Intifada

This week in Jewish history: High Holy Days, return of Yemeni Jews, Second Intifada

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

YEMENI JEWS are brought home: From Aden to Israel via plane, their personal ‘wings of eagles,’ around 1950.
NETUREI KARTA demonstrate at the Israel Day on Fifth Parade in New York City, June 2, 2025.

The self-hating Semites strike again: How left-wing Jews want to associate with power - opinion

IDF operates in Gaza, August 29, 2025.

We must all become soldiers - opinion

 A Palestinian prisoner waits to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007

NGO: Israel's 11,000 Palestinian security prisoners breaks record


Palestinian terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi claims life of terror 'ultimately futile' in NYT interview

Israel's GPO denounced NYT's interview as "glossing over" key moments in Zubeidi's career, including how his re-arrest in 2019 was due to ties with terror attacks, not an amnesty breach.

Zakaria Zubeidi posing with his M-16 and a picture of then-Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat, in Jenin, July 31, 2004.

Gil Troy's award-winning essay confronts ‘Silent Boycott’ against Jewish voices in publishing

This win for Troy followed his 2017 Louis Rapoport Award for Excellence in Commentary win for “Excellence in Single Commentary.”

 Gil Troy

Hamas needs to be held accountable for its web of violence - opinion

The globalization of the intifada is the result of Hamas launching an international propaganda campaign that fuels terror around the world.

 PALESTINIANS WAIT to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, near tents where they have taken shelter after being displaced, in Gaza City last week. Hamas steals and hoards goods entering Gaza, often reselling them at inflated prices, states the writer.

Deadly attacks on Jews driven by desperation, not escalation - opinion

The ideological war against Israel has not ended, but the momentum is shifting.

 A demonstrator holds a placard as students from Columbia University protest outside offices of University Trustees, as part of ongoing protests in support of Palestinians, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., May 7, 2024

Jews must remain steadfast and indivisible amid antisemitic attacks - opinion

Sarah and Yaron loved Israel, each other, and life itself, with joy, hope, and plans for a future they were never able to build. Their memory, and our response, must be defined by action, not fear.

 THE WRITER (right) meets last week with Daniel Lischinsky at the shiva in Beit Zayit for Daniel’s son Yaron, who was murdered along with Sarah Lynn Milgrim in the Washington terror attack

Columbia University bars two, suspends one after activists interrupt Israel history class

A third activist had been identified as a Columbia student on Thursday and has been suspended pending a full investigation and disciplinary process.

 A STUDENT wrapped in an Israeli flag stands amid pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University in New York City on October 7, 2024, a year after the Hamas attack on Israel.

Director of anti-Israel ‘Electronic Intifada’ arrested in Switzerland after entry ban

Head of the Department of Security,  Mario Fehr, said Abunimah is forbidden entry to Zurich, adding "we do not want an Islamist Jew-hater who calls for violence in Switzerland."

 Ali Abunimah

Israeli diplomats: Ideology of NYC ‘intifada’ march connected to New Orleans attack

"This is the grim reality of the 'globalization of the Intifada' they called for. It's terror, pure and simple."

 Thousand protestors take the streets of Manhattan, New York City to demand an end to the Israeli attacks on Gaza, during the New Year's eve on January 1, 2025. They unequivocally recommit to another year of struggle alongside people in Palestine.

Court rules that compensation payments to terrorist victims from Second intifada to be doubled

The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that a lien to secure compensation payments to victims of terrorism from the Second Intifada will be doubled to NIS 1 Billion.

President of the Shurat HaDin organization, Attorney Nitsana Darshan Leitner.

How intifada and razzia shape the Palestinian struggle and global perception – opinion

Intifada and razzia leave Palestinians trapped in cycles of violence and backlash.

 A PROTEST is held outside a US federal court in Oakland, California, last January where members of the Palestinian community presented an oral argument in a lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to halt US support for Israel.

Biden spotted with book that accuses Israel of settler-colonialism, apartheid

The spotting has drawn mixed reactions from both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups that are unclear as to what message is being sent.

 US President Joe Biden seen leaving a bookstore in Massachusetts with "The hundred Years War on Palestine," November 29, 2024.