Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.) has again sparked controversy by employing the classic anti-Semitic trope of accusing Jews of dual loyalty, the New York Post reported Sunday. The rebuke followed an exchange with Omar’s Jewish colleague, Rep. Nita Lowey (D – N.Y.), who had defended Omar over a poster that...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Britain on Monday for designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety and thanked his British counterpart Theresa May for her country’s leadership in the fight against anti-Semitism, JNS reported. A statement from Netanyahu’s office said the prime minister told May in a...

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Hamas praised a car-ramming attack that injured two Israeli soldiers, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. An IDF officer was seriously injured, and a border policeman received light injuries when they were rammed by a car during an arrest operation in the West Bank. The two had been conducting arrest raids in the...

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The United States has deployed a state-of-the-art missile defense system in Israel, ahead of joint training exercises in the use of the system, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is being deployed by the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) “as a demonstration of the United States’...

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A novel artificial intelligence (AI) platform for monitoring and predicting the progression of neurodegenerative diseases was unveiled in Israel by BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev. Meant for identifying markers for personalized treatment and drug development, the platform was developed by Prof. Boaz Lerner...

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Beresheet, Israel’s privately-backed spacecraft that was launched on its historic journey to the moon last week, has completed a significant maneuver and appears to be back on track, despite an earlier glitch, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. If successful, Israel will be the fourth nation to reach the moon, following...

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.) said that she and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D – Mich.) are accused of anti-Semitism because they are Muslim, the Jewish Insider newsletter reported Thursday. “What I’m fearful of — because Rashida and I are Muslim — that a lot of our Jewish colleagues,” Omar...

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A surprising new study from Israel finds that malignant colorectal cancer cells can be eliminated with eosinophils — white blood cells that originate in bone marrow and may once have killed off intestinal parasites, but which today are responsible for chronic asthma and allergies. The research, published in Cancer Immunology Research on...

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Jason Greenblatt, the United States Special Representative for International Negotiations, on Thursday, slammed a senior Palestinian official for sabotaging the Trump administration’s peace initiative. Greenblatt wrote on Twitter that Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, had characterized efforts to broker a lasting peace deal between...

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In response to the increase in global anti-Semitism, an international coalition of prominent mayors has formed to combat racism and counter efforts by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement to single out the Jewish State for discrimination (German link). The launch of the new initiative was announced on...

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