Donald Trump’s presidential effort has been notorious for its infighting, and that doesn’t seem likely to change as he prepares to take the Oval Office next January. As different advisers to the president-elect compete to influence his decisions on appointments, one aide described the process to Politico as an “absolute knife fight.” At the center…
Abraham Foxman, the former head of the Anti-Defamation League, says he will skip the Zionist Organization of America’s annual gala after the group invited Steve Bannon to the event. Foxman said he was misled by ZOA organizers who framed the event as a tribute to ZOA board member Bernie Marcus — then offered a platform…
— Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed a McGill University independent student newspaper for its announcement that it does not publish articles that “promote a Zionist worldview.” The McGill Daily published a statement last week about its ban in response to an anti-Semitism complaint by members of the Montreal university’s Jewish community. “[U]pon reviewing this complaint,…
— New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman, who is Jewish and gay, discovered two swastikas carved into his Manhattan apartment building and connected the vandalism with the appointment of former Breitbart News chair Stephen Bannon to a White House post. “Swastika found in my apartment building this evening in Greenwich Village. Anti-Semite named to #Trump White House…
— The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a dramatic increase in donations since the presidential election. In the day after Donald Trump’s surprising victory alone, the watchdog group saw a 50 percent rise in donations, the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia reported Wednesday. Todd Gutnick, the ADL’s vice president for communications, said the uptick in giving has…
Iran expects to see “more rationality” on the part of Donald Trump once he assumes the role of U.S. president and leaves behind what was merely campaign rhetoric, an Iranian central bank official said. At a conference in Frankfurt, other Iranian bankers also said they did not expect long-term adverse effects from Trump’s win, even…
— Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, has introduced legislation to eliminate the Electoral College. Under the legislation introduced Wednesday, the winner of presidential elections would be determined by the outcome of the popular vote. The measure would amend the U.S. Constitution. Boxer did not seek re-election in 2016 and will retire at the end…
— American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will not go to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature in person. The Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, said in a statement issued Wednesday that it had received a personal letter from Dylan “in which he explained that due to pre-existing commitments, he is unable to travel…
– A top Parisian chef targeted by promoters of a boycott against Israel for his plans to visit the Jewish state hit back against his critics, whom he accused of dishonesty and discrimination. Stéphane Jégo has leveled the accusations in correspondence on social media with activists for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel…
The Obama administration is looking for ways to save what the White House sees as a “dying” two-state solution. But Donald Trump’s election as president has reduced the president’s options to symbolic gestures. Some in the administration have acknowledged that Israeli settlement activity on the ground has created a “de facto annexation” of the West…
Count Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks in for the anti-Trump boycott. The National Basketball Association team announced this week that it would no longer book rooms at Trump hotels in New York and Chicago while there for away games, according to a report in Sports Illustrated. In a Twitter comment, Cuban said the decision had been…
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