In 1967, Israel’s Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan made a fateful decision. Just after Israel, through force of arms, took possession of east Jerusalem, including the Old City and the Temple Mount, Dayan declared that Jewish visitors to the Mount would not be allowed to pray, either aloud or silently, at the site. You read […]
Jewish Prayer Now Allowed On Temple Mount, But For How Long?
Just at the end of the Six-Day War, when all of east Jerusalem, which includes the Old City and the Temple Mount, came into Israel’s possession, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a fateful decision. He decided that Muslims could continue to visit the Temple Mount, which they call the Haram al-Sharif, at all days and times. […]
IDF preparing for ‘extreme violence’ in Israeli-Arab cities in coming conflict
The Palestinian Authority has been doubling down on its efforts to incite riots. Most recently, an outbreak led to the death of an Al-Jazeera journalist, and Israel was blamed for it. The IDF warns that “extreme violence” in Israeli-Arab cities is on its way, which is unsurprising given the recent escalation. Some recent occurrences: Last month, […]
Palestinian Authority incited riots, violence that led to death of Al-Jazeera journalist
The Palestinian Authority incited riots, violence and jihad terror against Jews over the Temple Mount, and then blamed Israel, as usual. It has always been a deeply religious war for the Palestinians, despite the propaganda and habitual accusations against Israel. The latest round resulted in the death of an Al Jazeera journalist. Now Al Jazeera […]
How Dare Israel Rebuild a Synagogue the Jordanians Blew Up?
Visitors to the Old City of Jerusalem are often struck by how new all the synagogues in the Jewish Quarter look. That is because they are new, built after 1967, when Israel won back the Old City from Jordan, that had seized the area in 1948 and held onto it for 19 years. Those synagogues […]
Biden Warns Israel Against ‘Freedom of Worship’
His administration tells Jews to stop praying. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. The Biden administration has announced that its titular head will be visiting Israel within a few months. Biden’s last high profile visit to the […]
Israel: Just Tell the Truth About the Temple Mount
Israel needs only to tell the truth about Temple Mount, about who has been doing the inciting, and the rioting, and the attacks on worshippers, and who, on the other hand, has merely been trying to stop the rioting, and end the attacks. Which side has tried to protect its own worshippers, praying inoffensively at […]
Has Israel Changed the Status Quo on the Temple Mount?
The Arab League has now charged Israel with changing the status quo by allowing Jews to pray at the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount. A report on this dangerous lie can be found here: “Israel Is ‘Preserving the Status Quo’ at Jerusalem’s Holy Site,” i24 News, April 23, 2022: Israel emphasized earlier this […]
Palestinian imam’s Ramadan prayer: ‘Allah delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews’
Anyone paying attention would know that hatred and violence are the steady diet with which the Palestinian leadership feeds its people, from childhood onward. It never stops. Even before the most recent outbreak on the Temple Mount, Supreme Sharia judge and Abbas advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash reminded Palestinians that “Ramadan is a month of jihad, conquest […]
Arab League tells Israel to stop Jewish prayers at the Temple Mount
Since when must Jews be in obedience to Muslim leaders? The Arab League called on Israel on Thursday to end Jewish prayers inside the compound of Islam’s third holiest shrine in East Jerusalem, warning it was a flagrant affront to Muslim feelings that could trigger wider conflict. In Islam, Muslims are superior to Jews, Christians […]