Tag: refugees

Trump is is looking to build a coalition to fight both radical Islam and the growing threat from Iran. For this reason, and NOT business interests, he exempted Egypt and Saudi Arabia from the ban.

Trump’s decision was made to prevent terrorists from coming into America. FDR prevented refugees from coming into America because they were Jewish and he thought the country didn’t need any more Jews

America's former envoy to Israel had plenty to say about the actions of his new president and PM Netanyahu.

The Trump order will include an exception for minority-religion refugees (Christians) fleeing religious persecution in their home country (Muslim).

It is impossible to assess how many lives have been touched, how many mitzvot have been performed because of F.R.E.E., and the far-reaching effect of each interaction with another Jew.

As the refugee population grew, we realized that we could reach more people through a Russian-language newspaper.

Because I spoke Yiddish, it was only natural for me to become involved with the Russian Jews who were settling in Chicago.

The Syrian war has worsened, with another massacre taking place in Aleppo after another US-Russian ceasefire falls apart.

The takeaway from King Abdullah II's speech is not about his faint call on Israel to be more peaceful with its terrorist neighbors, but a cry for help in managing the Arab hordes on either side of his gates.

As of March 31, 2016, Lebanon is hosting 1,048,275 registered refugees from Syria, 53% of whom are children, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Russia and the United States have agreed to work together to impose a cease-fire in Syria, again. Almost no one believes it will last: even their own allies.

Senior German lawmaker Johannes Kahrs says a Law of Integration would solve the Jewish community fears being fed by recent events escalated by incoming Muslim refugees.

The UK-based Jewish relief organization has helped thousands of refugees in Greece and Turkey, including thousands of children, over the past year.

Erdogan threatened that the Turkish migrant deal with the EU "will not be possible" if visa-waiver promises are not kept.

“Taboos of civilization are being broken," Merkel said. “These acts happened in places where any of us could have been."

Republicans in both houses have launched parallel efforts to compel the State Department to go on the record with who qualifies as a “Palestinian refugee.”

If they are Palestinian and live in what the UN and their leaders call the State of Palestine, where exactly are they refugees from?

Resettlement? No one is calling for Palestinians to be resettled! But if they are refugees, shouldn't they be included in the massive worldwide push to resettle refugees? Why aren't they?

Most Arabs in British Mandate Palestine – and most of the 320,000 1948 Arab refugees - were migrant workers and descendants of the 1831-1947 Muslim immigrants from Arab countries

10 myths concerning the Palestinian refugees.

HRW has been utterly silent about demanding Arab countries integrate Palestinians into the societies where they have been treated like second-class aliens for nearly 70 years.

It turns out Germans continue to harbor ugly feelings about people and things that are not German, and they prefer their bigotry small and intimate, away from the lime lights.

Venetian Jews say the 500th anniversary of the world's first ghetto may present a lesson for new Muslim refugees.

To make a comparison between today's Syrian refugees and Jews fleeing Nazis is a travesty of truth

“These brave people want nothing more than an end to the war in Syria. They want to go back to their lives..."

The mass immigration of past years can no longer be sustained without threatening the country’s cohesion.

Josef Schuster fears the fact that many of the refugees seeking asylum in Germany come from countries hostile to Israel might bolster anti-Semitic views among the Arab community.

The Syrians and Afghans fought over the use of the showers at the makeshift accommodation. An eyewitness report on Facebook suggested the cause of the dispute was a locked toilet door.

If we're already being creative, here's another thought...

PM Netanyahu says Israel is doing what it can to help refugees but is small and cannot open its doors to the flood.