Queen Elizabeth II listened to a recital of the Quran at an Ottoman-era mosque Wednesday, the second day of a state visit to Turkey. Her shoes removed and her head covered, the queen heard a religious scholar recite verses from the holy book at the 15th-century Green Mosque. Earlier, the British monarch watched a traditional Ottoman shadow puppet show and a fashion show. She also visited a silk market... 

Trailer for a film about what we need to know about what is happening in Israel and Palestine and how the U.S. is involved. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation. It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide full and accurate information on this critical... 

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the killing of a mother in front of her children yesterday, during an IOF incursion into New Abasan town, east of Khan Yunis. PCHR investigations indicate that at approximately 16:30 on Wednesday, 7 May, IOF troops raided the house of Majdi Abd El-Raziq El-Daghma during an incursion into New Abasan. The troops opened the outside metal... 

As the United Nations begins to gear up for another world conference in 2009 to review the outcomes from its discredited 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, governments and NGOs have a responsibility to say “not again.” Not again to virulent anti-Semitism, not again to vile demonizing and delegitimizing of Israel, not again to... 

Rabbi Eliyahu Azulai is a descendant of a family that her genealogy goes back to holy rabbi Abraham Azulai. At his junior years, the rabbi became a student of the Kabbalist rabbi Yehuda Elizur (RIP). His ultimate goal was to become an author of phylacteries and mezuzoths. While writing, the rabbi asserts that he is being possessed by mystical powers such as the ability to connect with the world of... 

According to the Israeli equivalent of the New York Times, the newspaper Ha’aretz: “The High Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld the plea bargain signed with former president Moshe Katsav over alleged sex crimes, which dropped all rape charges against Katsav. A five-justice panel headed by Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, rejected six petitions against the deal, paving the way for Katsav... 

KABUL – The Taliban has threatened to step up attacks against Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan if Geert Wilders releases his “insulting” anti-Islam film. The PVV MP’s film is an “insult to Islam”, says Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the Taliban, in a telephone interview from an undisclosed location. “We in Afghanistan shall step up the attacks against the... 

A national poll reveals that some 100,000 children in Israel have been sexually assaulted, but only 2.5 percent of the incidents are reported to the proper authorities. The poll, presented at a National Council for the Child conference in Be’er Sheva on Monday, encompassed 500 polled parents. The poll shows that 5 percent o f the parents reported that their children had been sexually harassed,... 

Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog wants to initiate a revolution for single-sex couples when it comes to adoption: According to the new policy Herzog has decided to promote, homosexual and lesbian couples will be able to legally adopt third-party children – meaning those children who are not the biological offspring of either of the couple’s members. This constitutes a breakthrough in the... 

The wealthiest of Israel’s elite are starting to seek out new homes elsewhere. This should tell us something about what may be in store. Some of us may remember Marc Rich, possibly the biggest tax dodger in US history, who fled to Israel. About seven years ago, just as Clinton was leaving office, Marc Rich got a pardon dropped in his lap. He may have been the first of many wealthy Jews looking to... 

Remember last year when some Israeli thugs beat up a man dressed as Santa Claus. One news article back then reported “He’s Jewish in every way, but on New Year’s Eve, Alexei Shtukin (42) decided to dress up as Santa Claus ‘just for fun,’ and paid for his decision dearly. He was set upon by a gang of youths at the Dome nightclub in Tel Aviv, and beaten in front of his family. Youths were... 

Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king’s dark skin colour. “Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilisation as black has no element of truth to it,” Hawass told reporters. “Egyptians are not Arabs and are not Africans despite the fact... 

Israeli hackers have decided to help and join the war against the remaining small Palestine (West Bank, Gaza Strip). The hackers group that calls itself “IDF” (which also means Israeli Defence Force) has hacked dozens of sites, erased the site content and replaced it the index with a picture of the Lebanon destruction that is made by Israeli Defence Force as an answer for the Palestinian terror... 

So Jews have long complained about Christian persecution and “anti-semitism” whatever that means. They say anti-semitism is supposed to mean “hatred of Jews” but they use this epithet in such ways that it means something to the extent of “you are a racist evil demon nazi space alien monster from the pits of Hell” if you criticize ANYTHING a Jew or a group of Jews... 

British film crew threatened by a settler in Hebron. Efforts Tel Rumeida Project and International Solidarity Movement.  Read More »