A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counsellors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating Arab men and “rescue” them. The move by the municipality of Petah Tikva, a city close to Tel Aviv, is the latest in a series of separate – and little discussed – initiatives from official bodies, rabbis,... 

Israeli PM’s visit to Moscow was about his Mossad agents involved in Arctic Sea hijacking jailed by Russia. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly traveled to Moscow with a plea for the release of Mossad commandos allegedly related to the hijacking of the “Arctic Sea” vessel, says RT contributor Wayne Madsen. But the mission was not a success, believes the journalist. “Netanyahu... 

Israel is using an ultra-Orthodox group to crack down on Messianic Jews — who believe that Jesus is the Messiah — and prevent them from staying in the country, officials have told The Times. The Messianic Jews have been accused of Christian missionary activities and complain of harassment and intimidation by the state. An official at the Interior Ministry said that an anti-assimilation group... 

An Israeli diplomat in Russia has been accused of being involved in unlawful activities and has left Moscow, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Diplomat Shmuel Polishuk was briefly detained by authorities on Sept. 24 and left Russia, spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said, without saying the offense Polishuk was accused of. “We hope that this regrettable incident wouldn’t... 

When the police lend support to vigilante groups hounding Jewish-Arab couples, what hope is there for coexistence? Whilst the proliferation of ultra-orthodox “vigilante police” is a stain on Israeli society, their Taliban-esque actions can at least be contextualised as the inevitable consequence of religious fundamentalism gone wild. Such communities are dominated by leaders who refuse... 

Israel has received two German-made submarines which are capable of launching missiles equipped with nuclear warheads. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that the regime has received the two Dolphin-class submarines. Israel ordered the submarines in 2005 and they were expected to be delivered in 2010. Nuclear capable submarines are key weapons in Israel’s arsenal. With the delivery of the... 

No casualties reported on either side of border TYRE, Lebanon – Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into Israel on Friday, prompting Israel to respond with artillery fire, Lebanese security and military officials said. The exchange, in which no casualties were reported by either side, was the latest in persisting tensions between the two countries. It was the fourth time rockets have... 

The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews. The advertisements, employing what the Israeli media described as “scare tactics”, are designed to stop assimilation through intermarriage among young diaspora Jews by encouraging them to move to Israel. The... 

An Israeli professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Martin van Creveld stated that Israel could find itself one day forced to exterminate the European continent using all kinds of weapons including its nuclear arsenal if it felt its demise neared, stressing that Israel also considers Europe a hostile target. In a September 2003 interview in Elsevier (Dutch weekly) also... 

A bunch of White Jews obviously motivated by racial hatred, attack an innocent black man walking by, just because he is a black Ethiopian.  Read More »

Israeli security forces have forcibily evicted two Palestinian families from a contested East Jerusalem neighbourhood. The families have lived in Sheikh Jarrah since 1956 but an Israeli court ruled that the homes belonged to Jewish families.  Read More »

One of the laboratories at the Islamic University destroyed by Israel more than six months ago is yet to be rebuilt. More than six months after Israel’s winter invasion of Gaza, a number of partially or largely damaged universities await reconstruction. Raw materials essential for rebuilding are unavailable in Gaza primarily because of Israel’s 26-month blockade of the tiny territory.... 

Former UN Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton The former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton says that Washington should support Tel Aviv if it decides to attack Iran, since it will be ‘blamed for it anyway’. The worst outcome of an Israeli attack on Iran would be its failure to halt Tehran’s nuclear program, Bolton said in an interview with Russia Today on Thursday. “I personally... 

Thousands of Russian girls living abroad are being forced to work as sex slaves. The United States says Russia is one of the world’s main sources of trafficked women. Tough new laws are in place to tackle the problem, but for many the living hell of sex slavery goes on.  Read More »

For some time now, spokespeople for Hungary’s extreme right have been arguing that Israel aims to “colonize” Hungary. As proof of this claim, the right often misinterprets an (unfortunate) quote by President Shimon Peres, who spoke about Israel’s investments abroad, and said that Israel was “buying out Manhattan, Poland, Hungary…” Now these claims have...