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May 22, 2025, 11:03 PM

Breaking News: United Nations Passes The Glass House Resolution

Breaking News: United Nations Passes The Glass House Resolution A noble league of world powers—Canada, the United Kingdom, and France have threatened sanctions should Israel persist in its military operations in Gaza to destroy the scourge on humanity that is...

Cedric Vloemans

May 22, 2025, 3:51 PM

The myth regarding the occupation of Palestine

Israeli and Palestinian flags next to each other. (Wikicommons, Public Domain. CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated)

The Situation These developments underscore the urgency of a sustainable resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For decades, the Middle East has been a powder keg whose fuse never seems to be extinguished. Time and again — you could almost set your...

May 20, 2025, 12:28 PM

Israel Fights Evil. The West Calls It Escalation

They gain social traction among those who never cared for Jewish survival. Western leaders today speak of “proportionality.” But there is nothing proportional about responding to pogroms with peace talks. There is no symmetry between a sovereign democracy defending...

May 16, 2025, 5:42 PM

Algeria and France Are Feuding—Here’s Why Washington Should Care

In a move that might normally pass with limited international notice, Algeria expelled 15 French diplomats last week, citing procedural violations. France responded in kind. While this tit-for-tat exchange may seem like yet another chapter in the long, complicated...

Simone Suzanne Kussatz

May 16, 2025, 5:28 PM

Jeremy Kidd at Photo London’s 10th Anniversary

In my previous post, I reflected on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the role of the British Allies in the bombing of Le Havre and Berlin, which brought British artists to mind. Just...

Apr 23, 2025, 4:29 PM

A Knighthood for a Jewish Girl: Hannah Lessing

Director-General of the Austrian National Fund for Victims of National-Socialism Dr Hannah Lessing. 2025. (C) Hannah Lessing Archive. With kind permission.

Hannah Lessing Profile in Three Episodes Yom HaShoah Thoughts Every Yom HaShoah, we are getting into the atmosphere created by the wave of yet another stories, facts, discoveries, revelations , all this messaging us directly from inside the abyss into which...

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Apr 15, 2025, 5:31 PM

Macron’s Masquerade: The Theatre of Capitulation

AI generated image courtesy of Catherine Perez-Shakdam, Executive Director We Believe In Israel

By now we ought to have grown wearily familiar with President Emmanuel Macron’s fondness for grandstanding masquerading as statesmanship — that gallant little pirouette he performs each time he wishes to assert France’s moral relevance on the world stage....

Apr 15, 2025, 8:40 AM

Diaspora Jews, the Mother: Israel, the Baby

Understanding the ombilical interdependency between Diaspora Jews and Israel - by Frederic Eger - The Jewish Diaspora has played an indispensable role in the existence and development of the State of Israel since its creation until today. This relationship is...

Apr 15, 2025, 8:33 AM

When Art Line is a Life Thread: New Exhibition in Vilnius

Hadas Wittenberg-Silberstein, the Ambassador of Israel to Lithuania and Dr Arunas Gelunas, Director General of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art at the opening of the YIVO commemorative exhibition at the Vilnius Picture Gallery. March 2025. (C) Gintare Grigenaite. LNDM

Original Litvak Art at the YIVO commemorative exhibition in Vilnius Part V From early March 2025, a special multi-genre exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is on display in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where...

Apr 13, 2025, 9:19 PM

How an IUMS Fatwa Fuels Radicalism in Europe

International Union of Muslim Scholars

On March 28, 2025, the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an organization with longstanding ideological ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, issued a sweeping religious edict, a fatwa, declaring "armed jihad" against Israel an individual obligation for every...

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