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By Pesach Benson March 11, 2014

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Azmi Bishara

Azmi Bishara

It’s always the people you least suspect:

Dubai police: Ex-MK Azmi Bishara is Israeli spy

 NY Times: Israel watches warily as Hezbollah gets battlefield experience in Syria.

Haaretz visited the Jews of Venezuela for a first-hand look at how the community’s dealing with the roiling anti-government protests.

Maduro, according to people in the Jewish community, has not exhibited anti-Semitic tendencies. What they fear today, though, are “local initiatives by militias who decide to take the law in their own hands – those from the lower ranks that might try to divert the anger of the masses, as has happened to the Jews countless times in history.”

• New testimony from a former Iranian intelligence official points a finger at Tehran for the Lockerbie bombing. See David Horovitz‘s take.

 Israeli man tasered outside Paris synagogue.

A voice in the wilderness:

Photo debunking accounts spring up to call out viral fakes on Twitter

(Image of Norwegian Jade via YouTube/izmirportwatch, parachute via Flickr/Horia Varlan, Bishara via Wikimedia Commons/Thumar Almarzouki)

For more, see yesterday’s Israel Daily News Stream.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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