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It’s the first vote of the new United States Senate – but it’s doubling as a preview of the 2020 presidential campaign. Senate Democrats on Tuesday night blocked a bill sponsored by Republican Senator Marco Rubio that includes aid for Israel and also controversial curbs on supporting the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction…
Representative Rashida Tlaib fired back at critics like Marco Rubio who claimed she was accusing Jews of ‘dual loyalty’ in a tweet about his proposed new anti-BDS law. The newly minted congresswoman said she was referring to American values when she said critics of BDS should “remember what country they represent” — a phrase that…
We’ve heard a lot about the anti-Semitic “dual loyalty” canard recently. The idea that Jews are more loyal to Israel and each other than they are to the country in which they live has been used to justify the mass murder of Jews since Pharaoh in the Bible. It’s something we’re sensitive about, and in…
Yes, there’s health care and Russian meddling and Donald Trump’s ever-plunging popularity. But social media was fixated on “hug-gate” after images surfaced of what looked like an awkward encounter between Sen. Marco Rubio and Ivanka Trump. Rubio, for his part, took the jokes in stride, and jumped in to correct the record, even providing what…
At this point, there’s nothing really funny about this election cycle. But there are a few topical gems that we thought were worth sharing—guaranteed for a smile or two (or at the very least some much needed entertainment while waiting in the voting line). That time this Trump surrogate mixed up “Molotov cocktails” with “mazel…
Jewish Democrats slammed former Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio for reversing course Wednesday and announcing that he will run for another term in Washington. Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who announced in March that she would not be running for the Senate seat, slammed Rubio’s decision to run for re-election in…
Speaking at a Florida synagogue, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio promised that if he were elected president, “Israel will not have a better friend than me.” “We are going to take a side and we are going to be on Israel’s,” the Florida senator said, according to USA Today. “I think Israel is willing to…
(JTA) — Donald Trump won big on Super Tuesday, but fell short of the clean sweep some predicted. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, won three states and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., won one, Minnesota, and performed better than expected in another, Virginia, where he came in second to Trump. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Ben Carson,…
