Across the archipelago of Indonesia, a more intolerant strain of Islam has risen in recent years, which may cause challenges for a small community of Jews here. Jews in this Muslim-majority country worship in secret, according to a recent AFP report, and can face faith-based intolerance. According to the AFP, the politics of Israel can…
(JTA) — An anti-Semitic poster was hung on the campus of Kansas State University on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The poster was discovered on the morning of April 24 on a telephone pole opposite Ahearn Field House, the local Manhattan Mercury reported. “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” said the poster, which contained a…
Lighting one of the 12 torches at the ceremony marking the opening of the country’s Independence Day celebrations is one of Israel’s highest honors, so this year’s decision to invite two Jewish American leaders to participate is proving controversial. Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Wiesenthal Center, were chosen to light…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A number of conservative Republicans in Congress have launched a pro-Israel caucus predicated on getting the Palestinians to acknowledge defeat. The co-chairs of the new Israel Victory Caucus, Reps. Bill Johnson of Ohio and Ron DeLantis of Florida, were among those on hand for Thursday’s launch. A number of other Republicans stopped…
President Trump’s proposed tax plan may decimate Israel’s vaunted high-tech industry, business analysts have warned. Trump aims to lower the top corporate marginal tax rate from 35% to 15% in a bid to grow international investment and keep companies from outsourcing. This would likely spur foreign entrepreneurs to move their businesses to the U.S., or…
Jake Tapper ripped into President Trump’s claim that former President Obama ordered espionage against him, calling it classical “fake news” and despairing over how many voters seemed to have believed the unsupported assertion. “The president and his team kept pushing ways to make this evidence-free claim somewhere, sort of, possibly in the neighborhood of not…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are expected to accompany President Donald Trump on his first visit to Israel next month. It is not clear whether first lady Melania Trump will join the delegation at the end of May, the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot reported Thursday. Ivanka Trump, the president’s Jewish daughter, and…
Jesse Watters is taking a time-out after making an ill-advised sexual innuendo about Ivanka Trump, in what is an unhappy coincidence for his network, still reeling from the fallout of the Bill O’Reilly harassment scandal. “I don’t really get what’s going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone,” Watters…
(JTA) – The man who has replaced Marine Le Pen at the helm of France’s far-right National Front claimed in 2000 that the poison used by Nazis to kill Jews in the Holocaust could not have been applied in reality. Jean-François Jalkh, who took Le Pen’s place this week so that she can focus on her…
“Dr. Gorka”? Not so fast. Sebastian Gorka has already come under fire for his ties to a far right-wing Hungarian group that was allied to the Nazis. Now tough questions are being asked about the controversial White House anti-terrorism official’s academic credentials. “Gorka is… a snake-oil salesman whose supposed Ph.D dissertation would have never passed…
With news that President Trump may visit Israel as soon as next month, Israeli media is speculating about Trump’s agenda on his first foray as president to the Holy Land. According to a review of the Hebrew press in the Times of Israel, the timing is key, with several publications nothing that Trump’s trip could…
