Today’s Top Stories
1. The EU plans to release next week its guidelines on labeling settlement products next week. Haaretz explains the curious timing:
The labeling guidelines had been due to be released a month ago, but the wave of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel caused their publication to be delayed. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini had not wanted to release the information while Israelis were being murdered in the streets by Palestinians, senior Israeli officials noted.
On the other hand, the Israeli officials said Mogherini is under heavy pressure from several European countries, such as France and Sweden, to issue the guidelines on settlement product labeling and not delay their publication further. The monthly meeting of EU foreign ministers is to be held on November 16, and apparently Mogherini is interested in releasing the guidelines before that.
2. The IDF shut down a Fatah-affiliated radio station in Hebron and confiscated equipment over the station’s incitement. Israeli officials said Al-Huriya encouraged stabbing attacks, glorified terror, and supported violent demonstrations.
3. Greek Jews are protesting a major Greek paper for portraying an ex-finance minister (who isn’t Jewish) as a Jewish moneylender.
The image, which shows Yanis Varoufakis wearing a giant black skullcap and hunched over a ledger counting bags and coins of gold, was published Friday in Ta Nea, one of the country’s largest newspapers and usually associated with the center-left.
4. Balfour Declaration Anniversary Erases Jewish Connection to Holy Land: As Palestinians protest on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the Daily Mail omits the Jewish historical connection to the Holy Land.
5. Will the Real Palestinians Please Stand Up? It’s astonishing what Palestinians sitting in cafes, bowling alleys, and swimming pools have to say about the occupation.
6. From JK Rowling to Helen Mirren, UK Artists Slam Cultural Boycott: “Boycotting people based on their national origin is pure discrimination. It’s about time the artistic community spoke out against the exploitation of culture for destructive political ends.”
Israel and the Intifada
• The IDF foiled a terror attack when soldiers manning a checkpoint between Afula and Jenin arrested a Palestinian with an improvised explosive device (IED) and a knife this morning. Yesterday evening, a terrorist who stabbed an elderly man in Netanya was shot. More on yesterday’s attacks (including Rishon LeTzion) at AP. The Rishon LeTzion attack was caught on video.
• CNN‘s Oren Liebermann takes a look at the intifada’s impact on Jerusalem.
• Joseph’s Tomb, torched by Palestinians, restored overnight
• Nice to see a semblance of sanity prevailing as Alan Dershowitz won an Oxford Union debate on BDS.
Around the World
• Head of Italian soccer insists he is not homophobic or anti-Semitic despite recorded comments.
• The Media Line takes a closer look at Israeli ties with its “secret Muslim friend,” Azerbaijan.
Commentary/Analysis
• Worth reading: The New York Times gave a well-deserved op-ed soapbox to Micah Lakin Avni, whose father succumbed to injuries in a Jerusalem terror attack. Avni calls Facebook and other social media platforms onto the carpet for allowing Palestinian incitement to go unchecked.
My father raised me to cherish and protect free speech, but the very liberty that free speech was designed to protect is at stake when it is used to spread venom and incite violence.
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– David Polisar: What do Palestinians want?
– Khaled Abu Toameh: Why do Palestinians not want cameras on the Temple Mount?
– Adam Slonim: Why the media blames Israel
– Ari Shavit: Dark forces in the Holy Land
– Richard Cohen: On Nazis and Palestinians, Netanyhu wrong for the right reasons
– Danny Rubinstein: Chairman Erekat?
– New York Daily News (staff-ed): Committed to blood in the endless war against Israel
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