MidEast

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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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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Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn

The British Labour Party is facing fresh accusations of covering up anti-Semitism after the party revealed it had received 673 allegations of anti-Jewish hate by its members during the past 10 months, leading to only 12 individuals being expelled, The BBC reported on Monday. The party’s General Secretary, Jennie Formby,...

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Neo-Nazis in Budapest

Jewish leaders have blasted the failure of Hungarian authorities to stop a Neo-Nazi rally, which took place last Saturday in Budapest and saw some 2,800 far-right extremists bearing swastikas and other fascist symbols marching through the capital, The Jerusalem Post reported. In a statement on Tuesday, Former Israeli Defense Minister...

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The French Interior Ministry announced on Monday that the number of anti-Semitic acts in the country soared in 2018, jumping a whopping 74% compared to the previous year, France24 News reported. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner decried the “poison” of hate that is seeping into French society as he revealed that...

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