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Sadiq Khan: Corbyn ‘Knows Nothing About Anti-Semitism’

April 6, 2016

London’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has demanded that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is “trained about what anti-Semitism is” in order to crack down on it within his party. Khan, the minister for Tooting, in south London, said the Labour Party’s failure to tackle anti-Jewish sentiment was “unacceptable,” in a speech last night at hustings organised […]

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Former president Moshe Katsav to stay in jail

April 6, 2016

Former Israel President Moshe Katsav is paying the price for refusing to express regret about his crimes. The Prison Release Committee attached to the Israel Prison Service today decided that instead of early release, Katsav would serve his full seven-year sentence for two counts of rape and other crimes. Four years and 120 days after

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Relatives of my parents’ murderer in my hospital room?

April 6, 2016

Bat-Sheva Sadan, the daughter of Rabbi Eli and Dina Horowitz who were murdered by Arab terrorists in their home in Kiryat Arba on a Sabbath eve back in 2003, has weighed in on the controversy regarding shared maternity wards for Jewish and Arab women. After Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (Joint List) on Tuesday called the

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Best choices June 7: Clinton, Kasich

April 6, 2016

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — With California’s June 7th primary drawing closer, as editor of San Diego Jewish World and as a registered independent voter, I have come to some non-partisan conclusions about which candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries are the best choices for our community. On the Republican side, I favor the

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

Mossad chief’s corneas return sight to 2 Israelis

April 6, 2016

Two people have regained their eyesight after receiving the corneas of the late former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who died March 17 after a long battle with cancer. Avraham Gian, 81, and an unnamed 70-year-old woman were the recipients of the corneas, the transparent layer that forms the front of the eye. The operations were

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Obama still has plans for Palestine, Hoenlein warns

April 6, 2016

Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, warned Monday that US Jews and pro-Israel advocates were being distracted by the 2016 election instead of focusing on the damage President Barack Obama could still do in his remaining months in office. “The obsession, I have to say, with the

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Middle East, USA

What Sanders told the Daily News about Israel

April 6, 2016

Editor’s Note: The New York Daily News’ interview with Bernie Sanders on April 1 has generated considerable controversy, particularly concerning Israel. Here is a transcript of that portion of his interview that dealt with Israel. We congratulate the editorial staff of that newspaper on its efforts to pin Senator Sanders down on the issues. Daily

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Middle East, USA

Middle East Roundup: April 6, 2016

April 6, 2016

Israeli police demolish eastern Jerusalem park that glorified Palestinian terror (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli police officers from the Jerusalem District and city officials on Tuesday demolished a memorial garden in the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amud in eastern Jerusalem, which was created to commemorate terrorists—or “shahids” (martyrs), as the garden’s founders described them—who

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Jewish extremist remains in jail as son is circumcised

April 5, 2016

The family of jailed Jewish extremist Meir Ettinger held the circumcision for his son without him in a Jerusalem synagogue on Monday, after the Supreme Court earlier in the day upheld a ruling by a lower court against granting him furlough. Justices Noam Sohlberg, Uzi Fogelman and Esther Hayut agreed with the Beersheba District Court,

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In 1930s, Nazis called for the boycott of Jewish firms; in 2016 BDS wants to do the same thing to Israel

April 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: Several pieces of legislation are currently being weighed by the California Legislature to counter the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Two companion measures by Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) were introduced in January and another measure by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) was introduced earlier this month. In the Op-Ed below, Rabbi

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Middle East, USA

Trump to skip Republican Jewish Coalition event

April 5, 2016

WASHINGTON — After a rocky week on the campaign trail, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not attend the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Spring Retreat this coming weekend in Las Vegas. The Republican Jewish Coalition confirmed Monday that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will be addressing the annual event, hosted by Republican billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson,

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Middle East, USA

Sanders claims Israel killed ‘10,000 innocents’

April 5, 2016

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has accused Israel of killing over 10,000 innocent civilians during 2014’s war with Gazan terrorists – in a gross inflation of the casualty statistics enough to make even Hamas’s own propaganda chiefs blush. Sanders, who trails Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by a significant margin, made the comments in a meeting

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Middle East, USA

Israeli and Turkish teams to meet on Thursday

April 5, 2016

Negotiating teams from Israel and Turkey will meet on Thursday in Europe in an effort to bridge the remaining gaps standing in the way of a reconciliation agreement between the two countries, Haaretz reported on Monday. Senior Israeli officials noted that in recent weeks, and since the latest round of negotiations between the two countries,

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Middle East Roundup: April 5, 2016

April 5, 2016

U.S. and Israel strike new energy agreement (JNS.org) U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and his Israeli counterpart, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, signed a new joint energy deal in Jerusalem on Monday. The agreement expands areas of U.S.-Israel cooperation to include fuels and fuel alternatives, natural gas, smart grid technologies, desalination and water treatment, and the

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Middle East

Sadiq Khan: Corbyn ‘Knows Nothing About Anti-Semitism’

Former president Moshe Katsav to stay in jail

Relatives of my parents’ murderer in my hospital room?

Best choices June 7: Clinton, Kasich

Mossad chief’s corneas return sight to 2 Israelis

Obama still has plans for Palestine, Hoenlein warns

What Sanders told the Daily News about Israel

Middle East Roundup: April 6, 2016

Jewish extremist remains in jail as son is circumcised

In 1930s, Nazis called for the boycott of Jewish firms; in 2016 BDS wants to do the same thing to Israel

Trump to skip Republican Jewish Coalition event

Sanders claims Israel killed ‘10,000 innocents’

Israeli and Turkish teams to meet on Thursday

Middle East Roundup: April 5, 2016

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