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| June 24, 2019
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AOC ‘declines’ invitation to learn the horrors of real concentration camps

Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg told the arrogant Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “now is an opportunity that won’t repeat itself,” since most concentration camp survivors are too old to make the journey.

By ILANIT CHERNICK

 

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has declined an invitation to visit Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg.

Ocasio-Cortez was invited on the trip by Mosberg and Holocaust remembrance group From The Depths after she compared migrant detention camps on the United States’ southern border to Nazi-era “concentration camps” during an Instagram Live with her followers last week.

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| June 23, 2019
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HBO set to premiere show that led to 2014 Gaza War

The HBO miniseries follows the investigation of a brutally murdered Palestinian boy that was killed the day after the funerals of 3 Jewish teenagers that were kidnapped and later murdered by Hamas members, while hitchhiking home after school.

BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF

 

HBO is set to release the premiere of a series called Our Boys on August 12. The show will be a ten episode drama on the events leading up to the 2014 Gaza War, Deadline reported.

Three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and later killed while hitchhiking to their homes in the West Bank. A day after the Jewish boys’ funerals. Continue Reading »

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| June 20, 2019
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Swedish Report: ‘Israel has dozens of nuclear warheads’

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute alleges Israel is in possession of between 80 – 90 nuclear warheads.

By  Hanan Greenwood , News Agencies , Israel Hayom Staff

 

“There are 13,865 nuclear warheads worldwide, and they are owned by nine countries,” a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden, said Sunday.

SIPRI named the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea as countries to possess nuclear capabilities, saying that combined, they have as many as 13,865 nuclear heads, of which 3,750 are operational and an estimated 2,000 are being kept in a state of alert. Continue Reading »

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| June 20, 2019
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President Trump picks Kelly Craft to replace Nikki Haley as UN envoy

“There is no room whatsoever for anti-Israel bias or antisemitism,” Craft said, adding, “The United States will never accept such bias. And if confirmed, I commit to seizing every opportunity to shine a light on this conduct, call it what it is and demand that these outrageous practices finally come to an end.”

By OMRI NAHMIAS

 

WASHINGTON – Kelly Craft, US President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Nikki Haley as the ambassador to the UN, promised on Wednesday to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor when it comes to Israel.

She made the comments during a confirmation hearing in Washington. Continue Reading »

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| June 19, 2019
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New Zealand gov’t website’s shows ‘Palestine’…not Israel

An official government website, Immigration New Zealand, published a propaganda page with a map of the Middle East that included  “Palestine,” (but not Israel), and saturated with one-sided anti-Israel bias.

By HENRY BENJAMIN/JTA

 

SYDNEY, Australia  — Immigration New Zealand, an official government website, published a fact sheet with a map of the Middle East that showed a “Palestine,” but not Israel.

Following a barrage of complaints on social media, the web page was removed, though screenshots remain.

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| June 13, 2019
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Moldovan PM Pavel Filip declares embassy move to Jerusalem

“Today we adopted the decision to relocate the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It was a long overdue commitment to support our allies,” tweeted Prime Minister Pavel Filip.

By Ariel Kahana , JNS , News Agencies , Israel Hayom Staff

 

Amid domestic political turmoil, Moldova on Tuesday declared its intention to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“Today we adopted the decision to relocate the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It was a long overdue commitment to support our allies,” tweeted Prime Minister Pavel Filip. Continue Reading »

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| June 11, 2019
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U.S. Congress wants to protect American forces with Israel’s Iron Dome

The House of Representatives introduced a bipartisan bill to have the U.S. Army purchase two of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense batteries from its developer, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems “for immediate needs of the U.S. Army.”

By Marcy Oster – JTA

 

The Congress wants to use Israeli technology to protect American forces overseas.

The House of Representatives introduced a bill on Monday that would have the Army purchase two Iron Dome missile defense batteries from Israel. The measure has bipartisan support.

Four months ago, Israel’s Defense Ministry announced that the U.S. military would purchase the system from its developer, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., Continue Reading »

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| June 10, 2019
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REVEALED: MI5 caught & released Hezbollah operative in London terror plot

Succumbing to Obama White House pressure in 2015 not to threaten the newly signed Iran Nuclear Deal, an operative working for Hezbollah was arrested, then released without charge, after explosives were uncovered by MI5 in a terror plot against Israeli targets near London.

By Ynet

 

The British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph reported Sunday, that British security service, MI5, had in 2015, uncovered a plot by the Iran backed terror group Hezbollah to lay the ground work for terror acts against Israeli targets in the UK.

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According to the report MI5 and metropolitan police, acting on information provided by a foreign government’s intelligence agency, found a stockpile of ammonium nitrate commonly used in bomb making, concealed in thousands of disposable ice packs, in a location in the North of London. Continue Reading »

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| June 8, 2019
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UK Jews perturbed Labour added new anti-Semitic lawmaker to its ranks

British Jews denounce the entry into Parliament of Labour member Lisa Forbes, who supported a Facebook post accusing PM May of having a “Zionist Slave Masters agenda” and how the lawmaker continues her dialogues with a pro-Hamas activist.

By Elad Benari

 

British Jews are protesting the election to Parliament of a candidate for the Labour party who “liked” a Facebook post saying Prime Minister Theresa May has a “Zionist Slave Masters agenda”, JTA reports.

The lawmaker, Lisa Forbes, on Thursday won a special election in the eastern English city of Peterborough, defeating a Brexit Party candidate and leaving the Conservative Party candidate far behind. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2019
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Former British MP George Galloway sacked over anti-Semitic tweet

Ex-politician, anti-Israel Hamas supporter George Galloway remains defiant, threatening to sue talkRADIO for terminating his radio show contract.

By Ynet

 

Outspoken British critic of Israel and former MP George Galloway was fired from his show on Talk Radio on Tuesday after a tweet about Tottenham Hotspur soccer club that was broadly condemned as anti-Semitic.

The tweet, ostensibly celebrating Liverpool’s victory in the Champions League final against Spurs, said that the win by the northern club meant “No Israel flags on the Cup”.

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| May 30, 2019
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For 50 years, Trumps remain generous donors to Jewish, Israeli causes

From father Fred, who donated the land for the Beach Haven Jewish Center in Flatbush, NY, to son Donald, who donated generously to resettle the exiled Jews of Gush Katif, Gaza, the Trumps have given generously to Jewish, Israeli causes for well over 50 years.

By JNi.Media

 

Israeli media have reported several important donations made in years past by both the late Fred Trump and his son, now President Elect Donald Trump.

Some 50 years ago, real estate developer Fredrick Trump donated the land for the Talmud Torah of the Beach Haven Jewish Center at 723 Ave. Z in Flatbush, NY, as can be seen from a promotional image released by that institution. Continue Reading »

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| May 28, 2019
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Resignation of Austria’s far right Freedom Party chief blamed on Mossad

A former German intelligence official is accusing Israel’s Mossad of leaking the video that shook up Austrian politics, opining how only the Mossad has the capability and interest in bringing down far-right European politicians.
– Conference of European Rabbis says claim stinks of anti-Semitism.

By Itamar Eichner

 

According to a German Intelligence official, the Israeli Intelligence service Mossad was behind the leak of a damning video, which led to the resignation of Austria’s far right Freedom Party chief Heinz-Christian Strache.

The video, prompting the resignation and the subsequent dissolvement of Austria’s coalition government, allegedly shows Strache offering a Russian woman government contracts in exchange for financial benefit for his party. Continue Reading »

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| May 23, 2019
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Saudi journalist tweets advice to PA: Don’t blow another opportunity

Mohammed Al Shaikh, a Saudi writer with al-Jazirah newspaper points to Abbas’ blunders, “You missed a lot of opportunities from 1948 to the annexation of Jerusalem, and excelled only in hatred, insults, curses and blaming others for neglecting your cause.”

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Saudi Arabian journalist Muhammad al-Sheikh wrote two days ago in his Twitter account his “advice” to the Palestinian Authority in light of their invitation to an economic workshop in Bahrain as part of the Trump Administration’s ‘Deal of the Century.’

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| May 22, 2019
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Marc Lamont Hill “erases Mizrahi voices to assert an anti-Israel agenda”

Responding to Hen Mazzig’s LA Times article that Israel is not a country of “privileged and powerful white Europeans,” Marc Lamont Hill excoriates Israel on a twitter post boasting how he knows better, writing, “I literally study Yemeni and Moroccan Jews for a living.”

BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN

 

In a Facebook post on May 20 slamming Hen Mazzig’s article in The LA Times, American academic and activist Marc Lamont Hill described Mizrahi Jews as an “identity category” that had been detached “from Palestinian identity.” CNN severed ties with Hill last year after anti-Israel comments.

Marc Lamont Hill, a Temple University professor who was fired from CNN the following day after his speech to a United Nations panel on Wednesday, Nov.

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| May 13, 2019
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EU to cover Palestinian’s ‘Pay to Slay’ deficit held by donor countries

EU has promised to cover PA’s April salaries/pensions since they were cut by 50% to maintain its ‘Pay for Slay’ monthly stipends to assassins and their families, after Israel began deducting tax revenues earlier this year.

By JNS and Israel Hayom Staff

 

The European Union has pledged to give the Palestinian Authority €15 million ($17 million) to cover the salaries of public employees – salaries that PA President Mahmoud Abbas cut to keep up payments to imprisoned and released terrorists, wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists.

Abbas has declared that the PA is “obligated” to continue rewarding the terrorist prisoners and families of so-called “martyrs.” Continue Reading »

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