(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…
(JTA) — A video shows an Israeli man being attacked by a group of people at a pro-Palestinian event in Berlin. In a clip posted by the news agency Ruptly, which is owned by the Russian government network RT, about a dozen men are seen pushing and hitting the man before policemen are able to…
Tensions rose quickly during a BBC interview on Friday with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who cut the appearance short after accusing the network of being biased against conservatives. Shapiro went on the defensive early in the 16-minute interview, when journalist Andrew Neil asked Shapiro to explain his staunch views on abortion, wanting his thoughts on…
An e-commerce site was forced to stop selling miniskirts, tote bags and other merchandise printed with photos of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Associated Press reported. Australian online shop Redbubble carried items with black-and-white images of the Nazi death camp, its gas chambers and the railway tracks leading into it. A skirt in the collection…
(JTA) — Louis Farrakhan punctuated a speech at a Chicago church Thursday with denials that he was anti-Semitic and an assertion that he was “here to separate the good Jews from the satanic Jews.” The longtime leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam spoke at the St. Sabina Catholic Church at the invitation of the Rev….
(JTA) — The gunman who killed a woman and wounded three others at the Chabad of Poway told a 911 dispatcher he had done it because “the Jewish people are destroying the white race.” Prosecutors described the call Thursday in announcing 109 hate crime and other charges against John T. Earnest, 19. The nursing student was…
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