International
Saudi Arabia bans kippah; US official, a rabbi, leaves
JTAMar 14, 2024
A US government delegation tasked with monitoring religious freedom around the world cut a visit to Saudi Arabia short after Saudi officials demanded that a prominent...
Sharansky on Navalny: Lessons from a dissident
Special to the IJNMar 07, 2024
Natan Sharansky — the Russian-Israeli refusenik, author and human rights activist who was imprisoned by the former Soviet Union from 1977 to 1986 — is what you might...
Arch anti-Zionist elected to UK parliament
JTAMar 07, 2024
Jewish groups across Britain are alarmed at the election of a veteran anti-Zionist politician, George Galloway, to the UK parliament in the northern town of Rochdale.
Amb. Yevgen: ‘Ukraine and Israel have the same enemies’
JNSFeb 29, 2024
Korniychuk Yevgen has been Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel since 2020. Even before Russia’s invasion of his country on Feb. 24, 2022, he argued that Israel is not...
Why Canada let Nazis keep their citizenship
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAFeb 15, 2024
The Rodal Report, compiled in 1985 and released in heavily redacted form in 1987, contains documents related to the resettlement of Nazi war criminals in Canada.
Russia extends journalist Gershkovich’s pre-trial detention
JTAFeb 08, 2024
A Moscow court extended the pretrial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich through March 30, meaning that he will have spent at least a year behind...
UN: Our workers took part in Oct. 7
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 31, 2024
Besides the US and EU, a growing number of countries have suspended funding to the main UN agency aiding Palestinians in the wake of allegations that a number of its...
Amalek — misquote at the International Court of Justice
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 25, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected claims that his comments invoking Amalek, an enemy people of the ancient Israelites, suggested genocidal intent in...
A lawyer’s analysis: The genocide charge
Special to the IJNJan 17, 2024
A legal analysis of Israel's defense against claims of genocide filed in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa, and of South Africa's case against...
Fighting the genocide charge
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 11, 2024
Israel has chosen to fight the genocide charge against it in the International Court of Justice.