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Fast Forward Kalman Yeger, Who Tweeted ‘Palestine Does Not Exist,’ Loses Seat On Immigration Committee
New York City Councilman Kalman Yeger has been removed from his post in the council’s immigration committee following a tweet in which he wrote, “Palestine does not exist,” The New York Times reported. Yeger, who represents a heavily Orthodox part of Brooklyn, made the remark on Twitter last week, in response to a tweet from…
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Fast Forward Effort To Recall Colorado’s Jewish Governor Led By Woman Who Praised Hitler
An effort to recall Colorado governor Jared Polis is being led by a woman with a history of anti-Semitic Facebook posts and who once praised Hitler for being good to the German people, the Greeley Tribune reported. Jared Polis was elected governor of Colorado during last year’s midterm elections, when Democrats swept into power at…
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Fast Forward Former AIPAC Officials Launch Bipartisan Political Action Committee
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two former top AIPAC staffers are helming a new political action committee that will steer donations to candidates in both parties who adopt a centrist pro-Israel position, at a time when that gold standard for pro-Israel giving is being challenged by the right and the left. Pro-Israel America launched Tuesday endorsing 27…
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Fast Forward Fringe Websites Push Conspiracy That Jussie Smollett Was Aided By Kamala Harris
A conspiracy theory that presidential hopeful Senator Kamala Harris aided actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged attempts to fake a hate crime have spread across Twitter and Facebook, Storyful reported, based on an analysis of traffic on the sites. Smollett was arrested last week on suspicion of filing a false police report that he had been assaulted…
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Israel News Major Jewish Groups Mum On Netanyahu’s Deal With Extremist Party
As liberal and progressive Jewish groups assailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deal to return supporters of the racist rabbi Meir Kahane to the Israeli Knesset, most leading American Jewish groups are keeping silent. Nine major Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America, did not respond to questions…
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Fast Forward Lou Dobbs To Candace Owens: ‘Anybody Who Brings Up Hitler Loses’
Conservative activist Candace Owens half-heartedly walked back her controversial statements on Adolf Hitler, posted online last week, in an interview on Fox Business Monday. BuzzFeed News reported last Friday that Owens had invoked Hitler in responding to a question about nationalism, disputing that Hitler, who envisioned the Third Reich lasting for 1,000 years, could be…
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Fast Forward Republican Club Leader Advised Nazi Sympathizing, Anti-Muslim German Party
The newly elected president of a storied Republican club in New York City said he advised a virulently anti-Muslim and Nazi-symapathizing German party, the Daily Beast reported. Ian Walsh Reilly was elected last week to lead the Metropolitan Republican Club, which has counted Theodore Roosevelt and Michael Bloomberg as members. In a speech during the…
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Fast Forward Yes, Bernie Sanders And Chuck Schumer Do Look Like Muppets — The Crabby Ones
Did you know that Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer bear more than a passing resemblance to the Muppets characters Statler and Waldorf? Now you do. Ok does no one else see it pic.twitter.com/aNUPpXW3Ei — Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) February 5, 2019 Business Insider politics reporter Joe Perticone noticed the similarities in a recent tweet, prompting a…
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