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The Jewish Citizen: Schiff Denounces ‘Demonization of Immigrants’

U.S. Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-California), interviewed by Univision 34’s Oswaldo Borraez, said the Trump campaign’s “demonization of immigrants and migrants” was “loathsome, and I think people voted for him not because of that kind of hate and divisiveness, but despite it, because they wanted to help with the economy.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

The Jewish Citizen: Wasserman Schultz Denounces Gabbard as a ‘Russian Asset’

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) says her former Democratic colleague, now turned Republican, former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, is unfit to serve as President-elect Trump’s National Director of Intelligence because she “is likely a Russian asset.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Middle East, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

OpEd: Antisemitic Progressives May Have Tipped Jewish Votes to Trump

I have come to believe that the progressive movement, however anyone defines it, sabotaged the election because of how they sought to achieve their goals. They antagonized many voters and gifted Republicans with lots of grist for the mill. The progressives’ approach was not the only cause of the outcome, but Harris would be measuring the drapes right now if not for the progressives’ mangling of the process. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

‘Mufti’ Will Satisfy Neither Historians nor Graphic Arts Fans

This book is an amalgam of two genres: History and Graphic Non-Fiction. I don’t think it will satisfy devotees of either genre.  For graphic arts fans, there are too many pages filled with writing, rather than drawings.  For the serious student of history, phantasmagoric images detract from the work’s verisimilitude. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Jewish History, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors

5785: A good year for the Jews? 

Will the new year be better than the previous horrible one? It’s hard to believe that it won’t be, given the last year’s continuous warfare. At this juncture, Israel has ruptured Hamas in Gaza and killed its leader Yahya Sinwar, leaving the major problems returning our hostages and eliminating the remnants of the Hamas fighting forces. [Steve Kramer]

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Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Steve Kramer

Tel Aviv University Archaeologists Find 4,500-Year-Old Fingerprints on Children’s Artifacts

Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the National Museum in Copenhagen analyzed 450 pottery vessels made in Tel Hama, a town at the edge of the Ebla Kingdom, one of the most important Syrian kingdoms in the Early Bronze Age (about 4,500 years ago), and found that two-thirds of the pottery vessels were made by children, starting at the ages of seven and eight. [Press Release]

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Business & Finance, International, Israel, Middle East, Press Release, Science, Medicine, & Education, Technology

OpEd: Pro-Palestinians Hurt Their Cause by Being ‘Annoying and Obnoxious’

Ylana Shechter wrote on Facebook, “Leave it to those ‘annoying and obnoxious’ champions of the Palestinians to intrude on the work of a non-profit group that helps women who struggle with addiction and face domestic violence.” [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Antisemitism, Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Review of ‘Reagan: His Life and Legend,’ Part 3

After David Kimche, director general of Israel’s foreign ministry, told U.S. National Security Adviser Bud McFarlane in July 1985 that Iranian “moderates” had expressed a desire to improve relations with the United States and possibly release five American hostages, President Ronald Reagan instructed McFarlane to explore the idea. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel, Jewish History, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Britain’s Sky News’ Reporter’s Bias is Obvious in Wake of IDF’s Incursion into Lebanon

In the wake of the IDF’s incursion into Lebanon, accompanied by its advice to residents there to leave in order to avoid civilian casualties, the far-from-objective Sky News correspondent bewailed the exodus of the population there after having ignored the similar fate suffered by tens of thousands of Israelis in the north of Israel for the past year. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Israel, Middle East, News Media, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

International Media Ignores Suffering of Israelis in Current Warfare

The screen is full of scenes of cars, trucks and other vehicles stuck bumper to bumper and packed to the brim with families fleeing southern Lebanon to get away from the region being bombarded by Israel. As is the case in Gaza, the UN is concerned about the fate of the children. Funnily enough, the UN showed little concern for the fate of Israeli children … [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Middle East, News Media, Staff and Bylined Contributors