Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Defiant AIPAC Opens Conference Emphasizing Diversity
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, under fire from the left in a way it has not been for years, opened its conference with an emphasis on political and identity diversity, but also took a defiant tone. As it has in previous years, the policy conference started Sunday with a diverse array…
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Fast Forward After Michael Steinhardt Allegations, Beneficiaries Aren’t Eager To Talk
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Michael Steinhardt has loomed large for a generation as one of the most important givers to Jewish causes. A number of them bear his name. And this week, The New York Times and ProPublica, the journalism nonprofit, interviewed seven women who said that “Steinhardt asked them to have sex with him, or…
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Fast Forward Warren And Sanders Among 2020 Democratic Candidates Who Would Rejoin Iran Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Five Democratic presidential candidates said they would reenter the Iran nuclear deal that President Donald Trump abandoned last year. Al-Monitor, a Middle East news site, solicited the Democratic candidates about whether they would rejoin the deal. The five who said they would are Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris,…
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Fast Forward Former AIPAC Officials Launch Bipartisan Political Action Committee
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two former top AIPAC staffers are helming a new political action committee that will steer donations to candidates in both parties who adopt a centrist pro-Israel position, at a time when that gold standard for pro-Israel giving is being challenged by the right and the left. Pro-Israel America launched Tuesday endorsing 27…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Donor Pulls Out Of AIPAC Following Comments On Muslim Lawmakers
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Adam Milstein, a major pro-Israel funder, has withdrawn from speaking at the annual AIPAC policy conference following a series of tweets in which he accused two Muslim lawmakers of clashing with “American values.” The American Israel Public Affairs Committee distanced itself from Milstein. Milstein, the chairman of the Israeli American Council, said…
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Fast Forward New Zealand Killer Says His Model Was Nazi-Allied British Fascist Oswald Mosley
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Australian charged with participating in the killing 49 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques said his main inspiration was Oswald Mosley, the British fascist anti-Semite who was close to the Nazis. Brenton Tarrant, 28, posted a 73-page manifesto on social media before the attacks Friday in Christchurch. His overriding motive in…
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Fast Forward Two Rockets Fired At Tel Aviv From Gaza
(JTA) — Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip reached the Tel Aviv area Thursday night. Sirens alerted residents that rockets were coming into the area just after 9 p.m. local time. Kan, the public broadcaster, quoted the Israeli army as saying that the rockets came from the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas….
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Fast Forward State Department No Longer Calling West Bank, Golan ‘Occupied’ By Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration ended the policy of referring to the West Bank and the Golan Heights as “occupied” by Israel. The State Department’s annual report on global human rights issues, issued Wednesday, drops the “occupied” language from passages on the West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza. It refers to the Golan Heights…
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