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Daily Archives: January 15, 2019

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Time to recognize Israel’s claim to Golan Heights

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a public declaration of Israel’s interest in having the United States recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.  Senators Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz have introduced legislation urging just...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Dec. 4, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Israel is still doing America’s dirty work in Syria

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For some observers, this past weekend’s revelations about Israeli strikes against Iranian targets in Syria was just politics as usual in the Jewish state. Some pundits treated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public acknowledgement...
U.S. President Donald Trump signing legislation in the Oval Office, January 2018. Source: White House.

Trump signs anti-genocide act, anti-Semitism resolution into law

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed new bipartisan legislation committing the United States to preventing genocide, named in honor of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities...
“Shoes on the Danube Promenade” memorial to the Holocaust on the Danube River, erected in 2005. Credit: Nikodem Nijaki/Wikimedia Commons.

Israel to scan Hungary’s Danube river from remains of Holocaust victims

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At the behest of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and in coordination with forensic experts from the Israeli emergency organization ZAKA, an Israeli recovery team will dive to the bottom of Hungary’s Danube river to...
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Book Review: ‘Finding the Right School … ‘

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The letters BDS, an acronym for the words boycott, divestment, and sanctions, is a movement encouraging individuals, corporations, states, and countries to economically, politically, and socially isolate Israel until, for example, Israel withdraws from...
William Barr speaking to the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 15, 2005. Credit: C-SPAN/Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish pros, cons regarding nomination of William Barr as US attorney general

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to become attorney general has elicited mixed reviews from Jewish groups. William Barr, who served in the same role under the late President George H.W. Bush, is scheduled to face...
The U.S. Capitol building. Wikimedia Commons via Martin Falbisoner.

Senate Democrats block pro-Israel, anti-BDS bill for third time in two weeks

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For the third time in the past few weeks, Senate Democrats failed to reach the necessary 60 votes on Monday evening to end debate on Republican-introduced legislation that, if enacted, would impose fresh sanctions on Syria,...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.

Palestinians to lead UN’s largest bloc of nations

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The Palestinians are set to lead the largest bloc of members in the United Nations, known as the Group of 77 (G77) and China, on Tuesday. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to be in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting in the Israeli Knesset on Dec. 24, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Fact sheet: Party lists, primaries or appointment

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Does the Israeli political system confuse you? Here is a detailed look at how the parties function. Feb. 22 is the deadline for parties vying for seats in Israel’s Knesset to submit their lists of...
Executive director of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition Abbas Hamideh poses with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) at a swearing-in ceremony and private dinner in Detroit on Jan. 12, 2019. Credit: Abbas Hamideh/Twitter.

Activist who said Israel is a ‘terrorist entity’ attends Tlaib swearing-in, private dinner

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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) met with Abbas Hamideh, a Palestinian activist who has said that Israel is a “terrorist entity,” over the weekend. “I was honored to be at Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib swearing in ceremony in...