Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel “anti-Semitic” during a town hall in Ontario last week. “I will continue to condemn the BDS movement,” Trudeau said. Speaking at Brock University in St. Catharines, Trudeau was asked by an audience member to retract his previous condemnations of BDS,…
The Israeli Defense Forces has a few thoughts to share on Iran’s status in the Middle East. In a tweet Monday, the IDF shared a map of the region with a feisty drawing of arrows pointing to “where Iran is,” in Syria, and “where Iran should be,” in its own country. “Iran, you seem to…
A group of Hebrew Israelites in Washington, D.C. was entangled in a confrontation on Friday with Native American protestors and Catholic school students visiting from Kentucky, The Washington Post reported. A video that went viral over the weekend showed part of the entanglement, when the students wearing red Make America Great Again hats started mocking…
Nearly a year since the tragic shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, one victim’s father shared on Twitter about the unveiling of her tombstone. Fred Guttenberg buried his 14-year-old daughter Jaime shortly after the February 14 massacre. Yesterday we had the unveiling of Jaime’s tombstone. In the Jewish religion, it is…
(JTA) — Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council passed a resolution saying its members cannot partner with Jewish groups that are anti-Zionist, setting up a showdown with one of its members, the local branch of the Workmen’s Circle. The resolution, approved on Thursday evening, states that working with Jewish anti-Zionist groups, specifically by co-sponsoring events or…
Director Aaron Sorkin went after freshman members of Congress in an interview with CNN, saying that the Democrats needed to “stop acting like young people,” The Guardian reported. “I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need to stop acting like young people, OK? It’s time…
Representative Steve King is garnering sympathy in the form of donations from supporters as he faces backlash for questioning when terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacy” became so offensive, the Des Moines Register reported. “The unhinged left has teamed up with Republican ‘NeverTrumpers’ and is pulling out all the stops to destroy me,” King…
(JTA) — The words “I want Jexit” were spray painted in bright yellow outside of two businesses in northeast Washington, DC. One of the businesses targeted on Friday was an auto shop called Shalom Tire and Auto Repair. Jexit is believed to stand for Jews Exit, a play on Brexit, which stands for Britain’s exiting…
Fox & Friends apologized after suggesting that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Mediaite reported. After a commercial break on Monday, the Fox News program momentarily shared a photo of Ginsburg with “1933-2019” written over it, suggesting she passed away. It was quickly replaced with a shot from an upcoming interview on campus culture….
Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory refused to say in an interview on PBS if she thought Israel had the right to exist, or if Jews were indigenous there. In an excerpt released Thursday by “Firing Line,” Mallory tried to explain her position to host Margaret Hoover, saying that “the Palestinians are native to the land.”…
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, appearing Friday as the keynote speaker of the annual March for Life on the National Mall in Washington, shared with his audience a head-scratching scenario about abortion and Adolf Hitler. “The argument, I guess here, would you kill baby Hitler?” he started off, in a clip posted to Twitter. “And the…
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