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Bernie Sanders downplays Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo: ‘There might be one or two more important issues’
After Graham Platner, the progressive Senate hopeful running in Maine’s Democratic primary, revealed this week that he had had a Nazi-inspired tattoo on his chest for nearly two decades, several of his allies on the left cut him loose. One who hasn’t: Vermont’s Jewish senator, Bernie Sanders. “I’m not overly impressed by a squad of…
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Bob Vylan Reschedules UK Gigs Amid ‘Political Pressure’ After ‘Death to the IDF,’ Other ‘Antisemitic’ Comments
Bob Vylan music duo performance at Glastonbury Festival (Source: FLIKR) The British punk rap duo Bob Vylan announced on Thursday the rescheduling of two shows in Manchester and Leeds in the United Kingdom “due to political pressure” from government officials, Members of Parliament, and Jewish groups. The concerts were scheduled to be the first of…
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International Olympic Committee Recommends No Global Sporting Events in Indonesia After Israeli Athletes Banned
People take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza on the second anniversary of the war that began after Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, outside the US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 7, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended that sports federations around…
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Turkey Says It Will Help Boost Lebanese Army’s Capacity Under Mandate
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a press conference with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (not seen) at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, May 13, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Umit Bektas Turkish peacekeeping forces will continue to help boost the Lebanese army’s capability under a renewed deployment mandate in Lebanon, Turkey‘s Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Turkey‘s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to renew the military’s…
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Defining Antisemitism Down: American Jews Are Tolerating the Intolerable
FILE PHOTO: A man, with an Israeli flag with a cross in the center, looks on next to police officers working at the site where, according to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., U.S. May 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo…
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The Problem With ‘As a Jew’
A Torah scroll. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Nothing triggers a collective sense of repugnance like the sentence that starts with the words, “As a Jew.” Regardless of one’s particular brand of Judaism or political affiliation, we have developed a Pavlovian reflex every time we hear those dreaded three words. If someone feels the need to qualify…
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Mamdani Is Wrong About International Law — and Hamas
Candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Democratic New York City mayoral primary debate, June 4, 2025, in New York, US. Photo: Yuki Iwamura/Pool via REUTERS In a recent Fox News interview, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani refused to say whether Hamas should lay down its arms. When pressed to elaborate, he replied: I don’t really…
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Terrorist Who Burned Mother and Child to Death Is Honored by Palestinian Authority TV
Palestinian militants stand guard on the day that hostages held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack, are handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as part of a ceasefire and hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 13, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan…
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Was Teddy Roosevelt’s favorite play the original ‘Nobody Wants This’?
The Emmy-nominated Netflix show Nobody Wants This, a series about the challenges of an interfaith romance between a “hot rabbi” and his non-Jewish girlfriend, is now back for a sophomore season. When it debuted last fall, Nobody Wants This sparked heated criticism for trafficking in negative stereotypes about Jewish women. A writer for Glamour called her own…
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JD Vance condemns Knesset vote on West Bank annexation as ‘very stupid’ as Trump says it ‘won’t happen’
(JTA) — Vice President J.D. Vance denounced a vote by Israeli lawmakers to advance West Bank annexation as “weird” and personally offensive, in comments as he departed Israel after a two-day visit aimed at shoring up the Gaza ceasefire. In part to increase pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right-wing lawmakers signed off on…
