Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Trump Denounces White Supremacists, Defends Bannon
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he wants to find out if and why he is “energizing” white supremacists. “It’s not a group I want to energize,” Trump said Tuesday in a meeting with New York Times editorial staff, according to a tweet by Maggie Haberman, a reporter in attendance. Trump was referring to the…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Refuses To Condemn White Supremacist Event With Nazi Salutes
WASHINGTON –Donald Trump’s transition team declined to directly condemn a conference where his victory was hailed as a triumph for white supremacists, instead reiterating a general denunciation of racism. Asked by NBC and other media to comment on the weekend conference in Washington D.C. , the president-elect’s transition team said Monday that Trump opposed “racism of any…
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Fast Forward Anti-BDS Bills in Congress Would Impose Fines on Violators
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan bills targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel would impose fines on participating businesses but not criminal penalties, a co-sponsor of a Senate version said. Measures introduced in recent weeks in the U.S. Senate by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Ben. Cardin, D-Md., and in the U.S. House of Representatives…
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Fast Forward 7 Big-Bucks Jewish Donors Like Sheldon Adelson Lead Trump Inauguration Committee
WASHINGTON — A number of top Jewish Republican donors are on President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee. Nine out of the 20 names listed on the transition team’s announcement released Monday are Jewish. Several of them are on the Republican Jewish Coalition board. The committee plans and fund-raises for the inauguration. Typically, incoming presidents reserve spots…
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee Sorry for Blaming Hate Vandalism on ‘Jewish Liberals’
WASHINGTON — Mike Huckabee apologized for posting a false news report blaming “liberal, Jewish” students for an alleged hate crime that involved a mention of President-elect Donald Trump. The story, appearing on the Conservative Tribune website, blamed an attack in March at Northwestern University on “liberal, Jewish Northwestern students” seeking to smear Trump and his…
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Fast Forward House Extends Iran Sanctions — Could Let Donald Trump Scrap Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives approved an extension for 10 years of Iran sanctions, including many currently under waiver as part of the Iran nuclear deal, a move that could pave the way for President-elect Donald Trump to pull out of the deal. The bill approved late Tuesday by the House simply extends…
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Fast Forward When Steve Bannon Downplayed Anti-Semitism and Racism of ‘Alt Right’
— Stephen Bannon, in a 2014 talk, said racism would eventually get “washed out” of right-wing nationalist movements, and spoke repeatedly of Western society being built on “Judeo-Christian” ideas. Bannon, the chairman of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign who was named this week by Trump to be a top White House adviser, has been accused of…
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Fast Forward Anti-BDS BIll Would Make It Crime To Boycott West Bank Settlements
WASHINGTON — Criminal penalties for boycotting Israel would be extended to companies complying with the BDS movement, including the boycott of West Bank settlements, under a bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reps. Pete Roskam, R-Ill., and Juan Vargas, D-Calif., introduced the bill Monday. The measure is a companion to one introduced…
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