Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward In 1982, the shooting of an Israeli diplomat led to war
A June 3, 1982 shooting attack on Israel’s envoy to London, Shlomo Argov, provided the pretext for the Lebanon war that year
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Fast Forward NYC mayoral candidate walks back ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel
Michael Blake said he used ‘wrong language,’ adding that ‘we want to be very clear that it was not the people of Israel that did this’
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News Joe Biden entered the White House pledging to fight antisemitism. He leaves with it at historic levels.
Now the very man who Biden said enabled antisemitism and authoritarianism will succeed him
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Opinion The blessing and burden of bearing first witness to Jewish history
A reflection at the close of two decades on the D.C. Jewish news beat
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Fast Forward Israel hits Yemen as conflict escalates with Houthis, Iran’s strongest remaining proxy
The strikes come as Israelis endure continued rocket attacks from the Houthi militia in Yemen even as attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip have diminished
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Fast Forward JD Vance appears to defend Germany’s far-right AfD party
Vance seemed to back the flagship policy of a party that has unsettled Germany’s Jews
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Fast Forward Elon Musk endorses far-right German party: ‘Only the AfD can save Germany’
Musk, who spent hundreds of millions on Trump’s bid to return to the White House, is poised to take a leading role in reshaping the U.S. government
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Fast Forward GOP-led congressional report on campus antisemitism recommends cutting funds to universities that boycott Israel
The report said that protections extended to Jewish students must apply when Zionists are named as the targets of exclusion or harassment
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