A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with several anti-Semitic and racist acts of vandalism that occurred in Ottawa. The arrest was confirmed by Ottawa police chief Charles Bordeleau on Saturday in a local synagogue that had been victimized during a solidarity event and prayer service. The teen appeared in court on Saturday and…
Steve Bannon, in his first interviews since Donald Trump named him chief strategist at the White House, denied being anti-Semitic or a white supremacist. Bannon served as chairman of Breitbart news before joining the Trump campaign as its CEO. Bannon has called Breitbart a “platform for the alt-right,” a loose movement of the far right…
A former Marine General seen as one of President-elect Donald Trump’s leading candidates for Defense Secretary has said West Bank settlements are turning Israel into an apartheid state. Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, who was known as “Mad Dog,” also has said that the United States pays a price for its support of Israel, the…
The home of a Jewish professor at Oberlin College was vandalized and a note “Gas Jew Die” left near his front door. The professor has been identified by police as Benjamin Kuperman, an associate professor at the school and chair of the computer science department. The incident occurred early on Thursday morning. Items on Kuperman’s…
The two remaining members of the Beastie Boys called for an anti-hate rally at a Brooklyn park in memory of band member Adam Yauch after it was defaced with swastikas. The rally is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at the Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn. On Friday, the park was spray painted with swastikas and the…
— An Alabama senator who once reportedly called the NAACP “un-American” and a congressman who blasted the Iran nuclear deal were tapped to serve as attorney general and CIA director, respectively, under the Trump administration. A spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday the selections of Sen. Jeff Sessions and Rep. Mike Pompeo to the two…
— The celebrated novelist Etgar Keret said he refrains from publishing some of his works in Hebrew to protect the privacy of his family, upon whom he bases some of his writing. Keret, who in 1996 received Israel’s Prime Minister Award for Literature, among other distinctions, revealed this during a talk last week before Russian…
— The rate of enlistment into the Israel Defense Forces has dropped by 3.5 percent over the past five years, army sources said. In 2016, the IDF saw the conscription of 72 percent of people who are initially listed as duty bound to serve in the military, Army Radio reported Wednesday. Among the 28 percent…
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan bills targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel would impose fines on participating businesses but not criminal penalties, a co-sponsor of a Senate version said. Measures introduced in recent weeks in the U.S. Senate by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Ben. Cardin, D-Md., and in the U.S. House of Representatives…
— Kosovo police said they prevented coordinated attacks by the Islamic State, including on the Israeli national soccer team. The police announced thwarted attacks in the Balkan nation as well as in neighboring Albania on the Israelis, The Associated Press reported. According to a statement, police said they uncovered plans by the Islamic State, or…
Steve Bannon has a new defender: Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States. Dermer was at Trump Tower Thursday afternoon and when leaving the building, escorted by Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway, he stopped for a short statement to the press pool waiting in the lobby. Unprompted, Dermer chose to speak out about Bannon. “We…
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