(JTA) — In a move that observers said could defuse tensions between Israel and Poland, that country’s prime minister said he’d kick back to parliament a bill about rhetoric on the Holocaust for amendments. Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement Wednesday about a law passed in January, which criminalizes blaming the Polish nation or people for…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the insurgent firebrand who Tuesday toppled the No. 4 Democrat in the House of Representatives, is a strong critic of Israel who denounced the killings of Palestinian protesters as a “massacre.” This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved…
About 20 immigration activists convened outside of Stephen Miller’s luxurious Washington, D.C. apartment complex on Monday, USA Today reported. Protesters reportedly chanted, “Say it loud, say it clear: immigrants are welcome here,” and handed out missing children flyers and “wanted” posters in front of the swanky CityCenter DC, which is partly owned by the government…
An interview between CNN’s Jake Tapper and Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison about the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s travel ban grew test after Tapper confronted the congressman over his past support for the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. “You’ve been decrying President Trump’s bigotry,” Tapper began. “Obviously you used to follow…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — El Al will “immediately” remove any passenger who refuses to sit next to another passenger for any reason, its CEO announced, but not before a major Israeli tech company announced it would no longer fly its employees on the airline. NICE System’s CEO Barak Eilam on Monday announced via posts on social…
(JTA) — A reporter for The Associated Press was prevented from covering Prince William’s visit to the Israeli prime minister’s residence because security guards detained him over questions regarding his ethnic origin. Nebi Qena, a television producer, was held at the entrance to the residence for 45 minutes by security guards who asked about his ethnic…
Israelis are big fans of President Trump — and even local opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu are admitting it. Yair Lapid, chairman of the centrist Yesh Atid party, told the political news site Axios that Trump was on his way to being the most popular American president in Israeli history. Israelis across the political spectrum have…
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt revived allegations that President Trump used to obsessively read Adolf Hitler’s speeches in an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Schmidt said that Trump’s “only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand.” It appears that Schmidt was referencing an allegation dating back to President…
A website projecting white-nationalist claims of “genocide” and a “Holocaust” being perpetrated against white Americans is circulating the internet — more so after being mentioned at an official White House event, hosted by the president. At an event Friday, President Donald Trump tried to flip the conversation from the treatment of migrant children at the…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries. The 5-4 ruling, with the court’s five conservatives in the majority, ends for now a fierce fight in the courts over whether the policy represented an unlawful Muslim ban. Trump can…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused an Israeli broadcaster of “Bolshevik propaganda” for its coverage of its family. Netanyahu took to social media on Monday evening to criticize reports on Hadashot News, after it broadcast for the second night in a row transcripts of recordings between a Netanyahu family friend and a…
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