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Trump’s Turkey envoy: We were ‘a step away’ from military confrontation between Turkey and Israel

MIDDLE EAST FORUM The Empty Runway: What a war with Turkey would look like, and how to hold Syria’s sky without fighting one Gregg Roman August 23, 2026 At dawn on Tuesday, Israeli aircraft put eight strikes into the runway … Continue reading

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“My former boss, Bernie Sanders, and the broader left-wing activist infrastructure that surrounds him, are actively fueling antisemitism in this country”

FREE PRESS I Worked for Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Party Is Turning Against the Jews. Joel Rubin August 21, 2026 …The reason I was hired [by Bernie Sanders] was clear to me. The campaign understood that Jews—who have long voted … Continue reading

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“The move by Rogers’ team angered AIPAC officials, who had spent more than $30 million to try to defeat El-Sayed in the Democratic primary and prepared to spend millions more to help elect Rogers, according to people familiar with the conversations”

AXIOS Mike Rogers-AIPAC rupture roils Michigan Senate race Alex Isenstadt August 22, 2026 Allies of Mike Rogers, Michigan’s GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, have asked AIPAC not to advertise on his behalf, triggering a rupture with the powerful but … Continue reading

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“The terror group can never be trusted to lay down arms, renounce violent jihad, and accept a settlement that abides Israel’s existence as a Jewish state”

NATIONAL REVIEW The Folly of Negotiating with Hamas Andrews C. McCarthy August 22, 2026 …The White House doesn’t see conflicts of interest because it fancies Trump (he of the multiple bankruptcies) as a boffo business dealmaker, and sees business — … Continue reading

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Rep. Brad Schneider: ‘It’s disingenuous for El-Sayed to try to distance himself from Piker without specifically condemning, refuting, or even just rejecting Piker’s hateful rhetoric’

WASHINGTON TIMES Hasan Piker blames AIPAC as Democrats condemn his remarks on Jews August 26, 2026 Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has blamed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for a wave of Democratic condemnations touched off by his comments suggesting that American … Continue reading

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“After Oct. 7, the landscape shifted in a seismic way, not that antisemitism was brand new, because we do have a history of quotas to limit Jewish enrollment in medicine and other examples of discrimination against Jewish doctors”

STANDWITHUS CCA training will teach faculty, staff and students to recognize antisemitism in its evolving forms August 24, 2026 The Center for Combating Antisemitism (CCA) announced on August 24 that it will provide antisemitism-awareness and recognition training to Haverford College faculty, … Continue reading

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Many Jewish Peloton members and non-Jewish allies said fitness company continues to ignore what they consider an act anti-Jewish bigotry — in the form of wiping the Jewish state off the map — within its staff’s ranks

AFTER OCTOBER 7 Peloton Goes Silent as Jewish Backlash Grows Over Instructor’s Israel-Erasure Ad Kevin Deutsch August 11, 2026 Facing backlash after Peloton instructor Adrian Williams recorded an Instagram advertisement for an anti-zionist Palestinian restaurant chain that promotes Israel’s erasure … Continue reading

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“Foreign adversaries have been actively using disinformation and psychological operations to divide America, erode our national security, and undermine U.S. foreign policy. Americans deserve to know when the voices shaping what they see online are working on behalf of foreign interests”

JEWISH INSIDER Bipartisan group introduces bill to make influencers register under FARA Marc Rod August 24, 2026 A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation on Monday that would require influencers to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act when … Continue reading

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“CBC News doesn’t designate specific groups as terrorists regardless of the region or the events, because these words are so loaded with meaning, politics and emotion that they can end up being impediments to our journalism”

NEW YORK POST Canada’s CBC instructs staff not to call 9/11 a ‘terrorist attack’ in news coverage Ronny Reyes August 27, 2026 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation instructed its staff not to refer to the killings on 9/11 as “terrorist attacks” … Continue reading

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Jews have lived in Kaifeng for a millennium. It took Xi Jinping only a decade to bring them to the brink.

TABLET MAG China Erases Its Jewish Past Lee Moore August 18, 2026 For the past decade, police have been stationed outside the door of one of China’s most prominent native Jews. “They see who goes in, who talks. They can … Continue reading

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