Category: 4. World
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Taliban ban on Afghan womens voices
The Taliban has banned women from hearing each other’s voices in public, the Telegraph reported on Monday. Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban minister for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice, announced this new restriction,… Continue Reading
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EU urged to stop funding the UNWRA
Vox, Spain’s right-wing political party, has renewed its call for the European Union (EU) to immediately cease funding the UNRWA and to designate the agency as a terrorist organization. This demand follows a similar request made on October… Continue Reading
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Norway to turn to ICJ over Israel’s shuttering of UNRWA
Norway wants the International Court of Justice to issue an advisory opinion on Israel’s decision to shut down the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides humanitarian services to Palestinian Refugees in East Jerusalem,… Continue Reading
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Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has for a decade drawn visitors to… Continue Reading
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US blacklists over 2 dozen firms tied to Pakistan, Iran weapons programs
The United States has imposed sanctions on more than two dozen companies, alleging their support for ballistic missile and drone development in Pakistan and Iran. The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced last week that 26… Continue Reading
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Refuse citizenship to antisemites, deported from Sweden, MEP says
People who incite violence against Jews must be prosecuted or deported from Sweden without pardon, Swedish politician and MEP Alice Teodorescu Måwe argued. Writing in a blog post on her Substack this weekend, Teodorescu said that any… Continue Reading
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Jewish representatives say they may boycott Kristallnacht ceremony
VIENNA—Last Thursday, a new political precedent was added to the history of post-WWII Austria: for the first time, a candidate representing the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), Dr. Walter Rosenkranz, was elected president of the newly… Continue Reading
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South Africa submits Memorial to ICJ accusing Israel of genocide
South Africa has submitted its Memorial to the International Court of Justice regarding the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, the South African government reported on… Continue Reading
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Tommy Robinson UK anti-Islam activist receives jail time
British anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, was jailed for 18 months on Monday after he admitted contempt of court by breaching an injunction made after he was successfully sued for libel.
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Jews support Harris despite survey showing low Jewish Democratic backing
Support for the Democratic Party among Jewish Americans has reached its lowest point in four decades, with only 63% expressing intent to vote for Kamala Harris, according to a recent survey by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI).
