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“Equally important, Amnesty International, HRW and Oxfam all have links to, or actively support, groups involved in the #BDS movement”

CAMERA BLOG Politico Plays Defense for Anti-Israel Groups by Sean Durns October 30, 2020 On Oct. 21, 2020 Politico magazine reported that “the Trump administration is considering declaring that several prominent international NGOs — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch … Continue reading

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“To love your relative while you reject his/her politics is a feat that requires tremendous inner strength”

AISH After the Election, Choosing Connection by Sara Yoheved Rigler November 4, 2020 Now that the election is over, it’s time to put down the hatchet and pick up the phone to connect to those on the other side of … Continue reading

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“Angered by Cuomo and de Blasio, powerful Orthodox and Hasidic communities break ranks with the Democrats and challenge NYC’s political math”

TABLET MAG The New Jewish Vote by Armin Rosen November 5, 2020 …Even before precinct data was available, there was strong circumstantial evidence that there had been historic turnout in Orthodox communities across New York and New Jersey and that … Continue reading

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“Harris statement comes as many observers in the Middle East will be watching the outcome of the 2020 US election”

JPOST Kamala Harris: We will restore aid to Palestinians, renew ties by Cody Levine November 3, 2020 Democratic Party candidate for vice president Kamala Harris indicated on Saturday in an interview via email with The Arab American News that under … Continue reading

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“Trump’s better-than-expected showing, despite many Jews thinking that he’s a hatemonger, speaks volumes about the chasm between the two warring Jewish political tribes”

JNS The Jewish vote mattered more than we thought in 2020 by Jonathan Tobin November 4, 2020 We already knew that the chasm that separates those Jews who vote for Democrats and those who vote for Republicans was already wide. … Continue reading

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Boca Raton school board “received thousands of comments from Holocaust survivors all over the world”

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL Principal fired for second time over Holocaust remarks by Scott Travis November 2, 2020 A principal’s reluctance to say the Holocaust was real — leading to a two-year saga that inflamed his Jewish community and people … Continue reading

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“Power-drunk NY bureaucrats are now menacing people in the name of public health, ostensibly with the blessing of the governor, who has repeatedly singled out Orthodox Jews”

WASHINGTON EXAMINER New York’s crackdown on Jewish businesses makes no public health sense by Melissa Braunstein October 30, 2020 Nobody is tossing tea into New York Harbor, but restlessness appears to be growing in Brooklyn. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo complained earlier … Continue reading

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“Israel’s Arab neighbors have demonstrated that the Palestinian cause is not as high on their agenda as it appeared to be in the past”

GATESTONE INSTITUTE The Future of Arab Normalization with Israel by Alan Dershowitz October 28, 2020 Now that the Sudan has joined the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in normalizing relations with Israel, the future seems bright for even more Arab … Continue reading

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“In effect, what we’ve been doing is requiring young people to bear the burden of controlling a disease from which they face little to no risk. This is entirely backward from the right approach”

IMPRIMIS A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy by Jay Bhattacharya, MD October 2020 …Those who dare to talk about the tremendous economic harms that have followed from the lockdowns are accused of heartlessness. Economic considerations are nothing compared to saving … Continue reading

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“ Even well-meaning WSJ editors are going to have a hard time earning reader trust when 300 of their own employees have questioned their own paper’s standards and inadvertently announced their liberal worldview in the process”

REAL CLEAR POLITICS A Campaign to Neuter the WSJ Opinion Page? by Mark Hemingway October 30, 2020 Earlier this year, newsroom employees at the New York Times went to war with the paper’s opinion section for publishing an edgy op-ed … Continue reading

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