Sean Savage: “By virtue of its wayward subsidiary, Unilever—a massive international conglomerate—risks potentially crushing financial consequences in terms of its ability to receive investments from, or do business with, the majority of U.S. states,” said Brooke Goldstein of the Lawfare Project.
Sean Savage: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and King Abdullah reportedly met in secret last week in Amman, prior to the Jordanian monarch’s scheduled visit the White House on July 19.
Sean Savage: Not only are there plans to restart funding for UNRWA, but the new administration is pushing more fiscal aid and a return to the negotiating table as the Palestinians head for elections in May.
Sean Savage: The platform had moved to ban several pro-Trump groups comprised of Russian American Jews, raising questions over the role social media companies play in the current free exchange of ideas.
Sean Savage: Efforts to link police brutality in the United States with the Israel Defence Forces maintaining security against Palestinian attacks have flooded the Internet and been used as propaganda by the BDS movement.
Sean Savage: The antisemitic attacks in New York—home to the largest numbers of Jewish residents in the country—are largely being carried out by members of minority communities, leading to a different set of questions for leaders to grapple with.
Sean Savage: Despite concerns over the policies of nationalist leader Viktor Orbán, the country enjoys low levels of antisemitism, warm relations with Israel and a thriving Jewish community. Hungary's Ambassador to the United States László Szabó says not to believe the “fake news is going around on Hungary.”
“The Prime Minister’s announcement is fully in line with Israel’s international legal rights. Because these territories were part of the British Mandate, Israel has as much legal right to them as to Tel Aviv," said Eugene Kontorovich, director of international law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum.
Publications put out by the group Miftah use highly politicized language, accusing Israel of “massacres,” “apartheid,” “summary executions” of Palestinian youth and “Judaizing” Jerusalem, according to NGO Monitor.
How can Israel work to combat that? Danny Danon, Ambassador to the United Nations, says that “for us, technology is a key player in helping us transform relations. We will use more of our capabilities and know-how to build more bridges with more countries.”
