Rep. Ilhan Omar defended fellow freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday after President Trump attacked Tlaib on Twitter, accusing him of trying to “sow division between minority communities.”
“You praised people at a neo-Nazi rally,” tweeted Omar, like Tlaib one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress last year. “We don’t have to imagine.”
“This is another transparent attempt to sow division b/t minority communities and distract from your own criminal behavior by smearing a Muslim woman.
No one should fall for it this time.”
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Blue and White leader and potential opposition head says his party will stand in the face of efforts to erode state institutions and the rule of law

A veteran Palestinian negotiator said on Monday she had been denied a US travel visa for the first time, and viewed it as retaliation for her criticism of the Trump administration and Israel.
US diplomats did not immediately respond to the allegations by Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the executive committee of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) who took part in interim peace talks with Israel dating back decades.
Since they boycotted the Trump administration over its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel‘s capital in late 2017, the Palestinians have seen cuts to US funding that have contributed to economic distress in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

For a third time in a 24-hour period, a chareidi man was injured while riding an electric bicycle. The latest incident occurred in Elad on Sunday evening when a 50-year-old man sustained moderate injuries.
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China will raise tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods starting next month in response to President Trump increasing tariffs on products from Beijing.
Bloomberg reports the 25 percent tariffs will impact nearly 2,500 U.S. products and will go into effect June 1.
The retaliatory tariffs from China are the latest escalation of tensions between the world’s two largest economies as they seek to negotiate a trade deal.
Beijing is increasing tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent on a number of U.S. goods, including peanuts, sugar, wheat, chicken and turkey, according to CNBC.
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Brooklyn, NY – Four months after he was first found guilty on multiple counts of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest services fraud involving police officials, Jeremy Reichberg has been sentenced to four years in prison plus two year of supervised release. Reichberg had been facing a maximum sentence of 65 years. Word of Reichberg’s [...]

Jerusalem – Students of the “Mietarim” pre-military academy in Nahal Oz, situated near the Gaza Strip, have initiated a new project in which they will fill holes created by rocket explosions with trees. They planted their first tree, a lemon tree, this week and have plans to add many more such trees to the terror-struck [...]

Moscow – When Ukraine’s would-be president Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed his ballot to a swarm of TV and photo cameras on election day, little did he know that he would not only win the vote by a landslide — but would also face a fine. A local court in the capital Kiev on Monday fined Zelenskiy, [...]

The Likud Party and the United Right-Wing (Bayit Yehudi/Ichud Leumi) party are formulating a far-reaching document that will fundamentally change the relationship between the Israeli authorities by means of 16 steps, with the goal of restoring governance, Yisrael Hayom political commentator Matti Tuchfeld reports on Monday morning.