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In a major blow, The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has joined the long list of groups that have broken with the Women’s March over allegations of anti-Semitism, JNS reported Tuesday, citing Democratic sources. The move comes a day after Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory refused to explicitly condemn Nation of...

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Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory repeatedly refused to condemn Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in an appearance Monday on ABC’s The View in a heated exchange with hosts Sunny Hostin and Meghan McCain, who grilled Mallory about the hate preacher’s anti-Semitic views, JTA reported. The Women’s March leader was...

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Defying anti-Israel boycotters, British comedian John Cleese, a founding member of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe and creator of the series Fawlty Towers, will arrive in Israel for two performances in September, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The 79-year-old Cleese, who is regarded among the most influential...

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The Turneffe Atoll on the Caribbean island of Belize is the largest and most biologically diverse coral reef in the Western Hemisphere. Destructive and unsustainable development have damaged or destroyed Turneffe’s coral reef, backreef flats, seagrasses, and mangrove forests, according to the Turneffe Atoll Trust (TAT). But hope is on...

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Israel

The IDF said that it found the sixth and final cross-border terror tunnel that the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah built into Israeli territory, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. “With the discovery of this terror tunnel, the effort to locate the passages dug by Hezbollah that crossed the border into...

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is the latest organization to distance itself from the Women’s March over allegations of anti-Semitism, as the January 19 annual march is overshadowed by criticism of the leadership’s affiliation with and failure to denounce Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The SPLC has designated...

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Human Rights

The Islamic Republic of Iran has launched a brutal crackdown on the country’s Christian minority before and after Christmas, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported for Fox News on Saturday. Weinthal cited a report by the Iranian group Alliance for Rights of All...

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Documents in the Iranian nuclear archive captured by Israel last year show that Iran built an underground facility, which was likely used for the development of nuclear warheads, a paper published Friday by the Institute for Science and International Security charged. The paper — written by David Albright, a former weapons...

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Europe

A local Labour branch has come under fire for suggesting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism is part of a plot by Israel to shield the Jewish State from criticism, The Jewish Chronicle reported Sunday. The constituency Labour Party for Lewisham Deptford, which has a history of...

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Israel

The need to train health, mental-health and engineering professionals in disaster response for quick deployment around the world is behind the Los Angeles launch of the new IsraAID Humanitarian Professionals Network(IHPN). Founded in Israel in 2001, IsraAID is a non-governmental organization that provides lifesaving emergency relief and long-term, sustainable solutions for populations affected...

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