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News Israeli Spy Firm That Approached Trump First Proposed Dirty Tricks Against BDS
The Israeli private intelligence company that offered to manipulate social media for the Trump campaign offered similar services a year earlier to a group of U.S. Jewish donors who sought to target Israel’s critics, according to a document obtained by the Forward. In late 2015, the Israeli private intelligence firm Psy-Group approached an ad hoc…
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Opinion For Israelis, Zionism Is Patriotism. For Diaspora Jews, It’s White Privilege.
On October 2, an American student with a visa to enter Israel named Lara Alqasem was refused entry because of alleged past involvement with the movement to boycott Israel. She has since been detained by the Israeli authorities, who won’t let her enter Israel. When pressed, Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said that if Alqasem…
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Opinion Thank You, Ambassador Haley, For Standing Up For Jews
“I wear heels, but it is not a fashion statement,” U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said at the AIPAC Policy Conference last year. “It is because if I see something wrong, I’m going to kick ‘em every single time.” This is perhaps the most iconic statement made by, arguably, the most pro-Israel U.S….
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Opinion Don’t Be Fooled: Nikki Haley Is Just Like Trump
Nikki Haley’s abrupt departure from her position as US Ambassador to the UN quickly sparked hope in the beleaguered ranks of Never-Trump Republicans, eager for the former South Carolina governor to challenge President Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries. But though foreign policy conservatives want to see in Haley an alternative to the president’s erratic…
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Opinion Nikki Haley Was A Nightmare For Us Palestinians
Six months after President Trump took office, his newly-appointed ambassador to the UN and former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, concluded a tour around Israel and the occupied West Bank with a hopeful tweet, featuring Haley with UNRWA female refugee students. She had discussed their “dreams and hopes.” This morning we visited an UNRWA refugee…
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Opinion With Nikki Haley’s Resignation, We Israelis Lost A Hero
It felt like a blow. “Nikki Haley resigned” kept popping up in my messages. Similar to the texts we Israelis get when there is a terror attack, my heart sank. It’s surprising that an Israeli would feel this way about the US ambassador to the UN. Except Nikki Haley is far more than that to…
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The Schmooze Justin Bieber Once Toured Yad Vashem Hand-In-Hand With Auschwitz-Survivor
Justin Bieber frequently sings about moms, a category of women he clearly has great affection for. But the grandmother file in his oeuvre was thin until this point. No longer. Bieber’s longtime manager Scooter Braun spoke about his client’s warm relationship with Braun’s grandmother on Thursday night. Receiving the title “Ambassador of Peace” at an…
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Fast Forward Israeli Swimmer Sets New Record In Youth Olympic Games
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Israel started the first day of the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires with a gold medal in swimming. Anastasia Gorbenko, 15, won the Women’s 200m Individual Medley on Sunday. She also set a new Israeli record of 2:12.88. Israel’s national anthem, “Hatikva,” was heard poolside during the medal ceremony on…
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