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 Museum Wants World To Push Iran on Denial
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum urged world leaders to press Iran’s leadership on its Holocaust denial during the U.N. General Assembly. “We want to make sure that the upcoming discussion at the United Nations is informed by facts about official Iranian efforts to promote racism and extremism in the form of Holocaust denial,”…
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Fast Forward 88 Senators Urge Obama To Veto Any ‘One-Sided’ U.N. Push on Israel
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan slate of 88 senators urged President Barack Obama to veto any “one-sided” U.N. Security Council resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We urge you to continue longstanding U.S. policy and make it clear that you will veto any one-sided UNSC resolution that may be offered in the coming months,” said the letter…
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Fast Forward Jewish World War II POW Slams ‘Insulting’ Donald Trump in Campaign Ad
WASHINGTON — A Jewish World War II prisoner of war appeared in an ad for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, saying her rival Donald Trump “insulted all of our military.” The ad released Friday on social media shows Joel Sollender, 91, of San Diego, Calif., watching Trump, the Republican nominee, disparaging Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., last year during…
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Fast Forward Congresswoman Nixes Pro-BDS Briefing on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON — A congresswoman whose office was set to sponsor the first conference in a congressional building backing the boycott Israel movement withdrew her support, cancelling the event. The office of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, on Tuesday told The Weekly Standard, a conservative news website, that the event, organized by the U.S. Campaign to…
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Fast Forward Republican Jewish Coalition Pushes for Beleaguered GOP Senators
WASHINGTON — The Republican Jewish Coalition said it reached 25,000 people on a day of campaigning in Jewish neighborhoods in swing states where incumbent Republican senators are at risk. About 200 RJC volunteers, sporting “RJC Victory Team” t-shirts, spread out Sunday to go door-to-door in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Cleveland and Broward County Florida. Incumbent…
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Fast Forward Michigan Republican Sorry for Tall Tale About Jewish Wedding Bar Tab
— A candidate for the Michigan state legislature apologized for saying a Jewish lawmaker asked a lobbying firm to pay for the bar tab at his daughter’s wedding. Steve Marino, a Republican and former lobbyist running for the Michigan House of Representatives, was recorded by a Democrat as saying that the Jewish chairman of the state Senate’s…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Jr. Posts ‘Deplorables’ Meme With White Supremacist Cartoon Frog
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. posted to Instagram a movie poster parody of himself heroically grouped with others deemed “The Deplorables,” including a cartoon frog that has become a popular symbol for white supremacists. “Apparently I made the cut as one of ‘the Deplorables,’” Trump Jr. said in the posting Sunday of the image, which…
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Fast Forward Tzipi Livni Blames Sexism for ‘Hysteria’ Over Hillary Clinton Stumble
WASHINGTON — Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister of Israel, said the intense media focus on Hillary Clinton’s health after she stumbled in public amounted to “hysteria” and would not be applied to a man. “I don’t know what Hillary Clinton has and I don’t intend to engage with the U.S. elections,” Livni, a leading figure…
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