The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed Thursday a State Department decision to defer awarding the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award to Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim after news reports revealed anti-Semitic messages on her Twitter feed. The messages included a tweet in which Ibrahim expressed her understanding and admiration of Adolph Hitler saying,
Jewish Temple organizations demanded Sunday that the Prime Minister immediately establish an official commission of inquiry into Friday's events on the Temple Mount and the way the Temple Mount police handled them. Friday's events were worse even than those that took place during the Great Terror War that began in 2000, the groups said.
Syrian refugees might be desperate, injured and even starving – but they won’t accept Israeli aid, as rebels vow to reconquer the Golan Heights. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor says Israel has offered to send humanitarian aid into Syria via the International Committee of the Red Cross, as the desperation of civilians fleeing the
The presidents of Iran and Pakistan marked the start of Pakistani construction on a much-delayed gas pipeline on Monday, Iranian media reported, despite U.S. pressure on Islamabad to back out of the project. Dubbed the “peace pipeline”, the $7 billion project has faced repeated delays since it was conceived in the 1990s to connect
Al Jazeera is on the hunt for a bigger HQ in New York, after paying $500 million for a small TV network in a bid to boost its U.S. presence. The Qatari broadcaster has looked at the iconic former New York Times building as part of its search, and has appointed the real-estate services
Qatar does not expect to give further financial aid to Egypt in the immediate term, Qatari Finance Minister Youssef Kamal said on Monday. “We already announced $5 billion,” Kamal told Reuters, when asked how much aid Qatar had provided Egypt to date. Asked whether Qatar expected to provide more, he replied: “Not yet.” He
Businessman and prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, engineer Khairat al-Shater, has begun investing in the aviation in recent weeks, a source familiar with the matter told Al Arabiya on Monday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said Shater “is currently looking for a partnership to buy seven airplanes from Egypt Air that
Documents belonging to Egyptian football history were burned and its trophies looted, an online website reported Egyptian Football Association (EFA) Chief Executive Sarwat Swelam as saying Saturday. “The situation is very difficult. The EFA headquarter was totally burned and president Gamal Alaam will return from abroad to attend today’s urgent meeting,” Swelam told state
A court verdict over deadly soccer violence sparked fresh unrest in Egypt on Saturday, with two people killed and buildings torched in Cairo, AFP reports. A Port Said court, sitting in Cairo for security reasons, confirmed death sentences for 21 defendants and handed down life sentences to five people, with 19 receiving lesser jail
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups threatened on Friday that a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to the Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel will be a declaration of war on the Arab and the Islamic world. A Hamas representative in the Al-Aqsa mosque, Mushir al-Masri, even called for a
