Airline denies antisemitism after group of Jewish teens are forced off plane

The director of the Jewish summer camp was arrested. Vueling claimed the group engaged in 'disruptive behaviour'. Reports suggest they had been 'singing Hebrew songs'.

By Jewish News Reporter

The director of a French Jewish summer camp being arrested by Spanish police after the group of Jewish teens were made to disembark from the plane

A low-cost airline owned by a British-Spanish firm has claimed that 50 French Jewish children were removed from a flight and the director of their summer programme arrested for “disruptive behaviour”, with relatives of the children saying that they had been singing Hebrew songs.

Vueling, which is owned by IAG, a multinational airline holding company with its corporate headquarters in England, issued a statement on Thursday morning in relation to “a group of teenage passengers on board flight VY8166 from Valencia to Paris Orly”, which it said had been “disembarked for disruptive behaviour”.

“ Susurrados en Gaza”: cómo se vive bajo el régimen de Hamás

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOGEh1lrhFs

Ministro de Cultura iraní: “El 7 de octubre será designado ‘Día del valor épico de los jóvenes palestinos’ – Esta cantidad de sionistas muertos no tiene precedentes en la historia”

El ministro iraní de Cultura y Orientación Islámica, Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili, participó en un evento de poesía llevado a cabo el 24 de octubre de 2023 en una biblioteca pública de Teherán y dedicado a Gaza y Palestina. En este contexto, Esmaili anunció que se designaría en el calendario persa el 7 de octubre – el día de la masacre de Hamás de 1.400 civiles en Israel – como el «Día del valor épico de los jóvenes palestinos».

El ministro también señaló en el evento de poesía, titulado «El nombre de la tarde es el amanecer», que según el líder supremo iraní Ali Khamenei, el 7 de octubre marca el comienzo de la cuenta atrás para la destrucción del régimen ocupante (es decir, Israel). Al mismo tiempo, Esmaili denominó la operación “Inundación de Al-Aqsa” de Hamás una “epopeya de valor sin precedentes en la memoria histórica de la región y en las luchas del pueblo musulmán de Palestina”.

Francesca Albanese: 'Free the hostages, both Israeli and Palestinians'

"Whether the Israeli #hostages found dead in a Gaza tunnel were executed or killed, this is yet another heinous crime that must be accounted for," she wrote.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese looks on at a press conference during a session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, on March 27, 2024.(photo credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese commented on the deaths of the six Gaza hostages over the weekend by saying that all hostages, both “Israeli and Palestinian,” should be freed in a Monday post on X, formerly Twitter.

Do Palestinians in Gaza still support Hamas 9 months into the war? - report

"I was always ideologically opposed to Hamas, but today I stand with them against this occupier [Israel] who has killed women and children, destroyed homes, and turned Gaza back a hundred years."

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Palestinians make their way as they return to the eastern side of Khan Younis after Israeli forces pulled out from the area following a raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip July 30, 2024.(photo credit: REUTERS/Hatem Khaled)

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip gave mixed opinions about Hamas, with many showing support, when asked about their views on the terror group, the October 7 attacks, and the Israel-Hamas war, a July BBC Arabic report showed.

Exclusivo desde Israel: en la casa del Rabino Ortodoxo, lider del Movimiento Antisionista

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Let UNRWA die already

The demise of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is long overdue. Let’s hope that Commissioner-General Lazzarini is right to be worried.

RUTHIE BLUM

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini (second from right) addresses the pledging conference of the Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the announcement of voluntary contributions to UNRWA. At right is U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Credit: United Nations.

(June 26, 2022 / JNS) Despite managing to raise $160 million in New York on Thursday, at a pledging conference of the Ad Hoc Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, the head of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was not pleased.

Trying to sound grateful for the ill-deserved windfall, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini simultaneously boasted about the international

Netherlands rejects Amnesty report accusing Israel of apartheid

Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra: “The cabinet does not agree with Amnesty’s conclusion that there is apartheid in Israel."

By LAHAV HARKOV

Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured) at the State Department in Washington, US, April 14, 2022. (photo credit: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS)

The government of the Netherlands has rejected Amnesty International’s report accusing Israel of apartheid against the Palestinians, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra has said.

“The cabinet does not agree with Amnesty’s conclusion that there is apartheid in Israel or the territories occupied by Israel,” Hoekstra wrote on Friday to a group of legislators asking the government to respond to the report.

Despite modernization, many Israeli Arabs continue to back violence and opposition to state

The Arab-Israeli sector appreciates an ever-increasing high standard of living. So why are their leaders hostile towards the nation that has allowed them to flourish?

BY ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

Arab Israelis and left wing activists protest against recent escalation in Jerusalem, in Haifa, April 17, 2022. Photo by Shir Torem/Flash90

(April 21, 2022 / JNS) Tensions between Israelis and Arabs have increased in recent days as unrest ensues on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, which has been a hotbed over the years, especially during the confluence of Passover and Ramadan.

The pressure has only risen after a string of terror attacks in major Israeli cities in the lead-up to the holiday period, which many Israelis viewed as the start of another intifada.

Edinburgh Council to formally discuss proposal to twin city with Gaza

Petition authored by activist Pete Gregson, who was expelled from the GMB union over allegations of antisemitism, and backed by Scottish National Party MP Tommy Sheppard.

By LEE HARPIN

Activist Pete Gregson speaks at a rally held outside the City Chambers on Edinburgh’s High Street on 23 March, promoting his Twinning Edinburgh with Gaza City petition. (YouTube)

Edinburgh City Council is to formally discuss a petition calling for it to be twinned with Gaza City – which has been submitted by an activist expelled from a trade union over claims of antisemitism.

The Twinning Edinburgh with Gaza Petition will be discussed by the council as part of the agenda for Policy and Sustainability Committee next Tuesday morning, 29 March.

Universidades holandesas ordenan al personal que revele vínculos con grupos judíos e israelíes

La orden siguió a una solicitud enviada el mes pasado por The Rights Forum, un grupo de defensa pro-palestino, a las oficinas de varias universidades.

Por CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

A instancias de una organización pro-palestina cuyos críticos dicen que es antisemita, los administradores de más de una docena de universidades holandesas están instruyendo a su personal para que enumere sus interacciones con organizaciones israelíes y judías.

La orden siguió a una solicitud enviada el mes pasado por The Rights Forum, un grupo de defensa pro-palestino, a las oficinas de varias universidades. Las universidades están reuniendo la información porque la solicitud del grupo fue certificada como lo que se conoce en los Países Bajos como una solicitud WOB, lo