Florida GOP leaders, candidates and a university president are denouncing a group chat in which local Young Republican leaders made numerous antisemitic and racist remarks. Some are calling for its orchestrator to be removed from his position in the local Republican Party. But a prominent Jewish Republican in Florida, Rep. Randy Fine, responded to a […]
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For more than a century, U.S. military chaplains have worn insignia identifying their faith — a cross for Christians and tablets with a Star of David for Jews. Now Jewish chaplaincy groups are asking the Pentagon to intervene after chaplains from Messianic Judaism, a Christian movement that blends Jewish practices with belief in Jesus, began […]
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Tucker Carlson on Thursday over the conservative commentator’s criticism of the U.S. war with Iran, claiming he was out of step with his base. “Tucker has lost his way,” Trump told ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl. “I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. […]
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Some of President Donald Trump’s onetime supporters on the right are increasingly angry over his decision to launch military strikes on Iran — perhaps none more so than influential pundit Tucker Carlson. But Carlson, who has a recent history of spreading anti-Israel and antisemitic conspiracy theories on his web show, has found a different target […]
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Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy of Montana helped Capitol Police forcibly remove a protester who shouted “No one wants to fight for Israel” during a Senate hearing Wednesday afternoon. The protester, Brian McGinnis, a Marine veteran running as a Green Party candidate in North Carolina’s Senate race, disrupted a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on military […]
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The arson in December at Beth Israel Congregation didn’t just damage the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi. It also threw into disarray the operations of a Jewish nonprofit that aims to serve the entire American South. The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life is housed at the opposite end of the Beth Israel building from […]
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As the U.S. and Israel engage in a joint assault on Iran, accusations that Israel or Jewish influence drove America to war are resurfacing, reviving the uncomfortable narratives, conspiratorial rhetoric and fears of an antisemitic backlash that shadowed the Iraq conflict of the early 2000s. On Sunday, the Anti-Defamation League warned on X that “antisemitic […]
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President Donald Trump rejected claims that Israel had pulled the United States into the war with Iran on Tuesday, instead suggesting that he had “forced their hands.” Trump’s comments came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday that the United States entered the conflict because officials “knew that there was going to […]
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio inflamed critics of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran on Monday when he suggested that Israel had pulled the United States into the conflict. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if […]
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With war in Iran breaking out just as two crucial states hold their primaries, a new PAC opposing pro-Israel spending will have its first big opportunity to flex its muscles among Democrats. Meanwhile, a gun influencer with a penchant for Hitler jokes and Nazi symbols stands a chance to ride a scandal-ridden GOP primary all […]
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