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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed a “collective response” to Iran’s alleged drone attack last week on the Israeli-managed Mercer Street shipping vessel. Israel, the US and the United Kingdom have all said that Tehran was behind the deadly attack, in which a British security guard and a Romanian crew member were killed. “We are […]
Lebanon’s descent into chaos, lurching from crisis to crisis, has been well documented. In the last year alone, a catastrophic explosion ripped through Beirut, three people were designated interim prime minister, and the country has teetered on the verge of economic collapse. A large, if not the main, reason for the incessant turmoil has been […]
Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom have all said that Iran was behind the deadly attack on the Mercer Street ship last Thursday. The three countries are now reportedly coordinating a response to the drone strike on the vessel which was sailing off the coast of Oman. The Romanian captain of the ship […]
The email came back from the owner of the “escape room” franchise. His Texas-based business was doing well and he was thrilled about the prospect of helping me open a similar venture in Israel. It was late 2014 and the escape room fad had not yet come close to peaking. Perhaps there were two rooms in Israel […]
Coronavirus cases in Israel continue to rise, with the country registering some 2,000 new infections daily over the past week. Additionally, the number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients on Saturday surpassed 200 for the first time since mid-April. In response, the government became the first in the world to green-light a 3rd dose of the […]
On July 19, 2021, the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Unilever Group, announced: We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)…We have informed our licensee that we will not renew the [Israeli] license agreement […]
Is the BBC once again peddling Palestinian propaganda? On July 29, the British broadcaster ran a story titled, “Gaza photographer hopes digital art boom can help raise aid money.” The article, written by BBC Arab Affairs editor Sebastian Usher, highlights a widely shared photo taken during the 11-day war between the Israel Defense Forces and Gaza-based terror groups. According […]
Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, stated that while they are “supporters of the State of Israel,” they back the company’s decision to stop selling product to Jewish settlements in the West Bank. “It’s possible to support Israel and oppose some of its policies, just as we’ve opposed […]
Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of the eponymous ice cream company, on Wednesday issued a defense of the brand’s well-publicized decision to stop selling its products in the disputed West Bank. Taking to the opinion pages of the New York Times, the duo justified the Ben & Jerry’s board’s move to ban the […]