President Trump is feeling the love in Israel. He’s become very popular due to his support for Israel, most notably recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the United States embassy there. Now, several sites around the country could soon bear his name. Train station The idea to honor the U.S. president may have first…
Louis Farrakhan claimed last week that he does not hate Jewish people, despite his long history of anti-Semitic language, culminating in being banned from Facebook last month. Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, was invited to give a speech at a Catholic church in Chicago on Thursday to address his recent removal from…
Anti-Semitic trolling and disinformation is rising online – and so is harassment of Jews because of their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often at the hands of other Jews who disagree, a new study claims. The Institute for the Future, a California-based think tank, conducted a series of studies of online propaganda and harassment that…
A police officer in Bergen County, New Jersey has been disciplined after being photographed dressing as an Orthodox Jew at a party at the local firehouse – but local officials either don’t know or refused to say what the punishment was, the North Jersey Record reported Monday. While attending a party on December 28, Pete…
(JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin thanked American astronaut Jessica Meir on Sunday for her plans to bring an Israeli flag into space with her on a mission in September. Meir, the daughter of a mother from Sweden and an Iraqi-Israeli father, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about the Israeli flag she’s bringing with her…
(JTA) — The Texas imam who gave an invocation on the House floor responded to those who criticized his invitation over social posts in which he demonized Israel, likening the country to Nazi-era Germany. Omar Suleiman is the founder and president of the Dallas-based Yaqeen Institute, an organization that describes itself as a resource about…
Former CIA spy Valerie Plame, who announced last week that she was running for Congress in New Mexico, attempted to do damage control on MSNBC on Sunday when asked why she had once shared anti-Semitic articles from a Holocaust-denying website on her Twitter account. “I’m human and we all make mistakes. It was just a…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will convene a meeting of the state cabinet in Israel later this month, the News Service of Florida reported last week. DeSantis, a Republican, successfully ran for office last year promising to be the “most pro-Israel governor” in America. He said last week that while in the Jewish state between May…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government has selected a location for the establishment of a new Jewish community in the Golan Heights to be named after President Trump. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday that he will submit the decision for official approval by the new…
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib shot back at critics who slammed her for her description of the Palestinians’ relationship to the Holocaust, tweeting Sunday that “policing my words, twisting [and] turning them to ignite vile attacks on me will not work.” Tlaib had originally said she “loves the fact” that her “Palestinian ancestors” were part of an…
KIEV (JTA) — In the largest poll of Ukrainian Jews conducted in 15 years, nearly one fifth of 900 respondents (17 percent) said that anti-Semitism has increased in the country, whereas another fifth (21 percent) said the opposite. The data underline divisions among Ukrainian Jews over the effects of the 2014 revolution that toppled the…
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