Today’s Top Stories
1. Brazilian Jews won a lawsuit against a columnist who called Israel a ‘Nazi state.’ The affair began in 2006, when Gilson Gondim, a columnist for the Jornal da Paraiba newspaper, used that term in a column about the IDF’s retaliation for Hezbollah kidnapping two soldiers.
After Jornal da Paraiba shut down his column, Gondim took legal action against the Sao Paulo Jewish federation, claiming it had “gagged” him.
2. The Palestinian Authority announced it would work with Sudan to “restrain” Israeli outreach in Africa one day after Israel and Guinea renewed diplomatic ties yesterday.
The West African nation, which is predominately Muslim, severed ties with the Jewish state following the Six-Day War, but officials in Conakry have more pressing concerns than Palestinian solidarity.
One diplomatic official said that Guinea, like many other countries in Africa, was concerned about Islamic terrorism, and learning from Israel’s expertise in this matter was a major reason for the decision to establish ties.
3. Boycotters boycotted, reports the JTA. Good for El Al, which took its business to another area of Spain.
A Spanish city trying to increase tourism lost a direct flight connection with Israel over its symbolic support for boycotting the Jewish state, a Spanish newspaper reported . . .
Santiago’s support for boycotting Israel reflects “disregard not only toward Jews but for its own residents by tearing down a project that would have brought Santiago revenue, tourists and jobs,” ACOM said in a statement.
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Israel and the Palestinians
• Six-year-old Ahmad Dawabsheh was released from the hospital one year after Jewish terrorists killed his parents and brother in an arson attack. The boy, who suffered burns over 60 percent of his body, will be raised in the village of Duma by his maternal grandparents.
• This is not satire.
Hamas turns Gaza terror tunnels into summer tourist attraction
• Visiting Maale Adumim, The Media Line finds a community waiting to be annexed to Israel.
• Reporter Daniella Cheslow visited the Shuafat refugee camp to learn more about the life and murder of Baha Nabata, a Palestinian activist who worked with Israel to improve the lives of the camp’s 70,000 refugees.
Nabata was gunned down while “directing traffic as a road team repaved the rutted main avenue in Shuafat” in May.
• The fatwa you were waiting for:
Around the World
• London Jews are outraged after a teenager who placed lit firecrackers into the pockets of Jewish pedestrians was ordered to pay a mere £20. Nobody was injured, but community leaders are urging the police and courts to take hate crimes more seriously.
• A terror suspect with possible sympathies for Islamic State eyed attack on an Arizona Jewish community center and government buildings.
• Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed flatly rejected Black Lives Matter demands that the city’s police stop counterterror training with the “Apartheid Israel” police. Background at The Algemeiner.
“I happen to believe that the Israeli Police Department has some of the best counter-terrorism techniques in the world and it benefits our police department from that long-standing relationship.”
• Following the Nice terror attack, the International Business Times takes the pulse of French Jews.
Commentary/Analysis
• The Erdogan government is purging Turkish academics, restricting their travel, and even halting scientific cooperation with the rest of the world. Professor Eugene Kontorovich calls out BDS in this tweet of the day.
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Amb. Ned Siegel: Relationship of younger American Jews with Israel eroding
– Khaled Abu Toameh: The Palestinians: Refugee camps or terrorist bases?
– Norman Bailey: After coup, can Israel rely on Turkish commitment to rein in Hamas?
– Brig.-Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: One year after the Iran nuclear deal
– Cnaan Liphshiz: Can hobbled EU live up to promise to combat anti-Semitism?
– Matthew Levitt: Don’t forget, or deny, Hezbollah’s brutal crimes
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