Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Palestinian Terrorist Injures 2 Israelis In Jerusalem, Shot Dead
(JTA) — A 50-year-old man was seriously injured along with a 16-year-old student who was moderately wounded in a Jerusalem stabbing attack that ended with the slaying of the Palestinian perpetrator. The incident, which occurred Friday morning in the Old City of Jerusalem, was filmed in its entirety in security cameras. The footage shows 19-year-old…
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Fast Forward ‘Hitler Is Coming’: Anti-Semitic Message Scrawled On Brooklyn Jewish Children’s Museum
(JTA) — A note reading “Hitler is coming” was found on a billboard designed for comments by visitors to the Brooklyn Jewish Children’s Museum. Police are investigating the note, left Thursday, as a hate crime, a spokesperson told the New York Post. Visitors alerted police to the anti-Semitic note at the Crown Heights museum. The…
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Fast Forward Buttigieg: Palestinian Leaders Are No Partner For Peace, But Israel Needs ‘Guidance’
(JTA) — Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said Palestinian leaders are not “the right kinds of partners” for peace, but that Israel’s leaders need American guidance. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a former naval intelligence officer, made his remarks Thursday at a meeting with several dozen representatives of Jewish groups held in Washington,…
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Fast Forward Williams College Bypasses Student Council’s Refusal To Register Pro-Israel Club
(JTA) — Bypassing students’ refusal to register a pro-Israel group at Williams College, administrators gave it an official status. The prestigious Massachusetts institution on Tuesday registered the Williams Initiative for Israel group, or WIFI, Williams’ director of media relations Gregory Shook told FIRE, a non-profit promoting freedom of expression on American campuses. Williams College “had a…
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Fast Forward April Was First Month With No Israeli Terror Casualties Since 2017
(JTA) — Terrorist attacks on Israelis more than halved over March last month, which was the first month in over a year with no casualties among victims. The Israel Security Agency documented 126 attacks in April, compared to 308 in March, the agency said in its monthly report. The previous month with neither fatalities nor…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Jews Can’t Agree On Whether Anti-Semitism Is Rising Or Falling
KIEV (JTA) — In the largest poll of Ukrainian Jews conducted in 15 years, nearly one fifth of 900 respondents (17 percent) said that anti-Semitism has increased in the country, whereas another fifth (21 percent) said the opposite. The data underline divisions among Ukrainian Jews over the effects of the 2014 revolution that toppled the…
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Fast Forward FBI Arrest Man Suspected Of Threatening Conservative Pundit Ben Shapiro
(JTA) — The FBI arrested a man in Washington State for allegedly making death threats against Ben Shapiro, the conservative political commentator. The suspect had allegedly made “extremely serious” threats against Shapiro and his family, TMZ reported Tuesday. Shapiro, who is Jewish, filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department, who transferred the case…
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Fast Forward Jewish Comedian Elected Ukraine’s President By A Landslide
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jewish Ukrainian actor who on television portrays the country’s leader, is set to reprise the role in real life following the country’s presidential elections. President Petro Poroshenko conceded after losing the vote Sunday with exit polls showing Zelensky commanding a landslide victory, with polling at some ballot boxes giving him…
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