Tensions are growing between the European Union and Israel over a draft document that slams Israeli policies in East Jerusalem and calls on EU countries to strengthen Palestinian claims to the city. A second document, to be discussed in Brussels next week, seeks EU recognition of East Jerusalem as capital of a Palestinian state. In addition, an Israeli human rights group says Israel is stripping Palestinians... 

JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the... 

Israel is denying Palestinians fair share to water while giving Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories unlimited supplies, Amnesty International said in a report released on Tuesday, October 27. “Water is a basic need and a right, but for many Palestinians obtaining even poor-quality subsistence-level quantities of water has become a luxury that they can barely afford,” said Donatella... 

A meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US Middle East envoy was called off because of disagreements over settlement growth, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Officials close to Netanyahu said he had called off the meeting and denied an Israeli newspaper report that Washington had cancelled it over Israel’s refusal to halt “natural growth” in the settlements. “The... 

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...