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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had written a forward to a book which argued that Jews controlled banks and the media.

The New York Times — as an institution that propagates anti-Jewish messages, narratives, and demonizations — is deeply tied to the rise in white supremacist violence against Jews.

Turkish warplanes reportedly bombed a mosque in the Duhok province of the Kurdistan Region on Monday, even as Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was in the Kurdish capital of Erbil to discuss security issues and economic relations.

The Democratic Party “has taken a conscious decision to turn their backs on Israel,” charged Aaron Klein, Breitbart’s Middle East bureau chief and senior investigative reporter.

TEL AVIV – In a scathing attack on The New York Times, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. on Monday described the newspaper as a “cesspool of hostility” that depicts Israel as a “force for evil” after it published an anti-Semitic cartoon. 

The Times has gone from being in the forefront of left-wing editorial opinion damaging Israel and Jews to now being engaged in actual, active promulgation of Jew-hatred.

Bernard Dargols, a Paris-born Jew and only French soldier to fight in an American uniform as Allied forces stormed ashore at Normandy’s Omaha Beach in a battle signaling the end of World War II, has died aged 98.

The dark stain of undiluted anti-Jewish hatred is consuming Europe and America, France’s most famous Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld warned on Monday.

“We are at war with the antisemites who don’t conceal the antisemitism — the unvarnished, naked antisemitism of the supremacists — and we are at war also with the hidden, concealed antisemitism of those who hate the State of Israel and dress up their antisemitism under the fig leaf of anti-ZIonism.”

The Libyan National Army, led by renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar, claimed Sunday to possess documents and other evidence purportedly showing that Turkey and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan support the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

The Israeli ambassador to the United States minced no words while criticizing the New York Times as a home for antisemitism in American media in a speech on Monday. “We have… seen one of the world’s most prestigious newspapers become

Iran sentenced an award-winning female human rights lawyer on Monday to 148 lashes and 38 years behind bars for defending Muslim women’s prerogative to remove the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab in public.

For the millions of American Jews beginning to register the expanse of antisemitism in their own home, the New York Times didn’t just ‘blow it.’ They’re actively helping to “grow it.”

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, long rumored to have been killed during the collapse of his “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, released a new video on Monday in which he praised the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka as well as jihadis in Burkina Faso and Mali. It was the first confirmed video appearance by Baghdadi since the summer of 2014.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with Iranian state media on Sunday that he will travel to North Korea in the near future. He said the date of his trip would be announced “soon.”

The Marriott hotel chain has plans to compete with Airbnb in the home-rental market with a new business launching in the coming year.

TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) continued its crusade against the New York Times over its “grotesquely” anti-Semitic cartoon, calling on the newspaper to make good on its promise to make “significant changes.” 

TEL AVIV – Senator Ted Cruz blasted the “anti-Semitic left” Sunday for becoming more radical, pointing to anti-Israel remarks made by Ilhan Omar and an anti-Semitic cartoon published by The New York Times.

Vision of an American aircraft carrier transiting disputed waters in the Persian Gulf which Iran claimed it shot with a drone has been dismissed by the U.S. Navy as “several years old”.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas underwent a series of medical checks at a hospital in Berlin last week, a Ramallah-based official said.

The armed wing of Hamas is using increasingly complex methods of raising funds via bitcoin, researchers say, highlighting the difficulties regulators face in tracking cryptocurrency financing of outfits designated by some as terrorist groups.

The number of Christians in the birthplace of their faith, the greater Middle East, continues to plummet months after the Islamic State, which waged a genocidal campaign against Christians, lost its “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, Breitbart News learned from various experts, including an archbishop.

TEL AVIV – Israel on Sunday released two Syrian prisoners – a Fatah terrorist and a drug smuggler – to Damascus in a Russian-mediated “goodwill gesture” following the return of Israeli soldier’s remains earlier this month. 

NEW YORK — Donald Trump Jr. criticized the New York Times’ publication of an anti-Semitic cartoon in the international edition of the newspaper as “disgusting.”

Former Pussycat Doll Kaya Jones slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Breitbart News Saturday for spreading a message that Jesus Christ was a Palestinian. 

TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) slammed the New York Times‘ “naked antisemitism” in publishing a cartoon featuring anti-Semitic tropes, saying the caricature was more befitting for a white supremacist paper. A Times response — which notably didn’t

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu condemned the “abhorrent” shooting attack in a Poway, California Chabad synagogue on Saturday that killed one woman and wounded three others.

A court has fined Austrian political scientist Michael Ley, an expert in Islamic antisemitism, for claiming a University of Salzburg professor was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A camera-equipped Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ spy drone flew over an American aircraft carrier transiting the Gulf, Tasnim news agency claimed in a Sunday report on its website.

Berlin is choosing to ignore demands for billions of dollars in war reparations until the legacy of the brutal Nazi occupation of Poland fades from memory, a senior member of Poland’s ruling party claims.

The official response of the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement to a deadly attack on one of its synagogues in Poway, California, on Saturday praises America for its “values of tolerance and lovingkindness.”

Former Obama administration official Joel Martin Rubin appeared on Fox News on Saturday and accused President Donald Trump of encouraging the shooter who attacked a Poway, California, synagogue earlier that day.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair, slammed the New York Times for printing an anti-Semitic cartoon in the international edition of the newspaper.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan justified the Armenian genocide, arguing that deportation of the Christian group by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 that ultimately led to the mass killings was “reasonable.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made an offer Wednesday for a prisoner exchange with the United States, without specifying which prisoners the Islamic Republic wants.

Some women who joined the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as fighters, recruiters, and brides are trying to recreate the fallen caliphate from inside prison camps in northern Syria, the Associated Press (AP) reported this week.