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Kaveh, who cursed out Jews

Last June, a Norwegian rapper named Kaveh performed at the Haugen Food Festival at St. Hanshaugen in Oslo. On stage, he asked if there were any of his fellow Muslims in the crowd, and when the audience responded with some applause he wished them “Eid Mubarak.” He then asked if...

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Israel

Three collections from Israel’s National Library are featured in a new Google Arts & Culture online exhibition, Once Upon a Try, reportedly the largest online exhibition about inventions and discoveries ever curated. The show features more than 400 interactive exhibitions, collections and interactive stories from 110 renowned institutions across 23 countries. Once...

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Europe

Rasmeah Odeh Convicted Terrorist

A terrorist convicted of the murders of two students in Jerusalem 50 years ago will be allowed into Germany to speak at an event promoting boycotts of Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported Wednesday for The Jerusalem Post. News that Rasmea Odeh, who is a member of the Popular Front for Liberation...

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Bernie Sanders

A spokeswoman for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign was forced to apologize Tuesday after posting “insensitive” comments on social media suggesting that American Jews have dual loyalty to Israel, POLITICO reported. Belén Sisa, the senator’s national deputy press secretary, had taken part Sunday in a conversation on Facebook discussing...

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Labour MP Mike Amesbury

British Shadow Minister for Employment, Mike Amesbury, has apologized for sharing an anti-Semitic caricature from a conspiracy website after initially denying he had done so, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. The Labour MP for Weaver Vale had shared on his personal Facebook account an image from a website called IlluminatiAgenda.com,...

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Iran

Hezbollah Commander Ali Musa Daqduq

After a buildup on social media, the IDF revealed intelligence that Hezbollah set up a cell on the Syrian Golan headed by a terrorist who is wanted for killing five American soldiers in Iraq, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. According to the IDF, the Hezbollah cell is made up...

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MidEast

Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union Flags

The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt rejected on March 4 a clause in a statement by the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (APU), which called for a stop to normalization with Israel, laying bare a growing divide between Arab governments and individual parliamentarians in their approach to the Jewish State....

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On March 11, Santa Clara-based NVIDIA announced that it will acquire all issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox of Yokne’am, Israel, in a deal representing a total enterprise value of approximately $6.9 billion. Founded in 1999, Mellanox pioneered the InfiniBand interconnect technology, which along with its high-speed Ethernet products is now...

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Europe

anti-Semitic Incidents Increase in Netherlands in 2018

The Netherlands on Tuesday became the latest European country to report sickening levels of anti-Semitism with a 19 percent increase in recorded anti-Jewish incidents in 2018 to a record 230 cases, Ben Cohen reported in The Algemeiner. The Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) — a Dutch Jewish watchdog...

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Israel

Despite the media attention she’s been getting for her controversial remarks about Israel and American Jews, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D – Minn.), and the movement she represents will not “succeed in breaking up the U.S.-Israel alliance,” a prominent historian said in a column published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal....

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