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After 50 years, B’nai B’rith CEO Daniel Mariaschin warns fight against antisemitism continues

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: B’nai B’rith outgoing CEO Daniel Mariaschin reflects on changes in the Jewish world, after 50 years of advocacy.

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Daniel S. Mariaschin, stepping down after 37 years as CEO of B’nai B’rith International, reflects on five decades of Jewish advocacy.
People stand next to a destroyed tank turret, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters, Sunni Bedouin tribes and government forces, in Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, Syria July 25, 2025.

‘More should be done’: UN pushes Syrian regime on justice for Druze, Alawites and minority groups

The UN condemned continued incidents of summary executions, arbitrary killings, abductions, sexual violence, arbitrary detentions, looting and the destruction of homes.

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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun attends a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, March 28, 2025.

Ceasefire talks aim primarily at halting Israel's hostilities, Lebanon says

He also told a visiting UN Security Council delegation that Lebanon welcomes any country willing to keep forces in the south to support the army after UNIFIL withdraws.

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses delegates during a high-level meeting of heads of state on a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians at United Nations headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2025.

Guterres says Israel’s Gaza conduct ‘fundamentally wrong’

"The objective was to destroy Hamas. Gaza is destroyed, but Hamas is not yet destroyed. So there is something fundamentally wrong with the way this is conducted," Antonio Guterres said.

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Jewish, Israeli rights groups urge UN to recognize Hamas’s systematic sexual violence

The organizations warned of what they described as growing efforts from the UN to deny Hamas’s weaponization of sexual violence against the hostages abducted during the October 7, 2023, massacre.

DECEMBER 3, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ISRAELI WOMEN protest outside UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, in November. Finally, yet months too late, a UN team investigating the sexual violence against women in Israel on October 7 found “reasonable grounds” to believe that such violence did indeed occur.

Over 300 rabbis, Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied October 7 rapes

The letter’s signatories include several leading rabbis as well as former antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt.

DECEMBER 3, 2025ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
The United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, Reem Alsalem, addresses a press conference in Ankara on July 27, 2022.

UN torture report flags Israel for allegedly mistreating journalists, detainees, ex-MAG

The UN warned Israel over alleged abuses against rights defenders and detainees, calling for stronger legal protections and impartial investigations.

DECEMBER 2, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Israel Prison Service officer at Ketziot Prison watches as Palestinian prisoners are prepared for release in exchange for Israeli hostages held by Gazan terrorists, February 26, 2025; illustrative.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak contained, health officials declare

Congolese health officials declared the Ebola outbreak over after the DRC used a revamped national surveillance system to rapidly contain transmission in Kasai Province.

DECEMBER 1, 2025ByREUTERS
Kavota Mugisha Robert (L), a healthcare worker who volunteered in the Ebola response, stands with decontamination gear as his colleague prepare to enter a house where a woman, 85, is suspected of dying of Ebola in the Eastern Congolese town of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 8, 201

IDF fears UNIFIL leaked photos, documentation of military movements to Hezbollah - Army Radio

The IDF also discovered an official UNIFIL document which referred to Israel as "the enemy," according to Army Radio.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A UN vehicle drives, during a Reuters' visit at Camp Shamrock where Irish and Polish peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are stationed near Maroun al-Ras village close to the Lebanese-Israeli border, in southern Lebanon November 29, 2023.

Gas field in Kurdistan Region of Iraq seeks restart after drone attack

Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field, vital for Kurdistan’s electricity, is preparing to restart production days after a drone attack halted operations, sparking widespread condemnation.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
FILE PHOTO: The Khor Mor gas field after a rocket attack near Chamchamal, in Sulaymaniyah province, Iraq, November 27, 2025.

Why deradicalizing Gaza’s youth will be the hardest battle - opinion

“All Jews are sh**...” “I want to be ‘shaheed’ [martyr] next week,” and “Hitler is the best,” reads an exercise book found by the IDF in Gaza during the war.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025ByIAN LLOYD NEUBAUER
UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL Philippe Lazzarini speaks in Cairo in September. He had claimed that UNRWA didn’t know what was ‘under its headquarters,’ and fired a handful of terrorists, but it wasn’t just a few bad apples, says the writer.

UN Committee against Torture condemns Israel’s ‘disproportionate’ response to October 7 attacks

Panel also expresses concern over treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, citing both increased settler violence and use of administrative detention.

NOVEMBER 29, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Gaza City, November 25, 2025.

'We need America': Head of Israel's Druze community appeals to Trump as Syrian brethren massacred

The Jerusalem Post traveled to the home of Israel's Druze leader, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, where hundreds of former Druze IDF soldiers have mobilized for Syrian Druze after months of genocide

NOVEMBER 28, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Sheikh Tarif meets with a delegation from The Jerusalem Post to discuss the crisis in Syria.

UN says Israeli forces' killing of two wanted West Bank Palestinians looks like 'summary execution'

The incident, which occurred during Israeli counterterrorism operations in Jenin, is currently under investigation.

NOVEMBER 28, 2025ByREUTERS
IDF troops in northern West Bank operation.

Ireland’s new president is a troubling ally of Hamas and a danger for Israel - opinion

During Connolly's campaign she even told BBC News that Hamas was "part of the fabric of Palestinian people" legitimately elected to lead Gaza.

NOVEMBER 28, 2025ByASHER MAOZ
Ireland's new President Catherine Connolly takes part in an inspection of an Honour Guard following her inauguration ceremony, at Dublin Castle in Dublin, Ireland November 11, 2025.