Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward U.S. Leaves United Nations Human Rights Council Over Israel Bias
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council because of its bias against Israel. Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, jointly announced the pullout on Tuesday evening. “The Human Rights Council is an exercise in shameless…
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Fast Forward Virginia Republican Voters Nominate ‘Alt-Right’ Candidate For Senate
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Corey Stewart, a politician with associations with neo-Confederates, the “alt-right” and a well-known anti-Semite, is the Republican nominee for Senate in Virginia. The Republican establishment battled hard to thwart Stewart in the three-way primary race Tuesday to decide who faces Democratic incumbent Tim Kaine in November, backing State Delegate Nick Freitas. Stewart…
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Fast Forward Poll Shows Deep Divide Between Israeli And American Jews — Especially On Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli and American Jews disagree on much — settlements, religious pluralism, even the degree to which they are “family.” And now you can add Donald Trump to the mix. Twin polls of Israeli and American Jews published by the American Jewish Committee on Sunday uncovered divides on all these issues, but an…
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News The Jewish Gossip Kings Who Dish Dirt — On Everyone Except Donald Trump
(JTA) — Harvey Levin runs the gossip industry giant TMZ. The Daily Beast reported this week that in 2016, just prior to the election, Levin did something unusual: Hearing that there was an incriminating video of Republican nominee Donald Trump in an elevator, he alerted Trump instead of his readers. David Pecker, the National Enquirer…
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Fast Forward Why Do Racists Keep Popping Up In Republican Primaries?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “Republicans seek alternative to ‘Nazi’ candidate after he secures nomination,” one headline reads. “GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati,” another says. Both headlines would be alarming enough if they weren’t about two separate congressional races. The emergence of fringe candidates as the…
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Fast Forward Congress Wants To Define Anti-Semitism. That Could Get Messy.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers are lining up behind a bill that would define anti-Semitism. The measure introduced Thursday by Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., who is Jewish, and Pete Roskam, R-Ill., a leader on pro-Israel issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, at first looks like a bipartisan slam dunk. The principal target…
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Fast Forward Democratic Nominee For Georgia Governor Opposes Anti-BDS Bills
(JTA) — In Georgia’s battle of the Staceys, Stacey Abrams, the state’s onetime House minority leader, defeated former State Rep. Stacey Evans in the Democratic primary for governor. Nationwide, the win is seen as a bellwether in the battle for the Democratic soul between progressives and moderates. Abrams is a progressive. The Israel wrinkle in…
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Fast Forward CNN Panel Erupts Over Ivanka Meeting With Rabbi Who Compared Blacks To Monkeys
(JTA) — On CNN on Tuesday, Don Lemon asked an all-black panel to comment on how they felt about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner receiving a blessing from Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during their visit to Israel to dedicate the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Yosef is under criminal investigation for making a bizarre…
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