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Iran

Iran IRGC Bus

The bombing of a bus carrying members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed a reported 41 people, The New York Times reported Wednesday. A car filled with explosives detonated near the bus, which was traveling between the cities of Zahedan and Khash near the border with Pakistan. Initial...

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Rep. Omar's defender Linda Sarsour

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was slammed on Sunday by members of both parties for suggesting that Jewish money was behind American elected officials’ support for Israel. At the same time, some American organizations rushed to Omar’s defense, including the National Women’s March, a group beset with allegations of anti-Semitism stemming,...

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Diplomacy

As the United States- and Poland-sponsored conference on the Middle East started in Warsaw, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met publicly with Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Netanyahu greeted bin Alawi and recalled his trip the Gulf nation last October, saying, “The courageous decision...

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Diplomacy

Juan Guaido

Venezuela’s interim leader, Juan Guaido, said he’s working to restore ties with Israel a decade after the country severed relations with the Jewish State in solidarity with the Palestinians, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with Israel Hayom newspaper, Guaido said: “I am very happy to report that the...

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Europe

Alison Chabloz's Conviction on Holocaust Denial Upheld

An anti-Semitic amateur musician, who compared Auschwitz to a “theme park” and called the “gassing zone a proven hoax,” lost her court appeal on Wednesday against a criminal conviction she received in 2018 for spreading Holocaust denial on social media, The Daily Mail reported. Judge Christopher Hehir, assisted by a...

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Israel

El Al

El Al Israel Airlines said on Tuesday that it was continuing to expand into North America and will be launching once weekly nonstop flights between Tel Aviv and Orlando as of July 2019, Globes reported. The airline made the announcement during the IMTM International Tourism Exhibition, is taking place this...

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Israel

The Israeli Hyfit Wearable Gym

Getting serious about getting into shape? You could invest in a gym membership or a basement full of workout equipment, but it’s hard to stay with the program unless you have sufficient time, access, motivation and feedback. Two ambitious young Israelis set out to solve that problem with a product...

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Diplomacy

President Rivlin in Cyprus

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin paid a brief visit to Cyprus and hailed the alliance between the two nations, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. Rivlin, the third Israeli president to visit the island nation — previously Ezer Weizman visited in 1998 and Shimon Peres in 2011 — was received by President...

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Rep. Ilhan Omar

Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.) offered an apology after the House Democratic leadership rebuked her for tweeting that Jews pay politicians to support Israel, The New York Times reported Monday. In a tweet earlier this week about possible action that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R – Calif.)...

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Israel

ACLU Supports anti-Israel activists

The ACLU, one of the premier civil rights advocacy groups in the United States, has allowed anti-Israel ideology to push it to “undermine the antidiscrimination norms it has worked for decades to achieve,” Eugene Kontorovich wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Kontorovich, an expert in international law,...

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