Members also voted against amendments that would ensure Jewish party members aren't punished for attending "Zionist synagogues" or holding conflicting beliefs such as the two state solution or a binational state. If there was ever any doubt, the Greens are now a mask off Islamoleftist party.

At its party conference on Sunday, October 4, the UK Green Party adopted a motion equating Zionism with racism.

The motion was passed by 1,022 votes to 813.

The Green Party now formally describes itself as anti-Zionist and supports “a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine.”
Whatever language one chooses to dress this up in, the practical implication is difficult to avoid: the existing Jewish State of Israel would cease to exist as a Jewish state and would be replaced by a single Palestinian state.

A British political party has therefore reached the extraordinary position of vigorously defending Palestinian national self-determination while advocating a political outcome that would end Israel’s existence as the Jewish nation-state.

The left in the west has reached rock bottom. However this party is in free fall.

In order to finally end the conflict, Israel officially offered the Palestinians a two-state solution, with a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The Palestinians deliberately allowed the negotiations to fail by making unrealistic demands that were unacceptable to Israel. Among other things, they demanded the complete transfer of the Temple Mount to Palestinian control and a right of return for Palestinians to Israel, which would amount to demographic suicide for Israel.

To this day, chief mediator Bill Clinton says that there is no Palestinian state today because the Palestinians themselves sabotaged every effort to establish one.

The ultimate act of sabotage was the outbreak of the Second Intifada shortly after the negotiations, during which Palestinians carried out mass killings against Israeli civilians. With the Second Intifada, more or less all peace efforts on the Israeli side came to an end.

On this day in history, October 4, 2003, Palestinian Islamic Jihad carried out a suicide bombing at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel, murdering 21 people and wounding dozens.

It was Saturday lunchtime. Families had gathered to eat at a seaside restaurant jointly owned by Jews and Christian Arabs, where Jewish and Arab Israelis regularly worked and ate together. Hanadi Jaradat, a female Palestinian lawyer, a suicide bomber from Jenin, detonated an explosive belt among the diners.

The bomb was packed with metal fragments to make it more deadly. The explosion sent shrapnel through the crowded restaurant, destroying its interior and killing children, parents, grandparents and staff.

Two families each lost five members across three generations.

The Zer-Aviv family lost Bruria, her son Bezalel, his wife Keren, and their children: four-year-old Liran and one-year-old Noya. A grandmother, both parents and both children were murdered in the same attack.

The Almog family lost Ze'ev and Ruth, their son Moshe, and their grandchildren: nine-year-old Tomer and eleven-year-old Assaf Staier.

Ten-year-old Oran Almog survived, but the blast left him blind. His father, brother, grandparents and cousin were dead. He lost his sight and five members of his family in one afternoon.

Four Arab employees were also murdered. The terrorists attacked a place where coexistence was part of everyday life, and killed the people who made it possible.

In 2012, the Arab Lawyers Union awarded Jaradat its highest decoration and sent a delegation to present it to her family. A union representative said its lawyers were proud of her actions. The woman responsible for murdering children at lunch was being honored for it.

Maxim was rebuilt and reopened. A memorial near the restaurant remembers those murdered there.

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Recently a counter-documentary titled NAZA: The Real Story was released that refutes the claims made by Yuval Abraham's NAZA and presents actual evidence from soldiers who've actually been there. The video I linked is a snippet posted by Oren from travelingisrael, but the whole documentary is available through the link he provided in the description. Please watch it and spread it around.

The DRC will be the 11th country with an embassy in Jerusalem

Shin Bet relinquished responsibility in 2021, a classified comptroller report flagged the gap in 2024 and Netanyahu transferred oversight in 2025; since then, the ministry has not sought help from security agencies, Army Radio reported

In mid-2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unequivocally placed responsibility for the security of foreign airlines flying to Israel with the Transportation Ministry and its Security Division. Behind the scenes, however, officials in the division strongly opposed the move, arguing they lacked the necessary tools, authority and budget.

Despite those concerns, no one raised a formal alarm. Neither the security agencies nor the ministry’s Security Division intervened, and the division did not approach the security services for assistance.

According to a report aired Sunday morning by Army Radio, the Shin Bet relinquished responsibility for securing foreign flights in 2021, while the Transportation Ministry failed to assume that responsibility in practice. The State Comptroller reportedly pointed to the issue in a classified May 2024 report that remains under gag order.

The comptroller’s report prompted the security cabinet in May 2024 to order the National Security Council to establish a team with the Transportation Ministry, Civil Aviation Authority, Shin Bet, Mossad and Finance Ministry to examine the security framework for civil aviation to Israel.

The National Security Council conducted a year-long review, during which disagreements emerged within the Transportation Ministry. The NSC and Shin Bet pushed for the ministry to assume responsibility, a position also supported by Civil Aviation Authority Director Shmuel Zakai.

But according to the Army Radio report, Transportation Ministry Security Division chief Avri Cohen argued in internal discussions that the responsibility was too heavy and that the issue was beyond the division’s capabilities, voicing his objections to Zakai.

“During the discussions, a scenario was raised in which all it would take was for a Syrian migrant who had moved to Britain to board a plane. He would look British, not Syrian, and we would not know,” a source familiar with the discussions was quoted as saying.

“There were major blowups, confrontations and strongly worded letters, but Regev, Director-General Ben Zaken and the head of the Civil Aviation Authority did not listen,” the source said.

In mid-2025, Netanyahu ultimately ruled that responsibility would be transferred to the Transportation Ministry and its Security Division.

A year and a half later, according to the report, no one has approached the security agencies to request assistance. The Shin Bet and Mossad, for their part, have not expanded their responsibilities or offered such assistance.

Israel’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that 1,318 members of Israel’s security forces have been added to the nation’s official roll of slain personnel since Oct. 7, 2023.

The total includes Israel Defense Forces soldiers, Israel Police officers, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) personnel, Israel Prison Service and Fire and Rescue Authority members, civilian security coordinators and members of civilian rapid-response squads.

More than 7,150 people have joined Israel’s bereaved-family community during that period, including 2,143 parents, 355 widows, 880 orphans and 3,772 siblings, according to the ministry.

Separately, the National Insurance Institute said 1,029 civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks since Oct. 7, 2023, excluding security personnel and members of local rapid-response squads. The civilian toll includes 668 men, 361 women, 88 foreign nationals, and 63 children under age 18.

The institute said it has been treating 87,286 additional victims of hostile acts since Oct. 7, including 24 amputees. Of 43,004 civilians who filed hostile-act disability claims, 40,542 have had a disability determined: 34,955 for psychological injury, 3,208 for physical injury and 2,379 for combined physical and psychological injuries. The remaining claims are still before medical committees.

Of the civilians killed, 778 were murdered on Oct. 7 itself, including 70 foreign nationals. Another 251 were killed during the subsequent war period, including 18 foreign nationals.

https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/israel-marks-1-318-slain-security-personnel-since-oct-7

The frameworks now being built for Gaza rest on the same flawed premise as the Oslo Accords., writes Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs' Sagiv Steinberg. https://www.jns.org/opinion/sagiv-steinberg/oslo-at-33-is-an-agreement-nobody-owns

Her name was Asenath Barzani (c. 1590–1670), a Kurdish Jewish woman from Mosul. Sources such as Encyclopaedia Judaica describe her as the daughter of Rabbi Samuel Barzani of Kurdistan, and she eventually became the head of a yeshiva and taught rabbinic students.

I’ve never done martial arts and I’m 21. Im moving to tel Aviv and would love to get into taekwondo.

My dear Israeli people, I am collecting simple food recipes from all over the world. And I am curious: what's your personal childhood comfort food?

If you could provide a short recipe, that would be super awesome!

Thank you & תודה

Currently 18 in the army and wondering if I should go out more during this period of my life or if the peak is still awaiting me in the future?

Feels incredibly lazy. Could have been prevented with a simple SQL query.