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Fast Forward Netanyahu Is Now Also Israel’s Ministers Of Defense, Health, Welfare And The Diaspora
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named himself as the country’s Minister of Welfare on Wednesday, a month after incumbent minister Haim Katz resigned amid expected criminal fraud charges. In addition to leading the country and now serving as Welfare Minister, Netanyahu is now also Israel’s Defense Minister, Health Minister and Minister of the Diaspora. It’s…
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Fast Forward Ocasio-Cortez: Criticizing Netanyahu Isn’t Anti-Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman Democrat congresswoman from New York, said her criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not be seen as shots at the Jewish state. “The Netanyahu administration has been pursuing a lot of extraordinarily concerning policies,” Ocasio Cortez told Israel’s Channel 12 News in a recent press…
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Fast Forward Fliers Claiming Jews Were Behind 9/11 Appear In Bay Area
(JTA) (J. The Jewish News of Northern California) — Anti-Semitic fliers saying that Jews and Israel were behind the 9/11 attacks appeared in Northern California about 30 miles from San Francisco. The fliers discovered last weekend in Novato, a city of about 52,000 in the North Bay area, were plastered on telephone poles, storefronts and…
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Opinion By Blindly Supporting Netanyahu, AIPAC Has Betrayed American Jews
Even if they have never attended it, just about everyone in the American Jewish community is aware of The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual Policy Conference, which attracts nearly 20,000 people and is billed as the largest pro-Israel. This one day Washington-based event features presentations by an array of journalists, academics, and commentators on…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Deafening Silence On Trump’s ‘Dual Loyalty’ Is A Betrayal Of Israel’s Founding Principles
Has Israel lost the principles upon which it was founded? I’m a Jewish immigrant living in America and I’m getting sick of this. Really sick. From the time he was a candidate up until today, President Trump has bashed immigrants, every day and every night. And every now and then, he has made statements about…
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Fast Forward Dermer’s Boss Claims He Didn’t Consult Before Saying Congresswomen Could Visit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer did not consult with Israeli leaders before he announced last month that Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar would be allowed in to the country, the country’s foreign minister said. “It was not with the prime minister’s blessing; it was not a decision of…
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Opinion It’s Not Enough To Call Out Netanyahu’s Ban On Omar And Tlaib. Oppose The Racism That Led To It.
Somewhat surprisingly, in the immediate aftermath of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s denial of congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s requested entry to Israel, criticism and condemnation came from Jewish organizational leaders and rabbis across the political spectrum. While Rep. Tlaib was ultimately granted conditional permission to visit her family in Palestine on a humanitarian visa, which…
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Fast Forward Tlaib’s Grandmother Curses Trump Over Cancelled West Bank Visit
(JTA) — Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother cursed President Donald Trump after he tweeted that she should be happy that her granddaughter was not coming to visit her in the West Bank. “Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down,…
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