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In his latest controversial comments about the Jewish community, President Trump said in a speech to an Israeli-American group on Saturday that some Jewish people “don’t love Israel enough” and that Jews are “not going to vote for the wealth tax” proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Trump’s speech caused further debate over whether he uses…
The dozen or so Israelis sitting around a conference table at a Jewish community center in Tenafly, New Jersey, on a recent Wednesday night didn’t look like the leading edge of a new Israeli government-linked crowdsourced online propaganda campaign. Tapping on laptops, the group of high school students and adult mentors completed social media “missions”…
On stage at the national conference of the Israeli-American Council, Israel’s hawkish deputy minister of foreign affairs, Tzipi Hotovely, seemed surprised, and then annoyed, as the crowd turned against her. Hotovely had likely expected to find a friendly audience among the Israeli-Americans. Their organization’s leading donor, Sheldon Adelson, is America’s best-known pro-Israel hawk. But within…
In blunt remarks Sunday night, Sheldon Adelson erased any doubt about his intentions for the Israeli-American Council, the nationwide group into which he has pumped more than $10 million over the past three years: He’s building a harder-line alternative to AIPAC. Addressing the crowd after dinner at the IAC’s annual convention in Washington, D.C., Adelson…
