A group of Democratic presidential candidates – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I – Vt.), Kamala Harris (D – Calif.), and Elizabeth Warren (D – Mass.) – all came out Wednesday in support of embattled freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.), who has been accused of promoting anti-Semitism on several occasions,...

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In its recently released poll, 7 in 10 Americans view Israel favorably across all political party lines – a level of support that has been steady in recent years, Gallup reported Wednesday. According to Gallup, the 69% of Americans who view Israel “very” or “mostly favorably” was down slightly from...

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The nuclear archive that stored by Iran for years contradicts assurances it made that “it would never pursue a nuclear weapon” and necessitates that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “review and act upon” the materials in the archive, United States Ambassador Jackie Wolcott said on Tuesday. Wolcott, the U.S. Ambassador to...

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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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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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Jason Greenblatt, the United States Special Representative for International Negotiations, on Thursday, slammed a senior Palestinian official for sabotaging the Trump administration’s peace initiative. Greenblatt wrote on Twitter that Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, had characterized efforts to broker a lasting peace deal between...

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In an address to American Jewish leaders gathered for a conference in Jerusalem on Thursday, the United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism said that he would work to end the “attempted distinction” between anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish hate, JNS reported. Elan Carr, who was appointed to the role...

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The Trump administration has kickstarted a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of countries following the reported hanging of a young gay man in Iran, Benjamin Weinthal wrote in The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. The initiative is aimed in part at denouncing the Islamic Republic over...

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In response to the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to withhold the equivalent of what the Palestinian Authority pays to terrorists and their families from tax receipts it collects, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that he will refuse all taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, The Times of Israel...

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The Islamic Republic of Iran presents an “increasingly sophisticated” cyber espionage threat to the United States and its allies, according to the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Iran, the intelligence community’s report said, has built up its cyber offensive capabilities to such a degree that it enables...

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