The HarperCollins publishing house has omitted Israel from maps in atlases that it sells to English-speaking schools in the Middle East.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed on to 20 international agreements on Wednesday, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a day after a bid for independence by 2017 failed at the United Nations Security Council.
Our world has seen its fair share of brutality. From Hulagu Khan, who boasted about killing 200,000 Muslims during his violent week-long rampage in the city of Bagdhad which also resulted in the complete destruction of centuries-old heritage, to Vikings that took what they deemed desirable by force and violence, to the modern day Syrian regime targeting its own people, we can say that our world has witnessed some unspeakable acts of violence.\n
After receiving sharp criticism for wiping any reference to Israel in atlases distributed to English-speaking schools in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East, a spokesperson for publishing giant HarperCollins wrote in an email to the Jewish Journal that the omission was a mistake and that all the books will be recalled and destroyed.
The conventional wisdom assumes that if Israelis and Palestinians cannot work out a two-state solution, the Jews will someday have to choose between democracy and independence.
Vandals shot out the windows of a Florida synagogue.
An Israeli military court has convicted the leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in June.
A Palestinian home near Hebron was set alight by a firebomb in what is believed to be a price tag attack.
The Likud Party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the polls for party primaries to determine its candidates’ list for the upcoming national elections.
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