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May 13th, 2016 
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking during a campaign press conference at the at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2016. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) – When it comes to Israel, Democrats and Republicans simply do not see eye to eye, and for all their love of Zion, evangelicals will turn out for a candidate who is less than 100 percent on the issue.
Welcome to the 2016 presidential election, when the conventional pro-Israel wisdom has been turned upside down.
For years it was sacrosanct that whatever else divides the parties, backing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s line on Israel unites them. And Republicans who want to be elected better count on evangelicals and their rock-solid support for Israel.
This year, the presumptive Republican nominee is an unknowable provocateur who has said he couldn’t care less about pandering to pro-Israel donors. Democrats who bucked pro-Israel orthodoxies over the last year are confident they can reclaim the Senate and are setting their sights on the once-unthinkable — regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Published time: 12 May, 2016 18:02
Refugee youths gesture from behind a fence at Nizip refugee camp near Gaziantep, Turkey. © Umit Bektas / Reuters
Thirty Syrian children were raped for months at a Turkish refugee camp and government authorities failed to notice, according to BirGün newspaper. It comes amid allegations that Turkey is not a safe country for asylum seekers.
The 30 boys were raped by a cleaner at Nizip Refugee Camp in Antep, from September 2015 until the beginning of 2016.
The rapist, identified only as E.E., has confessed that he lured children between the ages of eight and 12 to have sex with him in return for 2 to 5 Turkish Lira (US$.70-1.80). He is now in pre-trial detention.
In addition to E.E.’s confession, the children were able to describe in detail how they were raped in the toilets of the camp.
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Published time: 11 May, 2016 23:57
Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan. © Tony Gentile / Reuters
Europe is becoming a “bad word” due to the strains of the refugee crisis and growing inequality among EU countries, according to Italy’s economy minister. He says the current tensions risk pulling the bloc apart. TrendsEU refugee & migrant influx, Eurozone crisis
“In terms of language, in many cases let’s face it, Europe is becoming a bad word and that is very serious,” Pier Carlo Padoan said at an event hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Wednesday, as quoted by Reuters. He added that governments within the bloc are not doing enough to tackle the region’s biggest issues.
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Published time: 11 May, 2016 16:44
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Ankara will send migrants back to the EU if the European Parliament won’t grant visa-free travel to Turkish citizens, warned Burhan Kuzu, a high-ranking deputy for Turkey’s ruling AKP party and former adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Kuzu made several statements on Twitter in anticipation of Wednesday’s session of European parliament, at which visa exemption for Turkish nationals in the Schengen zone – as part of a migrant deal between Brussels and Ankara – was to be discussed.
“The European Parliament will discuss the report that will open up visa-free travel in Europe to Turkish citizens. If it makes the wrong decision, we will send the migrants back!” he wrote.
He also told Bloomberg: “If Turkey’s doors are opened, Europe would be miserable.”
“Europe is on the edge of an important decision: It will decide on Turkey’s visa-free travel rights today. If a positive decision comes out, this is also a benefit for Europe,” the MP wrote in a separate tweet.
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — A scientific study has found genetic evidence of claims that the Bene Israel, a community in western India, has Jewish roots.
The study from Tel Aviv University, which was published in late March in the PLoS One scientific journal, analyzed the genomes of 18 Bene Israel community members. It found that the Bene Israel had significant Jewish and Indian ancestry.
According to Bene Israel tradition, the community descended from a handful of Jewish shipwreck survivors on the Indian coast up to 2,000 years ago.
The Bene Israel live in Konkan, a region on India’s west coast. Only a few thousand remain in India today from a community that once numbered as many as 20,000. Many community members have immigrated to Israel since its establishment in 1948.
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Leader of the Arab Joint List Ayman Odeh at a Tel Aviv University rally marking the Nakba anniversary, May 20, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
(JTA) — Thousands of Arab Israelis, including several Knesset members, demonstrated in favor of the Palestinian right of return, the first time such an event took place in the Negev.
Wednesday’s demonstration came on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, a date when Arab citizens of Israel mourn the plight of the more than 700,000 Arabs who lost their homes in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Palestinians also mark their losses on Nakba Day, which falls on May 15. Nakba is Arabic for “catastrophe.”
According to Haaretz, Wednesday’s rally near the Bedouin town of Rahat attracted thousands of people displaced from their original villages in Israel’s War of Independence. Several Arab lawmakers and leaders of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, which Haaretz described as the “unofficial leadership of the Israeli Arab community,” also attended.
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump speaking to supporters and the media at Trump Tower in Manhattan following his victory in the Indiana primary in New York, May 3, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump said he would visit Israel soon and dodged a question about whether the United States should continue defense assistance to the Jewish state in an interview with an Israeli newspaper.
“I’ll be there soon,” the presumptive Republican nominee told Israel Hayom in an interview posted Wednesday when asked about reports he would visit the country.
Israel Hayom is a free newspaper owned by billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a Republican mega-donor who has said he will back Trump in the November election.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — From a bid to overcome resistance to building a mosque in New Jersey to defending a Muslim student at a military academy who wants to wear a hijab, Jewish groups this week joined efforts to stop anti-Muslim discrimination.
Nearly a dozen Jewish groups are also backing legislation against banning entry to Muslims, prompted by a proposal for such a ban by presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists joined the Becket Fund, a conservative group that advocates for religious liberty, in a friend of the court brief filed Wednesday on behalf of Muslims who have been blocked from building a mosque in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
Also Wednesday, the American Jewish Committee called on The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, to allow a Muslim student to wear a hijab.
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Published time: 13 May, 2016 01:32
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Israel’s latest attempt to suppress the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement by implementing a travel ban on co-founder Omar Barghouti has backfired, with human rights organisations condemning the move.
Barghouti lives in the northern coastal city of Acre in Israel and requires the document to travel in and out of Israel and Palestine. After threats were made against Barghouti by Israeli officials, Israel refused to renew Barghouti’s travel documents.
Human Rights Watch was quick to respond to the ban, with executive director Sarah Leah Whitson describing the failure to renew his document as “an effort to punish him for exercising his right to engage in peaceful, political activism, using its arsenal of bureaucratic control over Palestinian lives.”
#Israel travel ban on Barghouti punishes activism using usual arsenal of bureaucratic control over Palestinian lives https://t.co/VPudzvdlRm
— Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) May 11, 2016
“Sadly, Israel has used this sort of control to arbitrarily ban many Palestinians from traveling, as well as to ban international human rights monitors, journalists and activists from entering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories,” she continued.
“By banning our colleague Omar Barghouti from travelling and threatening him with physical violence, Israel is showing the lengths it will go to in order to stop the spread of the nonviolent BDS movement for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality,” Mahmoud Nawajaa of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) said.
#Israel connects BDS with terrorism while cracking down on German banks https://t.co/DvplWLBxeXpic.twitter.com/bWXmWWpgE9
— RT (@RT_com) April 11, 2016
Aryeh Deri, Israel’s interior minister threatened to cancel Barghouti’s residency in March, accusing him of “using his resident status to travel all over the world in order to operate against Israel in the most serious manner.”
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Published time: 12 May, 2016 15:20
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (L), Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work (R) take part in an official inauguration ceremony at Deveselu air base, Romania, May 12, 2016. © Inquam Photos / Reuters
Russia has opposed America’s plans to deploy antimissile systems close to its borders for decades. Washington says the system would not compromise Russia’s security, but Moscow sees a number of reasons why it does.
ABM sites in Romania and Poland could be converted to fire Tomahawks
The system deployed in Europe is called Aegis Ashore and is derived from a naval antiballistic missile system. The Standard Missile 3 interceptors are launched by a variant of Mk 41 VLS. The same vertical launch system is used by the US Navy to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles. Russian defense experts believe the launchers in Romania and Poland can be secretly converted to enable firing cruise missiles at targets in Russia. The US is banned from deploying Tomahawk missiles in Europe by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which Moscow and Washington signed in 1987.
ABM sites will constantly monitor Russian airspace
The AN/SPY-1 (Army Navy Joint Electronics Type Designation System / S – Water (surface ship), P – Radar, Y – Surveillance, a US naval radar system manufactured by Lockheed Martin. © Wikipedia
To fire interceptors at ballistic missiles they must be targeted by a powerful radar station, and US sites in Europe have those. They can be used to monitor a large part of Russian airspace. The Russian military are not happy that NATO would get additional intelligence on movements of aircraft and missile tests. A similar concern is voiced by China, when it criticizes US plans to deploy the THAAD long-range antimissile system in South Korea to counter threats from Pyongyang.
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Jerome Holder, left, and Jonathan Pryce in a scene from “Dough.” (Courtesy of Viva Films)
LONDON (JTA) — Jerome Holder was a teenager with no acting experience when he successfully auditioned for the movie “Dough,” a British comedy about Jewish-Muslim relations.
Undaunted by Holder’s inexperience and impressed by his potential, director-producer John Goldschmidt gave him a lead role in the film, which was released in the United States in April. Holder portrays Ayyash, a devout Muslim Darfuri refugee who forges a close friendship with Nat, a Jewish baker for whom he works, despite their mutual biases.
There were, however, a few challenges along the way. For one thing, Holder comes from a churchgoing family of Jamaican descent, and he admittedly knew little about Judaism or Islam. For another, he describes himself as “horrible” at cooking and baking.
But Goldschmidt, 72, was untroubled by any of this.
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Published time: 12 May, 2016 17:04
A man protests in front of the Parliament during the final vote on gay and unmarried civil unions at Italy’s lower house of Parliament in Rome May 11, 2016. © Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters
A group of mainly right-wing politicians have announced they are seeking a referendum to overturn the introduction of gay civil unions in Italy. It comes just one day after the law was approved by parliament, prompting praise from gay rights activists.
Lawmakers consisting of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, the far-right Northern League, and several other factions said they would begin work to raise the 500,000 signatures required to force a referendum as soon as the new law is signed by President Sergio Mattarella.
If the signatures are collected, they will have to be verified by the Court of Cassation. The Constitutional Court must then approve the validity of the proposed ballot question.
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