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The concept of missile defense, long mocked by mainstream journalists, was a big winner in the recent combat between Israel... The anti-Israel extremists also falsely accused me of “elevating white supremacy” for appearing on Dr. Sebastian Gorka’s pro-Israel radio show to champion pro-Israel and pro-Jewish causes. Gorka was the victim of an outrageous far left-wing calumny in which he was falsely accused of fascist connections. Those charges have been conclusively debunked by both the ZOA and Rabbi Heshie Billet. Yet my accusers proclaimed that my simply appearing on his show made me a ...

Sanity prevails: Boston JCRC rejects anti-Israel groups’ campaign to remove ZOA from board Sanity prevails: Boston JCRC rejects anti-Israel groups’ campaign to remove ZOA from board Far-left groups falsely accused us of racism and more, when the goal of the organization is to protect the Jewish people. (May 7, 2021 / JNS) The Boston Jewish Community Relations Council rationally rejected an absurd petition filed by far-left anti-Israel groups like J Street, New Israel Fund and Workers Circle to expel the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). The petition ludicrously accused both me and ...

Will next anti-Semitism envoy address progressive push to sideline IHRA definition? Will next anti-Semitism envoy address progressive push to sideline IHRA definition? “Too often in Democrat and leftist circles, we witness a singular focus on white supremacy to the exclusion of radical leftist anti-Zionism and radical Islamist Jew-hatred,” said Ellie Cohanim, deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism during the Trump administration. (April 28, 2021 / JNS) With anti-Semitism on the uptick, the role of the next U.S. Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism will take on more impo...

The verdict had hardly been announced Tuesday in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd before Jewish reactions began pouring in. Chauvin, a white man, kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last May, leading to the Black man’s death and sparking a national reckoning about systemic racism in policing. On Tuesday, a jury found Chauvin guilty on two charges of murder and one of manslaughter. The San Francisco-based Jewish Community Relations Council sent out an email stating: “JCRC is grateful that justice has been serve...

(JTA) — Seven months after being asked to kick out a group over allegations of racism, the board of directors of Boston’s leading Jewish coalition has come to a conclusion: Yes, the group’s president “elevated white supremacist voices” — but it shouldn’t be ejected. That’s the recommendation of an internal report issued last month by the leadership of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston, which includes dozens of local groups and community members representing virtually every local Jewish constituency. In September, the JCRC tasked a committee with evaluating the Z...