Daily Edition May 24, 2020 WORLD ISRAEL MIDDLE EAST OPINION CULTURE FEATURES Top News Jewish Organizations Slam Belgium for Deciding to Remove Military Guards From Synagogues on Anniversary of Museum Shooting by Algemeiner Staff Leading Jewish organizations on Sunday condemned the Belgian government for deciding to remove military guards from synagogues in the city of...More Netanyahu Says He Has Been Framed as Corruption Trial Starts by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu professed his innocence at the start of his corruption trial on Sunday, saying he was being framed in the first...More New Oxford University Study Finds Almost 20% of Britons Believe Jews Behind Coronavirus Pandemic by Benjamin Kerstein Almost 20% of Britons believe that “Jews” are behind the coronavirus pandemic, a new survey by Oxford University revealed. According to a university...More Outrage After Leading Academic Association Awards Professor Who Engaged in Hate Speech Against ‘Zionist’ Students by Benjamin Kerstein Outrage over the weekend greeted the decision by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to...More Australia’s Rapid Recovery from Covid-19 Spells Business Opportunities for Israeli Tech by Allon Sinai Such has been Australia’s success in containing the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that it has committed to removing most social distancing restrictions...More DOWNLOAD OUR NEW APP TODAY! Opinion Suddenly, Human Rights Watch Discovers Antisemitism by Ben Cohen The drumbeat of antisemitism has grown louder and more assured over the last two decades. Yet it’s only with the resurgence of far-right activism in the last five years or so that mainstream media...More Is There a Right to In-Person Religious Services During a Pandemic? by Jonathan S. Tobin Is there a point when attempts by the government to keep us safe go too far? When protesters stormed state capitals in Michigan and Wisconsin in recent weeks demanding that the coronavirus...More Jordan, the West Bank, and Unbearable Hypocrisy by Eric Lankin On May 5, King Abdullah II of Jordan told Der Spiegel that, “If Israel really annexed the West Bank valley in July, it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” When...More Israel’s Control of Judea and Samaria: A Prerequisite for Security by Yoram Ettinger The mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) constitute the “Golan Heights” of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion Airport, the key north-south transportation artery Highway 6, critical...More   BECOME AN ALGEMEINER MEMBER SIGN UP A FRIEND SEND A NEWS TIP  FACEBOOK  TWITTER