Younger Palestinians Are More Moderate Than Their Elders—With One Major Exception, by David Pollock (Washington Inst. for Near East Policy via Mosaic)
Sept. 18, 2019 Analyzing the results of a recent survey of Palestinian public opinion, David Pollock notes the important cleavages it points to between those under age thirty and those older—as well as the similarities: [Y]ounger Palestinians have somewhat more moderate views than their elders on various current issues—though not on long-term ones. Respondents ages eighteen to […]
Read More →Survey Shows Palestinian Reconciliation with Israel Still a Distant Dream – David Pollock (Wash. Inst. for Near East Policy via Daily Alert)
Sept. 12, 2019 Survey Shows Palestinian Reconciliation with Israel Still a Distant Dream – David Pollock (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) A detailed Palestinian survey in the West Bank and Gaza conducted on June 27-July 15 by the Palestine Center for Public Opinion found that young and old share many hardline views. Asked if a […]
Read More →Poll: Half of Palestinians Don’t Support Special Payments to Prisoners – David Pollock (Wash. Inst. for Near East Policy via Daily Alert)
Aug. 27, 2019 Poll: Half of Palestinians Don’t Support Special Payments to Prisoners – David Pollock (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) A poll from the Palestine Center for Public Opinion last month showed that half of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians agree with this proposal: “The Palestinian Authority should stop special payments to prisoners, and […]
Read More →Agricultural exports from Gaza going up, not that you would know that from the news (EoZ)
Aug. 2, 2019 The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization puts out statistics each week on Gaza’s exports of fruit, vegetables and fish to the rest of the world. Here’s where the exports this year have gone so far: Click here for statistics, charts & tables
Read More →Reported antisemitic incidents in NYC in Q1 FAR more than all other hate crimes COMBINED. (22x more than anti-Islam incidents.) (EoZ)
May 29, 2019 The NYPD Hate Crimes statistics for the first quarter of 2019 shows that 59% of all reported hate crimes have been against Jews – far more than against all other groups combined. In previous years, the anti-Jewish crimes reported nationwide were far higher than other anti-religious crimes, but there were still more anti-black and […]
Read More →Israel Ranked as 8th Most Influential Country in the World in 2019 – Ilanit Chernick (J. Post via Daily Alert)
Apr. 22, 2019 Israel Ranked as 8th Most Influential Country in the World in 2019 – Ilanit Chernick (Jerusalem Post) U.S. News & World Reportranked Israel as the world’s 8th-most influential country in 2019, similar to 2018.
Read More →Region Is the Middle East – Benjamin Kerstein (Algemeiner via Daily Alert)
Mar. 13, 2019 Region Is the Middle East – Benjamin Kerstein (Algemeiner) A 2014 ADL survey of global anti-Semitism found that the most ferociously anti-Semitic region is the Muslim nations of the Middle East. The Palestinians were far ahead, with 93% holding anti-Semitic opinions. Not far behind was Iraq with 92%; Egypt, 75%; and Saudi Arabia, […]
Read More →Anti-Semitic Acts Hit France amid Anti-Government Protests – Samuel Petrequin (AP-Washington Post via Daily Alert)
Feb. 12, 2019 Anti-Semitic Acts Hit France amid Anti-Government Protests – Samuel Petrequin (AP-Washington Post) Portraits of a Holocaust survivor tagged with swastikas. A memorial in honor of a Jewish man vandalized. A bagel shop with the German word “Juden” sprayed on its front window. These are just a few of the hundreds of anti-Semitic acts […]
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