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JI SCOOP: Incoming Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will not join her freshmen colleagues on an AIPAC-affiliated trip to Israel later this year.
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During her
#OH11
victory speech,
@ShontelMBrown
thanks “my Jewish brothers and sisters” and expresses support for the U.S. Israel relationship.
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#Breaking
:
@ReverendWarnock
signed 2019 letter likening West Bank to apartheid South Africa,
@matthewkassel
reports.
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🚨 SCOOP: Terry Gainer, the Senate sergeant-at-arms from 2007-2014, proposed a wrought-iron perimeter fence at the Capitol in 2013 but was told it was too costly. Now, he says, “the cost of not doing it was evident yesterday.”
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HEARD LAST NIGHT — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on a conference call hosted by Jim Zogby, Co-Chair of the DNC’s Ethnic Council: “I talked to Ilhan last night to give her my personal support. We will stand by our Muslim brothers and sisters.”
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In London, students are taking off their yarmulkes and families are taking down their mezuzahs as the war in Gaza intensifies and antisemitism soars,
@liannekolirin
reports.
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Nearly two dozen Senate Democrats huddled with an array of U.S. Jewish leaders on Capitol Hill yesterday, in a meeting that touched on a series of hot-button issues,
@marcrod97
reports.
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🚨 SCOOP — Deborah Lipstadt to be named State Dept antisemitism envoy
@GSDeutch
,
@marcrod97
report ⬇️
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Jared Kushner to interns: "I did a lot of dumb things, I bought a newspaper—which was … very interesting"
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The actor and TV host spent 90 minutes spreading conspiracy theories about "the Rothschilds" and "the Zionists."
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Second Gentleman
@DouglasEmhoff
addresses the crowd gathered for the National Menorah Lighting on The Ellipse
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On Friday we reported on comments made by
@amnestyusa
's director regarding Israel. We have published the full audio of his remarks and transcripts of the portions quoted in the original story.
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Next month, the
@duolingo
app will launch its 40th language course: Yiddish!
“We just think that there’s a lot of value in linguistic diversity.”
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In a 2013 interview, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who passed away earlier Monday at 84, discussed learning Yiddish as a young man while working in a Jewish-owned store.
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Columbia Law School rejects student group created to combat antisemitism,
@HaleyCohen19
reports.
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New York State Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou is positioning herself away from the Democratic mainstream on Middle East foreign policy
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"The next president will shred" a new Iran deal "on her first day in office," former U.N. Ambassador
@NikkiHaley
said in a speech at the Christians United for Israel summit in Washington
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“It does make for strange bedfellows that Israel and Iran would seemingly be on the same side in a conflict,”
@_hudsonc
, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank, told JI.
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Former CIA Director David Petraeus said that Israel should continue its counteroffensive in Gaza “until Hamas is fully destroyed,”
@HaleyCohen19
reports.
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Not Omaha!
Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning spotted in Jerusalem.
Pictured Monday night with (L-R)
@DavidM_Friedman
, Norm Brownstein and
@mikepompeo
.
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BREAKING:
@IlhanMN
, who is facing an imminent vote to remove her from
@HouseForeign
, is cosponsoring a resolution that recognizes Israel as a "legitimate and democratic ally" and denounces antisemitism "masquerading" as criticism of Israel
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After a career as an Air Force colonel and a judge,
@ColMorrisDavis
was all set to retire.
Instead the 62-year-old Democrat tossed his hat in the ring and will face 25-year-old Republican Madison Cawthorn in North Carolina's 11th district this November.
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The COLUMBIA Act would pull federal funding from schools that don’t comply with federal monitoring procedures,
@marcrod97
reports.
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An inside look at the first Seder held at the Naval Observatory, hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff
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Former WH press secretary
@AriFleischer
said a few percentage points in the Jewish vote could make "a huge difference" in states like Florida.
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Chess grandmaster and human rights activist Garry
@Kasparov63
was recently honored by the
@ADL
.
He told JI that "we need to move past the old left-right divides, empower moderate voices and work together."
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Rep.
@RitchieTorres
will send a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig today, asking them to review and consider suspending the 501(c)(3) status of several “extremist and hate groups.”
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More than two dozen Senate Democrats, led by
@ChrisMurphyCT
and
@timkaine
, sign letter backing Iran deal re-entry along 2015 terms.
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"We have to stand against this resurgence, this tide of antisemitism." —
@POTUS
at White House Hanukkah party.
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Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner to receive $93M in tax breaks from Chris Christie's State government
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Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper seemed like a safe bet for the Democratic Senate nomination.
Now challenger Andrew
@Romanoff2020
is right on his heels.
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Transition:
@omriceren
, managing director of
@israelproject
, will be the new national security adviser for
@SenTedCruz
. h/t
@playbookplus
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.
@RepJoshG
to call on U.N. secretary-general
@antonioguterres
and UNRWA chief
@UNLazzarini
to step down,
@marcrod97
reports.
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“This doesn’t mean war, it will not lead to war, and it doesn’t risk war. None of that. It is war.”
—
@ExumAM
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The visit to Auschwitz was
@SecondGentleman
's first stop on a five-day trip to Poland and Germany that is focused on promoting Holocaust education and combating antisemitism,
@GSDeutch
reports.
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The letter from
@AOC
,
@RashidaTlaib
,
@PramilaJayapal
@BettyMcCollum04
suggests that annexation would “lay the groundwork for Israel becoming an apartheid state.”
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Scoop: Former Obama official
@Rob_Malley
is under consideration to be the Biden administration's envoy on Iran.
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Kushner was in favor of Trump meeting Zarif, Bolton claims. And he didn't want Netanyahu to stop him.
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“Israel not only has a right to defend itself, I think Israel has a responsibility to combat Hamas head-on and to defeat Hamas,”
@JoshShapiroPA
said at a virtual event hosted by the
@USJewishDems
.
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“The original sin of the [2015] Iran nuclear deal is that it allowed Iran to enrich,” Brian Hook, who served as the Trump administration’s Iran envoy, said at an event organized by
@NUFDIran
,
@marcrod97
reports.
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The Texas senator announced plans to introduce a bill upping NSGP funding to $540 million, well beyond an ask of $360 million from leading Jewish groups.
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A conference held in the UAE this week marked the first time ever that high-level officials from all 7 countries participated in a multilateral meeting.
@TZieve
has the details.
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GOP members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are delaying Holocaust historian
@deborahlipstadt
's confirmation hearing over old tweets that were critical of some legislators.
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In a statement,
@jstreetdotorg
's Logan Bayroff says, “It is no surprise that the president’s racist, disingenuous attacks on progressive women of color in Congress have now transitioned into smears against Jews.”
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The Jewish community was the "first victim of the Islamic Republic. When they were oppressed, and we kept silent, we didn’t know that Islamic Republic would come after us. And now, this is a lesson for many Iranians,”
@AlinejadMasih
told
@GSDeutch
.
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Israel-based consultant
@ariehkovler
predicted the violent Capitol riot weeks before it occurred.
“Joining the dots wasn’t very difficult,” he told JI. “I could see the way the wind was blowing.”
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‘I’ve seen things with my own eyes that no one should ever see,’ a volunteer told
@reglash
at Shura, where the dead are being brought for identification, where the horrific atrocities are being photographed and recorded, and bodies prepared for burial.
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“The Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping know that supporting Iran is good for Beijing and bad for America… There’s no world in which China’s involvement in the Middle East makes the United States safer.” (
@NikkiHaley
-
@washingtonpost
)
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The software giant Palantir hosted a high-level gathering at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with family members of Israeli hostages held in Gaza as well as freed Israeli captives,
@matthewkassel
reports.
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In a sign of simmering frustration with Qatar on Capitol Hill,
@SenJoniErnst
and
@SenTedBuddNC
put increased pressure on Qatar to boot Hamas from Doha.
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Lipstadt is a noted Holocaust historian whose most recent book, Antisemitism: Here and Now, won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award. She has served as a consultant to and a fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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NEW:
@RitchieTorres
tells JI he is backing
@danielforaz
in the
#AZ02
primary, a decision he is likely to announce later this week.
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@matthewkassel
@JaneTimkenOH
@ElectMattDolan
“I will support meaningful efforts to bring a lasting peace to the region,” wrote
@berniemoreno
, “but I will never pressure Israel to make compromises or concessions that threaten the security of the Jewish State."
#OHSEN
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Kamala Harris on support for Israel:
“I do believe, walking the halls of the US Senate these last several months, this is a shared value. I do believe this is one of the issues that is more obviously not even a bipartisan issue but a nonpartisan issue.”
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In Hamptons House, a Link to Manafort and Jared Kushner’s Dad
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Obama admin alum
@RonaldKlain
said "we’re not here rooting for Trump to fail. We’re rooting for Trump to succeed and we’ll have the election either way.”
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.
@NormEisen
worked with House Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump.
Now he's hoping the job he started will be finished in November.
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.
@NormEisen
told
@jacobkornbluh
that “our tradition teaches tzedek tzedek tirdof — pursue justice intensely. I felt I was doing just that.”
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Trump asked Bibi on phone call last year if he cares about Middle East peace,
@jonathanvswan
reports
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NEW:
@RepTedDeutch
is leaving Congress, will succeed
@AJCGlobal
CEO David Harris later this year.
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NEW: All GOP senators but one — Rand Paul — joined a statement to Biden on Monday expressing opposition to a renewed nuclear agreement with Iran and vowing to oppose any attempts to withdraw terrorism sanctions
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In reversal, Senate Foreign Relations to take up MAHSA Act Iran sanctions,
@marcrod97
reports.
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.
@EricCantor
at
#MIGlobal
admits his prediction at Davos that Trump wouldn't win a single state was way off
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SCOOP: In a letter to
@AZM4Israel
, Secretary of State Tony Blinken addresses the Biden administration's support for the entirety of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of antisemitism
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.
@HananyaNaftali
, who created social media content for Israeli Prime Minister
@netanyahu
, tweeted falsehoods and doctored photos in recent days and implied he’s working for the Israeli government – but no one is willing to claim him,
@LahavHarkov
reports.
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"I think it's important to kind of just recognize how fast it went, and how successful it's been." — UAE Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef Al Otaiba on Abraham Accords at JI’s
#InsiderAccess
event last week.
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Washington Post under fire for repeated anti-Israel bias, systemic sloppiness in Middle East coverage,
@matthewkassel
reports.
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Rep
@JoshGottheimer
on
@RashidaTlaib
’s attack:
"I have a very different recollection of the meeting she discussed. I recall Rep. Luria and me honestly explaining how hurtful it is to have your loyalty to America questioned...”
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@matthewkassel
@Bakari_Sellers
“I don't have shit to say about Cornel West. If Cornel West runs for office I won’t be there standing by him,”
@Bakari_Sellers
said about appearing with West in
#oh11
.
Sellers added: "Now, it’s pretty fair to say that Cornel West is an antisemite...”
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Pro-Israel Democrats distance themselves from Biden’s escalating rhetoric on Israel,
@emilyfjacobs
and
@marcrod97
report.
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On Tuesday at 1PM ET
Join us for a behind the scenes conversation with UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, Haim Saban and Dina Powell McCormick
Send your email address via DM and we'll send you the Zoom info
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“As the grandson of Berthold Proskauer, to return to Germany as the ambassador of Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people, 90 years after my family was thrown out of Germany, this is a very special thing for me,”
@Ron_Prosor
told
@reglash
.
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Two groups of House Republicans are calling on Democratic leadership to take action against Rep. Ilhan Omar after comments made by the Minnesota lawmaker earlier this week comparing the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.
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“We’re gonna leave Americans behind. We’re creating a hostage crisis. We’re creating maybe even potential for losses greater than 9/11 on our way out. And nobody’s talking about that,”
@LTGHRMcMaster
warned on
@JIPodcast
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Freshman Rep.
@RitchieTorres
, now the vice chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the "insurrection against the Capitol was a wake-up call for the nation.”
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“Being Jewish has given me a foundation for everything I am and everything I hope to be" —
@mcuban
at Adelson gala
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Israel shares evidence of UNRWA employees involvement in Oct. 7,
@reglash
&
@LahavHarkov
report
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Barrack to Trump: “You should get down on your knees that your daughter found this kid. He's out of central casting"
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EXCLUSIVE: In a video message to commemorate Yom HaShoah, First Lady Jill Biden highlights the struggles faced by elderly Holocaust survivors.
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“There’s a feeling of security sometimes, and then you can find that your feeling of security and your safety is built on sand,”
@JoshMalina
told
@matthewkassel
as he discussed antisemitism and his return to Broadway as the lead of “Leopoldstadt”
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In an essay published in an obscure libertarian publication and unearthed by JI, the Arizona Republican Senate hopeful quotes Goering and a noted conspiracy theorist who espouses antisemitic views.
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As calls for a cease-fire have grown more pronounced among the hard left, John Kirby has become one of the loudest voices espousing the president’s commitment to Israel’s security,
@GSDeutch
reports.
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Exclusive: General Mills says decision to sell its stake in a joint operation in Israel was driven by its "global business strategy" and unconnected to BDS movement. "Any claims by others taking credit for this decision are false," the company said.
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.
@CoryBooker
wishes Paul Stern, a Jewish U.S. soldier who was a WWII POW, a happy 92nd birthday at
@IsraelinUSA
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To write her new book, journalist Talia Lavin (
@chick_in_kiev
) spent 18 months going undercover online in white supremacist groups.
“There were times,” she said, “when I was playing five or six people in a day.”
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"It's funny,
@JeffreyGoldberg
, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, predicted that this piece would resonate with Jewish readers,"
@mckaycoppins
told JI about his recent article on Mormonism.
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@Scaramucci
@jacobkornbluh
.
@Scaramucci
: "I want there to be a permanent alliance between the United States and the State of Israel. So in order for that to exist, we have to make sure that the alliance with Israel and our sanctity as allies is bipartisan."
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Israel's once-dominant Labor Party has been teetering on the edge of extinction in recent years.
But new leader
@MeravMichaeli
has no intention of letting that happen.
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“I don’t know what the future is, I don't know what that means for me politically, but I know I’m at real peace right now,”
@RepKinzinger
, one of 10 Republicans to back impeachment, said of the bipartisan vote.
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“You talk about cancel culture,”
@AOC
told David Remnick. “But notice that those discussions only go one way. We don’t talk about all the people who were fired."
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“Too many on the right seem only concerned about antisemitism when it occurs on the left – and vice versa,”
@MikeBloomberg
will say at the UJA-Federation of New York’s Wall Street Dinner, according to a draft of his remarks obtained by Jewish Insider.
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“It was emotional as hell, honestly,” said
@rufusgifford
of the moment Joe Biden was declared victorious.
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