Arab Knesset members on Monday night blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after he released a video urging Israeli Arabs to take full part in Israeli society. Joint List chairman MK Ayman Odeh responded to the video and said, “I watched the video tonight and I asked myself whether this is the same person who tried […]
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Middle EastPHILADELPHIA — Thousands of protesters filled Philadelphia’s streets Monday, chanting and singing in brutal heat and humidity, increasingly outraged over an email hack that they said revealed the Democratic National Convention had worked to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination. Outside the Wells Fargo Center, dozens climbed calmly over police lines and were placed in zip-tie
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USASANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Nearly 100 more incidents of anti-Semitism occurred on campus during the 1st six months of 2016 compared with the 1st six months of 2015, according to AMCHA Initiative’s mid-year study released on Tuesday, July 26. In addition, calls for Israel’s elimination on campus tripled, and that expression highly correlated with actions that
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Fred Brown PHILADELPHIA (Press Release) — Day One of the DNC singlehandedly highlighted how far the Democrat Party has moved out of the mainstream with American Jewish voters and how hostile the Party has become. To Recap: Morning Democrat Representative and DNC Super Delegate Hank Johnson Spoke To An Anti-Israel Group Where He Compared
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USAWith Donald Trump officially named the Republican presidential nominee last week and Hillary Clinton poised to become the Democratic candidate Thursday, you may feel like your options for the November general election are locked in. But you’re wrong. Jill Stein, a 66-year-old physician, is also in the running for the White House. Stein is on
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeatedly attacked his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, drawing cries of “Lock her up!” from the audience at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Charlotte. The crowd’s reaction was a sharp contrast to Monday when Clinton faced the same group, receiving a polite but noticeably
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USAAt least 19 people have been killed and another 26 injured some of them seriously at a residential care centre for the disabled in Japan. The attack happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the town of Sagamihara 40 km south west of Tokyo. 26 year old charged in one of the most
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InternationalLawmaker compares Israeli settlers to ‘termites,’ Jewish Dems say apology falls short (JNS.org) A Democratic member of Congress on Monday compared Jews who live in communities located beyond Israel’s 1967 lines to “termites” during a speech at an anti-Israel event in Philadelphia. “There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a
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By Laura Walcher SAN DIEGO — The irony of Melania Trump echoing the words of Michelle Obama may be slightly enjoyable, but that’s where the humor ends in this very un-enjoyable political season. Terrifyingly, it reveals yet another Trump stumble in his team’s discourse, where leaders have consistently either ignored — or worse, been unaware of — the
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San Diego County, USAThe lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage across the United States said Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is no friend of LGBTQ citizens despite his recent overtures to that community. James Obergefell, a real estate agent turned activist, dismissed Mr. Trump’s vow last week at the Republican National
PHILADELPHIA — Michelle Obama made the case for Hillary Clinton on Monday night by drawing on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s own struggles eight years ago — and delivering what appeared to double as a message to those in the party reluctant to accept Clinton’s candidacy. When Clinton didn’t win the nomination in 2008, “She
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USADonald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton in several new national polls published Monday, in the wake of the Republican National Convention. In a two-way matchup with Clinton, who is the Democratic presumptive nominee, the New York billionaire leads by three points, 48 percent to 45 percent, according to a CNN/ORC International poll. And Trump leads
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USAPalestinian Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad Al-Maliki has declared that the PA intends to sue Great Britain for the Balfour declaration. Al-Maliki, speaking in the name of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at an Arab League conference, said that as far as the PA is concerned, the declaration published by the British empire in 1917 “gave
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International, Middle EastAs Israel’s acting National Security Council chief Yaakov Nagel heads to Washington to push for the signing of a new memorandum of understanding (MOU), one senior former Israeli general has spoken out against American aid to Israel. Maj. Gen. (Res) Gershon Hacohen, former commander of the IDF’s Northern Command and head of the army’s war
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