WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet at the economic summit in Davos, Switzerland. An email from the Israeli government office said the leaders would meet Thursday. Davos each year hosts the World Economic Forum, where leaders discuss economic policy. Netanyahu and Trump have formed a close…
A St. Louis-area gun parts business said Tuesday that it will no longer sell a yellow star-shaped patch saying “Gun Owner,” which mimicked the insignias that Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust. But the retailer it acquired the patches from still features them on their website. The store, called Tactical Shit, offered the…
A town manager in Maine was fired from his job this week after it emerged that he is the founder and leader of New Albion, a group that calls for racial separatism and opposes people “from different cultures” coming to northern New England. Jackman town manager Tom Kawczynski hoped to turn large sections of of…
A new Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday highlighted what Israelis and pro-Israel activists in the U.S. have feared for years — Israel is becoming a partisan issue, and the gap between Democrats’ and Republicans’ opinions of Israel is only growing. According to Pew, the partisan divide on Israel has reached a record level, with…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Mike Pence moved to Washington earlier this year, he and his wife took with them a framed phrase they had for years hung over their fireplace in their Indiana home, and then over the fireplace in the governor’s mansion in that state. Now it hangs over the mantle at the vice…
(JTA) — A senior al-Qaida leader was placed on the U.S. State Department’s list of global terrorists a day after he called on Muslims to “attack the Jews and the Americans everywhere” in response to the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. According to the State Department announcement Tuesday regarding Khalid Batarfi,…
Alex Jones, the country’s leading internet conspiracist, is teaming up with New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss on a book about the “war for the future,” including a sinister plot to brainwash the masses and make them docile. It’s a theme that would be familiar to fans of Jones, whose broadcasts are filled with…
“Alt-right” congressional candidate Paul Nehlen went on an anti-Semitic Twitter rant on Monday in response to a negative news report, tweeting images of media figures with Jewish stars next to their heads. Nehlen later deleted the tweets. Based on the screenshots posted by other Twitter users, it appears that Nehlen issued a series of tweets…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s culture minister breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday that her country’s contender had failed to land an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film – despite not having watched the movie. “Foxtrot” tells the fictional story of an army checkpoint where bored Israeli troops shoot Arab passers-by after mistaking a…
GENEVA (Reuters) – Israel accused the United Nations on Tuesday of continuous discrimination against it over its treatment of Palestinians, and called for reforms of the U.N. human rights body. The Human Rights Council’s regular examination of Israel’s record, the first since 2013, comes after President Trump recognized Jerusalem last month as the capital of…
The Open Society Policy Center, the lobbying group affiliated with George Soros’ philanthropies, spent $16.1 million last year on federal lobbying, according to the group’s final quarter filings reported by Roll Call. The funding, reportedly a record sum, was significantly higher than the previous year. Most of the money was spent in the final months…
