Bellha Haim, whose son Yotam was held hostage in Gaza and killed there by the Israeli army, and Tom Hand, whose 9-year-old daughter was released from Hamas captivity in November, embrace during the International March of the Living at Auschwitz, May 6, 2024. (Deborah Danan) AUSCHWITZ (JTA) — Bellha Haim, who was born in 1938 and fled the Nazis with her family, swore she would never step foot again in Poland. Then, on Oct. 7, Hamas invaded Israel, perpetrating the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust — and bringing another tragedy to Haim’s family: Yotam, her grandson, was taken...…Bellha Haim, whose son Yotam was held hostage in Gaza and killed there by the Israeli army, and Tom Hand, whose 9-year-old daughter was released from Hamas captivity in November, embrace during the International March of the Living at Auschwitz, May 6, 2024. (Deborah Danan) AUSCHWITZ (JTA) — Bellha Haim, who was born in 1938 and fled the Nazis with her family, swore she would never step foot again in Poland. Then, on Oct. 7, Hamas invaded Israel, perpetrating the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust — and bringing another tragedy to Haim’s family: Yotam, her grandson, was taken...WW…

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Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and former National Security Adviser John Bolton have slammed the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara in return for a normalization deal with Israel.They have called on President-elect Joe Biden to reverse the move.Morocco became the fourth Arab state to announce its intentions to normalize relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords, following in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.“Morocco’s autonomy plan is the only realistic option to achieve a just,...…Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and former National Security Adviser John Bolton have slammed the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara in return for a normalization deal with Israel.They have called on President-elect Joe Biden to reverse the move.Morocco became the fourth Arab state to announce its intentions to normalize relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords, following in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.“Morocco’s autonomy plan is the only realistic option to achieve a just,...WW…

Joe Biden on Monday tapped longtime Capitol Hill aide Reema Dodin as deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Dodin once justified Palestinian suicide bombers during the bloody Second Intifada.Dodin, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, said in 2002 that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people,” according to the .According to the newspaper, Dodin, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, “described a place where Palestinians are not given fair rights.”“A place where water is so scarce that the Israeli government will...…Joe Biden on Monday tapped longtime Capitol Hill aide Reema Dodin as deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Dodin once justified Palestinian suicide bombers during the bloody Second Intifada.Dodin, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, said in 2002 that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people,” according to the .According to the newspaper, Dodin, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, “described a place where Palestinians are not given fair rights.”“A place where water is so scarce that the Israeli government will...WW…

The Trump administration will continue to be a force for good all over the world, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the  wire in an interview published Friday.“America will exert its moral force to be a force for good around the world. And I am very confident that the Trump administration has been, and will continue to be, a force for good not only in this region but in every place where American influence can be,” Pompeo said.During his three-day visit to the country, Pompeo made stops in the Golan Heights and an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, a . He announced the “Made in...…The Trump administration will continue to be a force for good all over the world, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the  wire in an interview published Friday.“America will exert its moral force to be a force for good around the world. And I am very confident that the Trump administration has been, and will continue to be, a force for good not only in this region but in every place where American influence can be,” Pompeo said.During his three-day visit to the country, Pompeo made stops in the Golan Heights and an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, a . He announced the “Made in...WW…

Call him a blowhard and a bully, declare him vulgar and vain, just stop the comparisons with Hitler. And Goebbels. And Nazism in general. Stop invoking the Holocaust and Nazi Germany when describing Trump’s America in 2020. Stop it. Failing to do so means you are guilty of the very crimes you accuse Trump of: immorality, spreading lies, false equivalence, and sowing division.From CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour’s claim last week that the Nazi genocide, which kicked off with the Kristallnacht pogrom, was “,” to Joe Biden’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the net effect of these...…Call him a blowhard and a bully, declare him vulgar and vain, just stop the comparisons with Hitler. And Goebbels. And Nazism in general. Stop invoking the Holocaust and Nazi Germany when describing Trump’s America in 2020. Stop it. Failing to do so means you are guilty of the very crimes you accuse Trump of: immorality, spreading lies, false equivalence, and sowing division.From CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour’s claim last week that the Nazi genocide, which kicked off with the Kristallnacht pogrom, was “,” to Joe Biden’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the net effect of these...WW…

A caravan of dozens of vehicles supporting U.S. President Donald Trump rolled down the Jerusalem hills in Israel on Tuesday evening, ending with a pro-Trump rally and marking the fifth Jewish “Trump train” worldwide within a week.The caravan, which numbered around 60 cars, left Latrun, home to the strategic fortress that played a huge part in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, and headed towards the Jerusalem satellite town of Beit Shemesh for a pro-Trump rally attended by around 300 people, including Deputy Mayor Israel Silverstein and head of Republicans in Israel  The...…A caravan of dozens of vehicles supporting U.S. President Donald Trump rolled down the Jerusalem hills in Israel on Tuesday evening, ending with a pro-Trump rally and marking the fifth Jewish “Trump train” worldwide within a week.The caravan, which numbered around 60 cars, left Latrun, home to the strategic fortress that played a huge part in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, and headed towards the Jerusalem satellite town of Beit Shemesh for a pro-Trump rally attended by around 300 people, including Deputy Mayor Israel Silverstein and head of Republicans in Israel  The...WW…

At pro-Palestinian Black Lives Matter rallies in New York and Washington, chants were heard calling for “Death to Israel,” “Death to America” and “From Gaza to Minnesota, globalize the Intifada!”Several hundred protesters attended the July 1 demonstration in Brooklyn dubbed as a “Day of Rage” event, set to coincide with the earliest date Israel could begin its plans to apply Israeli law over parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley.Speakers issued inflammatory rallying cries that ran the gamut from anti-Semitic and anti-American to just plain absurd. One pro-North Korea activist...…At pro-Palestinian Black Lives Matter rallies in New York and Washington, chants were heard calling for “Death to Israel,” “Death to America” and “From Gaza to Minnesota, globalize the Intifada!”Several hundred protesters attended the July 1 demonstration in Brooklyn dubbed as a “Day of Rage” event, set to coincide with the earliest date Israel could begin its plans to apply Israeli law over parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley.Speakers issued inflammatory rallying cries that ran the gamut from anti-Semitic and anti-American to just plain absurd. One pro-North Korea activist...WW…