Jewish leaders called on the international community to recognize Jewish refugees from Arab nations, during a UN event Friday. Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor urged the assembly to right a “historic wrong,” referring to the 800,000 Jews forced from Arab countries between 1947 and 1972. “For some reason this issue was never raised, never discussed, and without too much mea culpa, this was wrong,” said Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. “But it’s never …More

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel -- three prominent Jewish activists who have joined with other prominent people in a bid to remove a group with a blood-soaked history from the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations. The names on the growing list of influential American advocates to de-list the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK -- known in English as the National Council of Resistance of Iran -- suggest an effort to give …More