WJC President Ronald S. Lauder: BDS is the modern form of anti-Semitism

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 28 March 2016

WJC President Ronald Lauder: World needs to see through BDS’ lies

„Our enemies have failed to destroy Israel militarily and economically… [now] they are trying to destroy Israel politically,” WJC President Ronald S. Lauder tells anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem.

» Ronald S. Lauder: BDS is the modern form of anti-Semitism – Jerusalem Post Op-Ed

After Hebron shooting, Palestinians ask UN to probe ‘executions’ – Times of Israel

28 Mar 2016 PA official Saeb Erekat says 207 Palestinians have been ‘executed’ by Israel in six months of violence; UN envoy condemns Hebron killing. READ MORE »

Ex-settler leader Dani Dayan appointed Consul General in New York – JTA

28 Mar 2016 Decision made following a months-long standoff over his initial appointment as ambassador to Brazil. READ MORE »

Israel advises its citizens to leave Turkey immediately due to terror threats – Jerusalem Post

28 Mar 2016 Advisory replaces one issued a day after the Istanbul attacks, in place since August 2014, that advised Israelis to refrain only from unnecessary travel to Turkey. READ MORE »

Senior Brussels rabbi: Belgian authorities know nothing about security – JTA

27 Mar 2016 Rabbi Menachem Hadad of the Shomre Hadas haredi Orthodox community in Brussels made the remarks in an interview Thursday with Israel’s Army Radio about concerns that Belgium lacks the counterterrorism capabilities of other Western European countries grappling with home-grown jihadism of the kind on display on Tuesday, when a series of explosions in Brussels killed 32 people. READ MORE »

The Nazi who became a Mossad Hitman – The Forward

27 Mar 2016 An untold and remarkable story: Otto Skorzeny, one of the Israeli spy agency’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler’s personal favorites among the party’s commando leaders. READ MORE »