Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Miami Lawmaker Raises Hackles With Pro-Palestinian Stance
Pro-Israel activists in the Miami area plan to protest a Florida state senator active in the Black Lives Matter movement who visited the West Bank as the guest of a group that backs the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Organizers of the protest against Dwight Bullard said they object to the groups and people he…
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Fast Forward Debbie Wasserman Schultz Spars Over Israel With Challenger
WASHINGTON — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. and her primary challenger are exchanging sharp accusations about which candidate is more pro-Israel. Tim Canova, a lawyer, attempted in a debate on Sunday on CBS4-CBS Miami, to use Wasserman Schultz’s vote last year for the nucleat deal with Iran against her. “Her vote has been condemned by…
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Fast Forward George Soros Foundation Plans Fight Against ‘Racist’ Israel: Hacked Emails
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hacked emails show that the Open Society Foundations, led by George Soros, has as an objective “challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies” in international forums, in part by questioning Israel’s reputation as a democracy. The documents are available on a website, reportedly backed by Russia, that uses anti-Semitic stereotypes to attack Soros….
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Fast Forward Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate’s Essay Included in Holocaust Denier’s Book
WASHINGTON — The vice presidential candidate for the Green Party, Ajamu Baraka, disavowed Holocaust denial after contributing an article to a writer whom Baraka said he did not know was a Holocaust denier. “There has never been any question in mind about the genocidal madness of the Nazi Holocaust throughout Europe during the second world war,” Ajamu Baraka told…
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Fast Forward ‘I Instantly Thought of Rabin’ Says Governor After Trump Mentions 2nd Amendment
WASHINGTON ) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, responding after Donald Trump said gun rights advocates could do something about Hillary Clinton, likened the political atmosphere in the United States to the period before an assassin killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “I instantly thought about Rabin and Israel,” Malloy, a Democrat like Clinton, the party’s…
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Fast Forward Ga. Lawmaker Meets with Jewish Groups After ‘Termites’ Apology
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., met with Jewish leaders in Atlanta after apologizing for likening the settlement movement to termites. “Appreciate meeting w/ @AJCGlobal today to open important dialogue,” Johnson said in a Tuesday after meeting with the local office of the American Jewish Committee. The AJC office tweeted soon after: “Thank you…
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Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Brings Down the House With Convention Plea on Gun Violence
PHILADELPHIA — Gabrielle Giffords couldn’t say much, but what she said brought down the house. The Jewish former Arizona congresswoman, shot in the head by an assailant in 2011, made an appearance at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday evening, its third, during a segment on victims of gun violence. “Are you ready?” she urged…
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Fast Forward Mark Weiner, Rhode Island Friend of Clintons, Dies on Day of Nomination at 62
PHILADELPHIA — Mark Weiner, a prominent Rhode Island Democratic fund-raiser and close friend of the Clintons, died on the day he hoped to watch Hillary Clinton secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Weiner, who was Jewish and who manufactured paraphernalia for the Democratic National Committee and was a former chairman of the state Democratic…
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