Leftwing Israeli parliament member Tamar Zandberg is facing blowback in Israel for appearing at a protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Zandberg, a lawmaker with the leftwing Meretz party, spoke to If Not Now, the anti-occupation group that organized a large demonstration outside of AIPAC’s annual policy conference in Washington, DC on March…
Missouri governor Eric Greitens loves communicating with his constituents via Facebook. But what he really doesn’t care for is good old fashioned media. And the press is starting to get antsy. “This is the most reclusive, inaccessible and unengaged governor I’ve ever covered,” Phill Brooks, a reporter for the local CBS radio affiliate in St….
The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee asked the government ethics watchdog on Monday to review comments by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin plugging “The Lego Batman Movie,” a film one of his companies produced, for a possible ethics violation. In a letter to Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub, Senator Ron Wyden said…
(JTA) — Carl Icahn’s role as adviser to President Donald Trump on energy regulation raises questions about possible conflicts of interest due to his investment in an oil refiner, seven Democratic senators said. On Monday, the senators sent a letter to Icahn, the Office of Government Ethics and the Department of Justice in which they expressed their…
Declaring that the “days of Israel bashing are over,” U.S. ambassador to the United Nations received a rockstar welcome from AIPAC delegates gathered in Washington for their annual conference. Haley, who had become an instant heroine for the pro-Israel community after declaring on her first day on the job that she would fight bias against…
(JTA) — Graffiti including swastikas and the words “white power” were discovered on the auditorium of a Phoenix high school. The vandalism on the outside walls of the auditorium at Pinnacle High is being investigated by the police bias crime unit, the Arizona Jewish News reported. “No place for hate in Phoenix,” the city’s mayor, Greg Stanton,…
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan urged President Trump to “extricate” himself from perceived Jewish influence in the White House — starting with Jared Kushner. “Ask any Jew, even your son-in-law, America is never first, Israel is always first,” Farrakhan said, referencing Jared Kushner. “Mr. Trump, you have to extricate yourself from being controlled…
Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, called on Monday for the removal of Republican Representative Devin Nunes as chairman of the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee. Nunes, whose committee is investigating potential ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, visited the White House the night before announcing he had information indicating Trump associates may have…
(JTA) — Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, a German neonatologist who passed her doctoral defense exam nearly eight decades after she was denied the opportunity by the Nazis, has died at 104. She reportedly died Thursday in Berlin. A funeral will be held in the German capital in May, her son told The Associated Press. Syllm-Rapoport, a former…
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday during his daily press briefing that President Trump “was right” when he said that some of the anti-Semitic incidents in the United States may be “the reverse” of what they look like. Spicer said that the media should not “rush to judgement” when it comes to…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Longtime newscaster Ted Koppel told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview that he and other opinionated TV hosts are “bad for America.” The 77-year-old former “Nightline” host, born to German-Jewish parents who fled to England during the rise of the Nazis, delivered the searing dis during a segment on…
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