Lebanese members of the Syrian leader’s Alawite sect fear their tiny community will be a casualty of the civil war raging in the neighboring country. Already, Sunni Muslim extremists have stoned a school bus, vandalized stores and beaten or stabbed a number of men in a wave of attacks against Lebanese Alawites, stoking fears
Ateret Cohanim awarded the Oheiv Yisrael (“Lover of Israel”) Award to Mark Langfan, Arutz Sheva's frequent security writer, along with his father, William K. Langfan, who is an expert on the PLO Charter. Speaking to a packed crowd, which included renowned military expert, Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, Mark Langfan stated the Jews and Israel
A Syrian rebel who was filmed apparently cutting out and eating the organs of a soldier has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities, Time magazine reported on Tuesday. The U.S. news weekly said it had talked by Skype with the fighter, identified as Khalid al-Hamad, who appeared in a video that sparked
Two protests were held at Tel Aviv University Monday – one, by a group of Arab and Jewish students protesting against the “nakba,” the defeat of Arab forces that resulted in the independence of Israel in 1948, and the other a group of pro-Israel students from the Im Tirzu organization, counter-demonstrating agains the nakba group.
Members of the Shura Council, Egypt’s upper house of parliament, demanded on Monday that the Israeli ambassador in Egypt be removed and that his Egyptian counterpart in Tel Aviv be recalled as well. The reason for the request, according to a report in the Al-Ahram daily, is what the Council called “the continuing assaults
Memo to Erdogan: NATO was meant as an anti-Soviet alliance, not an anti-Iranian alliance. On May 5, 2013, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday reacted angrily to the pro-Assad militia’s massacre of at least 62 Sunni civilians and as many as 200 in the Syrian coastal towns of Banias and Baida. (May they
After accompanying his former chief of staff to register for June’s presidential vote, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may face punishment if charged with breaking electoral rules, the country’s electoral watchdog said. The president had accompanied Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie on Saturday to register at the Interior Ministry. Photographs in the Iranian media showed them
Another day, another story of a brutal attack by Arabs against Jews. And as usual, most news outlets will not cover this news. A large-bodied Arab man attacked an elderly Jew in Jerusalem's Old City last Saturday. The victim's daughter, Tali Hoffman, told Arutz Sheva that her father was making his way to Shacharit
Professor George Jochnowitz, a gentleman and a scholar, (he is a linguist), has just republished his review of my 2003 bookThe New Anti-Semitism. The Coming Crisis and What We Must Do About It. I wrote this book in 2001-2002, and published it almost immediately thereafter. I am now sobered by my own prescience, by
Egypt’s highest court will rule next month on the legality of the upper house of parliament, judicial sources said on Sunday, in a case that throws more legal doubt over a political transition repeatedly disrupted by lawsuits. A ruling against the Muslim Brotherhood-led upper house by the Supreme Constitutional Court on June 2 could
