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Follow the money: “Islamic Relief’s U.S. branch continues to receive increasingly generous funds from the U.S. government”

DAILY WIRE Trump Administration Continues To Enable And Fund Troubled Islamic Organization by Cliff Smith and Sam Westrop December 11, 2019 Since 2014, the U.S. government, under both Presidents Obama and Trump, has given two branches of Islamic Relief, a … Continue reading

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“Bernie Sanders has thus far evaded scrutiny over the values he and his campaign share with the Labour Party’s discredited leader”

COMMENTARY Bernie Sanders Has a Big Jeremy Corbyn Problem by Noah Rothman December 13, 2019 Nobody forced Bernie Sanders’s campaign to endorse Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. By the time the Sanders camp’s national organizing director, Clair Sandberg, announced that the … Continue reading

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#SafeSpaces: “I’m certain that some conservatives, especially those who’ve been taught by their own thought-minders on the right to recoil in fear from threatening ideas, would be shocked to see Obama or the pundit Van Jones in this film”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE Is this still a free country? The new movie ‘No Safe Spaces’ raises frightening doubts by John Kass December 5, 2019 No matter what side you take on Trump Impeachment Theater, or just about any other topic for … Continue reading

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British Jews “overcome by the sense of deliverance from a great evil, some even wept”

JNS British working class saves Britain … and its Jews by Melanie Phillips December 13, 2019 The relief was overwhelming. When the exit polls on Thursday evening correctly predicted a large majority for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, British Jews allowed … Continue reading

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Rabbi Niederman had a message for the non-Haredi Jews who form the vast majority of New York’s incredibly diverse Jewish community. “Don’t think that because you don’t have a kippa and you don’t dress like the Hasidim that you are safe”

TABLET MAG Jewish Blood on the Streets of Jersey City by Armin Rosen December 12, 2019 …Still, some of the locals who gathered around the crime scene on Wednesday had a slightly different view of things. “This neighborhood is not … Continue reading

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“If you are against federal action to stop anti-Semitic discrimination on college campuses just because Trump is doing it, then you’re the one with the problem”

NEW YORK TIMES President Trump Is Defending Jewish Students by Jared Kushner Dec. 11, 2019 On Wednesday, the president will sign an executive order to combat the rise of anti-Semitism on American college campuses. As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, … Continue reading

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Corrupt and mismanaged UNRWA–the only UN agency that exists solely to manage one group of “refugees”–has been renewed

REUTERS In face of U.S. opposition, U.N. renews agency helping Palestinian refugees Michelle Nichols December 13, 2019 The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly renewed the mandate for a U.N. agency supporting Palestinian refugees for another three years amid … Continue reading

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“In 2019, two in every three religious or racially motivated assaults in the New York City area were on Jews”

SPECTATOR USA Trump’s ‘Jew shenanigans’ by Domenic Green December 12, 2019 …In Europe, the majority of assaults upon Jewish people or schools or synagogues seem to be committed by Muslim immigrants. In the United States, and in the New York … Continue reading

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The Illinois financial crisis: “Outside of unfunded state employee pension obligations, no other challenge facing legislators poses a greater threat to the state’s long-term prosperity”

CRAINS The other financial storm threatening to capsize Illinois’ economy by Joe Cahill December 10, 2019 We’ll soon find out if Illinois lawmakers are serious about easing the state’s unsustainable property tax burden. As you may know, Illinois has the … Continue reading

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“How could a speech that centered on advocating support for Israel and opposition to anti-Semitism, and in particular, the BDS movement, be considered anti-Semitic incitement?”

JERUSALEM POST Donald Trump to IAC: Some American Jews ‘Don’t love Israel enough’ by Omri Nahmias, Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman December 8, 2019 Some American Jews “don’t love Israel enough,” US President Donald Trump said to a crowd of around 4,000 people … Continue reading

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