WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as “potentially…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Singapore bans entry for four West Bank Jews
Singapore bans entry for four West Bank Jews | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle East”As a firm supporter of the two-state solution, Singapore opposes any unilateral attempts to change facts on the ground through acts which are illegal…
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Behind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper US shift on human rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — When US President Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia’s crown prince this week over the 2018 killing of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he did more than just stir renewed accusations from critics of an…
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Gaza polemic, tale of Iranians helping WWII Jewish refugee win National Book Award
JTA — A provocative essay collection about the West’s response to the Gaza war and a children’s book about young Iranians helping a Jewish refugee in World War II were two of the big winners at the National Book Awards Wednesday…
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Iran official claims Jerusalem uses traffic cameras to spy
Iran official claims Jerusalem uses traffic cameras to spy | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle East/Iran NewsJalali further asserted that a 2022 cyberattack on Khuzestan Steel began after hackers accessed the camera network, enabling them…
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Iran vows to block foreign access to bombed nuclear sites unless deal reached
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the UN’s nuclear watchdog would not be given access to Iranian nuclear sites attacked during its recent war with Israel without a concrete deal being agreed.
“The…
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All Signs Point to Imminent Escalation on the Lebanon Border – by Israel
More than a month into the cease-fire that ostensibly ended the war in Gaza, Israel’s regional situation resembles a web browser with all the tabs left open. Despite the arrangement that U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on Israel and Hamas,…
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Iranian director Jafar Panahi ramps up French Oscars campaign
After years of being banned from leaving Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi is enjoying his tour of the United States — visiting Los Angeles, New York and Telluride — as he promotes his Oscar-hopeful “It Was Just an Accident.”
The film, which won…
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Levin lashes out at court for freezing his appointment of Sde Teiman probe overseer
Trump tells freed hostage soldier Matan Angrest he’s a ‘living testimony’ to toughness of Jewish people * Pollard defends Huckabee after meeting leak, says ‘abhorrent’ Kushner, Witkoff working for Saudi and Qatar
The post Levin lashes…
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Trump hosts captives he helped free from Gaza: ‘You’re not hostages anymore, you’re heroes’
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump hosted a delegation at the White House on Thursday of nearly all the hostages freed through as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal he brokered last month.
“You’re not a hostage anymore… today…
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