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Brooklyn woman charged with making ‘terroristic threat’ to public school over ‘Zionist’ student body
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JB Pritzker: Blocking arms sales sends Israel ‘the right kind of message’
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Argentine lawmaker indicted over anti-Israel social media posts, in a first
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