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The West (and the church) should take Iranian threats seriously

It appears the proposed agreement that the EU and US have been trying to renegotiate with Iran is off the table, for the time being. On the one hand, that is good news. The agreement that was on the table would lift sanctions on Iran, …

Weekly Update: a State constantly under siege

Israel is often portrayed in the media as the aggressor. But it is important to remember that Israel is under …

Weekly Update: Wishful thinking

President Biden’s long-awaited and much-discussed three-day visit to Israel this week, en route to attend a meeting of the Gulf …

Turmoil in and around Israel

The Israeli government has fallen. Today (30th June) the 24th Knesset (Parliament) in Israel was disbanded. The country is going …

Weekly Update: ‘I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations’

The United Nations has created its own virtual reality, which is on a collision course with God’s reality. Week in …

Weekly Update: The Holy Spirit – for Jew and Gentile

In the coming days, the Jewish people will celebrate Shavuot, and Christians will celebrate Pentecost. This is a good time …

Weekly Update: Solving the Israel-Palestine conflict?

For decades, the secular West has been trying to find ‘solutions’ to the ‘Israel-Palestine’ conflict. We think we can decide …

Weekly Update: Israel and the threat posed by Iran

While the entire world seems to be obsessed with condemning Israel for the death of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen …

Israel’s dilemma

The tragic killing this week of Palestinian Arab journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, during an Israeli military operation in Jenin, highlights …

Weekly Update: Fighting for freedom

Today is Yom Hazikaron, Remembrance Day, in Israel. The nation honors its fallen, before transitioning from mourning to joy as …

Weekly Update: Did Israel attack the Al Aqsa mosque?

This past week – as expected – there has been conflict on the Temple Mount during the Islamic festival of …

Weekly Update – Israel: a country with huge challenges – and massive opportunities

Israel is a Jewish State, the Jewish national home. But it is also so much more than that – a …

Weekly Update: The nations continue their Israel-bashing ritual

The UN Human Rights Council, based in Geneva, has an inbuilt, institutional bias against Israel. No other country attracts as …

Weekly Update: Terrorist attacks in Israel in midst of great political change

There has been a surge of terrorist attacks in Israel in recent days. 11 innocent people have been killed in …

Zelenskyy and the UN whitewash antisemitism

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent speech to the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) certainly hit some sensitive spots in the Jewish world. This …

Lessons we need to learn from Purim

Today the Jewish world celebrates the holiday of Purim, which commemorates the failed attempt of the Persian ruler Haman, in …

Whither the new global dis-order?

Russia’s ruthless attack on the innocent people of Ukraine has direct and indirect consequences for Israel and the Jewish people. …

Weekly Update: Who are the Palestinians?

The recent Amnesty report accusing Israel of apartheid against “the Palestinians” has thrown into the spotlight the question: who are …

Weekly Update: Framing the Jewish State as war criminal

Amnesty International’s report published this week is just one of several human rights NGO’s over the last year to come …

Borders, antisemitism and the Holocaust

Today, 27th January, is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the day on which the world officially commemorates the liberation of …