Charlie Hebdo editor: Nobody questions when Jews are killed

 Charlie Hebdo editor: Nobody questions when Jews are killed

 

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 05 January 2016

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Reflecting on the Vatican’s Jewish-Catholic relations ‘Reflection’ – JNS

Betty Ehrenberg, executive director for the World Jewish Congress in North America, told JNS.org that Nostra Aetate “represents the fruits of a productive long-term dialogue between the Catholic and Jewish communities” and “reflects the development of a mutual understanding that did not exist 50 years ago.”

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Small blog sela

Israeli soldier who ‘spied’ for Jewish extremists gets 45 months – Times of Israel

05 Jan 2016 Corporal Elad Sela was arrested in March for leaking classified information to ‘price tag’ activists in the West Bank.  READ MORE »

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Israeli NGO says Facebook test proves anti-Israel bias – Times of Israel

05 Jan 2016 Shurat Hadin tracked down two existing Facebook pages – one pro-Israeli, and one pro-Palestinian – and uploaded content to each that was rife with incitement to violence and hate.  READ MORE »

Small blog france1

Charlie Hebdo editor: Nobody questions when Jews are killed – attacker decided we were all Jewish

05 Jan 2016 In article set to come out Wednesday on the anniversary of the deadly terror attack on the French satirical magazine, editor Gėrard Biard writes that while the killings launched a global debate on the role of religion and free speech, no one bothered to explain to the world why Islamist attackers also went after a kosher supermarket.  READ MORE »

Small blog california

Anti BDS law introduced into California legislature – Jerusalem Post

05 Jan 2016 Travis Allen, of Huntington Beach in southern California’s Orange County, introduced the bill – called the California-Israel Protection Act — to “require the State of California to divest from companies that boycott Israel.”   READ MORE »

Small blog greece

Two Arabs removed from Greece flight after Israeli passengers cite security concerns – Newsweek

05 Jan 2016 A group of Israelis “very vocally and persistently” requested that the two Palestinian passengers be given an additional security check, a spokesperson for Aegean Airlines said in an email statement released to Newsweek.   READ MORE »

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Father of alleged Tel Aviv gunman arrested as suspected accessory – JTA

05 Jan 2016 On Monday, Mohammed Melhem made a televised appeal to his son to turn himself in.  READ MORE »

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Israeli reservist stabbed in West Bank, assailant killed – JTA

05 Jan 2016 Attacker exited his car at the Gush Etzion traffic junction in front of the Alon Shvut settlement where a group of soldiers were standing, then stabbed one of the soldiers in the face and hand before being shot and killed by other soldiers, the Israel Defense Forces said.  READ MORE »