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‘All Jews must die’: 11 killed, six injured in US synagogue shooting | NZ Herald

The Tree of Life Synagogue, Pittsburgh, PA.

The gunman who opened fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday morning (local time), killing 11 and injuring six more, has been named as 46-year-old Robert Bowers, a Trump-hating antisemite who regularly complained on social media about the president and “the infestation” of Jews.

Bowers, who professed his disdain for President Trump on social media as he spewed vile antisemitism an hour before Saturday’s attack, opened fire at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh shortly before 10am.

Less than an hour after posting the threat: “I’m going in” on the social media site Gab.

He was enraged by HIAS, the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society which helps Jewish migrants settle in the US, which he accused of bringing ‘invaders in that kill our people’.

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‘Horrendous anti-Semitic brutality’: Israel decries synagogue massacre, sends official to Pittsburgh | NZ Herald

The Tree of Life Synagogue, Pittsburgh, PA.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “heartbroken and appalled by the murderous attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue” after a gunman killed at least 11 people and injured six others during religious services on Saturday morning (local time).

“The entire people of Israel grieve with the families of the dead,” he said in a video message posted to Twitter after the massacre on Saturday.

“We stand together with the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, we stand together with the American people in the face of this horrendous anti-Semitic brutality, and we all pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded.”

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→ 28 October 2018
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‘Horrendous anti-Semitic brutality’: Israel decries synagogue massacre, sends official to Pittsburgh | NZ Herald

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “heartbroken and appalled by the murderous attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue” after a gunman killed at least 11 people and injured six others during religious services on Saturday morning (local time).

“The entire people of Israel grieve with the families of the dead,” he said in a video message posted to Twitter after the massacre on Saturday.

“We stand together with the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, we stand together with the American people in the face of this horrendous anti-Semitic brutality, and we all pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded.”

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→ 24 October 2018
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Human Rights Watch: Palestinians crush dissent with torture | NZ Herald

Mahmoud Abbas

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Security forces of the rival Palestinian governments routinely use torture and arbitrary arrests, among other tactics, to quash dissent by peaceful activists and political opponents, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

The charges came in a new report released by the New York-based watchdog, following a two-year investigation that included interviews with nearly 150 people, many of them ex-detainees. It accused both the Western-backed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Islamic militant Hamas in Gaza of using “machineries of repression” to stifle criticism.

Human Rights Watch also said the systematic use of torture could amount to a crime against humanity under the United Nations’ Convention against Torture, and called on countries that provide funding to Palestinian law enforcement to suspend their assistance.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ government joined the convention after Palestine was accepted as a nonmember state at the U.N.

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→ 22 October 2018
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Jordan cancels part of peace agreement with Israel | NZ Herald

King Abdullah II of Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday said he has decided not to renew parts of his country’s landmark peace treaty with Israel.

Abdullah released a statement that he intends to pull out of two annexes from the 1994 peace agreement that allowed Israel to lease two small areas, Baqura and Ghamr, from the Jordanians for 25 years. The leases expire next year, and the deadline for renewing them is Thursday.

The lands were leased to Jewish farmers early last century, but then became part of Jordan after the kingdom gained independence in 1946.

Baqura, in the northern Jordan Valley, was captured by Israel in 1950. Ghamr, near Aqaba in southern Jordan, was seized in the 1967 Mideast War.

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→ 19 October 2018
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Israel’s Supreme Court overturns deportation of US student | NZ Herald

Lara Alqasem

Oh the irony…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday overturned an appeals court ruling that agreed with the government’s decision to bar an American graduate student from entering the country over her alleged involvement in the boycott movement against the Jewish state.

The court accepted Lara Alqasem’s appeal, saying her desire to study in Israel undermines the premise of her alleged support for a boycott. It said that if her deportation was based on her political opinion, then the state’s order was “a radical and dangerous step” that could erode Israeli democracy.

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→ 18 October 2018
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French government suspends demand for West Bank product labeling | The Times of Israel

Authorities backtrack over claims of discrimination, two years after adopting measure vocally protested by Israel; Amnesty International criticizes Paris over move

French authorities have reportedly suspended their insistence on special labeling for West Bank products following a lawsuit alleging that the practice is discriminatory.

The France office of the NGO Amnesty International complained about the suspension in a statement Wednesday.

“Instead of complying with the request to end imports [from the West Bank], the government has chosen to roll back and suspend the demand for labeling,” the human rights group wrote.

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→ 14 October 2018
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Lorde fans fined by Israeli courts raise more than $13,000 for Gaza mental health charity | NZ Herald

Two Lorde fans have raised thousands for a Gaza Strip charity instead of paying Israeli courts $12,000 in damages after they allegedly persuaded Lorde to cancel a concert.

Lorde

Justine Sachs and Nadia Abu-Shanab woke up on Friday “to find Israeli courts have ordered us to pay more than $12,000 USD in damages to three Israeli teenagers”.

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→ 10 October 2018
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Jerusalem mayor wants UN agency out of city | NZ Herald

Nir Barkat

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem’s outgoing mayor is calling on the international community to consider his proposal to end the local operations of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, saying there is “no such thing” as a refugee in the city.

In an interview, Barkat, who is leaving office after elections later this month, said Sunday he was inspired to make his proposal after the U.S. cut off $300 million in funding to the agency last month.

The proposal by Nir Barkat marks the latest assault by Israel and the United States against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. U.S. budget cuts have sent the agency into a financial crisis and drawn Palestinian accusations that Israel and the U.S. are trying to erase the refugee issue from the international agenda.

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→ 9 October 2018
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Israeli PM’s wife goes on trial for fraud | NZ Herald

Sara Netanyahu

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife appeared in court Sunday for the start of her trial over alleged fraud and breach of trust, drawing renewed attention to the many scandals plaguing the prime minister and his family.

Sara Netanyahu has been charged with allegedly overspending roughly $100,000 on celebrity chefs at the prime minister’s official residence, even when there was a full-time chef on staff.

Mrs. Netanyahu appeared before the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court wearing a dark jacket and white shirt, her hair coiffed into curls. She flashed a nervous smile to a courtroom packed with reporters but made no remarks before the press was asked to leave.

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