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Amnesty International statement glosses over 80-year-old Israeli killed by Islamic Jihad rocket, only briefly mentions Gaza-based terror groups indiscriminately firing at Israeli communities.

By World Israel News Staff

Amnesty International called for an investigation into the Israeli military’s actions during Operation Shield and Arrow, saying that the Jewish State may be guilty of war crimes during a recent conflict with terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

The international group, which released a report last year alleging that Israel is an apartheid state, said in a statement on Tuesday that the last clash was another example of “repeated war crimes” perpetrated by the Jewish State against the Palestinians.

The lengthy statement, which accused Israel of “unlawful killing and destruction,” only briefly mentioned the Islamic Jihad and other Gaza-based terror groups’ indiscriminate firing of rockets towards Israeli civilian communities, which is a war crime.

The Amnesty International statement named casualties of the operation in Gaza and focused on their life stories, yet did not identify Israeli citizen Inga Avramyan, 80, who was killed by a rocket fired from the Strip that hit her apartment building in Rehovot.

“The root cause of this unspeakable violence is Israel’s system of apartheid,” said Heba Morayef, Middle East and North Africa Regional Director at Amnesty International, ignoring a long history of Islamic terrorism originating from the Strip aimed at Israeli civilians.

“This system must be dismantled, the blockade of the Gaza Strip immediately lifted, and those responsible for the crime of apartheid, war crimes and other crimes under international law must be held to account,” said Morayef.

“That we have been documenting the same patterns of unlawful killings and destruction over and over again is an indictment of the international community’s failure to hold Israel accountable,” she added.

“Israel’s impunity for the war crimes it repeatedly commits against Palestinians, and for its cruel ongoing 16-year illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, emboldens further violations and makes injustice chronic.”

In recent years, Amnesty International has been disproportionately focused on criticizing Israel, while largely remaining silent regarding rampant human rights abuses against Gazans perpetrated by the ruling Hamas terror group.

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If the West’s intention with the imposition of sanctions and coercive measures was to pressure and isolate Russia, this strategy failed.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Sheba Hospital believe that the new discovery may contribute to the development of a vaccine against melanoma.

By Pesach Benson, TPS

A discovery of the way melanoma spreads has a group of Israeli researchers confident that their findings will contribute to the development of a vaccine against the deadly form of skin cancer.

The study by a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan found that melanoma cancer cells spread by manipulating their surrounding environment — specifically by creating new lymph vessels in the top layers of skin collectively known as the dermis.

Melanoma and other forms of skin cancer are typically caused by too much exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun, tanning beds or sun lamps. Risk factors include light natural skin color, skin that freckles or burns easily in the sun, and a family history of skin cancer. Once melanoma forms, it can spread to other parts of the body normally covered.

According to the World Health Organization, 325 000 new cases of melanoma were diagnosed worldwide and 57 000 people died from the disease in 2020.

Melanoma starts with uncontrolled division of melanocyte cells in the epidermis – the top layer of the skin. In the second stage the cancer cells penetrate the dermis and metastasize through the lymphatic and blood systems. In previous studies a dramatic rise was observed in the density of lymph vessels in the skin around the melanoma – a mechanism that was not understood by researchers until now.

The research team was led by Prof. Carmit Levy of Tel Aviv University and Prof. Shoshana Greenberger of the Sheba Medical Center. Their findings were recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

Since melanoma is not dangerous at the premetastatic stage — before the cells spread to other parts of the body — understanding the mechanism by which the metastases spread via the lymphatic and blood systems can hopefully contribute to the development of a vaccine against this deadly cancer, the researchers said.

“Melanoma confined to the skin is not life-threatening,” Greenberger said. “Hence, the most promising approach to combat melanoma lies in immunotherapy. We aim to develop a vaccine that stimulates the immune system to target melanosomes, specifically attacking the lymphatic endothelial cells invaded by these vesicles. By halting the mechanisms that generate metastases in lymph nodes, we can effectively impede the disease’s progression.”

She said, “We demonstrated for the first time that in the first stage, in the epidermis, melanoma cells secrete extracellular vesiculas called melanosomes. What are these vesiculas and how do they impact their environment? Examining this in human melanomas from the Pathology Institute, we demonstrated that melanosomes can penetrate lymph vessels.”

Greenberger added, “Then we examined their behavior in the environment of actual lymph vessel cells and found that here too the melanosomes penetrate the cells and give them a signal to replicate and migrate. In other words, the primary melanoma secretes extracellular vesiculas that penetrate lymph vessels and encourage the formation of more lymph vessels near the tumor, enabling the melanoma to advance to the lethal stage of metastasis.”

To lower the risk of skin cancer, experts recommend staying in the shade, wearing clothing that covers the arms and legs, and wearing a wide-brimmed hat to protect the face, head and neck.

Wraparound sunglasses that protect from UVA and UVB rays and sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or higher are also advised.

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“Here’s the bottom line,” says American lawyer, author and radio host Mark Levin. “How many people have been prosecuted under the Espionage Act since 1917 who were president or vice-president up until today?”

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Bill Thompson only belatedly condemned as hate speech the CUNY Law School valedictorian’s anti-Israel commencement address last month.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) has come under fire for honoring the chairman of the board of CUNY, the City University of New York system, after the board only belatedly condemned a hate-filled commencement address against Israel by a law graduate last month and has taken no other steps to combat antisemitism that critics say is rife on many of the campuses.

CUNY Chairman Bill Thompson received JCRC’s annual “Public Service Award” on Monday night. The chairman, who is a former city comptroller, “has been a friend to the City of New York and to JCRC-NY for over three decades… and has been a dedicated advocate for diversity, innovation, and progress across the public and private sectors,” JCRC said in a statement.

“This is an outrageous insult and obsequious act against the Jewish community. No one in the CUNY administration should be honored by JCRC,” said Jeffrey Wiesenfield, who had been a CUNY board member for 15 years before stepping down in 2014.

“Billy Thompson and the chancellor didn’t fire the law school dean who applauded that jihadist speech to destroy the Jews in Israel. Let’s call it what it was,” he said.

Dean Sudha Setty and other school officials sat on the dais and applauded the commencement address in which valedictorian Fatima Mousa Mohammed praised resistance to “Zionism” and made numerous false claims, such as, “Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshipers, murdering the old, the young, attacking even funerals and graveyards.”

It took over two weeks for CUNY’s chancellor and board of trustees to condemn the May 12 address as “hate speech” and to say that it “will not condone hateful rhetoric on our campuses,” but no further action was demanded or taken.

The JCRC had expressed its dissatisfaction with the reaction. “We’re disappointed they didn’t call it out for what it was: Antisemitism,” the group tweeted, demanding that CUNY “revise its commencement speech guidelines before next year’s graduation.”

CUNY Law School is already being investigated by New York authorities for possible anti-Jewish bias due to its official support for the anti-Israel BDS movement and its apathy regarding anti-Semitism on campus.

Last June, one of the law school’s former students testified before a city council hearing on antisemitism in New York colleges, saying “I feared for my physical and emotional wellbeing” after being regularly vilified by fellow students for her faith and support of Israel. Due to the pressure, she transferred to a different school.

Many others spoke of hate-filled atmospheres and slurs on CUNY campuses, both written and orally delivered, with nothing being done about it.

“We hear last night’s @JCRCNY Gala was poorly attended and morale down. JCRC has disgracefully thrown CUNY’s Jews to the wolves and assists and strategizes with CUNY in furthering antisemitism,” SAFE CUNY, which “advocates for Zionist Jews systemically discriminated against and excluded” by CUNY and its faculty, tweeted on Tuesday.

We hear last night’s @JCRCNY Gala was poorly attended and morale down. JCRC has disgracefully thrown CUNY’s Jews to the wolves and assists and strategizes with CUNY in furthering antisemitism.

The Gala’s celebrity studded video has 4 views.

Four.https://t.co/fO9eFzE5w7

— SAFE CUNY (@SAFECUNY) June 14, 2023

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Traditionally, one coalition candidate and one opposition candidate are chosen to fill the two seats reserved for Knesset members in the forum.

By JNS

In a dramatic turn of events on Wednesday, Israel’s governing coalition was set to vote down one or both Knesset candidates for the Judicial Selection Committee.

The nine-member panel is responsible for appointing judges at all levels of Israel’s civil court system.

Traditionally, one coalition candidate and one opposition candidate are chosen to fill the two seats reserved for lawmakers in the forum.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly favors maintaining the status quo, fearing that submitting two coalition candidates, as some coalition partners demanded, would undermine judicial reform talks and reignite mass protests.

In March, Netanyahu froze reform legislation, faced with social unrest and a surprise press conference by his own defense minister, who warned the widening societal rift was a “clear, immediate and tangible threat to Israel’s security.”

The opposition had selected as its candidate Yesh Atid MK Karine Elharrar.

Netanyahu had ordered the numerous coalition members vying for the position to withdraw their candidacy altogether in a bid to delay the vote, and they did so with the exception of Likud MK Tali Gottlieb, who insisted on remaining on the ballot.

Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, Netanyahu said, “We need to reorganize and rethink. Everyone needs to be committed to coalition discipline. There is no possibility of playing around with that. It is not possible that everyone can do whatever they want.”

Opposition leader Yair Lapid accused Netanyahu of “crushing Israeli democracy, the economy, security and the unity of the people. He broke his commitment to the president and is causing the talks to end.”

National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz also said that his party would quit the ongoing reform negotiations being conducted under the auspices of President Isaac Herzog.

Protest organizers threatened to send thousands into the streets on Wednesday if an opposition candidate wasn’t chosen.

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