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Fast Forward Jew Who Heckled Anthony Weiner Defends Anti-Arab Remark About Wife
The Jewish man who started a war of words with Anthony Weiner admits making an anti-Arab remark about the embattled New York mayoral candidate’s wife as he campaigned in a Brooklyn bakery. A hard-to-identify man was caught blurting out “married to an Arab” at Weiner as he stumped for votes in Weiss Family Bakery in…
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Fast Forward Anthony Weiner Defends Bakery Outburst Over Wife Anti-Arab Slur
Anthony Weiner, who has pressed on with his bid for New York City mayor despite seeing his lead in the polls vanish amid embarrassing revelations, lost his cool while campaigning on Wednesday, a video of the incident showed. “Yeah, it takes one to know one, jackass,” Weiner is heard calling out over his shoulder as…
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Opinion Anthony Weiner’s Meltdown Over Huma
Anthony Weiner blew his stack at a Jewish voter in Brooklyn who insulted his wife, calling the man a “jackass” through a mouthful of cheese danish. In a video posted online by Yeshiva World News political correspondent Jacob Kornbluh, Weiner can be seen engaging in a shouting match with an unidentified man in a yarmulke…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Candidate Vows To Quiet Mosques
Right-wing activist Aryeh King is playing the race card in his campaign for Jerusalem city council, promising to clean the capital’s parks of Arabs and lower the volume on mosques. The slogans on his campaign posters read along the lines of “Are you afraid in the park?” and “Muezzin cackling?” King, whose primary endeavor in…
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Fast Forward Israeli Arabs Protest in Front of Egyptian Embassy In Aftermath of Bloodshed
JERUSALEM — Dozens of Israeli Arabs protested in front of the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv following clashes in Egypt between government security forces and protesters backing deposed President Mohamed Morsi. More than 200 protesters affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood were killed and more than 2000 injured throughout Egypt on Wednesday after government security forces…
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Israel News Do U.S. Generals Have Pro-Arab Slant?
The comment by the general who, until recently, ran America’s military command in the Middle East was startling in its bluntness. “I paid a military-security price every day as the commander of CENTCOM because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel,” James Mattis told an elite audience at the Aspen Security Forum…
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News Israeli Attitudes Toward Arabs Soften — But the Feeling’s Not Mutual
Despite widespread perceptions, Israeli Jews aren’t becoming more antagonistic toward Israeli Arabs. So concludes a new survey that also shows how Israeli Arab attitudes toward Jews have turned harsher. The past four years have seen a wave of legislation that many Arabs and civil rights advocates view as attacks on the civil rights of Israel’s…
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Israel News Bedouins Fight Israel’s Resettlement Plan — and Bid for American Jews’ Support
Critics of Israeli legislation aimed at urbanizing the Bedouin population of the Negev desert are trying to enlist American Jews to support their struggle and to apply pressure on the Israeli government to halt implementation of the program. The plight of the Bedouins, dramatized in the 2012 award-winning feature film “Sharqiya,” is that their land…
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