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Breaking News Jewish Activists Welcome Scandals Slowing Trump Agenda
WASHINGTON (JTA) – It’s not quite schadenfreude, but some Jewish organizational officials are sighing in relief at President Donald Trump’s cascade of domestic woes, saying it may present opportunities for their relatively liberal agenda. Domestically, some Jewish groups are welcoming the prospect that scandals and distractions besieging the White House could delay – if not…
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News American Jewish Groups, Toeing Israeli Line, Stay Mum On Reported Trump Leak
When Israel is put in danger, American Jewish and pro-Israel groups usually churn out press statements and op-eds in great gushes. But when The New York Times reported this week that President Trump had revealed highly classified Israeli intelligence to top Russian officials, the Jewish communal outrage machine failed to engage. The usual fuel was…
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News Jewish Students Mustered A Rare Unity To Protest This Palestinian Activist
In a rare show of unity, Jewish students supportive of Israel at Northwestern University came together from different viewpoints Monday night to protest a convicted terrorist’s appearance on campus. The protesters—about 100 students—included members of J Street U, the student arm of the dovish Israel lobby; Wildcats for Israel, a group more closely aligned with…
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Community The Extremists Among Us
This past March at the second annual “Ambassadors Against BDS” conference at the UN, South Carolina State Representative Alan Clemmons called me anti-Semitic. I was there with ten other J Street U students to discuss progressive, pro-Israel and anti-occupation alternatives to BDS. Hundreds of people in attendance stood up and applauded Clemmons’ accusation, and then…
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Fast Forward Princeton Jewish Center Bans Breaking The Silence Exhibit
(JTA) — The Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University denied the local chapter of J Street U space to hold an exhibition created by the left-wing Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence. The J Street U chapter decided to go forward with the exhibit, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, in another campus space, despite…
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News ‘I Wore A Tallis To Protest Sebastian Gorka At Georgetown’
Jewish and Muslim students at Georgetown University protested and sharply questioned White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka, who appeared on campus on Monday for a panel discussion on cybersecurity and “fake news” amid growing controversy over his background and views. Before his appearance, the students gathered outside the lecture hall with signs saying “Hate has…
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News Jon Ossoff Leans To J Street On Israel
[Jon Ossoff, the Georgia congressional candidate who Democrats are hoping will give President Trump a black eye, may also deliver a victory to the dovish side of the pro-Israel camp. Ossoff is a supporter of the left-leaning lobby J Street and has received $56,000 through the group’s political action committee in the run-up to Tuesday’s…
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News Evangelicals Lead The Call To Cut Palestinian Aid, Despite Israel’s Reservations
A piece of anti-terror legislation in Congress has turned into a test for pro-Israel policy in the Trump era. The Taylor Force Act, a bill named after a U.S. citizen murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jaffa, would cut all American funding to the Palestinian Authority because of its longstanding practice of providing financial stipends…
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