Author: Jmedia Manager
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Israeli Police and Palestinians clash in Jerusalem
Hundreds of Arab protesters have clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Old City for a third day in a row as Muslims mark the holiest period of the fasting month of Ramadan. Overnight, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least two rockets into Israel, in a clear sign the violence is unlikely to…
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Jordan demands Israel stop ‘barbaric’ attacks on mosque
Amman: Jordan urged Israel on Sunday to stop what it described as “barbaric” attacks on worshippers in Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque and said it would step up international pressure. Jordan, which has custodianship of Islamic and Christian sites in Jerusalem, said Israel should respect worshippers and international law safeguarding Arab rights. East Jerusalem tensions have spilled over into…
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New protests called after Jerusalem clashes wound over 200
Israel braced for more protests Saturday after clashes at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound wounded more than 200 people and as the US, EU and regional powers urged calm after days of escalating violence. In the unrest following Muslim prayers on Friday, Israeli riot police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades at Palestinians…
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Hatred and the Old City: a letter from Jerusalem
You can feel these things coming if you know how to listen to the city. A few days before the trouble began in Jerusalem, I noted a curious incident. Buying a schwarma in the Jerusalem seam line neighbourhood where I live, I had remarked (in Hebrew) to the young Palestinian Arab man serving me that…
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The Biden administration ‘is being run by hardcore Neo-Marxists’
Sky News host Rowan Dean says proof of how the Biden administration “is being run behind the scenes by hardcore neo-Marxists” is the administration’s embrace of the Durban Declaration. “Jewish organisations were rightly appalled, calling the comments morally reprehensible and a UN celebration of anti-Semitism with one writer concluding that the Biden administration is driven…
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COVID-19 pandemic ‘still on and it’s not going away’, PM says
Scott Morrison has told an audience at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce that Australia needs to ‘stick to the plan’ in responding to COVID-19 for national economic recovery. Investing in infrastructure, skills, lower taxes, reliable emissions energy, and creating more jobs were some of the key points in a speech Morrison delivered in Melbourne on Thursday. These…
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Apartheid? No, Bob Carr, Israel is a bold work in progress
Remember when Greg Hunt, as minister for the environment, announced a plan to kill two million cats? He spoke of the “tsunami of violence and death” spread by the feral killing machines. The plan was to shoot, trap and poison them. Sounds good so far, but Hunt put a few notable noses out of joint…
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200 Palestinians, dozens of Israeli police injured in Jerusalem clashes
Jerusalem: More than 200 protesters were injured in clashes with police in Jerusalem’s Old City as tensions flared over the planned evictions of several Palestinian families from a nearby Arab neighbourhood. More than a dozen police officers received minor injuries, police said. The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said 88 of the wounded were hospitalised. The…
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Plague and old prejudices: anti-Semitism goes anti-vax
The pandemic has widened the divide between communities of belief and communities of knowledge. In late July last year, American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in collaboration with German company BioNTech, founded by the husband-and-wife scientific team Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, began the phase three clinical trials that would result, four months later, in the announcement…
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Who is Yair Lapid, Israel’s would-be prime minister?
Jerusalem: Yair Lapid, the centrist politician and former media celebrity whose party took second place in Israel’s March election, has been picked by the country’s President to try to end a two-year gridlock to form a new government. Lapid pledged to forgo the prime ministership if that’s what it would take to form a coalition of diverse parties…