Author: Jmedia Manager
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Trump Claims ‘Evangelical Christians Love Israel More Than The Jews’
Excerpts of an interview Donald Trump gave were released on the podcast “Unholy: Two Jews On The News” Friday that are landing the former President in hot water with remarks about the Jewish community in the United States that are being panned as anti-semitic. Two Jewish journalists, Israeli journalist Yonit Levi of Channel 12 Israel and Jonathan Freedland…
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Israel hunts Palestinian suspects after West Bank settler killing
A protester scuffles with a member of the Israeli security forces during an anti-settler demonstration in the tense east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Israeli soldiers carried out a manhunt Friday in the occupied West Bank, a day after the army blamed Palestinians for shooting dead an Israeli settler and wounding two others. The army,…
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Lesbian Activist Arrested in Iran, Faces Death Penalty
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have arrested lesbian activist Sareh in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Twenty-eight-year-old Sareh, was detained for 21 days by the Iraqi Kurdistan police after her interview with BBC Persian about the situation of the LGBTQI community in Iraqi Kurdistan. After release, she made an attempt to cross the…
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Tolerating a nuclear Iran?
In 1977, Israel’s deputy prime minister, Yigael Yadin, asked Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, who was on his historic trip to Jerusalem, why the Egyptian army had not proceeded to the Sinai passes during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. ‘You have nuclear arms, haven’t you heard,’ was Sadat’s reply. Of course, Israel’s nuclear capabilities were the stuff…
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House Passes Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Islamophobia Bill
The House voted 219-212 to globally combat Islamophobia after Rep. Lauren Boebert’s, R- Colo., remarks directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D- Minn., insinuating the Muslim congresswoman was a terrorist and member of the “Jihad Squad.” The Omar-led bill would establish an office within the State Department, and led by a presidential appointee to monitor and…
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US lawmakers call for sanctions against Israel’s NSO
And against other spyware firms as well. A group of US lawmakers is asking the country’s Treasury Department and State Department to sanction Israeli spyware firm NSO Group and three other foreign surveillance companies they say helped authoritarian governments commit human rights abuses. Their letter, seen by Reuters, also asks for sanctions on top executives at NSO,…
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Christian officials accuse Israel of holiday discrimination
A spokesman for Christian churches in the Holy Land on Wednesday accused Israel of discriminating against Christian tourists during the normally busy Christmas holiday season. Israel last month closed its borders to foreign tourists in response to the outbreak of the omicron coronavirus variant. But this week, Israeli officials decided to make an exception for “Birthright”,…
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‘We miss him’: Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku farewelled at state funeral
A state funeral was held today for the self-titled “happiest man on earth” and Holocaust survivor, Eddie Jaku. Guests celebrated the life of Mr Jaku, the Sydney Jewish Museum founder, at Sydney Town Hall today. “A man who came face to face with the worst of humanity but departed by the loving faces of families and…
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Alleged neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell to fight charges he assaulted Nine guard
A man police say is the leader of Australia’s nationalist socialist movement is to fight charges he assaulted a security guard outside Nine’s office building in Melbourne. Thomas Sewell appeared in an online hearing before Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday, accused of repeatedly punching the guard on March 1. Police say Mr Sewell and a…
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Iran accuses West of nuclear ‘blame game’
Iran has accused Western parties to its 2015 nuclear deal of “persisting in their blame game”, a day after European diplomats warned the pact would soon be an empty shell if not revived. “Some actors persist in their blame game habit, instead of real diplomacy. We proposed our ideas early, and worked constructively and flexibly…