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Obama on Israel's founding. In Belfast this week, Barack Obama said Jews were "oppressed, discriminated against, killed" for millennia, then added: "What is also undeniable is that they took the land of people and…
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Ruby Chen
His son Itay, an American-Israeli soldier, was killed by Hamas on Oct. 7, and his body was held in Gaza until November 2025. After Wednesday's State Department memorial for the…
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Macklemore
His "Free Palestine" concerts in London, Paris and Dublin will benefit the Palestinian Youth Movement, whose British branch thanked him publicly. The Jewish Leadership Council says the group called Oct.…
The Weekly Kvetch
In 2025 the ADL documented about 30 Wikipedia editors working together to push anti-Israel framing into the site, and Wikipedia banned some of them. A new ADL report out Thursday finds that 91% of one banned editor's contributions to six major Israel articles are still…
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