Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Conservatives confuse Black ‘Israelite’ groups in labeling Ketanji Brown Jackson as soft on antisemitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked to describe a case she tried as a judge that moved her. She cited one that involved a Black group with a base in Israel, one that Israel’s foreign ministry has credited with enhancing its public diplomacy. That didn’t stop conservatives on Twitter from claiming erroneously that…
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Fast Forward Ketanji Brown Jackson brings up a Black-Jewish civil rights alliance in confirmation hearing
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Whether he meant to or not, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz gave Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, an opportunity for a breather in the middle of a contentious day of confirmation hearings on Tuesday. Cruz, who spent most of his 30-minute questioning session trying to corner Jackson on issues…
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Fast Forward Assailant kills 4 in stabbing attack in Beersheba, Israel
(JTA) — An assailant stabbed four people to death at a shopping mall in Beersheba, Israel, on Tuesday, in what Israeli authorities are describing as a terrorist attack. The man injured at least one other person in the attack in the southern city on Tuesday, Israeli reports said. The attacker exited his car at the mall…
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Fast Forward AIPAC’s pro-democracy ‘super PAC’ does not mention Israel in its mission
WASHINGTON (JTA) — AIPAC’s new regular political action committee is self-evident about what it’s all about: It’s called AIPAC PAC, after all, and is committed to supporting pro-Israel candidates. The “super PAC” that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee launched in December, however, is more opaque: It’s called the United Democracy Project. Its brief mission statement…
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Fast Forward Republican Jewish Coalition PAC endorses senator blocking advancement of Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism monitor
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican Jewish Coalition’s affiliated political action committee is endorsing the reelection campaign of Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who has so far blocked the Senate from confirming Deborah Lipstadt, President Joe Biden’s pick to be antisemitism monitor. Lipstadt, an Emory University professor, is one of the world’s leading Holocaust scholars. A broad…
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Fast Forward In appeal to Israel, Zelenskyy invokes the final solution: ‘You cannot mediate between good and evil’
(JTA) — In a searing 12-minute speech addressing the “people of Israel,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy likened the “final solution” the Nazis sought to impose on the Jews to Russia’s ambitions for Ukraine. Zelensky also appealed, yet again, for military assistance and criticized the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for trying to maintain relations…
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Fast Forward AIPAC hates the Iran deal, but it’s backing 27 Democrats who supported the agreement in 2015
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Killing the Iran nuclear deal has been one of the signature issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the country’s largest pro-Israel lobby, for almost a decade. In 2015, as the deal signed by the United States, Iran and five other global powers gained momentum, AIPAC launched a massive…
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Fast Forward Sam Massell, Jewish Atlanta mayor who shepherded in an era of Black-led politics, dies at 94
(JTA) — Sam Massell was Atlanta’s first Jewish mayor, serving from 1970-1974. Also, he was the city’s last white mayor. But he was remembered as more than a single-term bookend: Massell was the first mayor to prove that the city’s Blacks had clout enough to elevate their chosen candidate to office, and he embedded Black…
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