By JOANNE HILL at the Jewish Tribune: Calev Myers (left), chief counsel, Jerusalem Institute of Justice; Faytene Grasseschi, founder, MY Canada; Majed Al Shafie, founder, One World International; and Hany Boghossian, chair, MissionGTA, addressed the question, who is responsible for the treatment of Palestinian refugees, during Palestinian Human Rights Week, which was launched last week at U [...]

By CHARLES BYBELEZER The Canadian government began reevaluating its financial support for the Palestinians after the PA’s successful bid in November. Following last week’s expiration of Canada’s five-year, $300 million aid package to the Palestinian Authority, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Ottawa would not renew its pledge prior to conducting “a dialogue [...]

US President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel was widely seen as a success, given that the primary goal was to win over the hearts of an Israeli public that had been, at best, suspicious of the American leader. But behind all the praise and admiration Obama heaped upon Israel, there was a gentle chiding that [...]

Palestinian Refugees who’ve inherited the status of ‘refugee’ are living today in throughout the Middle East and most condemned to living a life of abject poverty. The policies of the Arab nations as codified in their respective national legal codes discriminate against Palestinian refugees, unjustly trapping them in an economic and social underclass and do [...]

The demand for the government of Israel to invest more public resources in medicine, welfare and education, in order to strengthen the socio-economic fabric of the underprivileged, is not a novel demand. The “Yesh Atid” Party cannot copyright the idea. Actually, the prophet Ezekiel warned us 2,600 years ago about leaders, who do the opposite, [...]

Dr. Mitchell Bard For decades there has been an international drumbeat of concern for the Palestinians, their victimhood, their welfare and their human rights. But how much does the world really care about the Palestinians? We are learning now they don’t care at all as Assad slaughters them in Syria. Where are the front-page headlines? [...]

Anas Awwad, a 26 year old Palestinian Authority resident, was recently sentenced to one year in prison by a Palestinian court in Nablus. What was Awwad’s heinous crime? He dared to upload a post to his facebook page displaying a photo of Mahmoud Abbas kicking a soccer ball, with the caption, “Real Madrid’s New Striker”. [...]

Today in North Korea there are at least 12 concentration camps for political prisoners, which imprison between 150,000 to 200,000 detainees, their spouses, children, and in some cases, their parents. The existence of a slight suspicion that a person either publicly or privately expressed criticism of governmental policies or leaders is at times sufficient for [...]

Calev Myers The image of the State of Israel is deteriorating in the eyes of the world, while anti-Semitism is on the rise. Students are demonstrating on campuses against us, people are marching in the streets of major cities in protest of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Last week, the UN General Assembly approved a decision [...]