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Ron Kampeas

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Top ADL civil rights litigator quits, accusing group of being ‘useful idiot’ for Trump

Joe Berman cites failure to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right, narrowing of focus from broader civil rights issues to antisemitism and...

13.12.2025 80

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Ron Kampeas

Netanyahu once decried ‘daylight’ with Washington, but now he tolerates Trump’s glare

White House publicly expresses frustration with Israel and apparently shapes its actions in a far more significant way than the Biden administration,...

01.11.2025 60

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Ron Kampeas

US Jews who revile Trump’s domestic policies say he deserves praise for Gaza deal

Former ADL chief says American Jewish opponents of the president ‘need to walk and chew gum at the same time,’ noting the GOP leader was...

11.10.2025 60

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Ron Kampeas

Antisemitic conspiracies about Jeffrey Epstein go mainstream as he returns to headlines

Watchdogs point to discourse around the case as a textbook example of ‘horseshoe theory,’ with extremists on the left and right...

02.08.2025 50

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Ron Kampeas

US transit secretary grilled for rehanging Jesus painting at Merchant Marine Academy

Entitled ‘Christ on the Water,’ painting had been moved to the academy’s chapel following a complaint from Jewish midshipmen

18.07.2025 60

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Ron Kampeas

Pro-Israel Jewish Democrats say Mamdani’s stances are cause for concern – and action

Progressive Jews want clarification on the New York mayoral frontrunner’s defense of the phrase ‘globalize the intifada,’ while cautioning...

03.07.2025 40

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Ron Kampeas

Was Trump's Strike on Iran Good for the Jews?

27.06.2025 50

Haaretz

Ron Kampeas

Why the UK, Germany and France harshly criticize Israel on Gaza but support it on Iran

With the Islamic Republic’s relationship with Russia a possible factor, European powers don’t complain about the taming of what they...

17.06.2025 40

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Ron Kampeas

US lawmakers offer sweeping support for Israeli strikes on Iran, though some critical

Isolationist GOP senator calls to oppose ‘the Neocons’ latest plan,’ while ranking Democrat on Foreign Relations Committee says Israel’s...

14.06.2025 50

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Ron Kampeas

Israel’s strike on Iran: How we got here, what we don’t know and what happens next

Hours before the strike, some insiders said they thought Israel could be rattling sabers. Trump had warned Israel not to attack, and his top envoy was...

13.06.2025 50

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Ron Kampeas

Will the DC killings lead Trump to crack down harder on pro-Palestinian activists?

23.05.2025 10

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Ron Kampeas

Featured Post

JTA — I watched Yitzhak Rabin die on a dot matrix printer on a Saturday night in London. It was November 1995, and I was working for The Associated...

29.12.2024 7

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Ron Kampeas

JD Vance appears to defend Germany’s far-right AfD party

WASHINGTON (JTA) — US Vice President-elect JD Vance on Friday joined Elon Musk in appearing to defend the policies of the far-right Alternative for...

23.12.2024 10

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Ron Kampeas

Elon Musk endorses far-right German party after government’s collapse

JTA — Elon Musk endorsed a far-right German political party, the latest in a series of posts by the billionaire to draw accusations of catering to...

21.12.2024 10

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Ron Kampeas

GOP-led congressional report backs fundings cuts for universities that boycott Israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A report on campus antisemitism by the Republican-led US House of Representatives recommended cutting government funding to...

20.12.2024 10

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Ron Kampeas

Biden signs law that could bring US Jewish history museum under Smithsonian umbrella

Legislation, which was unanimously approved by Congress, calls for establishing body to examine whether the Weitzman museum in Philadelphia can...

12.12.2024 20

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Ron Kampeas

Lawmaker who assisted IDF as civilian volunteer to lead House foreign affairs panel

GOP’s Brian Mast has been a pugnacious defender of Israel in Congress, wore an Israeli uniform to the US Capitol in show of support after Oct. 7

11.12.2024 7

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Ron Kampeas

Trump’s Middle East adviser says path to Palestinian state key to Israel-Saudi ties

Massad Boulos says Riyadh not demanding two-state solution in exchange for normalization, just roadmap, says Trump has spoken about new nuclear...

10.12.2024 7

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Ron Kampeas

Adam Schiff sworn into Senate on 1490 edition of Maimonides’ Jewish legal code

Spokeswoman for the California Democrat says he chose the volume in part due to concerns about state of the rule of law as Trump returns to the...

10.12.2024 8

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Ron Kampeas

Killing of rabbi in UAE could bolster Israel’s ties with Arab neighbors, experts say

Countries that haven’t signed on to the Abraham Accords may seek to show that they will not be deterred by the kind of terrorist elements that...

26.11.2024 5

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Ron Kampeas