Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Sanders, Trump skip AIPAC, but take center stage anyway
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden made an appearance via video and Mike Bloomberg turned up in person. So did Mike Pence. Even the coronavirus got a shoutout. Despite threats of a boycott by Democrats and anxieties about communicable diseases, this year’s annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was a busy, bustling…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence calls for 4 more years of Trump at AIPAC
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence called for the re-election of President Donald Trump, earning cheers from a crowd of 18,000 Israel activists on hand Monday at AIPAC’s annual policy conference. “The most pro-Israel president in history must not be replaced by one who would be the most anti-Israel president in the history of…
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Fast Forward Bloomberg at AIPAC attacks Sanders for boycotting conference
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Mike Bloomberg, the only Democratic presidential candidate to attend the AIPAC policy conference this year in person, attacked Bernie Sanders for boycotting the event, drawing loud applause on Monday. “Senator Sanders has spent 30 years boycotting this event,” Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, said of his rival in the race for…
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Fast Forward AIPAC conference opens with appeals for bipartisanship, broadsides against Bernie Sanders
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee launched its annual conference with an appeal for bipartisanship and potshots aimed at the Democratic front-runner in the presidential stakes, Bernie Sanders. The jarring contrast reflected how polarized support for Israel has become in the current political climate. Amy Friedkin, past AIPAC president who is close…
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Fast Forward Congresswoman calls AIPAC ‘hate group’ after attack ad
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Minnesota congresswoman called AIPAC a “hate group” inciting against her after the Israel lobby featured her in an attack ad. “AIPAC claims to be a bipartisan organization, but its use of hate speech actually makes it a hate group,” U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, a Democrat, said Wednesday in a statement. “By…
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Fast Forward Las Vegas man pleads guilty in charge related to alleged synagogue bombing plot
(JTA) — A man from Las Vegas, Nevada who worked as a security guard pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a firearm, related to charges that he planned to bomb a local synagogue or a bar that caters to the LBGTQ community. Conor Climo, 23, appeared Monday in a Las Vegas court to possessing the…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden rejects pressure to boycott AIPAC conference
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden rejected pressure from a coalition of left-wing groups to have presidential candidates boycott the Israel lobby AIPAC’s policy conference. An activist with IfNotNow, the anti-occupation group that is leading the initiative, confronted the former vice president in New Hampshire and cast her question in the context of the 2015 Iran…
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Fast Forward AIPAC apologizes for ads that called some Democrats ‘radicals’ pushing ‘anti-Semitic’ policies
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee apologized for and removed at least four Facebook ads that slammed “radical” Democrats in Congress, including one that said Israel’s harshest critics in Congress pose a threat “maybe more sinister” than ISIS and other terror groups. In a statement posted Saturday on Twitter, the lobby offered…
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