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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pence, Cruz, Gingrich cite Israel on contentious GOP convention night
Ted Cruz speaking to workers at Dane Manufacturing in Dane, Wisconsin, March 24, 2016. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND (JTA) — On a night marked by discord, three prominent speakers at the Republican National Convention pledged party unity on Israel.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence, the party’s vice presidential nominee, elicited a rousing cheer from the crowd as he pledged to support Israel. He promised that Donald Trump, the presidential nominee, “will confront radical Islamic terror at its source and destroy the enemies of our freedom.”
“And if the world knows nothing else, it will know this: America stands with Israel,” he said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Democrats say Trump to blame for growing ‘anti-Semitism’ in Republican Party
Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaking at a gala in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2015. (Kris Connor/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND (JTA) — Democrats blamed Republican nominee Donald Trump for what they depicted as burgeoning anti-Semitism in his party.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, on Wednesday said the Republican convention had brought to the fore an “anti-Semitic environment that Donald Trump embraces.”
“The anti-Semitism that is threaded throughout the Republican Party of late goes straight to the feet of Donald Trump,” she said.
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From The Times of Israel
Republicans nominate Donald Trump for president
Billionaire businessman completes stunning takeover of the GOP, now heads to November faceoff with Democrat Hillary Clinton
CLEVELAND (AP) — United for a night, Republicans nominated Donald Trump Tuesday night as their presidential standard-bearer, capping the billionaire businessman’s stunning takeover of the GOP and propelling him into a November faceoff with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s campaign hoped the formal nomination would both end the discord surging through the Republican Party and overshadow the convention’s chaotic kickoff, including a plagiarism charge involving Melania Trump’s address on opening night.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions opened the nominating process with a hearty endorsement of Trump, declaring him “a warrior and a winner.” There were flurries of dissent on the convention floor as state that Trump did not win recorded their votes, but he far outdistanced his primary rivals.
He was put over the top by his home state of New York.
Convention officials gave some delegates won by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to Trump, including all 19 from the District of Columbia. A delegate from the district accused the party of trying to quiet anti-Trump dissent.
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From The Times of Israel
Outside the Republican convention, Jews talk Trump
While some Jewish activists converge on Cleveland to voice disgust with the Republican candidate, others want to cut a deal with him
CLEVELAND — As the GOP prepares to formally nominate Donald Trump for the presidency, the streets outside Quicken Loans Arena here are packed with Jews who aren’t shy about their opinions on the man soon to be vested as the party’s standard-bearer.
From those who flat-out detest Trump, to those who support him but take issue with certain aspects of his candidacy, to those willing to scratch Trump’s back if he scratches theirs, the Republican National Convention features a Jewish presence seemingly diverse in its political makeup.
Marching on Lakeside Street near the Huntington Convention Center, where the media holding center is located, Naomi Zikmund-Fisher was holding a sign high in the air that read, “Jews Reject Trump,” accompanied by the hashtag #WeveSeenThisBefore.
“We’re here to say that the racism and hatred that Trump represents is not what we’re about as Jews or as Americans,” she told The Times of Israel. “The notion that you can talk about people and say, ‘We’re not going to let you into our country, we’re going to deport you because of your religion’ — this has happened to us, more than once, and we need to pay attention.”
For the 46-year-old native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, those policy proposals include Trump’s calls for temporarily banning Muslim entry into the United States, deporting more than 11 million undocumented Mexican immigrants and building a wall along the US-Mexico border.
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From The Times of Israel
Trump says he might not protect NATO countries against Russia
GOP candidate questions US obligation to Baltic states if they don’t give anything in return; backs Turkish crackdown after coup attempt
CLEVELAND — Donald Trump has raised new questions about his commitment to the defense of NATO allies on the eve of his acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination, The New York Times reported.
In an interview with the newspaper on Wednesday, Trump also expressed little willingness to speak out against purges or civil rights crackdowns by authoritarian allies like Turkey, the Times said.
“I don’t think we have the right to lecture,” the Times quoted him as saying during the 45-minute interview in a downtown Cleveland hotel suite.
“Look at what is happening in our country,” he said. “How are we going to lecture when people are shooting policemen in cold blood?”
The Times said that Trump re-emphasized the hardline nationalist approach that he has taken during his campaign, describing how he would force allies to shoulder defense costs that the United States has borne for decades.
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From The Times of Israel
Cruz refuses to endorse Trump, draws thunderous boos
Mike Pence accepts VP nomination, says that with Republican party ‘united’ at Cleveland convention, Trump’s ‘got backup’
CLEVELAND (AP) — Stubbornly undercutting calls for Republican unity, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse Donald Trump Wednesday night as he addressed the GOP convention, ignoring thunderous boos from furious delegates as he encouraged Americans to simply “vote your conscience” in November.
In a surreal moment, Trump unexpectedly walked into the arena just as Cruz was wrapping up his remarks. Delegates chanted Trump’s name and implored Cruz to voice his support for the businessman, to no avail.
“Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution,” Cruz said. While he backed some of Trump’s policy proposals, including building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, he mentioned the GOP nominee by name only once.
Cruz’s defiance ripped open party divisions anew, on the summer’s biggest political stage. Trump allies were infuriated, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who said Cruz’s decision was “totally selfish.”
The stunning moment upended what was shaping up to be the convention’s most successful night, and overshadowed Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s national convention debut as Trump’s running mate.
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From PressTV
Activists urge protest rallies over deadly US-led airstrikes in Syria
Syrian activists have called for massive demonstrations worldwide to condemn recent US-led airstrikes in Aleppo, which claimed the lives of at least 140 civilians.
The activists urged people around the world in posts published on their Facebook pages on Thursday to take to the streets to protest the deaths under the banner “Manbij is being exterminated.”
“We ask all Syrians, whatever their affiliations or sects, and all free people of the world and especially the people of Manbij to stand in solidarity with our devastated city on Sunday, July 24,” one page wrote.
The Facebook page highlighted that it is calling for demonstrations in reaction to “the massacres carried out by coalition warplanes, with the latest… in al-Tukhar.”
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in statement on Wednesday that French warplanes had struck the village of Tukhan al-Kubra north of Manbij, killing 120 civilians. Scores of other civilians remain unaccounted for following the attack.
The fatalities came a day after a US airstrike killed 20 civilians in Manbij, the statement further noted.
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From PressTV
US-backed militants’ beheading of Syrian kid stirs outrage
A new video posted online showing US-backed Syrian terrorists brutally beheading a child has caused public outrage.
The footage, which circulated on social media on Tuesday, showed a member of the Nureddin al-Zenki opposition militant group, which is supported by the US, cutting off the small boy’s head with a knife on a public road in Aleppo’s opposition-controlled al-Mashhad neighborhood.
Before being killed, the boy, who could be as young as 10, is shown on the back of a truck being taunted by militants, who accuse him of being a member of al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, which fights alongside the Syrian government forces.
However, the Palestinian group issued a statement, denying the boy was a member, but rather identifying him as a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee.
Local residents denounced the beheading, saying it tarnished the image of the Syria opposition.
“How could they slaughter a child like this?” said 25-year-old Bassel Zein, a barber in the opposition-held al-Kalasseh neighborhood of Aleppo, adding, “He should have been tried in a fair way” and maybe exchanged in a prisoner swap “instead of this heinous act.”
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From PressTV
Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian boy
Israeli troops have shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank.
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Mohiyeh al-Tabakhi “was killed by shots fired by occupation soldiers,” in the town of al-Ram located northeast of occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
According to medical sources, the child was hit in the chest by a rubber bullet during clashes with Israeli forces and was pronounced dead after arriving at the Palestine Medical Center.
Following the announcement of the boy’s death scuffles intensified between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.
Earlier, a Palestinian man, shot and wounded by Israeli forces, succumbed to his injuries. Mustafa Baradiya, who died in hospital on Monday, was shot near the al-Arroub refugee camp located to the north of the city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
The occupied Palestinian territories have been the scene of heightened tensions since August 2015, when Israel imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Can a hobbled EU live up to its promise to combat anti-Semitism and racism?
British Prime Minister Theresa May, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking to the media following talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, July 20, 2016. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
(JTA) — When the late Austro-Hungarian aristocrat Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi attended church on Good Friday, his father would famously cause a scene, storming out when the liturgy came to the anti-Semitic exhortation “Let us also pray for the faithless Jews.”
Such protest was unusual in 19th-century Austria-Hungary, where anti-Semitism and other forms of racism were de rigueur. But the old count — a personal friend of Zionist legend Theodor Herzl — abhorred such biases in part because his wife, Richard’s mother, was Japanese.
Brought up in a multiculturalist home, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi made the fight against anti-Semitism a cornerstone of the Pan-Europa movement he founded in 1926. It was a major precursor of the European Union, which has evolved into a quasi-federal entity of 28 states with its own executive arm – the European Commission — parliament and judiciary.
Little wonder, then, that prominent Jews such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud endorsed the nobleman’s pan-European vision from its inception. They saw it as an antidote to the nationalism and racist hate that culminated in World War II and the Holocaust.
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From Russia Today
Erdogan announces 3-month state of emergency in Turkey after coup attempt
Published time: 20 Jul, 2016 20:34
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. © Umit Bektas / Reuters
A state of emergency will be introduced in Turkey for three months following a coup attempt last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday.
Speaking in a live broadcast address following a meeting with the National Security Council in the capital of Ankara, the Turkish leader said the decision was not against the rule of law, and did not violate any democratic freedoms.
“The purpose of the state of emergency is to most effectively and swiftly take steps necessary to eliminate the threat to democracy in our country,” he said, as cited by Anadolu Agency.
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From The Times of Israel
Jewish Republicans wonder how to vouch for Trump when he won’t help out
Insiders say those who want to support presidential candidate within community don’t get much cooperation from campaign
CLEVELAND, Ohio (JTA) — Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency rolled out its Israel Advisory Committee last week — no one noticed.
Blame the unrelenting news cycle, if you will: July 14 was the day of the hideous mass killing in Nice, France.
But also, his Israel Advisory Committee consists of exactly three Jews, including two who work for him.
Not much news here, move along.
Trump’s unusual campaign extends to its Jewish outreach, or rather his lack of Jewish outreach resembling anything that has come under that rubric in other campaigns.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Brazilian Jews win lawsuit against journalist who called Israel a ‘Nazi state’
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The umbrella Jewish organization in Sao Paulo, Brazil, won a nearly decade-long indemnity lawsuit started by a journalist who claimed he was gagged for calling Israel a “Nazi state.”
The Sao Paulo Jewish federation announced the court victory on Monday in the 2007 suit by Gilson Gondim, a columnist for the Jornal da Paraiba newspaper.
Gondim claimed the Sao Paulo Jewish federation triggered a campaign to damage his reputation, resulting in the shutdown of his columns. The federation had won in the lower court and Gondim lost in his appeals. In June, a new appeal was denied.
“We are always alert to anti-Semitic expressions and take the appropriate actions in order to avoid the proliferation of this type of discrimination,” the Sao Paulo Jewish federation’s executive president, Ricardo Berkiensztat, told JTA.
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