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Bruce S. Ticker

Bruce S. Ticker
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Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia.  He may be contacted via bruce.ticker@sdjewishworld.com

From left: Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) address U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks on Capitol Hill. Credit: Screenshot.

Words from Trump, Tlaib shame America

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Their messages were aimed at different people, but both screeds were just as historically shameful. In a 10-day period, our president and a congresswoman from Detroit uttered some of the most disgraceful words ever...
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 14, 2018. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.

Democrats call out Trump but not their own bigots

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The Democratic party’s response to President Trump’s disgusting taunts makes Democrats in the House of Representatives vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy. Trump was called out by House Democrats for denouncing perceived immigrants in Congress, yet...
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Berger is Sen. Warren’s self- inflicted campaign wound

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After five months of struggling her way out of Rodney-Dangerfield status, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren could lose much of the voters’ respect through a crisis of her own making – hiring a campaign staffer...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, incoming House Democrat representing Queens, N.Y. Credit: Ocasio-Cortez campaign.

Holocaust, detention centers, and Ocasio- Cortez

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The dentist in the television series Seinfeld, Tim Whatley, D.D.S., converted to Judaism in order to tell Jewish jokes, so perhaps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed Jewish roots to exploit Jewish suffering – and in the process...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Democratic opposition to Israel’s government grows

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Democrats are in denial when they claim that Israel’s perception within the party is solid. Its image has ebbed among Democrats and other Americans, primarily on the liberal side, and it is difficult to...

Real gun laws are needed in America today

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Twenty years after the Columbine massacre and thousands of murders later, Isiaka Meite was shot to death in Southwest Philly Sunday night, June 16, and two days later a Trump appointee urged a “let...
Rabea Ali

Abrasive questions on Israel asked of Engel

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Rabea Ali, president of the Muslim Students Association at Manhattan College, wasted no time challenging U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel’s advocacy in a campus speech for Israel when she asked, “And how do you find...
Adriel Hampton from Dublin, USA [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]

California Democrats reject anti- Israel resolutions

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Just as some California Democrats sought to blame Israel for all plagues and earthquakes, Palestinians were denied Israeli hospital care – by their own leaders. The Israeli embassy in London was accused by a...
View of the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Mandatory coalitions could fix Israel’s electoral system

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Arab nations historically feared that Israel’s presence would influence their cultures, but as of Thursday, May 30, Arab traditions influenced Israel: Our prime ally in the Middle East will exist for nearly four months...
Kane Farabaugh, Voice of America News [Public domain]

Too bad Tlaib and Corbyn didn’t know Monty

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s distortions of the past and her dreadful hopes for the future can be bookended between the acts of two very different Britons: the revered General Bernard Law Montgomery and the...