Israel and Turkey renew diplomatic dialogue for first time in 6 years (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General Yuval Rotem will visit Turkey next week in a move meant to renew dialogue between Jerusalem and Ankara for the first time in six years. Rotem is scheduled to meet with his Turkish counterpart […]
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Middle EastDana Boente is the Acting Attorney General of the United States. But who is he? The 62-year-old was thrust into the national spotlight on Monday night when President Donald Trump fired Sally Yates, the acting attorney general and a holdover from the Obama administration. When Yates declared earlier in the day that she would not
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Middle East, USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — Of the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts, which, in their present form, are almost exclusively targeted at Israeli scholars and institutions. In the latest example, at their January annual meeting the American Historical Association
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABoth the Palestinian Authority (Fatah) and Hamas are practicing torture in their prisons, reports award-winning Jerusalem journalist Khaled Abu Toameh – but because it’s not happening in Israeli prisons, it is not considered news. The gist of Abu Toameh’s report for the New York-based Gatestone Institute appears in this one paragraph: “A Palestinian who points
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Middle EastMexico City (dpa) – Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray has asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to apologize over a tweet backing the idea of a US-Mexico border wall, the Mexican broadcaster Televisa reported on Monday. “We hope that the Israeli government will have the sensitivity to correct Netanyahu’s statement,” he said. “Mexico is a
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International, Middle East, USADemocratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland slammed President Donald Trump for opting not to directly mention antisemitism in his Holocaust remembrance statement. While Trump acknowledged the gravity of the historic event and vowed to do all in his power to prevent another from happening in the future, Cardin said Monday he failed to highlight the
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Jewish History, USAOne of the last people to know members of Germany’s Nazi leadership in person has died in Munich at the age of 106. Brunhilde Pomsel was a former secretary to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister. In a documentary produced last year she talked about the three years she spent working for one of the 20th
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International, Jewish HistoryAccused of borderline anti-Semitism, former British Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge lobs inflammatory statements in tennis-like conversation on J-TV By Jenni Frazer LONDON — Baroness Jenny Tonge, one of Israel’s fiercest critics in the UK, has claimed on Facebook that she was “interrogated” on the Jewish current affairs channel, J-TV, and that she had been “caught
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International, Middle EastLOS ANGELES — The travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump has had a minor impact on U.S.-based airlines but has forced foreign airlines to scramble, even prompting one carrier to switch out a flight crew to comply with the action. Trump’s executive order to temporarily bar travelers from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia
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International, Middle East, Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — The lawmaker who spurred Donald Trump’s sweeping temporary halt on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries says he told the soon-to-president last year that a so-called Muslim ban would be “borderline unconstitutional.” Rep. Mike McCaul, the Texas Republican who heads the House Committee on Homeland Security and a member of Trump’s national security advisory
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Middle East, USACatalyst behind Muhammad Shinawi’s attacks was girlfriend calling him ‘Jew lover,’ Shin Bet says; 2 indicted as accessories By Judah Ari Gross Muhammad Shinawi, Khaled bin Atef Abu Kleib and Ihab bin Ayoub Yusef enter a Haifa court on January 30, 2017. Shinawi is accused of murder and attempted murder for shooting attacks in the
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Middle EastA number of company chief executives, ranging from Starbucks Corp.’s Howard Schultz to Google’s Sundar Pichai, have spoken out about or taken action after President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on refugees. Trump signed a controversial executive order Friday that blocks all refugee entry for 120 days, with an indefinite block on Syrian refugee entry.
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The legal morass created by President Donald Trump’s immigration order deepened Monday, with the government’s top lawyer instructing Justice Department attorneys not to defend the policy in court. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama administration holdover serving until Trump’s nominee is installed, said in a letter released to reporters late Monday that
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International, Middle East, USASEATTLE — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to invalidate key provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring all refugees and immigration by citizens of seven majority Muslim countries. The lawsuit — the first challenge of Trump’s order to be brought by a state — is backed
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