Team Israel: An Underdog Story
It hardly mattered that few of the players representing Israel in the World Baseball Classic last month knew the Hebrew terms for balls and strikes. Nor did it cause concern that only two of them...
Tag: Israel
March 27, 2017
The Jerusalem Post: Anti-BDS Bill Passes Texas Senate
B’nai B’rith International CEO and Executive Vice President Dan Mariaschin was quoted in The Jerusalem Post article on a bill in the Texas legislature that would prevent the state...
March 23, 2017
Israel and Latin America at the U.N.: A Difficult Relationship
Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela leads the Latin American “neo-communist” bloc when voting at the U.N. and is dangerously close to Iran. English There are areas in which the United...
January 13, 2017
CEO Op-Ed For Fox News: Paris conference on Middle East Peace is simply an exercise in Chutzpah
Fox News ran an op-ed written by B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin on the upcoming Paris Conference on Middle East Peace. Mariaschin previews the possible...
January 10, 2017
BDS at the United Nations
World attention has recently been focused on the shameful passage of an anti-Israel resolution on settlements at the U.N. Security Council. Resolution 2334 contains a litany of criticism of Israel...
January 4, 2017
Fighting Anti-Semitism At The Source
Despite an astounding array of conventions, covenants, directives, framework decisions, case law and other existing legal instruments meant to ensure human rights and freedom from discrimination in...
December 15, 2016
Israel Is Strengthening Ties With Several Latin American States, But Will This Impact The Way These Countries Vote At The U.N.?
Asunción, Paraguay There are reasons to be optimistic about the progress of the bilateral relations between Israel and several Latin American states. Changes in the leadership of several countries,...
December 6, 2016
Neither An Exception, Nor An Accident
Nov. 29, 1947 is a date the United Nations should always remember as a day of serious accomplishment of the principles on which it was founded. This was the day Resolution 181 established the Jewish...
November 29, 2016
EVP OP-ED: Pyro-Terrorism Fueled by Social Media
The Times of Israel ran an op-ed written by B’nai B’rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin the “pyro-terrorism” in Israel that has displaced...