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Fast Forward BBC Journalist Sets Up Twitter account saying Israel is ‘racist,’ ‘white supremacist’
(JTA) — The BBC is investigating one of its journalists for an anonymous Twitter account on which he reportedly wrote anti-Israel posts. The Jewish Chronicle outed Nimesh Thaker, a longtime BBC World News journalist, as the man behind the now-private Not that bothered Twitter account. Thaker’s account tweeted that Israel is “racist” and a “white…
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Fast Forward Pompeo cancels plan to film Trump ad in Israel
(JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled plans to film a campaign ad in Israel to encourage Americans living there to vote for President Donald Trump. The decision not to participate in the campaign by Republicans Overseas Israel followed the uproar over Pompeo’s prerecorded message from Jerusalem to last week’s Republican National Convention, and…
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News In Los Angeles, Israelis rally for Trump
Hundreds of Israelis and Israeli-Americans paraded by car, waving flags and honking horns, to show their support for President Donald Trump. Close to 2,000 people participated in the pro-Trump rally on Aug. 30 in Los Angeles. The rally, which started at Taft High School in Woodland Hills and ended at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Studio…
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News Emiratis say their deal with Israel will be good for Palestinians, too — eventually
There are still plenty of critics of the historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, but the one place you won’t find many of them is in the UAE. People here have by and large embraced the bilateral “Abraham Accord,” which was signed Aug. 13 and consummated, symbolically at least, on Aug. 31,…
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Israel News Think tank failed to disclose six-figure grant from Israeli government
An American think tank that studies Jew-hatred — including weighing in on when criticism of Israel becomes antisemitic — took a six-figure payment from the Israeli government but didn’t disclose it to the public or to the federal government. That information was detailed in an internal financial spreadsheet that listed payments approved by Israel’s Ministry…
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Israel News Israel approved grant to Tennessee anti-Muslim ‘hate group’
The Israeli government approved a grant to a Tennessee-based Christian Zionist organization that is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s watch list of hate groups, according to a government spreadsheet acquired by the Forward. The document, which details payments approved to entities around the world by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs in the first quarter…
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Israel News U.S. pro-Israel groups failed to disclose grants from Israeli government
More than half of all American states have passed laws designed to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. No advocacy group was more important to this push than the Israel Allies Foundation, an American non-profit that supports a network of pro-Israel legislators across the globe. It was the IAF that in 2014…
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Community I came to Israel to connect to Judaism – but my traditions didn’t resonate with Israelis
As I began to lead havdalah, the familiar prayer that I’ve chanted on hundreds of Saturday nights to close Shabbat, 78 pairs of eyes followed me. These eyes belonged to a group of Israelis that I had just met a few days prior, when I began my journey as a gap year participant in south…
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