Saudi school textbooks for the 2018-19 academic year instigate hatred or violence against Jews, Christians, women and homosexual men, according to an analysis by the Anti-Defamation League. Newly released textbooks were translated, and several passages were documented in the ADL’s “Teaching Hate and Violence: Problematic Passages from Saudi State Textbooks for the 2018–19 School Year.”…
The Saudi Crown Prince described journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a dangerous Islamist days after his disappearance in a phone call with Jared Kushner, the Washington Post reported Thursday. In the call, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman encouraged the president’s son-in-law and national security adviser John Bolton, who was also on the line, to maintain the…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin may have bailed on attending a financial summit while in Saudi Arabia this week, but he still met with the country’s crown prince on Monday amidst an uproar over the apparent murder of a dissident, CNN reported. Mnuchin announced on Twitter on Thursday that he would not be attending the “Davos…
A Democratic congressman suggested Friday on CNN that Jared Kushner may have orchestrated the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The Daily Beast reported. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said — without citing evidence — that Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, might have provided Saudi Crown…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In March, Saudi Arabia was on the brink of a new age of modernity. At the epicenter of the transformation were Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser. But allegations this week that bin Salman — or MBS, as he is known — ordered the…
Despite evidence that a journalist was killed in one of Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic facilities, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday that he still plans to attend an investment conference in the country this month, the Washington Post reported. Turkish officials said they believe that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist and critic of Saudi Arabia,…
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to the Saudi crown prince to request information into the disappearance of a journalist from one of its diplomatic facility, Reuters reported. Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, spoke with Mohammed Bin Salman on Oct. 2, the day Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, was declared missing after…
An extensive investigation by the Associated Press into top Trump donor Elliott Broidy and a business associate, George Nader, revealed their efforts to create a lucrative backchannel between crown princes from the UAE and Saudi Arabia and the Trump White House to push policies harmful to those countries’ rival, Qatar. One section of the investigation…
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