Jewish Trump officials distance themselves after his dinner with white supremacist
The right-wing Zionist Organization of America said that Trump ‘dining with Jew-haters’ was helping ‘legitimize and mainstream antisemitism’
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Fast Forward 5 Presidential Scandals With Jews In The Hot Seat
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Among the Jewish men and women with a front-row seat to America’s executive branch, there are Jews who would be president, Jews who are indispensable to presidents and, less happily, Jews who help mire presidents in scandal. Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is a definite category 2, with rumored ambitions of…
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Fast Forward Prominent Jewish Bureaucrat Spurned By Trump Praises Syria Strike
The morning after President Donald Trump ordered a cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base, prominent neoconservatives are praising the president. In an essay in the Weekly Standard, Elliott Abrams, a longtime adviser to Republican presidents, lauded the strike. “The president has been chief executive since January 20, but this week he acted also…
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Fast Forward Why The Only Neocon To Get Close To Trump Administration Won’t Get In After All
Elliott Abrams, former deputy national security adviser in the Bush White House, was Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s top choice to serve as his deputy, but the appointment was nixed by President Trump, CNN reported. According to the report, it was Abrams’s early criticism of Trump that cost him the nomination. After Trump clinched the…
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Fast Forward Trump Nixes Senior Jewish Republican for State Department Job
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump reportedly decided against nominating Elliott Abrams as deputy secretary of state because of Abrams’ opposition last year to Trump’s nomination. CNN cited three anonymous Republican sources on Friday as saying Abrams, known for his closeness to the Israeli establishment and the pro-Israel community, was out of the running. Abrams,…
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Opinion Israeli Right Turning on Security Chiefs: ‘Treason’
‘Arguably treasonous’? Former Israeli intelligence chiefs Meir Dagan of Mossad (left) and Yuval Diskin of Shin Bet / Wikimedia Commons There seems be a growing realization on the pro-Israel right — in some corners of it, at least — that its notions of Israel’s security needs don’t have much support among Israel’s security professionals. What…
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Fast Forward Security Advisor Elliott Abrams Calls for Pollard’s Release
Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. deputy national security advisor, said Jonathan Pollard should be released from prison. “I think that there is a just and a humanitarian case for his release,” Abrams told i24 news, an international 24-hour news and current affairs television channel based in Tel Aviv, in an interview Friday. Pollard is in…
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Opinion Ex-Labor Pol, Ousted from Peace Now Panel, Cries ‘Intolerance’
Einat Wilf and Ehud Barak announce defection from Labor Party, January 17, 2011 / Wikimedia Commons A former Labor Party Knesset member, Einat Wilf, is complaining that she’s been dropped from the program of the third annual Conference of the Israeli Left, sponsored Peace Now, because of her pro-Israel views. In a Facebook post announcing…
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