Iran Reports That Its New Missile Has Region-Wide Range
The Islamic Republic unveiled a missile that could reportedly reach Israel and regional U.S. bases.
February 10, 2022
President Biden’s State Department Nominee Warns against Efforts to Delegitimize Israel
At her Senate confirmation hearing, Deborah Lipstadt protested attempts to cast Israel as an “apartheid state.”
The historian and Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, President Biden’s nominee for the post of anti-Semitism envoy, appeared this week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for her confirmation hearing. A number of Republicans raised concerns regarding Lipstadt’s political views, particularly in relation to comments she made following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, as Ben Cohen notes, Lipstadt pledged to conduct herself in a non-partisan manner, and insisted that she is an “equal-opportunity foe” of anti-Semitism.
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President Biden’s State Department Nominee Warns against Efforts to Delegitimize Israel
At her Senate confirmation hearing, Deborah Lipstadt protested attempts to cast Israel as an “apartheid state.”
Over 80 Muslim Organizations Urge the Justice Department to Investigate a Terrorism-Research Group
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is leading the charge.
The People of the Book and the Printing Press
Messages of hope in early printed Hebrew texts.
Israel Arrests an Antiquities Thief and Recovers Thousands of Precious Relics
In a complex pre-dawn operation near Nablus, Israeli forces recover an array of ancient coins and other historical artifacts.