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Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour attacked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D – Calif.) for introducing a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, resulting in part from a series of offensive remarks about Jewish political influence made by freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.), in a Facebook post on Monday. “Nancy is a...

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Australian-Israeli startup Electriq~Global and Dutch company Eleqtec have entered into an agreement to launch Electriq~Global’s water-based fuel technology in The Netherlands, where the market is moving to adopt zero-emission mobility solutions. Together they plan to launch Electriq~Fuel’s recycling plants, and introduce eMobility applications for trucks, barges and mobile generators. Comprised of 60...

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Europe

Jeremy Corbyn

The controversial leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has called on the British government to freeze arms sales to Israel after a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission of inquiry said that the Israeli Defense Forces allegedly committed war crimes on the Gaza border, The Jerusalem Post...

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Diplomacy

The United States officially downgraded its mission to the Palestinians on Monday by merging its Jerusalem consulate with the embassy to Israel, a move Palestinian officials have condemned, The Associated Press reported. The consulate had served as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians since the Oslo accords of 1993....

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Omar Repeats Anti-Semitic Dual Loyalty Smear

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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Diplomacy

Netanyahu Praises May over Hezbollah Ban

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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Diplomacy

THAAD anti-Missile System

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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Europe

A ballad to remember Edyka

This is deeply personal. But what I have experienced should resonate with the entire Jewish community — the one we know and the one to come. In the whirlwind that seizes me and all who are communally aware, I have reached a new and stunning personal location, wedged between the...

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Israeli AI Platform to Track Diseases

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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