Daily Mail

Israeli police arrested on Tuesday a firebrand Islamic cleric accused of inciting violence in connection with deadly tensions last month at a Jerusalem holy site.

Arab-Israeli Raed Salah was arrested at his home in the town of Umm al-Fahm, seven months after he was released from prison where he served nine months on similar charges.

On Tuesday police said in a statement Salah was accused of inciting violence and terrorism as well as support for and participation in an illegal organisation.   Continue reading “Israel arrests Islamic cleric for ‘incitement’”

CBS DFW – by Jeff Paul

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The debate about Confederate statues in Dallas intensified on Monday as a group made up of predominantly African Americans called for the monuments to remain standing.

Several cities across America have now begun to remove or talk about removing Confederate markers shortly after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned deadly.
Continue reading “Predominantly Black Dallas Group Forms To Protect Confederate Monuments”

NPR – by Greg Myre

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions was asked how he viewed the car attack in Charlottesville, Va., here’s how he responded:

“It does meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our statute,” he told ABC’s Good Morning America.

That certainly seems to suggest the government is looking into a possible terrorism charge against the suspect, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. At Saturday’s rally organized by white supremacists, a car slammed into counterprotesters, killing one and injuring 19.  Continue reading “Why The Government Can’t Bring Terrorism Charges In Charlottesville”

Tucson.com – by Howard Fischer

PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey condemned white nationalists after the weekend violence in Virginia, but said when asked that he has no interest in removing Confederate monuments on state land.

“It’s important that people know our history,” the governor told reporters Monday. “I don’t think we should try to hide our history.”

Continue reading “Ducey condemns white nationalists, says Confederate monuments can stay”

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Southern Poverty Law Center, May 17, 2017

In his running campaign to preserve Confederate monuments, Jason Kessler keeps having brushes with the law. Though to hear Kessler tell it, those legal issues only reflect a much broader campaign to oppress white people.

The alt-right blogger had his most recent encounter during Saturday’s protests in his hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, over the removal of the pro-Confederacy monument to Robert E. Lee in the local city park. Kessler was one of three men arrestedduring the protests, charged with disorderly conduct for attempting to incite the crowd with a bullhorn.   Continue reading “Alt-Right Blogger’s Brushes With the Law Accompany His Racial Activism”

Southern Poverty Law Center

A relative newcomer to the white nationalist scene, Jason Kessler has made waves in his attempt to unseat Charlottesville’s only black city councilman and for his status as a bridge between a Virginia gubernatorial candidate and the Alt-Right. Relying on familiar tropes of “white genocide” and “demographic displacement,” Kessler has sought to parlay his status as a lonely dissenter in the “Capital of the Resistance” into notoriety on the larger far right circuit by organizing a second white nationalist rally in Charlottesville after the first, torchlit rally in May of 2017 made headlines.

A “journalist, activist and author from Charlottesville, VA,” Kessler’s LinkedIn account states that he graduated of the University of Virginia in 2009. He was virtually unknown in the media prior to his crusade against Charlottesville Vice Mayor and City Councilman Wes Bellamy.
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Haaretz

Israel, the United States and Russia held a series of secret meetings early last month in Amman and in a European capital regarding the cease-fire in southern Syria. The parties focused in part on the establishment of “safe zones” on the Syrian-Israeli and Syrian-Jordanian borders, according to Israeli officials and Western diplomats.

At these meetings, which were held a few days before Russia and the United States announced the cease-fire agreement, Israel presented numerous objections to the deal, saying the two powers were not paying enough attention to the importance of removing Iranian forces from Syria.   Continue reading “Israel Held Secret Talks With Russia, U.S. Over Cease-fire in Southern Syria”

The Jerusalem Post

While most of the focus in the ongoing war of words between the Trump administration and North Korea is on whether it will lead to war between the US and Pyongyang, how might it impact Israel? Might it bring nuclear conflict or war closer to Israel’s borders?

First, it is important to understand what is unique about the current competition between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong- Un over who can sound more bellicose.

Since the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945, eight of the ”nuclear weapons club’s” nine countries have been extremely restrained when talking about nuclear weapons use.   Continue reading “Will Israel Feel the Heat of Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ North Korea Rhetoric?”

Jerusalem Post

The refugee crisis has splashed across headlines in recent weeks as European governments scramble to deal with thousands of people arriving on their borders. A dialogue has also been triggered in the global Jewish community about what it can do to help, particularly in light of its own history as refugees seeking asylum from anti-Semitism. The Jerusalem Post reached out to Jewish aid organizations around the world to find out what role they are playing to help refugees from Syria and the region.   Continue reading “The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Jewish Sense of Responsibility”

Fox 10 News

PHOENIX (KSAZ) – As the threat of nuclear warfare with North Korea grows, some are already asking questions on where to stay, should war break out.

On Thursday, FOX 10 Phoenix got a rare look at a fallout shelter, located at the Papago Military Reservation. The shelter was originally built in 1956, in case of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. It has since been converted to offices for the Maricopa County Department of Emergency Management.   Continue reading “Government office space in Phoenix could be used as shelter during nuclear war, should it happen”

Fox 10 News

PHOENIX – Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is wrapping up a big investigation near 64th Avenue and Van Buren after several search warrants were executed with assistance from local law enforcement.

Thomas Mangan of the ATF stated the case involves alleged violations of narcotics and firearms laws.  Continue reading “Law enforcement agencies raid homes in Phoenix area”