israelnationalnews.com Jewish activists for independent Kurdistan promote cause in NY, Jerusalem. JTA, 30/11/17 Kurdi Israelis rally for independent Kurdistan Reuters JTA – In Jerusalem and New York, Jewish activists for an independent Kurdistan hosted events promoting the cause with the participation of Israeli, French and British officials. The New York event Tuesday was a…
jta.org By Cnaan LiphshizNovember 22, 2017 Kurdish people rallying for independence in Erbil, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2017. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) (JTA) — Several prominent Jews in Europe and North America joined an organization fostering Jewish-Kurdish friendship and supporting independence for Iraqi Kurdistan. The Jewish-American lawyer Alan Dershowitz joined the honorary board of the Brussels-based Jewish…
By Ksenia Svetlova February 1, 2018 For far too long, the right-wing parties in Israel have flirted with the neo-Nazi and antisemitic elements in Europe. 4 minute read. jpost.com SURVIVORS AND guests light candles at the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau in Poland last Saturday, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day… (photo credit:…
BY ARIEL BEN SOLOMON JUNE 22, 2016 22:42 Zionist Union lawmaker: It has been a long time since an MK appeared officially in Turkey From left to right: Kemal Kirisci-Brookings Institution, Sylvia Tiryaki – GPoT Center, Nimrod Goren – Mitvim Institute, Dan Arbell – Brookings Institution. (photo credit: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION) In a sign of…
BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN AUGUST 10, 2017 19:02 jpost.com When Islamic State targeted Yazidis for genocide in 2014, Israelis such as Lisa Miara, Idan Barir and Ksenia Svetlova stepped forward to raise awareness and say ‘never again’. ‘We in Israel are so sensitive and must be so sensitive to ‘never again’ but what does it mean…
timesofisrael.com As MKs line up to declare support for Kurdistan, one lawmaker seeks to facilitate contact between Kurds and Israelis By Dov Lieber 30 November 2017 Dov Lieber is The Times of Israel’s Arab affairs correspondent. A picture taken on October 21, 2017, shows a man holding an Israeli flag alongside the flag of Iraqi…
www.jpost.com By Ksenia Svetlova November 23, 2017 Israel and Egypt are too important to each other to just give up. ANWAR SADAT and Menachem Begin chat during the former Egyptian president’s historic visit to Jerusalem in 1977. . (photo credit: REUTERS) Israeli and Egyptian flags merged one into another were at the center of the stage,…
Annual report homes in on hot-button areas of Western Wall pluralism, conversion and who has the right to pray at the country’s holiest sites By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN 22 August 2017 323shares timesofisrael.com Jewish men pray during the holiday of Tisha B’Av at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on August 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)…
Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova is part of an international delegation invited by Catalan government to observe independence referendum By TOI STAFF and AGENCIES 1 October 2017 373 shares timesofisrael.com Ksenia Svetlova of the Zionist Union party seen during an introduction day for new Knesset members on March 29, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) A Zionist Union MK observing Catalonia’s independence referendum…
