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SXSW festival bars US Army as sponsor after ‘careful consideration,’ anti-Israel pressure

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South by Southwest (SXSW), the more than 35-year-old annual conference and music festival held in Austin, Texas, announced recently that it is revising its sponsorship model “after careful consideration.” “The U.S. Army, and companies who...

US Gaza aid pier to be operational within days

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A floating pier constructed off the Gaza coast by the U.S. Army is set to become operational “in the coming days,” according to Dan Dieckhaus, response director for the U.S. Agency for International Development...
Historical marker in Knoxville, Tenn., for Roddie Edmonds, Nov. 12, 2020. Credit: Jrryjude via Wikimedia Commons.

Congressional bills aim to give highest honor to ‘Righteous Gentile’ Roddie Edmonds

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Both houses of Congress reintroduced legislation this week to honor the late Roddie Edmonds, who put his life in danger to save Jews during World War II and the Holocaust, and is one of...
U.S. Army pilot Gerald Teldon. Credit: Courtesy of the Teldon family.

Decades after serving, Jewish lieutenant receives World War II war medals

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Gerald Teldon, 97, nicknamed himself “Mr. Lucky,” flying more than 60 missions for the U.S. Army during World War II. What he never received, however, were his service medals. That changed on July 29, when—surrounded...
A still from the Netflix documentary “Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis,” November 2021. Credit: Courtesy of Netflix.

Netflix short film, ‘Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis,’ leaves viewers cringing

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It was basically the complete opposite of what they expected. A group of German Jews who fled Hitler and Nazi Germany, and who signed up to be American soldiers, wanted to exact revenge. Instead, they...
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the phone with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 12, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

US allies face America’s Revolutionary People’s Army

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During his Senate confirmation hearing, Defense Secretary General Lloyd Austin gave an ominous description of how he viewed the Pentagon’s mission. He began his statement blandly enough. “The job of the Defense Department is to...
Israeli officials at the ceremony held in honor of the delivery of an Iron Dome battery to the U.S. Army, September 2020. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Israel Ministry of Defense.

Israel delivers Iron Dome defense systems to US Army

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The Israeli Ministry of Defense delivered the first of two Rafael-made Iron Dome air-defense systems to the U.S. Army, the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday. “As a result of the effectiveness of this system, many...
The Pentagon. Credit: David B. Gleason/Flickr.

US Army suspends officer for Holocaust joke on TikTok

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The U.S. Army has suspended an officer who posted a video making a Holocaust joke to his more than 3 million subscribers on the video-sharing social-networking service TikTok. “What’s a Jewish person’s favorite Pokémon character?” asks...