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Al-Aqsa Mosque congregant charged with helping Hamas

Prosecutors in Lod have filed charges against Omar Riyad Abd al-Razak Uda, a 21-year-old man from Qalansawe in central Israel, for contacting a foreign agent and providing services for an illegal organization. According to the statements, Uda periodically visited the al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. On three occasions in 2015, he

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Middle East

Israel releases Iran TV correspondent accused of terrorism

Israel on Sunday released a correspondent in the Golan Heights for Iran’s Arabic-language state television after four days of detention, police said. Bassam al-Safadi, a journalist for the Al-Alam news channel, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of “supporting a terrorist organisation and incitement to violence and terrorism,” police said. A court in Nazareth in northern

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Middle East

‘Our family bought this land, it belongs to Jews’

While the Jewish community in the neighborhood of Silwan (Shiloach) in eastern Jerusalem has elicited fierce criticism from the Israeli left and even the American government, descendants of the original owner of the “Kfar HaTeimanim” (Yemenite Village) area in Silwan celebrated the planned construction of an additional apartment building for the growing Jewish population. Yair

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Middle East

Clinton says Judge Curiel as American as her or Trump

  From Times of San Diego Likely Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said in Oxnard, California on Saturday the San Diego federal judge criticized for being of Mexican ancestry is “as much of an American as Donald Trump.” The presumptive Republican nominee has accused U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit brought by

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Zionist Union leaders: We still may join coalition

Recent comments by Opposition head Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) and Shelly Yachimovich (Zionist Union) suggest that their party may still join the government coalition. On Saturday, both politicians said that they would reconsider joining a unity government, should there be any diplomatic initiatives. MK Herzog presented new conditions to joining. “If Netanyahu kicks the Jewish

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Middle East

Fighting Hate with Punctuation

Brian Teeman endured a “typical” barrage of anti-semitic tweets after sharing an article he spotted last week on the “Coincidence Detector,” a Google Chrome extension white supremacists were using to track and harass Jewish people. “Same anti-semitic crap I see all the time,” he told Newsweek. The 48-year-old Leeds, U.K. resident co-founded a software company

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Susan Sarandon says Hillary Clinton ‘more dangerous’ than Trump: ‘She has done horrible things’

Hollywood actress and activist Susan Sarandon says former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be a more dangerous U.S. president than Donald Trump – provided she’s not indicted first. Ms. Sarandon, a supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, told a liberal news outlets this week that Mrs. Clinton’s track record portends a much

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Who’s to Blame for Rioting at Donald Trump Rallies?

Shortly after protesters clashed with Donald Trump supporters Thursday night in San Jose, California, conservatives began blaming liberals for rioting against a presidential candidate. Liberals pointed a finger at the Republican presumptive nominee for his incendiary rhetoric and the violence of his own supporters. It’s a cycle that seems likely to continue until November’s election.

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Erdogan slams Merkel for failure to prevent Armenian genocide vote

Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sharply critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for failing to stop a vote recognizing the 1915 killing of Armenians as genocide and did not rule out sanctions, in remarks published Saturday. Erdogan said he did not understand why German Chancellor Angela Merkel had failed to whip

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International, Middle East

Democratic Party’s Superdelegates—History and Impact

This article originally appeared on the International Business Times. How democratic is the Democratic Party? Thanks to the pivotal role of unelected “superdelegates” in the party’s nomination process, the question has dogged both Democratic officials and likely nominee Hillary Clinton for months. That’s because superdelegates hold the balance of power in this year’s nomination. Among

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