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Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
“The feud between Trump and “the squad” ensured that a DOJ summit was largely ignored and instead helped legitimize those who have spread Jew-hatred”
JNS Overshadowing the battle against anti-Semitism by Jonathan Tobin July 16, 2019 …But even in a normally slow July news cycle, coverage of the [DOJ] anti-Semitism summit was buried underneath the avalanche of attention devoted to the spat between President … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Donald Trump, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib
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Temple U prof and former CNN contributor: “Mainstream news outlets are ‘Zionist organizations'”
ALGEMEINER Former CNN Commentator Marc Lamont Hill Tells Progressive Gathering That Major US News Outlets Are ‘Zionist’ Organizations by Benjamin Kerstein July 16, 2019 Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill, who has made remarks widely considered antisemitic in the past, … Continue reading
French Judge: If you smoke pot before killing a Jew, you’re not criminally liable
ARUTZ SHEVA Judge rules Jewish woman’s killer not criminally liable by Ben Ariel July 16, 2019 A Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor in Paris while shouting about Allah is probably not criminally responsible for his actions because he … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged France, Paris, Sarah Halimi
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Hamas official: To all you Palestinians abroad, It’s time to get this Jew-massacre underway
TIMES OF ISRAEL Senior Hamas official calls on members of Palestinian diaspora to kill Jews by Adam Rasgon July 14, 2019 Fathi Hammad, a member of Hamas’s politburo who is considered a hard-liner and is known for his fiery rhetoric, … Continue reading
IfNotNow bird-dogging Democratic candidates on the trail in New Hampshire
I24NEWS Democratic presidential candidate Biden says Israeli ‘occupation a real problem’ July 15, 2019 “The occupation is a real problem,” said Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday, referring to Israel’s military presence in the West Bank, in an election … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged If Not Now, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg
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“No one wants a full-blown war with Iran. We’re already, though, in a war with it now, in the Middle East theater and beyond”
THE NEW YORK SUN The Biden Plan for Appeasement Editorial July 12, 2019 …One thing to remember about the Iran deal that Mr. Biden now promises to rejoin: It was opposed — “overwhelmingly,” said the New York Times — by … Continue reading
“I was born in Somalia and grew up amid pervasive Muslim antisemitism. Hate is hard to unlearn without coming to terms with how you learned it”
WALL STREET JOURNAL Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice? by Ayaan Hirsi Ali July 12, 2019 I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them. It was 2006 and I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ilhan Omar
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At DC CUFI conference, “several speakers reminded the overwhelmingly Christian audience (with a smattering of observant Jews) that #antisemitism is a cancer, and it’s everybody’s problem”
THE FEDERALIST How To ‘Shine A Light’ Against The Growing Darkness Of Anti-Semitism by Melissa Langsam Braunstein July 12, 2019 “Why Israel, From Why Should I Care to What Can I Do?” was the multi-part question asked and answered this … Continue reading
Iran “failed to declare the construction of Fordow facility and admitted to its existence only after it was exposed by Western intelligence”
THE TOWER Iran Never “Repurposed” Fordow Nuclear Facility in Breach of JCPOA by Staff July 12, 2019 The Iranian regime has never “repurposed” the Fordow uranium enrichment facility as required by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between … Continue reading
“I’d like to remind Arab countries that today you share more common interests with Israel than the terrorist militias”
WASHINGTON EXAMINER Former Miss Iraq faces loss of citizenship for defending Israel at the UN by Zachary Halaschak July 10, 2019 Sarah Idan, who represented Iraq in the 2017 Miss Universe competition, is facing calls for her citizenship to be … Continue reading