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Hillary takes hard line against BDS, touts pro-Israel policies

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton emphasized her pro-Israel credentials during an interview Saturday with the New York Daily News, looking to capitalize on recent missteps by rival Bernie Sanders, whose faux pas on the 2014 Gaza war has alienated some Jewish backers. Clinton sat down with the paper”s editorial board for an extended interview which was […]

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Middle East Roundup: April 12, 2016

    Iron Dome, meet Drone Dome: Israel’s Rafael unveils new defense system (JNS.org) Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems this week unveiled its newest development, the Drone Dome defense system, design to intercept enemy unmanned aerial vehicles. Rafael is also the developer of the Israeli military’s highly successful Iron Dome missile defense system. The Drone

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Middle East

Kuwaiti writer tells Arab world: Recognize Israel

Yousuf Abd Al-Karim Al-Zinkawi, a writer for the Kuwaiti-based Al-Seyassah newspaper has called for Arab and Muslim countries to “immediately recognize Israel,” telling them to drop monikers used to maintain the pretense of non-recognition such as “the Zionist entity.” Al-Zinkawi, a frequent critic of religious intolerance within the Arab world, dedicated his column on Saturday

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Dutch Protestants denounce Luther’s anti- Semitism

  AMSTERDAM (dpa) – The Protestant Church in the Netherlands on Monday distanced itself from the anti-Semitic writings of the German reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546), calling some of his statements “disgusting and objectionable.” In its declaration, the Church condemned for instance Luther’s 1543 pamphlet On the Jews and their Lies (Von den Juden und ihren Luegen),

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Corbyn: Anti- Semitism ‘abhorrent and wrong’

Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned anti-Semitism late Sunday night, after weeks of blatantly hateful remarks by members of the party against Jews and Israel. “Anti-Semitism is absolutely abhorrent and wrong,” he stated, on a BBC One interview. “Anyone that commits any act of anti-Semitism, that makes anti-Semitic remarks, is auto excluded from the party

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International

Clinton: Hamas provokes Israel’s retaliation

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday took a differing stance on Israel to fellow presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, saying that the Jewish state was entitled to protect itself against Gaza’s terror group ruler, Hamas. “Hamas provokes Israel. They often pretend to have people in civilian garb acting as though they are civilians who are Hamas

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Middle East Roundup: April 11, 2016

Jordanian preacher questioned over Temple Mount incitement (JNS.org) Israeli police officers from the Jerusalem District last Friday briefly detained Jordanian Sheikh Muhammad Salim for questioning after the Muslim preacher made inciting remarks during a sermon he delivered at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount. A crowd of worshipers gathered at the scene to protest

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Middle East

Campaign against Yaalon like fatal one against Rabin

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The campaign against Moshe Yaalon has produced images recalling the worst of Israeli and Jewish history. A composite picturing him as a target for assassination, with the slogan, “politically liquidated” may be thought by moderate rightists to be only a call to vote against him in the next Likud Primary. However,

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

‘Labour’s anti-Semitism makes them unfit to govern’

The British Labour party’s “shocking” anti-Semitism does not make them “ready to govern,” the former Archbishop of Canterbury stated Saturday – and demanded immediate action amidst a slew of damning incidents. Lord Carey, who is vice president of the Council of Christians and Jews, raised the call for alarm during a speech in a New

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