Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals (Washington Post)

Egypt gets rid of much of the antisemitism in school textbooks (Elder of Ziyon) 

Court rules Frankfurt can’t cancel Roger Waters concert over his antisemitism record (Times of Israel)

Israel: Iran Gives Hizbullah $700 Million a Year, Is Driving Force of Current Escalation   (Al-Monitor)

Israel at 75  israel75usa.org  See these films https://www.moriahfilms.com/

The best single malt whisky in the world (World Whiskies Awards 2023) is Israel's Milk & Honey.

Video: Israel Arrests Jordanian MP for Weapons Smuggling - Emanuel Fabian (Twitter) See Also Israel Seizes 63 Pistols Smuggled from Jordan (Times of Israel) See also Weapons Smuggling Is an Increasing Threat to Israel  (Jerusalem Post)

Itamar Marcus explains how PA terror is enabled by the West, in interview in Hungarian magazine (PMW) See also Understanding PA ideology (PMW)

Palestinian Muslim Preacher Dies in Hamas Detention (Jerusalem Post) Mohammed al-Sufi, 43, a Muslim preacher from Gaza, died hours after he was detained by Hamas police last Wednesday after returning from Egypt.

CNN Omits Antisemitism in Flattering Profile on Pro-Palestinian Celebrities (Honest Reporting) CNN gushes over Roger Waters and others… See opposite but related: https://www.liberateart.net/

The New York Times' Eid Al-Fitr Gift to Hamas (CAMERA)

 On Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 17-18, 2023) each year, Jews especially commemorate the Holocaust, vowing never again, and that the memory of the murdered will be a blessing. And remembering that Israel is a miracle. 

Long ignored, Greek Holocaust survivors finally tell their story   www.timesofisrael.com/long-ignored-greek-holocaust-survivors-finally-tell-their-story

Marcel Marceau: silent hero of the Holocaust  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz7kxjhcsTQ     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrFW5FwwkfI

FAQs Yad Vashem https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/faqs.html

2023 Online Holocaust Denial Report Card (Anti-Defamation League)

2023 High Risk List (SIGAR Report - Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction) Efforts to process Afghan visa applications or refugee applications are chronically understaffed, facing a backlog of approximately 175,000 applicants. “According to one estimate, at the current pace, it will take 31 years to relocate and resettle all SIV applicants.” Note: The bipartisan supported Afghan Adjustment Act has still not passed. Leaving all those evacuated allies in limbo. See  https://www.refugeesinternational.org/pass-the-afghan-adjustment-act  and https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghan-adjustment-act-evacuees-parole-legal-status-deportation-protections/

The Forgotten Exodus (AJC - podcast series) Iran, Sudan, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq

Iran sentences 10 airmen to prison over downed Ukraine airliner (Bloomberg)

Iran Exploits Earthquake Relief Mission to Fly Weapons to Syria   (Reuters)

Iran Deploys Hundreds of Armed Drones in Iraq, Potentially Threatening Israel (Shafaq News-Iraq)

Iran-Backed Iraqi Militia Threatens Drone Strikes Against Israel (MEMRI)

Iran Fears Israel Will Join Forces with Azerbaijan and Turkey (Israel Hayom)

PLO pays Palestinians to erase Israel in Ramadan quizzes (PMW)

PA TV Airs Musical Calling to Fight in All of Israel with Machine Guns, RPGs, Daggers, and Bombs (MEMRI-TV)

Fatah and Hamas factions beat the living hell out of each other today on the Temple Mount. No Israelis involved. 

Saudi Arabia Investing Millions in Israeli Startups  (Globes)

(Terrorists) Militants kill 26 people in Syrian countryside (AP) ISIS militants have killed 26 people who were foraging for wild truffles 

UK Aid Charities Told to Provide Details of Payments Made in Gaza (Civil Society-UK)

Malice and Ignorance in Times Editorial on Israel (CAMERA)

UN Instructs PA to Take Responsibility for Israelis Held by Hamas in Gaza -(Ha'aretz)

Islamist Antisemitism in the U.S.  (Institute for National Security Studies-Tel Aviv University)

This column in Fathom is one of the best columns I've seen on how the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is affecting American students and higher education. Please read: Lara Sheehi’s Joyous Rage: Antisemitic Anti-Zionism, Advocacy Academia and Jewish Students’ Nightmares at GWU (Fathom Journal) The American Association of University Professors in 2015 adopted a policy declaring that all faculty member postings on social media should be protected from any professional evaluation or consequences, even if said tweets directly reflect on that faculty's profession. After reading this article, I agree that a professor's and/or administrator's social media accounts and public comments should be considered annotations to his/her syllabus or at the very least reflections on the institution. 

Amnesty International's 'Apartheid' Video: 15 Lies in 15 Minutes (CAMERA/Youtube Video)

Egypt Sees Progress in "Freeing Sinai" from Terror Threats. (Al-Ahram-Egypt)

The EU/UN War Against Israeli Control of "Area C"   (Jewish Policy Center)

Iran in secret talks with China, Russia to acquire sanctioned missile fuel (Politico)

Lebanese Media Reports: On The Evening Before The April 6, 2023 Rocket Attack On Israel, Iranian Qods Force Commander Esmail Qaani Visited Lebanon, Met With Officials From Hizbullah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (MEMRI)

Palestinian Rescues Israeli Couple Who Were Attacked near Hebron  (Ha'aretz)

Syrian Journalist Ahmed Kamel: We Want To Liberate Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine From Khamenei; The Iranian Occupation Is Worse Than The Zionist Occupation (MEMRI)

U.S.: "Israel Has a Legitimate Right to Defend Itself Against All Forms of Aggression" (U.S. State Department)

US deterrence is disappearing in the Middle East (Washington Examiner)

You wouldn't know this from the NYT lead: More Columbia faculty reportedly have signed the letter supporting the Tel Aviv center than have signed the letter opposing it! New York Times Cheerleads for Columbia University Faculty’s Boycott of Israel (Algemeiner)

Another Fact-Free "Intersectional" Attack on Israeli Police Exchanges (IPT)

Five Positive Stories From the Global Fight Against Antisemitism in March 2023 (Combat Antisemitism)

FYI April 16 is Mimouna: Mimouna: In My Mind I’ve Gone to Marrakech (Jewish Journal)

Muslims are celebrating Ramadan, Jews Passover, and Christians Easter. Wishing you Chag Pesach Sameach, Happy Easter, Ramadan Mubarak!

Thousands of Christians celebrated Palm Sunday in Jerusalem without incident. Much of the press about the attacks by Palestinians from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem this week fail to mention that every year violence from the Arab side increases during Ramadan. Palestinian Arabs use their mosque as a weapons arsenal. Note:  Israeli police had made "many and prolonged attempts" to get those who had stockpiled "fireworks, sticks and stones" to leave.   "Following the removal of the violent rioters, Israel Police forces left the Temple Mount, and the mosque was cleaned after the rioters vandalized, defiled, and desecrated it. Early the next morning, the Fajr prayer was held at the Temple Mount as planned and the police worked to enable the arrival of significant numbers of Muslim worshipers." 

Meanwhile, terrorists in Gaza fired unguided rockets at Israel that have no military purpose and are only launched to terrorize Israeli civilians. Palestinian terrorists fired dozens of rockets from Lebanon into Northern Israel, striking communities, incl. playgrounds, and sending thousands of Israelis celebrating Passover into shelters. The current assessment is that Hamas is responsible for carrying out the attacks, with the permission of Hezbollah in Lebanon and at the direction of Iran. This is the most severe provocation on Israel's northern border since the Second Lebanon War in 2006. The main reason this has not been a mass casualty event is because of U.S. support for the Iron Dome, a defensive weapon. 

Israel on the Brink: Rockets Fired From Gaza and Lebanon, Riots on Temple Mount & Israeli Sisters Murdered in Terror Attack (Honest Reporting)

The NYT surprised me with this headline - accurate and not misleading (unlike AP and CNN this week) Israel Strikes Back at Lebanon After Rocket Barrage

From The River To The Sea: A Violent Palestinian Chant Misrepresented By Anti-Israel Groups (Honest Reporting Canada)

Netanyahu’s Statement on the Overnight Temple Mount Riot (Jewish Press)

In North, 50,000 Residents Without Rocket Shelters Brace for Escalation With Lebanon (Times of Israel)

NO Partners for Peace with Palestinians 

In Propaganda Video Fatah celebrates its terror and murderer of Israeli brothers (PMW)

Hamas Sentences Two Gazans to Death for "Collaboration" with Israel (AFP)

US troops are quietly helping fight ISIS, al-Qaida in West Africa (Task and Purpose) see also Armed groups, juntas create dangers for journalists in Sahel (France24)

Bet you saw this headline: Syrian state media reports Israeli airstrike in Damascus, several missiles intercepted, but maybe you missed this one:  

U.S. strike kills senior ISIS leader in Syria (CENTCOM on Twitter)

 

I'm sure you didn't see some of these stories carried as blaring headlines because Israel didn't attack a journalist reporting on a cancer patient's home being demolished after he refused to sell it; nor are teachers on strike in Israel; nor has any Israeli mother ever begged her children to kill themselves.

Calls mount for Taliban to free girls’ education activist (ABC News)

All Evidence Points to Iran in Thwarted Greece Terror Plot (IPT) 

The Iraq War Wasn't Simply a Mistake (Inkstick) 

How a Civil War Turned Into a Celebration of Love and Brotherhood (Israel Today)  

Fatah official brags: Fatah and PA Security Forces “led 1,500” terror attacks while Hamas led none  (Palestinian Media Watch)

PA refuses Israeli Jordanian proposal to police their own cities. (Times of Israel)

Palestinian Journalists Syndicate Denounces Hamas' Arrest, Assault of Colleague (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)

Palestinian Teachers' Strike Grows, Reflecting Deep Crisis  (AP-Washington Post)

Al Jazeera Plus Qatar's Foreign Intervention Masked as an American News Outlet (Zachor Legal) See also, Honest Reporting summary of this report here.

Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesman: Qatar Is Continuing Iran-U.S. Mediation For A Breakthrough In The Nuclear Issue – And Is Also Continuing Its Opposition To Normalization With Syria's Assad Regime And Its Return To The Arab League (MEMRI)

Russia Supplies Iran with Cyber Weapons as Military Cooperation Grows  (Wall Street Journal)

Scotland's New Leader Has Met with Hamas, Bashes Israel (JNS)

BBC's Franks Ignores Guidelines (CAMERA-UK) 

Obama Administration Disavowed Agreement that Biden Administration Claims Israel Violated  (National Review)