By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA–Rick Sanchez is a bungler when it comes to anti-Semitic rantings, as compared to a New York gubernatorial hopeful, a Boston archbishop and a suburban Philadelphia English professor. After the Cuban-American CNN anchor was fired over offensive comments, these professional anti-Semites shamed him with their anti-Jewish slurs. One blamed the Jews […]
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — A reader asks what I meant when I wrote: “Should I mention the total reversal of U.S. policy on Hamas from trying to undermine that radical Islamist group’s rule in the Gaza Strip to believing Hamas will fall if Gaza becomes prosperous?” Here’s my answer: From the time Hamas
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Americans are getting ready to go to the polls and the story is that we are angry, frustrated and feeling economically pinched. All true, no doubt. But we would like to make the case that along with voting our economic concerns and interests, voters should keep in mind that our
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Shoshana Bryen, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– President Barack Obama made the following statement on Friday, Oct. 29, about packages with explosives overseas terrorists are believed to be mailing to the United States: THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I want to briefly update the American people on a credible terrorist threat against our country, and the actions that
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USABy Heather FrankSAN DIEGO — As news reports are indicating, and as ADL has learned from law enforcement sources, there is a reported threat to US Jewish institutions from packages mailed from overseas, particularly Great Britain, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. We are urging US Jewish communal institutions to increase mailroom security by ensuring that all packages
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USABy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel –If you’ve lost faith in the current administration’s ability and mass media’s ability to respond to Middle East developments, here’s more evidence. There’s a relatively new American idiomatic expression, “Ya [you] think?” Said sarcastically, it means: Wow, duh, the answer to that question is really obvious! So consider how hidden,
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)- Wednesday evening it was announced on disgraced House candidate Rich Iott’s website that House Republican Leader John Boehner — the self-described House Speaker hopeful — would campaign with Nazi reenactor Rich Iott this Saturday. National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) President and CEO David A. Harris issued the following statement in response
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USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced that starting May 10, 2011, manufacturers must display EnergyGuide labels on television sets, offering consumers information about how much energy different models use. The new rule comes in the wake of a December 2009 letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz sent by U.S. Senator
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USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs launched a password-protected website Wednesday, Oct. 27 to help students pro-actively counter divestment campaigns on campus. Campus divestment resolutions are the latest tool of anti-Israel activists who want to isolate and demonize Israel. StandWithUs developed the website with students who fought divestment resolutions at UC Berkeley and UC
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The judges have ruled and this year’s top five finalists for the Jewish Community Hero Award given out by the Jewish Federations of North America are: Dmitriy Salita, Jay Feinberg, Mordechai Tokarsky, Stephen Kutner and Zvi Gluck. More than 300,000 votes were cast in this year’s contest and the finalists will now
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USABy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — What could be more routine than those little notes countries send other countries to say Happy Birthday? Yet even here there’s a sort of strangeness about the current U.S. government’s approach to the Middle East . On October 25, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent national day greetings to
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congressman Brad Sherman applauded Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for agreeing to return to its 2004 policy and applying Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to the protection of Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campuses. “For two years, I have been pushing the U.S. Department of Education to adopt this
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USAHARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (WJC)– Two state lawmakers have sent a letter of complaint to the head of Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, about a literature professor who made strong anti-Israel statements at a rally in Washington, DC in September. Professor Kaukab Siddique, 67, had said: “We must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel,
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USABy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel (Press Release)– There are days when you think: No, this nightmare can’t be real! Is the Obama Administration really so bad? Have the policymakers really taken leave of their senses? And then you see this: The U.S. Consulate-General in Saudi Arabia “hosted Dr. Trita Parsi, founder and President of the
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