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Opinion ‘Dual Loyalty’? Nice Try. Republicans Are The Ones Using Israel As A Partisan Football
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…
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Fast Forward ‘Jews Must Find Jesus’ Republican May Not Get To Congress After All
An evangelical Christian pastor who apparently won a North Carolina congressional seat last month by a razor-thin margin may not be seated as serious voter fraud allegations rock the race. Republican Mark Harris, who infamously said Jews should embrace Jesus if they want peace in the land of Israel, led Democrat Don McCready by just…
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Fast Forward North Carolina Republican Who Said Jews Should Embrace Jesus Wins House Seat
A Republican congressional candidate who said in a sermon that Jews and Muslims should convert to Christianity to create peace in Israel won his race for North Carolina’s 9th House District. Mark Harris narrowly beat Democrat Dan McCready 49.4%-48.8% in the midterm election on Tuesday. Harris expressed the importance of conversion for Israel and shared…
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Fast Forward Jewish GOP Chief Denounces Anti-Semitic Republican ‘Fistfuls Of Cash’ Ads
Matt Brooks, director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, denounced ads by Republicans featuring Jewish candidates holding fistfuls of cash. There have been at least five such ads, both as TV spots as mailers, that have been deployed this election cycle. “This crap must end!” Brooks wrote on Twitter. As I’ve commented repeatedly. This is vile…
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Fast Forward Florida Student Arrested After Pouring Chocolate Milk On Republican Canvasser
(JTA) — A Jewish woman, 19, who poured chocolate milk on a Republican campaign volunteer on the campus of Florida State University was arrested and charged with battery. Shelby Shoup turned herself in on Thursday afternoon, hours after the incident which was caught on video and posted on Twitter by fellow FSU student Hunter Pollack,…
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News Anger Over Pittsburgh Bloodbath — And Trump — Could Tip Midterms To Democrats
Just days after the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, a political war is brewing over whether President Trump is in part responsible for the rampage in Pittsburgh — and whether voters will hold him accountable at the polls next Tuesday. Progressives and Jewish Democratics insist that Trump created an atmosphere that led to the…
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Opinion Yes, Synagogue Bloodbath Could Swing The Midterms — But Which Way?
On Saturday, after shouting “all Jews must die,” Robert Bowers callously murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, the worst anti-Semitic act of violence in American history according to the Anti-Defamation League. Bowers, like many anti-Semites in the United States and Europe, believes Jews are the…
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Fast Forward Republican Steve King Endorses White Nationalist Faith Goldy For Toronto Mayor
U.S. Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) endorsed a white nationalist candidate for mayor of Toronto in a tweet Wednesday. King wrote that Goldy is “Pro Western Civilization and a fighter for our values.” Faith Goldy, an excellent candidate for Toronto mayor, pro Rule of Law, pro Make Canada Safe Again, pro balanced budget, &…BEST of all,…
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Opinion Why is Netanyahu poised to OK a ceasefire that’s favorable to Hamas? One word: Trump
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