WASHINGTON (JTA) — On the eve of a summit between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a senior White House official said a two-state solution was not a necessary outcome of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. “A two-state solution that doesn’t bring peace is not a goal that anybody wants to…
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway’s Twitter account retweeted a white nationalist on Tuesday, though she sought to distance herself from the move and denounced “whoever it is” who sent the tweet. The Twitter user goes by Lib Hypocrisy and their profile features the hashtags #whiteidentity and #nationalist. Their online handle also includes a frog emoji,…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some $120,000 raised in a public campaign to pay the ransom for a dual citizen of Israel and Canada imprisoned in an unnamed Arab country has not been transferred because no credible recipient has been offered Ben Hassin, 21, has been under arrest since June 2015 in the Arab country for the…
There’s a brand new podcast angling to be the go-to source for the white nationalist “alt-right.” And like the broader “alt-right” movement, the three hosts of the Reactionary Report podcast lament what they see as the decline of whites in America because of immigrants, blacks and Muslims — and take special pleasure toying with anti-Semitic…
The White House should investigate a public endorsement of Ivanka Trump products by Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, and consider disciplinary action, the Office of Government Ethics said in a letter on Tuesday. Conway’s comments last week after Nordstrom announced it was dropping the brand of Trump’s daughter Ivanka from its…
Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner who moonlights as a #NeverTrump troll, could mount a bid for the White House four years from now, he said on Monday. “We will see,” he told Business Insider, speaking about his future political plans. The coy answer comes a few days after President Donald Trump took to Twitter…
Geraldo Rivera ended his ties to Yale University in protest of its decision to rename a residential dorm named for ex-Vice President John C. Calhoun. The South Carolinian owned slaves and foreshadowed the Confederacy with his insistence on “states’ rights.” Resigned yeterday as Associate Fellow of #CalhounCollege at #Yale. Been an honor but intolerant insistence…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A majority of Jewish Israelis support allowing civil marriage and divorce in Israel, according to a survey released for Valentine’s Day. Some 72 percent of Jewish Israelis and 76 percent of Arab Israelis support the statement that “every resident [of Israel] has the right to get married in Israel with whomever he…
A New York City jury on Tuesday found a former delicatessen worker guilty of murdering Etan Patz, a six-year-old boy whose disappearance in 1979 raised national awareness of the plight of abducted children and their parents. The conviction of Pedro Hernandez, 56, came during his second trial in state court. It followed a 2015 mistrial…
(JTA) — A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate would honor an American prisoner of war who protected 200 American-Jewish POWs during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal. The bill introduced Monday would recognize Master Sgt. Rodrick “Roddie” Edmonds, who refused to reveal to a German commandant at the Stalag IXA camp which…
If it’s true that “blessed be the peacemakers,” Chuck Schumer deserves a halo. Schumer, the chamber’s minority leader, is spending some time smoothing things over after Bernie Sanders blasted 13 of his fellow Democrats for voting against a drug reimportation bill that could bring in cheaper medicines from Canada. “You cannot do that if you’re…
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