Bruce Ticker

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Bruce Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Democrats eye flipping the U.S. Senate

I want Democrats to retake the Senate majority, but not at the expense of electing a troublemaker who contributes to the dangerous environment facing Jews worldwide.  President Trump and his Republican majorities in Congress will surely lose the House of Representatives majority and the careers of at least half dozen GOP Senate candidates are threatened. They can thank in part the severe damage to the economy and for waging an unwinnable war with Iran. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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El-Sayed shouldn’t have threatened Fetterman metaphorically or in reality

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania proved this week that an advocate for Israel can confront an Israel-basher, shake him up and still stand firm and unyielding. Or stand tall, as John Wayne or Ronald Reagan might word it. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Chevalier and Kiros to join ranks of Israel’s enemies in Congress

Melat Kiros in Denver and Darializa Avila Chevalier in Harlem and the west Bronx could be the two most dreadful people to ever serve in Congress. Both come close to inciting genocide – of Israelis, that is. They are so far the worst of the worst of democratic socialists who bear no love for Israel or sensitivity toward American Jews. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Anti-Israel protesters demand that Colorado release firebomber

The contempt that some Israel-bashers hold for America’s laws never ceases to surprise. Their accomplices in Boulder, Colorado, eclipsed them all on June 1, the first anniversary of Karen Diamond’s murder in a firebombing on Boulder’s Pearl Street. They are demanding the release of her convicted killer, Mohamed Soliman, who was sentenced to life plus 2,178 years in prison last month after pleading guilty to 101 charges in the attack. He injured 13 others. (Bruce S. Ticker)

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Van Hollen’s OpEd in NYTimes forgets Barak & Clinton offer to Arafat

President Clinton hosted a summit at Camp David where Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arab leader Yasser Arafat a plan for an independent state covering all of Gaza, eastern Jerusalem and 93 percent of the West Bank. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Suicide in Miami; Boycott of Israeli products in Brooklyn

I have heard scattered reports of suicides by Israeli soldiers and grieving relatives, but until this JTA article was published on Wednesday I was not aware that 22 active-duty IDF soldiers died by suicide, which was the highest number since 2010. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Mamdani commemorates ‘Nakba Day’

Nakba Day is the silliest, most childlike excuse ever created to explain away defeat in war. Most nations and peoples who are vanquished take their losses in a saddened, subdued manner. The less said the better. The Arabs would proclaim it from the highest of their tall, looming minarets, where Muslims make the call to prayer five times a day. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Judge recuses prosecutor who promoted current case on his campaign website as a fight against antisemitism

Santa Clara County judge issued a rare order recusing Rosen and his entire office from retrying the case. Superior Court Judge Kelley Paul sided with defense attorneys who cited a range of concerns, including Rosen’s promotion of the case on a campaign website highlighting his efforts in “fighting antisemitism.” [Bruce S. Ticker]

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War on Jews being fought on many fronts

What worries me most touched an adjacent congressional district in Philadelphia and the Senate election in my favorite state, Maine. Two so-called friends of the Palestinians are making both Democratic primaries disgusting – state Rep. Chris Rabb in Philly and Graham Platner in Maine. (Bruce S. Ticker)

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NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin outmaneuvers Mayor Zohran Mamdani

“I don’t know how anyone in their right mind can be against students having the right to enter and exit the school facility,” City Council Speaker Julie Menin said last Saturday, according to New York Jewish Week. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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