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Allison Kaplan Sommer is a journalist at Haaretz, host of Haaretz Weekly podcast and co-host of The Promised Podcast.

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5 years
A trend in Tel Aviv workplace cafeterias - photos of a judgemental Greta Thunberg next to disposable utensils. Here is #1 :
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The press freedom panel at #AIPAC2018 I am speaking on with three other journalists is closed to the press. #irony
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"Handmaids Tale" protesters marching in formation down Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street this afternoon, looking exactly like they do in the miniseries. Chilling.
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So let me get this straight - Great Britain is the only European country with a stated policy of allowing the virus to circulate now - and it’s the only one from which the US is permitting flights. How does that make sense?
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So apparently there's a Crossfit gym in Israel massively pissed they are being closed down to prevent COVID while yeshivas are permitted to stay open. So they are going to start teaching Torah during workouts.
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I'm thinking that the Jewish tendency not to build statues in the image of people it venerates looks like a pretty smart move right now.
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I knew future Secretary of State's Antony Blinken's stepfather had a dramatic Holocaust survival story, but now learned that Alejandro Mayorkas, nominated for Homeland Security has a mother who survived the Holocaust. Big day for the 2nd generation.
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If it's a "dark day for Israel" then Israel doesn't know it - this story is getting close to zero coverage in Israel. This is all about American Jews and the Democratic Party.
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Representative Ilhan Omar is again under fire for her terrible comments concerning Israel. Jewish groups have just sent a petition to Speaker Pelosi asking her to remove Omar from Foreign Relations Committee. A dark day for Israel!
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The joke is going around that the rocket which was not intercepted is still circling Tel Aviv, looking for a place to park.
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The folks defending a Democratic congresswoman’s anti -Semitic tweet by posting a Republican congressman’s anti-Semitic tweet missed the lesson in kindergarten where they taught that two wrongs don’t make a right.
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Hi, Hamas! Thanks for the family bonding time in the shelter ... finally, my daughters have to spend time with me!
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Over 100 Israelis in front of US embassy in Tel Aviv, chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “No Justice, No Peace” showing solidarity with protests in the US calling for justice after the killing of George Floyd.
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And in the AP office in Jerusalem, via @PattyNieberg
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My Israeli teen daughter has an online friend in Ukraine and is giving her advice on what supplies to keep in a bomb shelter. 😳
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So if I’m a dual US-Israeli citizen who votes for left-wing parties in Israel and the Democrats in the States, can I now be accused of dual disloyalty?
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Powerful message at Tel Aviv Women's March
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled Trump impeachment hearings to announce that Netanyahu is expected to be indicted for crimes in two and a half hours.
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This is Shlomit Malka, who joined Rotem Sela and Gal Gadot in calling out Likud’s racist words excluding Arab citizens. Bottom line: Israel’s hot models have more political courage than its “centrist” politicians.
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People seem surprised by this, so let me repeat: NOBODY IN ISRAEL IS TALKING ABOUT ILHAN OMAR. The Hebrew websites have articles on Luke Perry and Stormy Daniels - nada about anti-Semitism and congressional Democrats.
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If it's a "dark day for Israel" then Israel doesn't know it - this story is getting close to zero coverage in Israel. This is all about American Jews and the Democratic Party.
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5 years
And another (Haaretz, actually- I know, shocking)
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He feels much worse about Jeffrey Lord than he does about Heather Heyer. Appalling.
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For the record - living through this conflict is far less exhausting than following the arguments about it on Twitter.
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Poor Greta!
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Speaker at Tel Aviv March "To be a Jew is to demand justice! To be a Jew is to resist Trump! TTo be a Jew is to demand Palestinian rights!"
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OMG. I think I’ve just died and gone to feminist heaven
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5 years
Oh to be a fly on the wall when aides try to explain the Israeli election results to Donald Trump.
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Benny Gantz gets ambushed by journalists while trying to get his exercise in Washington, DC. before his meeting with President Trump. Pretty funny.
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דברים שקורים בוושינגטון
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And finally, this one. See the next tweet to see what employees who don’t appreciate Greta ...
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Breaking: Netanyahu supports BDS. He’s calling for a boycott of an Israeli product.
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Yair Netanyahu was trying to smear Lieberman and ended up incriminating his dad. Oops.
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Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר
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The Dauphin de Netanyahu admitted (in a Twitter-exchange with @haaretzcom publisher no less) that in 2009 Netanyahu agreed to appoint a pliable attorney-general to shut down the money-laundering investigation against Lieberman. In other words Netanyahu jr accusing dad of a crime.
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5 years
And I would imagine others are triggered by an anti-racism activist like @lsarsour branding Jews who were genuinely upset by the use of anti-Semitic tropes by a member of Congress as people who “incited a hate mob”
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Linda Sarsour
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I am triggered by those who piled on Representative Ilhan Omar and incited a hate mob against her until she got assassination threats now giving condolences to our community. What we need you to do is reflect on how you contribute to islamophobia and stop doing that.
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Hamas says it's going to fire missiles on Tel Aviv between 10 and 12 pm. What are they, TV repairmen?
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BREAKING: The Israeli army just called up thousands of reservists preparing to respond to the recent Gaza rocket attacks.
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4 years
Female ultra-Orthodox victims of the coronavirus are modestly invisible even after they are dead.
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בחייך, במותך. בצעירותך, באחרית ימייך. בלתי נראית.
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Why is Mossad chief Yossi Cohen wearing one black shoe and one brown shoe?
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Who is “they”?
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Ford Fischer
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"What they are doing to the Palestinians is what they are doing to our Black brothers and sisters here," @RashidaTlaib told the crowd. "As you all are marching for freedom of Palestine, please know that you must be marching for everybody's freedom." "It's all interconnected."
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5 years
I think my best succinct answer is: “Nobody won, but Netanyahu definitely lost.”
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5 years
Hardest question to answer this morning and I’m getting it a lot: “Who won?”
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@PattyNieberg Here's another one - at Wix headquarters in Tel Aviv, via @YatirKaaren
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In the first weeks of Israel’s outbreak, 30% of infections happened in synagogues.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said religious services conducted in churches, synagogues and houses of worship are “essential business” and therefore exempt from this stay-at-home executive order
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“Dude ... It’s NOT Memorial Day!”
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So President Biden steps off the plane and we will immediately show him our new weapons system. Then we take him to Yad VaShem. We're a fun country.
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The International Association of Religion Journalists is holding their conference on YOM KIPPUR!?!?!
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Religion Journalists
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35 writers and editors from 16 nations will gather to address critical issues of global #religion in #IARJSaltLake , the first IARJ North American conference #migration #nationalism #ReligiousFreedom #faith #journalism @ReligionData @ReligionReport @RNS
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In Israel: Make an online appointment with one click. Or just walk in with the HMO ID card that every citizen has. We’ve already vaccinated 75% of people over 60.
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The process for *senior citizens* to get the vaccine in New York City involves a 51 step online questionnaire that includes uploading multiple attachments.
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Remember a week ago when the whole world was jealous of Israel?
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From the Berlin demonstration against Netanyahu…quite a statement! photo: ⁦ @DannaStern
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@lsarsour Yes, in this case, democracy. Israel has checks and balances. This is going to the Supreme Court, which is expected to let the Ra'am-Balad party run. The only time a party has been disqualified in Israeli history was the barring of racist Jewish Rabbi Kahane from running.
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Shouldn’t he be working hard to stop hundreds of thousands more Americans from dying instead?
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I am working hard to expose the corruption and dishonesty in the Lamestream Media. That part is easy, the hard part is WHY?
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Thought I’d offer a contrast to the terrible Belz wedding photos. In my neighborhood, Orthodox Jews hold their morning and event prayers socially distanced in public parks.
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This follows on people who want to have music concerts or throw a big party inviting a couple to get married so they were allowed to have 250 attendees so it qualified as a "wedding"
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1/ Some people have never heard of the Genesis Prize, which Natalie Portman declined to receive and so don't understand how it is linked to Netanyahu. It was created in 2012 with a $52 million endowment by the trio of Russian oligarchs that control Alfa Bank.
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Sebastian Gorka calls masks "COVID burqas" and that wearing them represents "an act of submission". The perfect blend of Covidiocy, Islamophobia, and macho bullshit.
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HuffPost
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Sebastian Gorka claims there is “something inhuman” about masks aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
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Here in Israel, not only were yeshivas raided and classes dispersed when infection rates were high- synagogues were SOLDERED shut so they couldn't be illicitly opened. Are you going to compare the Israeli government to Nazis, too?
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Hi Mr. Mayor. You gonna start rounding up Jews outside NYC as well? Because mass deportations tend to mess with my schedule. You'd think by now, after 2,000 years, we Jews would be used to such treatment. And yet, it's still unsettling every time. Any heads up is appreciated!
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. @Sethrogen fan spotted at the protest outside Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem.
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Well, we just got to test out the state-of-the art 'newsroom in a bomb shelter' here at Haaretz
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If you want to dismantle Israel, I can deal with that. But why not just say it out loud - and concisely? “Dismantle the Zionist project, dismantle the settler colonialist project” is so long and awkward ....
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Temple U professor and BLM activist Marc Lamont Hill says the goal of Black Lives Matter is to "dismantle the Zionist project" and is "very explicitly embracing BDS"
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Menorah of the year
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No school in Beersheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon, or any of the towns closer to Gaza today. I grew up with fun “snow days,” these kids have frightening “missile days.”
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Ladies and gentlemen, the first-ever recipients of the National Council of Young Israel's Chovevei Zion - Lovers of Zion - Award. We're so proud.
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Here are the mug shots of the two Giuliani associates arrested last night, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. (h/t @ClareHymes22 )
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Here's an idea: Let's call Michael Che's joke inaccurate and misleading without calling it antisemitic.
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And now - the article
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Two U.S. citizens among four Jerusalem attack victims
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Nadine Awad, 16, the Arab young woman who was killed when a Gaza rocket hit her village next to Lod.
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Rabbi Marvin Hier is the first rabbi to appear at a presidential inauguration since 1985
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Trump now defends not paying taxes by saying the government would "squander" the money. Interesting excuse. . #Debates2016
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It’s a fucking miracle that this guy, failed to break into the synagogue and shoot dozens. If I’d survived it, I’d be celebrating, too.
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The correct version of this headline has three more words: Caroline Glick being touted for UN ambassador ... by Caroline Glick.
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⁦Want to watch an extraordinary documentary to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day? You can see my colleague Judy Maltz’s film for free at this link. Thanks for telling the story, ⁦ @MaltzJudy
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Of course the minute after I published what I thought was an original observation, someone told that the Greta trend was also reported in the Hebrew press in Time Out Tel Aviv. Lots more fun photos of Greta chiding in front of disposables in it:
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One of Israel's hottest models, Yael Shelbia, began her army service today.
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This is great! (Via ⁦ @avitalrachel ⁩ )
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Despite coronavirus, the ultra-Orthodox party on ...
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@Yair_Rosenberg says: The far left uses their hate for Israel as an excuse for their anti-Semitism, and the far right uses their love Israel as an excuse for THEIR anti-Semitism.
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Raanana junction after midnight - who says the suburbs are sleepy?
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“All in all, the falafel meal tastes like if someone who hates falafel explained falafel to someone who’d never had falafel before, but went on to make falafel from scratch based on that description. It tastes like a punishment.”
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You know what would be nice right now? A Prime Minister or a Foreign Minister or a Defense Minister who got in front of the cameras and spoke to the people when the country is attacked.
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I’m confused. Wasn’t Naftali Bennett was supposed to come to the US to mourn 11 murders with Pittsburgh’s Jews, not campaign for the GOP in the midterms?
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Israeli government is ramping up its pro-Trump campaign
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And now she’s Israel’s first female Druze Knesset member. Two glass ceilings broken! Impressive.
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I don’t want to sound prejudiced, but all these horrible violent thugs across the country have one thing in common - their gender.
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Israeli politics at the moment
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at Western Wall, praying his wife stays off Instagram.
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@ChemiShalev @TheRaDR Rabbi Ruttenberg: The "bromance" between Bibi and Trump hurts American Jews because Trump empowers white supremacists who are shooting up their synagogues. #HaaretzYahadut
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This tweet from 15 minutes ago didn’t age well.
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Pompeo, Bolton, Mnuchin to brief at White House at 1:30pm
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Many protests around Israel have been concluding with the blowing of a shofar. In Netanya, before performing the ritual, demonstrator Richard Isaac said that the rams horn was a traditional call to battle in times of threat and “this is one of those times.”
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When you lose McDonald’s …
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A trip back to the US isn’t truly complete until I’ve been shocked by the things people continue to do to hummus.
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Honestly - I would love to retire the word “Zionism” into its proper historical context, and make both right and left discuss “Israel” - the actual, existing state - instead. Let’s talk reality, not ideology.
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When you've lost Fox News and Adelson ... Fox reports: "Sheldon Adelson is nearing his wits end with Donald Trump"
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Allison K. Sommer
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I'm no Linda Sarsour cheerleader - I've reported on her critically plenty - but is it logical to declare that any cause she raises money for is automatically legitimized? She raised money to repair a vandalized Jewish cemetery, does that taint the cemetery?
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Caroline Glick
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Follow up from Friday's column about HIAS chair Dianne Lob's takeover of the Conference of Presidents. Antisemite Linda Sarsour held a fundraiser for HIAS.
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Hope that folks abroad with Israeli citizenship who tweet constantly about how terrible the current government is will be flying to Israel to vote on April 9 and change the status quo. Because tweets don’t change anything.
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After receiving that award in March, Lev Parnas visited us in Zion last July with Anthony Scaramucci where he attended a barbecue at Netanyahu donor's home along with Yair Netanyahu, Mike Huckabee and US ambassador David Friedman and his wife, Tammy
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Governor of Michigan just called Israel a “progressive’s paradise” (Because of universal health care, paid parental leave, subsidized day care, etc) #AIPAC2018
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BREAKING: J Street has withdrawn its endorsement of Palestinian-American Democratic nominee for Congress, Rashida Tlaib. Story to come.
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I love this strategy
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Raf Sanchez
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews protested and blocked roads in Jerusalem against what they see as violations of Sabbath. Women responded by taking off their shirts, which promptly scared the religious protesters off. Story by neighbourhood correspondent @tombateman
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I don’t have to “humanize” them. They are humans.
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Marc Zell
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It's sad that @AllisonKSommer would humanize anti-Semites like @RashidaTlaib , @IlhanMN and @lsarsour . They are messengers of hate and should be reviled for their lies, incitement and #Hypocrisy .
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I just got Seth Rogen's response to the press release Jewish Agency head Buji Herzog sent out about their conversation - it will be in my article that will be published shortly. Spoiler alert - he's not happy about it.
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Only in Israel: Morning TV features a woman in the south who last gave birth in 2014 under missile fire from Gaza, live in labor in Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon with another baby who will be born under fire.
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Politicians jumping around a synagogue, singing with no masks, while the hard-working civil servants guarding them wear their masks.
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משה ויסברג
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מחוץ למעגל הקואליציה: הקדצ'קה של בנט וסמוטריץ במרכז הרב
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It’s great that this time around, there are so many female faces for ultra- Orthodox publications to blur out!
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