A collection of tweets that show the immediate surge in racist attacks on Muslims and people of color in the U.S. since Donald Trump was elected president.
Vice President Joe Biden claims to speak for Donald Trump in assuring “anxious” Jews that US support for Israel won’t change an iota in next administration. Meantime, Benjamin Netanyahu issues repeated congratulations to the president-elect, in apparent sign of anxiety.
Donald Trump will be ‘most pro-Israel’ president, says David Friedman, bankruptcy expert. The other chair of Trump’s Israel Advisory Committee is Jason Greenblatt, a real estate attorney who once lived in a settlement.
Israeli rightwingers are enthused by Donald Trump’s victory, predicting that he will move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and abandon the peace process too.
Abir Kopty writes about how Donald Trump’s election victory is being viewed from the Middle East: “They see Trump as representing the true face of America: white supremacy. He does not try to beautify racism, elitism, xenophobia behind rhetorics, he says it as it is. They think for what America has done in the world, this is what suits it best. Others are wary his deeds as a president, internally and towards the outside. However, both camps agree on one thing: He is a very bad choice. And he is no different than the leaders we are fighting to overthrow here.”
Clinton campaign emails reveal often craven pandering to big Jewish donors. But they also show that Jews are not monolithic in supporting Israel. Many care about progressive causes. It’s time for the media to frankly address this outsize Jewish influence so that Jews will express greater diversity on foreign policy.
Some Somali Americans in Ohio who have witnessed civil war in the old country worry that the bitterly-divided 2016 election portends violent unrest in the United States. Though others say the US constitution is strong enough to withstand such divisions.
Jordan’s national airline carrier has posted an advertisement that takes a jab at presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims by offering an Election Day sale of fares to locations in the United States while Muslims are still let into the country.
AFP reports: Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat has warned that Palestinian homes built without an Israeli permit in the city’s annexed east could be demolished if authorities dismantle a wildcat Jewish settlement. The threat was made following a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court ordering the evacuation and demolition of the Amona outpost, where around 40 families are living on private Palestinian-owned land near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
A new poll shows most Arabs, and especially Palestinians, think Hillary Clinton will be no better for the region than Donald Trump. “I just feel like Americans aren’t choosing between the lesser of two evils, but the quieter of two evils,” says 15-year-old Amera Abunada, a Palestinian writer now living in Turkey.