Nobody has given Republican presidential candidate #DonaldTrump an incentive to disavow, explicitly and unreservedly, the semi-literate Klan-like rabble that is riding his coattails. That incentive can, realistically, only be provided by Trump’s Jewish supporters, since he never listens to his adversaries. If these Jews are going to give him legitimacy, writes JNS columnist Ben Cohen, then their voices need to be heard on the developments that have marred Trump’s appeal to Jewish voters: anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish critics, “as a Jew” apologetics, and rise of the “alternative right.”

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Avigdor Lieberman agrees to join Netanyahu’s coalition as defense minister

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In the current U.S. presidential race, one presumptive nominee proudly made large donations to politicians “so they would do what I want” to facilitate his business goals, while the other took actions benefiting special interest groups—which then “coincidentally” donated large sums to her family’s private foundation. It’s clear that their approaches to accumulating wealth have worked. According to Forbes, Donald Trump is worth more than $4.5 billion, and the Clintons have made $230 million since leaving the White House. Historian Rafael Medoff wonders what Harold Jacobs would have thought of all this. Jacobs, an Orthodox Jew, built Precisionware into the second-largest manufacturer of kitchen cabinets in America. Medoff recounts a speech that Jacobs gave to a group of Jewish businessmen in 1964 on the topic of business ethics. Jacobs's words, he writes, were at once a stinging rebuke to his professional colleagues and an inspiring insight into the theme of his career.

Actor Michael Douglas to appear at Jerusalem Post conference
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French bank closes account of BDS group http://buff.ly/1NAmZOt

Israeli natural gas deal revived thanks to softening of contested clause http://buff.ly/25c9WKZ

#Fatah Facebook page honors Japanese terrorists who killed 26 at Israeli airport http://buff.ly/1rUaUd1

#Israel to clear landmines from #Christian holy site near Jericho http://buff.ly/1TXkk0q

Earlier this month, a Pew Research Center survey found that while sympathy for #Israel among American voters has remained relatively consistent over the past few decades, there has been a slight uptick in sympathy for the Palestinians—14 percent to 19 percent—from July 2014. The data also revealed a substantial increase in sympathy for the Palestinians among “millennials," and liberal Democrats were also shown to sympathize more with the Palestinians. Experts say the survey echoes a trend in Europe, they also say American liberals are far more sympathetic to Israel than the European left.

Canadian indigenous activist to Israel: be more assertive about ancestral lands