WASHINGTON (JTA) — Several Obama administration-era security officials are claiming that the administration’s pursuit of the Iran nuclear deal frustrated their pursuit of what they described as Hezbollah’s expanding drug-dealing empire. In a long article published over the weekend, Politico quoted three officials who ran Operation Cassandra, a task force principally run by the Drug…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The U.N. human rights chief said an Israeli military probe that cleared troops of any wrongdoing in the death of a paraplegic Palestinian protester was “insufficient.” Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the world body’s high commissioner for human rights, said “facts” gathered by his staffers strongly suggest that excessive force was used against Ibrahim…
(JTA) — The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology became the first Israeli university to open a campus in China. On Monday, the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology opened in Shantou, in the Guangdong province on the southeast coast. The university is a partnership between the Haifa-based university, the Li Ka Shing Foundation, and the Guangdong provincial…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Nations General Assembly will hold an emergency session on President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to a Palestinian official. The main representative organ of the U.N., which includes all 193 of the international body’s members, is holding a rare emergency meeting on Thursday…
Twitter accounts associated with the far-right Jewish Defense League were swept up in a larger purging of white nationalists accounts as the social media site implemented new rules targeted “violent extremist” groups. The Twitter accounts @JDLCanada, @jdldotorg, @JewishDefenceNY were all booted offline sometime on Monday, December 19. Twitter announced in mid-November that beginning Dec. 18,…
Paul Nehlen, who is aiming to unseat Speaker of the House Paul Ryan in a Republican primary, is capitalizing on the online culture wars — drawing from “alt-right” imagery and ideas, even flirting with more hardcore white nationalists. While the Huffington Post wrote that Nehlen has “white nationalist street cred,” his flirtation with the white…
William Atchinson, a 21-year-old gas station attendant, entered Aztec High School in northern New Mexico on December 7 disguised as a student. He embarked on a shooting spree which killed two students and injured several others, before killing himself. Atchinson did not give a reason for his actions, but it was later revealed that had…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Pope Francis condemned the Holocaust and the medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on Jewish concentration camp inmates. The pope’s condemnation appears in an introduction he wrote in an upcoming book written by three Argentine doctors about the Nazi medical experiments. His co-author is his longtime Argentine friend Rabbi Abraham…
MONTREAL (JTA) — At least three synagogues in Canada received hate mail warning that “Jewry must perish.” Police are investigating the envelopes delivered Monday to two synagogues in Montreal and one in Toronto. Each featured a drawing of a bleeding Star of David enclosing a Nazi swastika with the slogan “Jewry must perish.” B’nai Brith…
Rep. John Conyers’ resignation from Congress following accusations of sexual misconduct created a race to replace him as the top-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. The Democratic House caucus will decide this week between Jerry Nadler of New York and Zoe Lofgren of California, both vying for a position that has become pivotal in…
Ta-Nehisi Coates deleted his Twitter account Monday evening, and it may have been prompted by white nationalists. Even Richard Spencer — the face of American white nationalism — eventually piled on the debate over an essay criticizing Coates’ new book. Coates, a renowned public intellectual and a national correspondent for The Atlantic, was caught in…
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