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Democratic party elites silence Ilhan Omar at their peril | Trita Parsi and Stephen Wertheim

The congresswoman’s foreign policy views are far more in line with voters than the disconnected party establishment

This week Democrats plunged into two controversies that portend danger for the party as the 2020 election season begins. Both centered on freshman representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who, not coincidentally, came to America as a Somali refugee and is now one of the two first Muslim women in Congress. Absent an open debate about the party’s values on foreign policy, Democrats are hurtling toward an election more divisive than the one in 2016.

Related: Ilhan Omar is right about the influence of the Israel lobby | Alex Kotch

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How the vegan food trend made a star of the stinking jackfruit

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The easy-to-grow crop has the potential to be much more than just a fashionable alternative to meat in the west

Lush, densely forested Kerala, the exuberantly green south Indian state sometimes called “God’s own country”, is exactly the kind of place you would expect to produce a superfood. It just wouldn’t be the jackfruit.

Covered in spikes and emitting a stench of rotting onions, jackfruit can balloon to an ungainly 45kg, and its inside is coated in a thick gum that stains axes, machetes or whatever heavy-duty tool is employed to attack its leathery shell.

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‘I didn’t need to do this’: Trump declares emergency to build wall ‘much faster’

It’s not an emergency? He just wants to break Constitution to do it faster! Traitor 1st class!

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Saying there’s “an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people” at the southern border, US President Donald Trump makes official his declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for his border wall.

Antisemitism rising sharply across Europe, latest figures show

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France reports 74% rise in offences against Jews and Germany records 60% surge in violent attacks

Antisemitism is rising sharply across Europe, experts have said, as France reported a 74% increase in the number of offences against Jews last year and Germany said the number of violent antisemitic attacks had surged by more than 60%.

Related: Hungary tells UK Jewish group to ‘mind its own business’ over antisemitism

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Amazon made an $11.2bn profit in 2018 but paid no federal tax

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Company is not paying any taxes for the second year in a row, due to various unspecified ‘tax credits’ and executive stock options

Amazon has had a bad week but there is some comfort for the tech titan – it will not pay a single cent in income tax on the $11.2bn of profits it made last year.

The online shopping and tech giant scrapped plans to build a second headquarters in New York this week after a backlash over a proposed $3bn in taxpayer subsidies. Local politicians questioned why a company that made $1bn a month in the last three months of 2018 alone should be lured to New York with taxpayers’ cash.

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