UN secretary-general reaffirms ancient Jewish ties to Jerusalem
By JTA– UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his recognition of ancient Jewish ties to Jerusalem during a meeting with World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder. A statement Wednesday...
View ArticleUNESCO Chief: ‘Jerusalem Is the Capital of King David’
By JNS.org— UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has rebuffed attempts by the U.N. cultural body to deny a historic Jewish connection to Jerusalem. “In the Torah, Jerusalem is the capital of King...
View ArticleSpot Report: “U.N. spokesman finally gets it right”
Think on this: “I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on Yahweh, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes...
View ArticleIsrael may lose Europe in Jerusalem sovereignty battle at UNESCO
By Tovah Lazaroff, JPost— Israel fears Europe might abstain or support a resolution that would reject Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, which UNESCO’s executive board in Paris is likely to...
View ArticleAll 100 US senators to UN: End ‘unacceptable’ anti-Israel bias
By Times of Israel— All 100 US senators signed a letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Thursday demanding an end to the “unacceptable” anti-Israel bias in the international body....
View ArticleMinister calls for annexation of Jerusalem-area towns
BY Mordechai Sones, Arutz 7— Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz calls on Israel to annex large parts of Judea and Samaria in response to UNESCO’s vote rejecting Israeli sovereignty...
View ArticleIsraeli minister calls to shut UNESCO’s Jerusalem office after contentious vote
BY STUART WINER AND RAPHAEL AHREN, Times of Israel— Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev is expected to demand that the offices of the UN’s cultural body in Jerusalem be shut following a...
View ArticlePresident urges world to recognize Jerusalem, move embassies
By Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel— President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday called on the world’s nations to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move their embassies to the city. Minutes after the...
View ArticleJerusalem is holy to Jews, not Muslims
By Morton A. Klein, Arutz 7— Last Tuesday, coinciding with Israel’s 69th Independence Day, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passed a resolution entitled...
View ArticleNetanyahu: Temple Mount will remain under Israeli sovereignty forever
By World Israel News— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel will never relinquish control over the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem. Speaking at the Knesset Wednesday during...
View ArticleNetanyahu Pits Trump Against the UN Over Jerusalem
By Israel Today— When US President Donald Trump visited the Western Wall sporting a kippa (yarmulka), it was a clear affirmation that the site is as the Jews say – Judaism’s holiest shrine. And, as...
View ArticleUN Chief: “Denial of Israel’s Right to Exist is Anti-Semitism”
By The Tower— The head of the United Nations told leaders from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the Jewish organization announced in a press...
View ArticleIsrael’s right to Jerusalem established firmly in international law, expert says
By Benjamin Glatt, JPost— The Jewish people’s right to Jerusalem was granted under international law at the end of the First World War, a leading international legal scholar said at the UN Monday....
View ArticlePalestinians to claim tomb of patriarchs on UN world heritage list
By Tovah Lazaroff, JPost— The World Heritage Committee is set to debate inscribing the Old City of Hebron – including its Tomb of the Patriarchs – to the “State of Palestine” when it meets from July 2...
View ArticleIsrael gears up for Jerusalem sovereignty fight in UNESCO
By Tovah Lazaroff, JPost— Israel is pushing to sway the 21 nations on UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee to reject a resolution disavowing Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, when the committee meets in...
View ArticleZOA Appalled: Abbas’ PA Calls for UNESCO Resolution Designating Hebron a...
By ZOA— The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is appalled that Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) is seeking to have the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
View ArticleAmbassador Haley: US will block any appointment of Palestinian to UN post
By World Israel News— US Ambassador to the United Nation (UN) Nikki Haley on Tuesday told Congress that the Trump administration’s policy was to prevent any Palestinians from serving in UN positions,...
View ArticleIsrael Blasts UNESCO for Latest Resolution Declaring Jerusalem “Occupied”
By Tazpit Press Service— Israel blasted UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee for calling the country an “occupying power” in Jerusalem and condemning “all [Israeli] legislative and administrative measures...
View ArticleThe next Middle East war
By Clifford D. May, Washington Times— Eleven years ago this month, Israel went to war with Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanon-based Shi’a proxy militia. The fighting began when Hezbollah fired rockets at...
View ArticleFour Outrages In UNESCO’s Anti-Israel Resolution on Jerusalem
By AARON KLEIN, Breitbart-— The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday passed a highly biased anti-Israel resolution regarding Jerusalem’s Old City and its...
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