Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Warns Trump’s Immigration Enforcer: ‘History Is Not On Your Side’
(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor known for speaking to schools about his experiences confronted federal and local officials about immigration arrests. Bernard Marks earned loud cheers on Tuesday after he confronted the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Thomas Homan, at a public forum in Sacramento, California. “When I was a little boy in…
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Fast Forward Nancy Pelosi Pushes Two-State Solution As Partisan Feuding Hits AIPAC
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders tussled on the AIPAC stage on the final day of its policy conference over which party’s prescriptions were better for Israel. The display of partisanship on Tuesday morning, hours before pro-Israel activists headed to the Capitol to lobby for their issues, was an extraordinary moment for the…
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Israel News Searching For Common Ground Amid Divisions At AIPAC
WASHINGTON (JTA) – This year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference drew some 18,000 pro-Israel activists for three days of speeches, workshops and lobbying visits to Capitol Hill. Of the dozens of speeches and countless workshops, side meetings and schmooze opportunities, no message was broadcast louder than the need for bipartisan support for Israel. And…
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Fast Forward 3 Times AIPAC Speakers Dropped The ‘Bipartisan’ Schtick
WASHINGTON (JTA) – “Many voices, one mission.” If AIPAC’s 2017 annual policy conference slogan, popping up on the conference app on activists’ smartphones, isn’t clear enough, the morning pick-me-up video it runs before conference business begins is pretty straightforward. In the video, activists are gravitating through sunny streets here toward the convention center, and titles float…
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News Hanukkah Party At Trump Hotel? Azerbaijan Envoy Asks What’s The Big Deal.
(JTA) – Elin Suleymanov likes Jews, but can’t figure them out: What was all that noise about when his embassy hosted a Hanukkah party at the Trump International Hotel? “That exposed some strange divisions” in the Jewish community, the Azerbaijani ambassador said in an interview Sunday at this year’s AIPAC policy conference. Memories of the Dec….
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Fast Forward Nikki Haley Vows Trump Will Block UN Resolutions Condemning Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Trump administration will not allow a repeat of last year’s United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning Israel for its settlements, the ambassador to the body, Nikki Haley, told AIPAC. “Never again do what we saw with resolution 2334 and make anyone question our support” for Israel, Haley said Monday at the…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence Tells AIPAC Trump Is Defender Of Israel And The Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Vice President Mike Pence delivered a fierce defense to AIPAC of President Donald Trump as a defender of Israel and the Jewish people. “He’s a man of action,” Pence said of Trump, closing out the first day Sunday of the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference. “For the first time…
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Fast Forward House Dems Urge Trump To Preserve ‘Two States’
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The overwhelming majority of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives urged President Donald Trump to reaffirm the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as U.S. policy. With 187 of 193 voting Democrats signing, the letter to Trump released Friday is a pointed reminder of how divided the parties remain on how…
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