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Fast Forward Grieving Dad Says Seth Rich Scored Dream Job With Clinton Campaign Days Before Murder
Joel Rich, the father of slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich, has revealed that his son landed his dream job just days before being killed — a gig with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Rich told Britain’s Daily Mail that his son’s bosses at the Democratic National Committee selected him to work on the national campaign…
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News Newt Gingrich Just Fanned the Flames of Seth Rich Conspiracy Theories
Newt Gingrich has raised questions about the murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich, fanning the flames of conspiracy theories that link the unsolved slaying to the hacking scandal that has roiled the presidential campaign. In an appearance on The Mike Gallagher Show last week, the former Republican presidential candidate Gingrich appeared to give credence to…
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Fast Forward On Eve of Annual Conference, Britain’s Labour Party Drops Security Firm With Ties to Israel
— The Labour Party in Britain was left without security arrangements for its annual conference next month following its boycott of a longtime contractor with ties to Israel. Labour’s dropping of the British-Danish G4S security multinational firm follows a controversial vote last year by members of its National Executive Committee, leaving the party with no fixed…
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Community New York Has Three Jewish Republican Candidates Running for Congress
Voting for Jewish politicians is no longer a privilege reserved for the Democrats. Throughout New York, Jewish Republican candidates are popping up throughout the state in local and state primaries and as candidates on the ballots for the big November elections. Congressman Lee Zeldin of the 1st District of Long Island is currently the only…
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Fast Forward Internet Heats Up Over Comparison of Trump’s Words on Clinton To Rhetoric Preceding Rabin Assassination
The comparison between Donald Trump’s comments about what “Second Amendment people” can do to stop Hillary Clinton and the violent rhetoric that preceded the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 is heating up the Internet. At a rally in North Carolina, Trump said that Republicans who are not happy with Clinton’s comments…
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Community The Difficulties of Creating a Global Jewish Conspiracy
(Editor’s note: this piece is satirical.) I was trying to organize a Jewish conspiracy, but we couldn’t agree on anything. We tried forming an exploratory committee, but that was defeated by a series of conflicting agendas and ideologies. It’s not like we’re a monolith. The committee on typestyles came back with a decision, but the…
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Fast Forward Trump Adviser Reportedly Meets Senior Israeli Officials in Jerusalem
David Friedman, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited Jerusalem and met with senior officials from the Prime Minister’s Office. According to a report in Haaretz, a senior government official told the newspaper that Friedman had sought the meeting and that to maintain balance, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had traveled…
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Fast Forward Jewish Lawmaker in Britain Threatens to Quit Labour Over Anti-Semitism Issue
Parry Mitchell, a Jewish member of Britain’s House of Lords, said he will resign if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected as Labour Party leader. Writing Tuesday in The Times of London, Mitchell said a report which found that anti-Semitism is not endemic in Britain’s Labour Party was an “insipid whitewash” and vowed to leave the party…
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