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Democratic “push to boycott AIPAC is by no means new. Liberal advocacy groups have long viewed AIPAC as overly hawkish on Israel and out of line with the Democratic Party’s evolving stance on the Jewish state”

FREE BEACON The Campaign to Sever the Democratic Alliance With AIPAC by Adam Kredo February 7, 2020 A Democrat-backed effort to boycott the nation’s leading pro-Israel group is gaining steam, worrying center-left advocates of the Jewish state who have been … Continue reading

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The Holocaust: “Leading American historians and rabbis covered for FDR’s mistake”

TABLET MAG Franklin Roosevelt Betrayed Europe’s Jews by Sol Stern January 30, 2020 …David Wyman’s massive 1984 study, The Abandonment of The Jews: America and The Holocaust, 1941-1945, demolished virtually every argument used by the Roosevelt biographers to exonerate the president. It … Continue reading

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Why are the 250,000 Arab Israelis living in the Triangle area strongly opposed to the idea of becoming part of a Palestinian state?

GATESTONE The Real Reason Arabs in Israel Do Not Want to Live in ‘Palestine’ by Khaled Abu Toameh February 4, 2020 Arab citizens of Israel, who number nearly two million, are up in arms about US President Donald Trump’s plan … Continue reading

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“The antisemitic regime of Kuwait owns Kuwait Airways… and can change this situation with one phone call”

JERUSALEM POST German lawyer sues Expedia for denying service to Israeli by Benjamin Weinthal February 3, 2020 A prominent German attorney has filed a lawsuit against online travel agency Expedia for denying service to an Israeli passenger who wanted to … Continue reading

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Sudan leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan holds talks with Israeli PM in Uganda, marking dramatic turnaround; Israeli flights may soon be allowed over Sudan, cutting hours off route to South America

TIMES OF ISRAEL Netanyahu meets leader of Sudan; former foes to move toward normalization by Raphael Ahren February 4, 2020 Dramatically improving ties with a former bitter foe, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday met with the transitional leader of … Continue reading

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Illinois Congressman Lipinski’s support for Israel “was never a contention point until his opponent, Marie Newman, turned it into one last cycle by reaching out to the large Arab community in the district and weaponizing the topic against him”

JEWISH INSIDER How an Illinois congressional race has become a circular firing squad with Israel in the center by Ian Deitch February 4, 2020 Illinois’ 3rd congressional district is a grouping of predominantly Catholic neighborhoods in Chicago’s west and southwest … Continue reading

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“President Trump is telling them to suck it up or lose because the Israelis are going to get what they need to survive”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) The Palestinians’ bluff has been called by Melanie Phillips January 31, 2020 US President Donald Trump’s Middle East “deal of the century” offers the Palestinians a state. They have rejected it and threatened instead … Continue reading

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“Tel Aviv is, from the Muslim perspective, as much a “settlement” as any of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Jews cannot be legitimate sovereigns over either”

JNS Understanding the ‘deal of the century’ from a Muslim perspective by Harold Rhode February 2, 2020 Unsurprisingly, the Palestinian answer to the Trump administration’s historic “deal of the century” peace plan—as it would have been to any plan—was a … Continue reading

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Liberal Jewish seminaries that become woker-than-thou workshops risk losing their defining missions tomorrow – and will continue alienating Jews-in-the-pews today

JERUSALEM POST Are rabbinical schools becoming anti-Israel pulpits? by Gil Troy February 5, 2020 In 2011, when Rabbi Daniel Gordis highlighted “how lonely it can be for an unapologetically pro-Israel student at some of today’s rabbinical schools,” his Conservative and … Continue reading

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“Abbas confirmed that he refused to accept phone calls and letters from Trump before the announcement of the plan”

JERUSALEM POST Abbas: Palestinians will cut all ties with Israel, US by Khaled Abu Toameh February 1, 2020 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday that he has decided to severe all relations with Israel and the US in … Continue reading

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