Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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News Donald Trump Has a Plan To Keep Out Anti-Semites. Does It Make Any Sense?
(JTA) — How extreme does vetting need to be to keep anti-Semites from entering the United States, and is Donald Trump’s plan worth the effort? The Republican nominee’s proposal to apply an ideological test to potential immigrants is based on precedent: The United States in the last century instituted a broad ban on communists and…
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Fast Forward White House Concedes Link Between $400M and Prisoner Release
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged that the release of $400 million in cash to Iran in January was linked to Iran’s release of American prisoners, but rejected notions it was a ransom payment. “With concerns that Iran may renege on the prisoner release given unnecessary delays regarding persons in Iran who could not be…
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Fast Forward Baltimore Dumps Lawyer Over Neo-Nazi Ties
WASHINGTON — The City of Baltimore cut ties with a lawyer after an advocacy group exposed his ties to neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial groups. The office of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake terminated its contract with Glen Keith Allen, effective immediately, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported Thursday afternoon. The SPLC posted on its website documents showing…
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Fast Forward Trump Adviser Denies Firing Jews From Top Jobs and Denying Holocaust
WASHINGTON — A foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump allegedly boasted about firing Jews from his government department and denied the Holocaust to a colleague. Joseph Schmitz denies the allegations against him, which concern comments accusers say he made while he was the Defense Department’s Inspector General, the McClatchy news agency reported on Thursday. He…
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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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