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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Stanford student leader: It’s not anti-Semitic to claim Jews control media, economy
The main quadrangle of Stanford University (Wikimedia Commons)
(JTA) — A member of Stanford University’s Student Senate argued that it is “not anti-Semitism” to claim Jews control “the media, economy, government and other social institutions.”
Gabriel Knight, a junior, made the remark at a Student Senate meeting Tuesday addressing a proposed resolution on anti-Semitism, according to the Stanford Daily, the main campus newspaper. Knight also said, “Questioning these potential power dynamics, I think, is not anti-Semitism. I think it’s a very valid discussion.”
He apologized later in the meeting after Jewish community leaders and a Jewish student accused him of anti-Semitism.
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From Russia Today
US presence in Japan ‘necessary,’ claims PM Abe
Published time: 6 Apr, 2016 11:27
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe © Yuya Shino / Reuters
The US military bases stationed in Japan will not be relocated “within the foreseeable future” since the island country still needs security backing from the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Shizo Abe has said in comments to the Wall Street Journal.
“I cannot conceive of any situation within the foreseeable future when the US presence wouldn’t be necessary,” Abe said in an interview with the WSJ, published on Tuesday.
The statement came in response to a question on the possibility of the withdrawal of American troops from Japan – a move recently proposed by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who said if elected he may reconsider the 56-year-old security pact between the two-countries.
US President Barack Obama, in turn, called Japan “one of the closest allies” of the United States while meeting Prime Minister Abe in February. This alliance is “the central foundation for [our] regional security,” Obama argued.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jean-Marie Le Pen fined again for calling gas chambers a ‘detail’ of WWII
French far-right party Front National founder and honorary president Jean-Marie Le Pen looking on at the foot of a statue of Joan of Arc during the party’s annual rally in honour of Joan of Arc in Paris, May 1, 2015. (Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)
(JTA) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front party, was fined for repeating his view that the Nazi gas chambers were a “detail” of World War II.
A court in Paris fined Le Pen some $34,000 after finding him guilty of denying crimes against humanity, the French news agency AFP reported.
One year ago, Le Pen told French TV that he does not regret the statement he first made in 1987, for which he was convicted of racial hatred and fined.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Romania accuses Israelis of threatening, hacking official’s email
(JTA) — Romania issued a warrant for the arrest of a Belgian Jew whom they said had spied with Israelis on an anti-fraud official for a firm once headed by an ex-Mossad chief.
Justice Ministry prosecutors in Bucharest this week signed the warrant for the arrest of David Geclowicz, according to a report published Tuesday on the blog Rise Project. The warrant said Geclowicz had illegally spied on Laura Kovesi Codruţa, a prosecutor of Romania’s National Anti-Corruption Directorate.
Geclowicz, according to the warrant, worked for Black Cube, an Israeli firm founded in 2010 whose honorary chair was Meir Dagan, the one-time director of Israel’s spy agency who died last month. Geclowicz, 24, has been arrested along with another employee, Ron Weiner, according to Rise Project.
In a statement Wednesday, Black Cube confirmed their arrest but denied any wrongdoing, saying their actions were commissioned by elements associated with the government to investigate corruption.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Sen. Ben Cardin: Leahy letter on extrajudicial killing allegations in Israel is ‘wrong’
Sen. Ben Cardin speaking at a news conference with other leading Democratic senators at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2015. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Ben Cardin said a letter from 11 fellow congressional Democrats asking the Obama administration to look into allegations of Israeli extrajudicial killing was “just wrong.”
Cardin, D-Md., in an interview published this week by the Forward was asked about the letter sent in February by a slate of lawmakers led by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to Secretary of State John Kerry asking for an investigation of Israel and Egypt under the so-called Leahy Law.
“There’s no comparison here,” Cardin told the Forward. “Israel has rule of law. They have a system that will hold those individuals accountable. … There’s no equivalency here.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
AIPAC blasts latest Iran sanctions as ‘weak’
AIPAC’s annual Policy Conference, held March 20-22, 2016, sprawled across Washington’s downtown convention center, above, and its nearby basketball arena. (JTA)
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The American Israel Public Affairs Committee dismissed as “weak” recent U.S. sanctions on Iran for testing ballistic missiles, a sign of continued tensions between the influential lobby and the Obama administration in the wake of the Iran nuclear deal.
“These limited sanctions are too weak to affect Iran’s behavior,” AIPAC said Monday of the new sanctions, which target an industrial group involved in manufacturing the missiles, the missile command of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, and companies providing support to Mahan Air, which is affiliated with the Guards Corps.
“America must respond to Tehran’s recurring provocations with swift and meaningful penalties,” the prominent Israel lobby said.
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From PressTV
Turkey hub for Daesh-looted historical relics: Russian UN envoy
The southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep has become a hub for selling antiques and artifacts stolen by the Daesh terrorist group from Syria, says Russia’s permanent UN ambassador.
Daesh’s annual illegal income from the sales of stolen historical relics reaches nearly 200 million dollars, Vitaly Churkin said in a letter presented to the UN on Wednesday.
He stressed that most of the artifacts are sold on the black market after being smuggled into Turkey from Syria. “Those pieces of antiques are sold through auctions illegally on websites and through local markets,” Churkin added.
Thousands of internationally recognized archaeological sites are still held by the Takfiri terrorists, nine of which are present in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, he noted.
In the letter, Churkin added that some of relics are being sold in newly opened shops on the Turkish-Syrian border or being transported to Izmir, Mersin, and Antalya where forged documents are obtained to hide their illegal origins.
This is not the first time Turkey has been implicated in the sales of looted historical artifacts. According to documents recently revealed by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Daesh is widely engaged in the act of smuggling artifacts into Turkey.
After entering a tunnel abandoned by Daesh in the Syrian province of Hasakah, Kurdish forces found archeological relics along with a letter addressed to Takfiri border sentries.
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From Russia Today
US agrees with Russia that Syrian people should decide future leadership
Published time: 6 Apr, 2016 11:30
Syria’s President Bashar Assad. © SANA / Reuters
Washington seems to agree with Russia that the Syrian people should decide whether President Bashar Assad remains in power. During a briefing, US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said it is up to the Syrian people to decide the future government.
Russia has been pushing the notion for years that the only people who should decide President Assad’s future are the Syrian people themselves. Now it seems as if Washington may have changed its tune, having originally been unwilling to accept any idea of Assad staying in power, regardless of the wishes of the Syrian population.
“We believe that a political process that reflects the desires and will of the Syrian people is what should ultimately decide the future leadership and the future government of Syria,” Toner said during a briefing on Monday.
He also agreed that there has been an increased amount of cooperation between Washington and Moscow regarding Syria.
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From The Independent
Five new laws coming in today and how they will affect you
- Lizzie Dearden, Katie Forster
From The Independent
David Cameron urged to act on Panama Papers as UK named ‘at heart of super-rich tax-avoidance network’
From Ynet News
Bayit Yehudi MK calls for maternity ward segregation
Jewish and Arab MKs resoundly condemn Bayit Yehudi MK Betzalel Smotrich for racist remarks; Israeli commentator Ben Caspit says Smotrich and his supporters are akin to ‘Judeo-Nazis.’ A far-right Israeli politician has been admonished by his party and roundly condemned by commentators after suggesting Jewish and Arab women should be separated in maternity wards.
Betzalel Smotrich, a 36-year-old member of Knesset (MK) from the Bayit Yehudi party, which is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, is an ultra-nationalist settler who is frequently outspoken on issues of religion and the Palestinians.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Muslim mayoral candidate in London slams Labour for failing to address anti-Semitism
A Community Security Trust guard keeping watch over a Hanukkah celebration in London in 2014. (Blake Ezra Photography)
(JTA) — The Labour Party candidate in London’s mayoral race, a Muslim, said he is “embarrassed” and “sorrowful” about his party’s failure to take on anti-Semitism.
Sadiq Khan, who is of Pakistani descent, said Tuesday in a speech at a London Jewish community center that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn needs to be “trained about what anti-Semitism is,” Newsweek reported.
Labour has come under increasing attack for its perceived tolerance of members who make anti-Semitic remarks. In an Op-Ed in The Telegraph last Friday headlined “Labour has a serious anti-Semitism problem,” Board of Deputies of British Jews President Jonathan Arkush criticized Corbyn for failing to address adequately the issue.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
At Forbes conference in Israel, sitting on pillows and listening to Monica Lewinsky
Young people listening to speakers at a 30 Under 30 Summit event at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, April 6, 2015. (Twitter)
Rappers, entrepreneurs, actors and Monica Lewinsky: Welcome to the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Israel.
Held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv this week, the Under 30 Summit is the financial magazine’s inaugural international gathering of up-and-coming millennials. The conference spanned food tastings, tours of Tel Aviv’s hi-tech sector and Jerusalem’s historical sites, panels of hi-tech CEOs and social activists, volunteering events and, of course, an interview with President Shimon Peres.
Despite being more than six decades above the conference’s supposed age limit, Peres fit right in. In tone and content, the gathering was less like the defense and diplomacy confabs that dot Israel’s calendar, and more like the President’s Conference that Peres hosted every year of his tenure as Israel’s head of state. Like the President’s Conference, the summit was an energetic, lighthearted gathering of impressive people from a range of fields, all talking about innovation.
Most of the speakers were young movers and shakers. One speaker, Jessica Matthews, has created soccer balls that can power lights by harnessing the kinetic energy of a game. Another, Okieriete Onaodowan, appeared as James Madison in the Broadway musical “Hamilton.”
