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A group of Democratic presidential candidates – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I – Vt.), Kamala Harris (D – Calif.), and Elizabeth Warren (D – Mass.) – all came out Wednesday in support of embattled freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.), who has been accused of promoting anti-Semitism on several occasions,...

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Israel

Flag from Israel Day Parade

In its recently released poll, 7 in 10 Americans view Israel favorably across all political party lines – a level of support that has been steady in recent years, Gallup reported Wednesday. According to Gallup, the 69% of Americans who view Israel “very” or “mostly favorably” was down slightly from...

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Europe

Labour Investigated for Anti-Semitism

In an explosive development, Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced Thursday that it had begun proceedings against the Labour Party over its failure to stamp out anti-Semitism in its ranks. The equality watchdog said it has reason to believe that Labour has “unlawfully discriminated against people because of...

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Human Rights

In an explosive report released last week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran, Javaid Rehman, blasted the Islamic Republic for continuing to execute children in defiance of international law. Records show that at least 61 children have been executed by the regime since 2008. Girls as young as 9-years-old...

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Duke to Co-Host Anti-Israel conference

In February, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) hosted anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, who gave the keynote address at its Minority Health Conference. Sarsour used this prestigious UNC platform to promote Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against only one country on the planet – Israel. In a...

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Iran

Iran's Nuclear Archive

The nuclear archive that stored by Iran for years contradicts assurances it made that “it would never pursue a nuclear weapon” and necessitates that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “review and act upon” the materials in the archive, United States Ambassador Jackie Wolcott said on Tuesday. Wolcott, the U.S. Ambassador to...

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Commenting on the controversy sparked by freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.) suggesting that Jews bought support for Israel and subsequently that allegiance of American Jews was to Israel, noted Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt said that “Jews can be victims of prejudice,” in an interview with NPR on Wednesday....

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Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft's selfie

Beresheet, Israel’s first unmanned rocket to the moon, may still have a long voyage ahead of it, but it’s already taking selfies of its journey. Thirteen days after it took off successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida piggy-backed aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Beresheet’s camera took its...

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Rockets fired from Gaza

The firing of at least one mortar shell from Gaza set off air defense systems in southern Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. It is unclear if the projectile was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome anti-rocket system. A spokesman for the Eshkol region in southern Israel said, “As of...

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Human Rights

Iranian Cleric Raeesi

Rights groups and the United States government criticized Iran for appointing a cleric who has been implicated for his role in mass executions in the 1980s to head its judiciary, the Voice of America reported Wednesday. Ebrahim Raisi was the deputy prosecutor in Tehran in 1988 when the regime carried...

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