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Breaking News ADL Redirects Trump Donations to Anti-Bias Programs
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has redirected the total amount of funds contributed by GOP front running presidential candidate Donald Trump over the past decade to fund new anti-bias and anti-bullying education programs. The total amount of the donations is $56,000. “These undoubtedly were sincere gifts,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, in a statement…
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Opinion Trump’s AIPAC Speech Is Totally Predictable. What About Our Response?
While Jews ardently dispute whether AIPAC should have invited Donald Trump to speak to their Washington conference, that particular die has been cast. The invitation went out. So Trump — the loudest, most poisonous, nativist, mob-arousing, bigoted public person that America has yet produced in this century — is going to stand at the rostrum of a…
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Breaking News Bernie Sanders Turns Down Invitation To Address AIPAC Confab
WASHINGTON — Citing his campaign schedule, Bernie Sanders said he would not address AIPAC’s conference next week, making him the only presidential candidate that will not attend the large annual pro-Israel gathering this year. “I would very much have enjoyed speaking at the AIPAC conference,” Sanders said in a letter Friday to Robert Cohen, the…
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Breaking News Aiming for Unity, AIPAC Invites Trump, and Controversy
Washington – Recovering from a tough fight over the Iranian nuclear deal, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was hoping for a policy conference that would mend fences, heal wounds, and bridge the political chasm the Iran debate created within the Jewish community. “Come Together,” reads the slogan for this year’s AIPAC policy conference, opening…
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Opinion Donald Trump Is Actually the Perfect Person To Speak at AIPAC
Many AIPAC supporters are shocked that the policy conference has invited Republican front-runner Donald Trump to be a speaker this year. I’m not. In fact, I think Trump and AIPAC are a great shidduch. Far from being a deviation from AIPAC’s norm, this invitation is perfectly emblematic of their strategy. Anyone who’s been watching AIPAC…
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Opinion Why Anguish Over AIPAC’s Invitation to Donald Trump Is Misplaced
If there were any doubts about the propriety of the invitation extended to Donald Trump to address the annual Washington policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the results of the March 15 presidential primaries should have laid those doubts to rest. The core mission of the powerhouse pro-Israel lobby is to ensure…
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News Jewish Group Plans To Protest Donald Trump’s AIPAC Speech
Donald Trump’s appearance at the upcoming AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington has at least one Jewish group planning to protest. The group of professionals and clergy, which calls itself “Come Together Against Hate,” says that Trump and his hate speech have no place at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “We…
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Opinion 13 Ways To React When Trump Takes the Stage at AIPAC
Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner for president, is a confirmed speaker at the annual policy conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee next week. His many offensive, outrageous statements should have disqualified him from the invite list, but then again, they also should have disqualified him from earning a single primary vote for president….
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