All posts tagged "Israel"

A Wisconsin congressional hopeful landed in handcuffs after a profane outburst aimed at a father who was driving his young son to school.

Matthew Arndt, a Green Party candidate running in Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District, was arrested Thursday on a disorderly conduct charge with a hate crime enhancer after he cursed out an Israeli immigrant over an anti-Hamas bumper sticker, the New York Post reported.

The father told the Post the trouble began on a road in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon, where Arndt pulled up beside him, rolled down his window and started swearing and flipping him off....

Jared Kushner lashed out at CNN on Friday, accusing the network of publishing a “deeply misleading” investigation about his business investments — and declaring that a decade of ignoring stories about himself was over.

“For the last 10 years, I have ignored false and misleading stories about me and focused on the work,” President Donald Trump’s son-in-law wrote Friday. “But the cycle has gotten out of control where old lies get repeated as fact, new ones get added, and the record becomes increasingly distorted.”

Kushner, who has served as an unofficial Middle East envoy while remaining outside the MAGA administration, said the time has come for him to break his 10-year silence....

A former Trump White House press secretary says Jared Kushner's "volunteer" role with the current administration lets him avoid disclosing how much money he makes.

During a Thursday interview with CNN anchor Erin Burnett, Stephanie Grisham made the claim following a CNN investigation into Kushner's financial ties to an Israeli company with stakes in firms that have seen business grow from the war in Gaza. According to CNN, Kushner's investment firm, Affinity Partners, is the largest shareholder in Phoenix Financial, which holds stakes worth more than $456 million in Israeli defense companies.

"None of this surprises me," Grisham said. "I recall back in our Trump administration, he had his hands in everything."...

President Donald Trump welcomed six rabbis to the Oval Office and touted his support for Israel despite their coming from an anti-Zionist sect.

A Friday piece for Judge Street Journal noted that Trump brought together Hasidic leaders from New York, including two estranged brothers who had not spoken in decades.

Satmar Rebbes Aaron Teitelbaum of Kiryas Joel and Zalman Leib Teitelbaum of Williamsburg have spent years locked in a succession fight, according to Judge Street Journal. Both claim the title of grand rabbi after their father, Moses Teitelbaum, tapped Zalman to lead the main Williamsburg congregation in 1999....

A key U.S. ally is now dangerously exposed after months of President Donald Trump's "stymied" standoff, according to a new report.

A top U.S. general in Europe privately warned the Pentagon that he lacks enough naval forces to protect Israel from the looming threat of ballistic missiles, according to reporting by The Washington Post.

The warning comes as Trump's naval blockade of Iranian ports in response to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz uses up Navy destroyers....

President Donald Trump's relationship with peace envoy Steve Witkoff started in an unusual way — over a deli sandwich, according to a Slate report on Wednesday.

Journalist and author Andrea Bernstein described her encounter with Witkoff, the Trump insider, whose financial ties have come under scrutiny as he works as "Special Envoy for Peace Missions."

"He looks like a grandpa, and sounds a little like a Jewish sidekick in a Pixar movie," Bernstein wrote. "I’d known of him as a New York real estate mogul from covering Trump’s first presidency, and New York politics and real estate before that, but only vaguely. One day, I leaned forward to ask Witkoff what brought him to the courtroom that day. He told me he’d come for his friend. That word stuck with me: friend."...