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REVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major Jewish Federation
One of the largest Jewish charities in the U.S. has been secretly funding a shadowy online blacklist targeting college students who criticize Israel. For three years, a website called Canary Mission has spread fear among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political dossiers on student supporters of Palestinian rights. The dossiers are meant to…
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Navy Vet Represents Fresh Wave Of Jewish Women Running For Congress
Elaine Luria spent one Passover after the September 11 attacks stationed thousands of miles from home on an aircraft carrier in the Middle East. In the spirit of her ancestors, who had immigrated to Alabama from Germany and Eastern Europe and created Jewish life there, she organized the holiday’s ritual festive meal, in the ship’s…
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Julie Swetnick Says ‘Soul Was Broken’ In Rape At Brett Kavanaugh Party
Julie Swetnick lashed out at Brett Kavanaugh in her first television interview Monday, calling the embattled Supreme Court nominee a “very aggressive, very sloppy drunk — very mean drunk.” Swetnick, who is Jewish, expanded on her claims that Kavanaugh participated in high school parties where she and other women were drugged with spiked fruit punch…
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White House Blocks Investigation Into Julie Swetnick Accusations Against Kavanaugh
The White House has reportedly blocked the FBI from investigating the sex assault claims by Julie Swetnick against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as it seeks to severely limit the scope of the potentially explosive probe. NBC News reported that White House counsel Don McGahn, a strong supporter of Kavanaugh, specifically barred the law enforcement agency…
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Israeli Government Teams Up With Far-Right U.S. Jewish Funders For Anti-BDS Effort
The Israeli government is turning to two U.S. charities that fund settlers and far-right Israeli activists for donations to a secretive project to undermine the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, according to a new report by the Israeli investigative magazine the Seventh Eye. The project, called Kela Shlomo, or Solomon’s Sling, appears to be an…
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Who Is Julie Swetnick, New Kavanaugh Accuser With Jewish Roots?
A Jewish woman who is a longtime federal contract worker has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct at “train rape” parties when they were both in high school, the third woman to level accusations against him in recent weeks. Julie Swetnick claims in a sworn affadavit that she was a victim of…
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Mort Klein Stands By ‘Filthy Arab’ Slur As Condemnation Grows
Facing criticism over his use of the slur “filthy Arab” in a tweet last week, Zionist Organization of America national president Morton Klein repeated the phrase in a voicemail to the Forward — and pointedly refused to back down. Klein asserted in the lengthy voicemail that he had meant that “Arab murderers are filthy Arabs,”…
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Campus Pro-Israel Group ‘Monitored’ Progressive Jewish Students
In the fall of 2016, roughly a dozen Jewish college students gathered at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, for a weekend-long workshop. Led by young organizers from a tiny progressive Jewish student group called Open Hillel, the students strategized and networked. They had no idea they were being watched by a major pro-Israel organization with…
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ZOA’s Mort Klein Tweets ‘Filthy Arab’ Slur — And Doubles Down
Mort Klein, the Zionist Organization of America national president, spent two days and nearly 20 tweets last week doubling down on his use of the phrase “filthy Arab” in a tweet. In his protracted online defense of the slur, Klein asserted that he had been narrowly describing the murderer of Israeli-American Ari Fuld in the…
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Rod Rosenstein’s Strange Journey From JCC Softball To The Center Of A Political Firestorm
Rod Rosenstein is in the spotlight as reports swirled on Monday, September 24 that he would soon resign or be fired. Here’s how the Forward profiled him last year after he took the high-profile position of overseeing the probe into alleged collusion with Russia. The single attribute most commonly used to describe Deputy Attorney General…
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Hate-Spewing Jewish GOP Donor Tweets RBG ‘Can’t Die Soon Enough’
You might think Steven Alembik would delete some of the more incendiary tweets in his feed after the Florida Republican donor caused a firestorm by using the ‘N-word’ about former President Barack Obama, enveloping the campaign of GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis in yet another racial controversy. You don’t know Steven Alembik. The in-your-face fan…
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