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Hate preacher Louis Farrakhan, on a solidarity trip to Iran ahead of the reimposition of United States sanctions on the clerical regime, led chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” The Algemeiner reported Sunday. During his public appearances, Farrakhan, who heads the Nation of Islam and recently compared...

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Diplomacy

Israel enjoys unprecedented cooperation with the Arab Muslim world in light of shared security interests and changing dynamics in the region, Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Monday. “Although Israel and the Arab Gulf states have...

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Israel

Israeli high-tech companies raised $1.55 billion in 131 financing rounds in the third quarter of 2018, according to a report released this week by Tel Aviv-based IVC Research Center and ZAG law firm. In October, multinational Israeli company JFrog completed a $165 million funding led by New York-based Insight Venture Partners with...

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Human Rights

The Trump administration announced that it will re-impose all sanctions on Iran that had been lifted as the result of the 2015 nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported Friday. In a conference call announcing the administration’s intent to reinstate the harsh sanctions, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that...

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Iran

Two recent reports highlighted the problem of using diplomacy alone to disarm rogue states. On October 15, the BBC published an in-depth investigation that showed “for the first time the extent to which chemical weapons have been crucial to his war-winning strategy.” According to the report, the BBC determined that “there is enough...

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Europe

Scotland Yard has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crime in the Labour Party, the Guardian reported Friday. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said it “appears there may have been a crime committed.” The police said in a statement that special officers had spent two months assessing...

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Diplomacy

President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has reaffirmed a plan to move Brazil’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, following in the path of the United States and Guatemala, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. “As previously stated during our campaign, we intend to transfer the Brazilian Embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem....

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Israel

If you’re in the market for a new house in North America, your first stop might be a home-valuation estimate website like Zillow. But what if you’re an investor looking to buy an apartment complex? Enter Skyline AI, which uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data to predict what a commercial...

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Iran

Iran’s foreign minister charged that the recently thwarted terror attack targeting an Iranian opposition figure in Denmark was one in a series of “false flag” operations carried out by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency with the aim of undermining the 2015 nuclear deal, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Foreign Minister...

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Israel

Ben & Jerry’s Israel, the licensee of the American ice cream company, issued a statement saying that it will not carry the brand’s new Pecan Resistance flavor, which is promoted by anti-Israel activist, Linda Sarsour, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Ben & Jerry’s announced the introduction of Pecan Resistance earlier...

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