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Yes, Trump Adviser Was Accused of Anti-Semitism — But That’s Not the Whole Story
Here’s the bottom line: Yes, General Joseph P. Schmitz, who is a top foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump, stands accused of anti-Semitism, by not one but two staffers at the Pentagon. But that’s not quite the whole story. In an official complaint presented to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), Daniel Meyer, a top…
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Israel Wants Chinese Tourists Along With Trade
Israel and China have a robust economic relationship — China is Israel’s third biggest trading partner — and the two nations have even discussed creating a free trade zone. Now, in addition to Chinese money and markets, Israel wants Chinese tourists. In August, Israel’s Tourism Ministry announced that it had eased the way for Chinese…
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Churches Split Over Black Lives Matter’s Criticism of Israel
African-American churches are split over Black Lives Matter’s stand on Israel, with younger clergymen rallying to the activists’ defense after a group of more conservative pastors rejected Black Lives Matter’s harsh criticism of the Jewish state. The schism, which reflects broader divisions between emerging activists and more conservative leaders, was brought into sharper relief when…
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Donald Trump Has a Plan To Keep Out Anti-Semites. Does It Make Any Sense?
(JTA) — How extreme does vetting need to be to keep anti-Semites from entering the United States, and is Donald Trump’s plan worth the effort? The Republican nominee’s proposal to apply an ideological test to potential immigrants is based on precedent: The United States in the last century instituted a broad ban on communists and…
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Meet Lior Ron, the Israeli Tech Guru at the Center of the Self-Driving Revolution
Lior Ron may soon be a key figure in the worldwide self-driving revolution as a result of the sale last week of Otto, the maker of technology for self-driving trucks, to Uber for a reported $680 million.. Ron is one of five people who founded San Francisco-based Otto just eight months ago after leaving Google….
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Does Famed 1899 Painting Debunk ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Myth on Intermarriage?
KIEV — No Jewish visitor to Ukraine’s National Art Museum can pass this painting without stopping to look. A Jewish woman is being assaulted, not by anti-Semites but by a crowd of angry Jews. Pressed to the fence by the mob, her hair is undone, her blouse is ripped, her eyes horrified. The rabbi is…
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Iran ‘Ransom’ Flap Sparks A Battle of Dueling Definitions
“Ransom” or “strategically timed escrow payment?” That’s the question Obama administration critics and defenders were clashing over following the administration’s acknowledgement of a link between its plane shipment of cash to Iran last January, hours after Tehran released three American prisoners. The Republican Jewish Coalition was one of the first groups out of the box…
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Donald Trump’s New Nickname for Hillary Clinton Is a Dog Whistle For White Supremacists
“Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel,” said Donald Trump at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, this week. “We have enough problems in our country. We don’t need more.” If Trump’s new moniker for his opponent, replacing “Crooked Hillary,” raised eyebrows, it might have been in confusion. Americans show low recognition of Merkel, and…
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Internet Activist Jacob Appelbaum Ousted from Job Amid Rape Allegations
Hacker celebrity Jacob Appelbaum stepped down from his position at the nonprofit digital privacy group Tor Project following accusations of rape and other sexual misconduct. This comes after a two-month internal investigation by Tor Project into the accusations, concluded in July, which determined that the accusations were true. No legal charges have yet been brought…
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EXCLUSIVE: Poll Reveals Hillary Clinton’s ‘Shocking’ Bad Start With Jewish Voters
Hillary Clinton is doing great with Jewish voters, right? Not necessarily. An internal poll conducted in May and kept away from the public eye, found Clinton’s favorability among Jewish voters at a relatively low level. Clinton’s approval rate among Jewish voters in May stood at 54% while 45% of Jews held a negative view of…
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Does Breitbart News Peddle Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories?
Hillary Clinton’s campaign says that the right-wing news website run by Donald Trump’s newly minted campaign chief trucks in “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.” The site’s executives say that’s nuts. But as Breitbart News has become inextricably linked to Donald Trump with the August 17 appointment of the company’s chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, to run Trump’s campaign,…
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