NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Dec. 28, issued its top 10 list of manifestations of anti-Semitism that have afflicted Jewish communities across the United States and around the world in 2016. The past year saw the volume of anti-Semitic cyberhate elevated to unprecedented levels. The ADL list included Jewish […]
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International, Middle East, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump criticized President Obama’s treatment of Israel Wednesday, urging Israel to “stay strong” until he takes office next month and accusing the president of erecting “roadblocks” to a smooth transition. “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter. “They used to have
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Middle East, USAFor decades, presidential candidates have promised to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, acknowledging the importance many Israelis place on the city as the heart of the country. Each time, when in office, the president changed course, recognizing that such a move would undermine U.S. ability to promote the Arab-Israeli
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International, Middle East, USAIsraeli official claims transcript in Egyptian press purporting to show how US worked with Palestinians on anti-settlements resolution is ‘tip of the iceberg’ By Times of Israel staff United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, left, Secretary of State John Kerry, second from right, and National Advisor Susan Rice, right, listen while US
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International, USAUS President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid a landmark visit to Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, highlighting their nations’ decades-long reconciliation and friendship. Abe was the first Japanese premier to visit the USS Arizona Memorial built for the American sailors and Marines killed in the 1941 sneak attack that thrust the US
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International, USAWhen the U.N. Security Council passed its resolution Friday denouncing Israel’s presence in territories it captured in 1967, many ambassadors broke out in applause. The decision, they believed, would deter Israel from further settlement building, advance the peace process, and help achieve a two-state solution. The Middle East and the world would benefit. But, sadly,
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International, Middle East, USAJust a few days after a fellow dancer took to Instagram to speak out about performing at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, another Radio City Rockette has publicly explained why she will not be present to perform. RELATED: Madison Square Garden Company fights back at the claim that the Rockettes are being forced to perform for
SAN DIEGO (Times of San Diego) –The Navy has accepted delivery of the future USS Gabrielle Giffords, the latest littoral combat ship headed for San Diego It’s the ninth of the agile, multi-role ships delivered to the Navy and the fifth of the trimaran-hull, Independence variant to join the fleet. “Gabrielle Giffords will join her
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San Diego County, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK — It was particularly painful and frustrating seeing President Barack Hussein Obama, Secretary Kerry and UN Envoy Samantha Power’s anti-Semitic act knifing Israel in the back at the UN – because so few people listened during the months when my organization (the Zionist Organization of America – ZOA) issued
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International, Middle East, USANew York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind blasted President Barck Obama for allowing the passage of an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council last week. “He is now clearly the hero of the terrorists. Of Hamas. Of Hezbollah. That’s what our president in the United States is.” Hikind told Arutz Sheva “He is an utter,
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Middle East, USAFormer House speaker Newt Gingrich urged Congress on Monday to condemn the Obama administration for allowing the resolution against Israeli “settlements” to pass the UN Security Council. In a series of tweets, Gingrich also urged the incoming administration of Donald Trump to work to undo the damage caused by the United States abstaining in the
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Middle East, USAFamous Harvard Law professor and attorney Alan Dershowitz is livid with President Obama for allegedly deceiving him in an Oval Office meeting. The White House’s decision Friday to refuse to rebuke a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction drew the ire of longtime Israel supporter Mr. Dershowitz, who told Fox News Monday
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Tuesday he’s not sure there’s any value to the United Nations, after the United States abstained from a vote last week on a resolution condemning Israeli settlements. “We provide most of the funding for the U.N. and it’s time for us to re-evaluate,” Mr. Huckabee, a former 2016 GOP
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Middle East, USAAs a woman, astrophysicist Vera Rubin had to fight just to get access to a telescope. What she saw when she did further rattled conventions: galaxies that were rotating more quickly than predicted by the laws of physics. This movement, she concluded, could be explained if the universe was filled with a type of mass
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