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‘On Highest Alert for Every Scenario’: Hamas Announces Suspension of Israeli Hostage Releases From Gaza Until Further Notice
Hamas Suspends Hostage Releases, Claiming Israeli Violations: Hamas announced on February 10 that it was suspending the release of all remaining Israeli hostages until further notice....
Flash Briefs
‘Look Like Holocaust Survivors’: Three Israeli Hostages Released After 490 Days in Hamas Captivity
Three Israeli Hostages Free: Israel welcomed home three hostages on February 8 who had been held captive in Gaza by the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist organization following its mass...
Flash Briefs
Israel SitRep: February 5, 2025
February 5, 2025 | Israel at War Situation Report Israel SitRep: February 5, 2025 Today’s Issue: | IDF Eliminates 55 Terrorists and Arrests 380 in West Bank Operations in January; Operations Are...
Israel at War Situation Report
South African Anti-Israel NGOs Commemorate the Holocaust by Hijacking Its Memory
Anti-Israel groups commemorated the Holocaust by hijacking its memory. Gift of the Givers and other South African anti-Israel organizations marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by screening a film that...
Op-eds
‘Potential Mass Casualty Event’: Australian Police Foil Possible Antisemitic Attack
‘Blast Zone Could Have Been 40 Meters’: Australian police announced on January 29 that 10 days earlier, they had discovered a recreational vehicle laden with explosives in a...
Flash Briefs
Attempted Bombing Attack on South African Jewish Community Center Remains Unsolved
The bomb in Cape Town may have failed to detonate on December 5, but it has sparked an independent investigation. South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein announced in mid-January that an independent...
Policy Briefs
A Break in the Argentina Murder Case Tied to Iran
Ten years ago, on January 18, 2015, an Argentinian prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, was murdered for investigating the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. That 1994 attack...
Op-eds
Lebanon Chooses Nawaf Salam, an Adversary of Israel, as New Prime Minister
International Court of Justice President Nawaf Salam Named as Prime Minister: ICJ President Nawaf Salam has been nominated as Lebanon’s next prime minister after consultations...
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Lawfare Against Israeli Soldiers
Israeli tourist Yuval Vagdani had to escape for the second time. On October 7, 2023, he survived the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival near Gaza. Then in the first week of January 2025, he escaped Brazil...
Op-eds
‘In These Exceptional Circumstances’: Poland Backtracks on Netanyahu Arrest Threats
Netanyahu Welcome to Attend Auschwitz Commemoration: Poland’s parliament adopted a resolution on January 9 that would ensure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other...
Flash Briefs
Turning the Page on Intolerance: Egypt’s Textbook Reforms
Egypt has made significant strides in purging school textbooks of antisemitic content and other problematic material, revising over 350 state-issued books since 2018 as a part of an ambitious reform program....
Op-eds
Egypt Revises School Textbooks to Expunge Antisemitic Content
Egypt has made significant strides in purging school textbooks of antisemitic and anti-Christian content, with approximately 80 percent of Egyptian students in elementary and preparatory education now...
Policy Briefs
The Australian Government Allowed Hate Speech Against Jews and Israel; Then a Synagogue Was Burned
Vandals defaced a synagogue in the Australian city of Melbourne in late November, with the phrases “Free Gaza” and “Jews kill babies.” A week later, in early December, two masked...
Op-eds
Australia Launches Antisemitism Task Force After Terrorist Arson Attack on Melbourne Synagogue
Task Force to Investigate Threats Against Jewish Community: Australia launched an antisemitism task force on December 9, following an arson attack that ripped through Melbourne’s...
Flash Briefs
As Assad falls and Iran weakens, Qatar gains influence across Middle East
While Israel is pleased to see the weakness of the Iranian-backed axis, it’s worth pausing and noting that celebrations should be tempered by reality.
Op-eds
‘Act of Antisemitism’: Synagogue Set Ablaze in Melbourne
Melbourne Synagogue Destroyed: Two masked individuals deliberately set the Adass Israel Synagogue on fire on December 6, according to local police. Most of the building, which was...
Flash Briefs
Qatar’s bait and switch game as mediator and host
Qatar is arguing that it won’t act as a mediator any longer, threatening the fate of the hostages because a deal would be harder without Doha in the middle.
Op-eds
What would Matt Baldacci do? The collaborator mentality returns
If people can’t stand up for Jews in a democracy where free speech is part of our national ethos, how should we expect them to behave if the stakes and the costs are much graver?
Op-eds
For 75 years, UNRWA has sought to undermine Israel, perpetuate conflict
What did UNRWA accomplish in seventy-five years? Most of its camps played a key role in wars against Israel, and its mandate perpetuates the conflict.