NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) mourns the passing of former New York Rep. Stephen Solarz, a tireless champion for human rights, advocate for democracy, and guardian of the safety and security of the State of Israel. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, who worked closely with the nine-term Brooklyn congressman on […]
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Stipulating that we are not at all sanguine about this and acknowledging that the fact of the leaks may ultimately be more important than the result of the leaks, the first headlines from Wikileaks mainly confirm what we think we already knew, and some things we’re happy to think the
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — What is the United States and the world going to do about an act of aggression by North Korea on South Korea, the deliberate unprovoked firing of mortars at civilians? And what are the lessons of this situation for other world problems? First, nobody is going to do anything
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International, Middle East, USABy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel –It should be getting pretty hard even for Western leaders to ignore the Turkish regime’s growing alliance with their enemies. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Lebanon included a very dangerous statement that must not go unnoticed. Lebanon, of course, is now a virtual satellite of Iran, another strategic factor
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International, Middle East, USABy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, ISRAEL — Security checks at American airports have become the most controversial topic in the United States. This debate is so full of mistaken assumptions and misleading ideas that it is hard to know where to start in analyzing it. Let’s consider the terrorist threat within the United States. The opening
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is one of several Jewish groups that have worked to produce a Congressional letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to exercise clemency and release convicted Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard. A Congressional letter, initiated by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) written in coordination with a broad array
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USABy Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, November 30, anti-Israel activists in New York City plan to demonstrate and call for boycotts of stores that sell Israeli products. Their target is Ricky’s because it carries Ahava goods. But this action in New York is just one of many. Boycotters have been energetically lobbying other
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USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) on Wednesday, Nov. 24, called on the House of Representatives to pass the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which will improve programs that provide access to food for families and children in need. NCJW President Nancy Ratzan released the following statement: “On the eve of Thanksgiving,
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USABy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Sometimes you have to wait until high-ranking officials leave office to find out how truly clueless they are. Such is the case with former National Security Advisor James Jones. Israel-Palestinian peace is easy to obtain, he explained in a lecture. Why? Because the Palestinians are willing to accept Israel
NEW YORK (Press Release) – Nearly 800 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 113th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner on Sunday, November 21 at the New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. William Kristol, founding editor of the Weekly Standard, regular Fox TV panelist and co-founder of the Emergency Committee for Israel, and
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USABy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — If anyone tells you that the United States is a nest of Islamophobia and that’s a huge problem that must be atoned for by all sorts of measures, just give them the official FBI hate crime statistics. The numbers are now out for 2009. The report and the site
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The FBI released on MONDAY, Nov. 22, the 2009 statistics which indicated that 6,604 criminal incidents involving 7,789 offenses were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2009, published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, includes
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)— The leaders of the Reform Movement on Monday, Nov. 22, sent a letter to Secretary Robert Gates urging him to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, a regulation that threatens the rights of all LBGTQ servicemen and women by prohibiting them from serving openly in the United States military. The full text of
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Nov. 22, welcomed a substantial drop in the number of hate crimes documented by a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report, but expressed disappointment that more than 60 U.S. cities with 100,000-plus populations still did not participate in the annual study. The FBI’s 2009 report documenting
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