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Aug 8, 2024, 12:30 PM

Time to free Lebanon from Hezbollah

As the Jewish state is preparing for a coordinated terror attack from Iran and its proxies, the key for preventing an escalation of the current conflict is in the hands of the international community and especially the United Nations....

Nov 1, 2023, 10:46 AM

Remove Iran from UNHRC Social Forum Presidency

Rarely has the multilateral system been more out of touch with reality than this week when tomorrow, on Thursday, 2 November, the Islamic Republic of Iran takes on the important chair of the Social Forum of the UN Human...

Sep 23, 2022, 4:25 PM

Why is the WCC softening its stance on Israel?

The recent parliament elections in Sweden revealed an interesting trend. The young generation is apparently less radical than those over 65. This can also be the explanation to why there is suddenly a shift in the World Council of...

Aug 25, 2022, 12:53 PM

125 years after the First Zionist Congress

125 years after the First Zionist Congress – Time for the Christian world to fully embrace the Jewish state When Theodor Herzl presented his Zionist vision 125 years ago this weekend in Basel, Switzerland the Christian world was divided. In...

Feb 26, 2018, 3:35 PM

Anti-Semitism at the core of progressive Europe

Judging from the media coverage in Israel in the past few weeks, one could easily draw the conclusion that the biggest threat to Jewish life in Europe and Israel is to be found in Poland. This assumption is not...

Dec 28, 2016, 10:51 PM

The reason for the season — now outlawed by the UN?

There could not have been a more bizarre backdrop to the already infamous UN Security Council Resolution 2334 than the simple fact that the resolution was passed on December 23rd, when world leaders tried to contradict the core message...

Oct 28, 2016, 1:01 PM

An Open Letter to Hagai El-Ad of B’Tselem

Dear Hagai, Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tomas Sandell and I am a friend of Israel. Please do not stop reading here because I have more to say. Although we have not met in person, I had...

Oct 21, 2016, 3:30 PM

Israel’s best friends?

As soon as the UNESCO resolution had been ratified by the executive board of the UN agency for culture, science and education on Tuesday, the blame game started in Jerusalem. How could this happen? Why did the Foreign Ministry...

May 9, 2016, 11:33 PM

Good news is also news — even when the glass is only half-full

A lot of bad news has been coming out of Europe in recent months. Jews are leaving France in record numbers as they no longer feel safe in the land of “liberté, égalité and fraternité”. In Britain there is...

Jul 18, 2015, 12:52 AM

There was not much sympathy for Israel in the comments made by senior European leaders after the nuclear deal with Iran announced on Tuesday. German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier was quick to point out that ”the Israeli Government...

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Tomas Sandell is a Finnish journalist who has been accredited by the European Union. He is today the Founding Director of European Coalition for Israel.