisia Seeking UNESCO Recognition for Jewish Priests' Island

By JNi.Media

The Jewish population of Djerba consisted mainly of kohanim (priests), and some claim that they are the only bona fide kohanim we have today.

Featured / Headline / Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / US / UK / Travel / Islamists

In-flight Electronics Ban Due to iPad Bomb Plot

By Jewish Press News Desk

A plot was discovered to smuggle a bomb onto a plane in an iPad and blow it up

Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Islamists / Eastern Europe

Riots in Poland after Murder of Polish Man by Arab Immigrants

By JNi.Media

A 21-year-old local resident named Daniel allegedly threw a firecracker at an Elk café called Kebab Prince, then was stabbed to death by the Arab staff.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Hamas / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Hezbollah / North African States

Hamas Confirm Assassinated Drone Expert Was One of Them

By JNi.Media

Engineer and 'Shahid' Mohammed Zawahri who was 'eliminated by the Zionists in Tunisia' was one of their commanders who was in charge of the Iranian-made UAV Ghods Ababil project.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / United Nations (UN) / Settlements

UN Report on Failed Gaza, PA Governments: It's All Israel's Fault

By JNi.Media

We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.

Terrorism / Israel / US / Politics / Global / Travel / News Briefs / Turkey / Business and Economy

Turkish Tourism Worst Casualty of Failed Coup, Terrorism

By JNi.Media

“The confidence factor that Turkey projected abroad has eroded."

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Jerusalem / United Nations (UN)

UNESCO to Question Jewish Ties to Western Wall in Arab-Sponsored Draft Resolution

By Jewish Press Staff

The draft refers ten times to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, exclusively using the Islamic term for Temple Mount, without any mention that it is the holiest site in Judaism.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / US / Politics / History / Elections / Iran / News Briefs / Gulf States / UAE / Iraq / ISIS

Analysis: Trump's Praise for Saddam Challenges GOP Presidents Who Took him Down

By JNi.Media

In the immortal words of FDR, when someone asked him about the wisdom of supporting Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, “He may be an SOB but he’s our SOB.”

Israel / News Briefs / Sports

Israel Ranked in 22nd Place in World Softball League

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The ranking comes one year after the World Softball Confederation warned Tunisia for removing the Israeli flag at the first softball conference.

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / France / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount

Kerry Agrees with Israel: No Foreign Troops on Temple Mount

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Secretary of State said in Madrid, where the "peace process' officially started 24 years ago, that Israel knows it must keep the status quo.

Israel / Jewish / US / Iran / News Briefs / Saudi Arabia / Gulf States / UAE

Foreign Ministry Calls Sunni Arab Nations 'Israel's Allies'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Dore Gold pointed out to American Jewish Leaders that Israel and Sunni Muslims agree on Iran.

The Muqata

Send the #FreedomFlotilla to Syria

By JoeSettler

Let's make these flotilla activists useful, by sending them to Syria.

US / News Briefs / ISIS

US Officials Warn of ISIS Attacks on July 4

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Americans' fear of the ISIS is turning terror into the major election issue.

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / US / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Islamists / Jerusalem / Religion / Africa / NATO

Cheat Sheet on Who's Doing What to Whom in the Middle East

By Rachel Levy

While Pres. Obama nurses a grudge and looks for new ways to pick a fight with Israel, a cataclysm is building in the Middle East.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Boycott / BDS

Norwegian Cruise Lines Drops Tunisia over Anti-Israeli Bias

By JTA

Norwegian Cruise Lines dropped Tunisia from its itineraries after the country refused to allow Israeli citizens to disembark in the Port of Tunis. About 20 Israelis were quietly told before disembarking from the Norwegian Jade over the weekend that they were not welcome per the Tunisian government. The cruise line’s decision to drop Tunisia was […]

Middle East / Levant / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Tunisia Bars Jews on Cruise Ship

By Jewish Press News Desk

Tunisia has barred Jews on a Norwegian cruise ship from leaving their cruise voyage and stepping foot in the country after theirboat docked in Tunis, according to B’nai Brith Canada. “The cruise line has a responsibility to its passengers to advise them of this discriminatory policy in advance. Better still the cruise line should avoid […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Gulf States / UAE / Holocaust

First Time in the Arab World: Events Marking the Holocaust

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Two unusual events relating to Holocaust remembrance recently took place in the Arab world – a first official conference on the Holocaust in Tunisia and the first visit by an Arab diplomat to a Holocaust memorial site, when Bahraini ambassador to France Nasser Al-Balushi visited a memorial near Paris. The Middle East Media Research Institute […]

Israel / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Sports

Tunisian Tennis Star Pulls Out Of International Match with Israeli

By JTA

An international tennis association is investigating a Tunisian tennis player for pulling out of a match instead of facing Israeli player Amir Weintraub in the quarterfinals of an Association of Tennis Professionals match in Tashkent. Jaziri gave a knee injury as the official reason for pulling out, and the Tunisian Sports and Youth Ministry told AFP that […]

Terrorism / Syria / US / Eye on "Palestine" / Iran / News Briefs / Turkey / Europe / Lebanon / Islamists / Saudi Arabia / Hezbollah / Egypt / Russia

9/11 Spreads in the Middle East

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Al Qaeda brought down the Twin Towers 12 years ago. With the help of other terrorists, it is bringing down Mideast regimes, banking on chaos to spread its policy of destruction of the West.

Rubin Reports

The Obama Administration's New 7 Pillars of Middle East 'Wisdom'

By Barry Rubin

The bottom line is the belief that if the Muslim Brotherhood is kept happy it won’t cause any trouble.

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs / Islamists

Tunisian Opposition Leader Assassinated

By Jewish Press News Desk

The leader of the Tunisian opposition party and a fierce critic of the ruling Islamist regime was assassinated by armed killers shooting from a motorbike outside of his home in the capital of Tunis on Thursday. Mohammed Brahmi, leader of the nationalist Movement of the People party, was the second opposition party leader to be […]

Sultan Knish

The Art of Building Things

By Daniel Greenfield

American exceptionalism emerged out of a society which empowered the creative talents of the individual but through the simple virtue of leaving men alone to do their work.

Rubin Reports

Why Expanded Government Spying Doesn't Mean Better Security

By Barry Rubin

You have a massive counterterrorist project costing $1 trillion but when it comes down to it the thing repeatedly fails.

Atlas Shrugs

Topless Anti-Jihad Activist Hunted Down and Arrested

By Pamela Geller

A Muslim cleric in moderate Tunisia called for her stoning death.

Rubin Reports

How Revolutions Work: Turkey, America and the Arab World

By Barry Rubin

If a radical movement seizes control of the state and can hold it for a very long time, it can fundamentally transform policies and foreign policy.

Rubin Reports

The Secret Document that Set Obama's Mideast Policy

By Barry Rubin

In August 2010, Obama ordered a secret report on unrest in the Arab world.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs / Islamists

IDF Intelligence Chief: Terror Organizations on the Rise

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

Hezbollah are currently training a 50,000-strong militia to fight the rebels in Syria – with hopes to recruit 50,000 more.

Rubin Reports

With Obama's Friends, Who Needs Enemies?

By Barry Rubin

If the US cannot depend on its new “allies,” despite the supposed popularity of Obama and its policies in those places, then how can they be said to be allies at all?

Rubin Reports

Arab Moderation Murdered in Tunisia

By Barry Rubin

In Tunesia, where non-Islamists are actually the majority, the elimination of Choukri Belaid wasn't just a crime, but a political strategy.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Two Years Later, Arab Spring's Success Dubious

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Two years after the beginning of the upheaval in the Arab world, the picture does not arouse too much optimism.

Middle East / Levant / Jewish / News Briefs

Kidnapping Plot Against Tunisian Jewish Community Reportedly Foiled

By JTA

A network plotting to kidnap and ransom members of a southern Tunisia town's Jewish community was broken up by the country's national guard, a Tunisian newspaper reported.

Op-Eds

The Trouble with Tunisian Values

By Daniel Greenfield

There is no doubting the Islamist revolution in Tunisia.

Israel / News Briefs

Tunisian Boy "Brave" for Refusing to Compete With Israeli in Chess

By Malkah Fleisher

A ten year-old Tunisian boy is gaining fame across the Aram world for having refused to compete against an Israeli opponent in the World School Chess Championship. The eighth annual competition took place in Romania, with 640 participants competing.  Rather than compete against an Israeli, Tunisian Muhammad Hamida withdrew from the competition. Director of the […]

Global

Tunisia to Jews: Keep Coming to Djerba for Lag B'Omer

By Malkah Fleisher

The annual Jewish Lag B’Omer pilgrimage to the oldest synagogue in Africa should be maintained as a symbol of Tunisian openness, according to Tunisia’s tourism minister on Tuesday, yet the increase in fundamentalist Salafi Islamic political rule threatens to drive out the remaining Jews of Djerba.

Middle East / Levant

Tunisia’s Jews Fear Erosion By Islamists Of Country’s Moderate Tradition

By Armin Rosen

TUNIS – More than a year after Tunisia became the first Arab country to overthrow its dictator through a popular, nonviolent uprising, two political movements are challenging Tunisia’s cosmopolitan political and social attitudes, and are threatening to reverse the country’s longstanding moderation toward Israel and Jews.

Rubin Reports

Rubin Reports: Being an Israeli and a Jew in 2012: Let's Face Reality Without Illusion, Shrug, and Move Forward

By Barry Rubin

It is the year 2012, people are walking around with smart phones and all sorts of undreamed of gadgets, the "Arab Spring" continues, and an African-American is president of the United States. Times have changed. Yet the hysterical hatred for Israel in the Arabic-speaking world and among Muslims in general has only increased; the philosophy of rejectionism is as strong as ever, or maybe even stronger.

News Briefs

Germany Expels Four Syrian Diplomats

By Jewish Press Staff

Expulsions come in the wake of arrest by German authorities of two people suspected of spying for the Assad regime.

News Briefs

Demand for Sharia Law in Libya Growing

By Jewish Press Staff

Islamist parties expected to fair well in upcoming Libyan elections.

Analysis

Thank You, Hamas

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Is Islam the solution for hunger? Unemployment? Ignorance? Violence? Poverty? Illness? Neglect? The leaders of the Islamist movements, like the leaders of the nationalist movements, shout one thing and mean the opposite.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

2011: The Year of the Arab Winter

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

This year six Arab countries experienced severe shocks that brought about the fall of some rulers or serious threat to their rule. The process began at the end of 2010, and continues until today.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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