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Fast Forward WATCH: Cory Booker Calls Trump’s Attacks On Ilhan Omar ‘Reprehensible’
Speaking at a forum for Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Cory Booker defended Rep. Ilhan Omar from attacks on her from President Trump and others, calling them “toxic” and “reprehensible.” During a question-and-answer forum, an audience member said that Omar had been “critical of the outside influence of AIPAC in determining U.S. foreign policy, including funding…
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Fast Forward Biden Makes Trump’s Charlottesville Reaction The Center Of His Campaign Launch
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign by accusing President Donald Trump with failing to unreservedly condemn neo-Nazis whose march two years ago ended with deadly violence. The launch underscored the degree over which the battle for the Jewish vote has already figured in the campaign and, more broadly, how each party is…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Promises To Name New Golan Heights Town After Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he would name a new community in the Golan Heights after President Trump, who recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed area last month. “All Israelis were deeply moved when President Trump made his historic decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said in a…
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Fast Forward Women’s March Calls On Twitter To Suspend Trump Over Ilhan Omar Tweets
The Women’s March organization launched a petition Tuesday calling on Facebook and Twitter to suspend President Trump for his recent social media attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar. “Don’t give hate a platform,” the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said. “President Trump has demonstrated time and again that he will…
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Fast Forward Trump Administration Discourages Use Of Phrase ‘Two-State Solution’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House is discouraging the use of the term “two-state solution” when describing possible outcomes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A senior White House official on Monday confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency a report that appeared over the weekend on Sky News Arabic, a satellite TV station, and picked up by…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Says He Can Expose The Mueller Report’s Redactions
Don’t let the redactions in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report get you down — Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, is prepared to “tell it all.” According to his lawyer, Lanny Davis, Cohen is familiar with the report and can “fill in the bulk of redactions.” Cohen confirmed in a tweet that he is ready to…
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News White House Excludes Liberal Jewish Groups From Mystery Meeting
The Trump administration left major liberal Jewish organizations off its invitation list for a mysterious White House meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, but invited three officials from the hawkish Zionist Organization of America, the Forward has learned. The meeting, the existence of which which the JTA first reported on Friday, comes amid speculation that the…
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Fast Forward Trump Considered Ivanka To Run World Bank Since ‘She’s Very Good With Numbers’
President Trump considered nominating his daughter and advisor Ivanka as president of the World Bank because “she’s very good with numbers,” he confirmed in an interview with the Atlantic published Friday. “She’s got a great calmness … I’ve seen her under tremendous stress and pressure,” the president continued. “She reacts very well—that’s usually a genetic…
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