Ari Paul
By Ari Paul
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Opinion Trump’s Immigration Agenda Should Outrage Jews
The outrage of the moment has, understandably, been a new Congressionally approved tax overhaul that rewards the wealthy with tax breaks, adding the deficit and leaving the poor and residents of high-tax states with the bill. But released at year’s end is a new White House agenda on immigration that should chill the very soul…
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Opinion Israel Criminalizes Thought By Banning BDS Supporters In Orwellian Twist
Israel often markets itself itself as the “only democracy in the Middle East,” but its controversial new law barring Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions supporters from entering the country means that the Holy Land veers toward Orwellian dystopia. Leaving aside one’s feelings about the strategy of peaceful disengagement from the Israeli economy to pressure it to…
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Opinion How It Felt To See Myself on a Neo-Nazi Hit List for Trump Trolls
Donald Trump’s neo-Nazi and white supremacist fans were recently given the gift of a website with the harmless-sounding name of “Jews in Modern Society.” As the Forward reported, this website was actually a hit list identifying over 400 Jews meant to be targeted and harassed for the crime of being left-wingers, advocates of multiculturalism or…
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Opinion How Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s DNC Tried To Weaponize Bernie Sanders’s Jewishness
It was around this time last year that I first waded into coverage of the 2016 presidential race for this newspaper, asking whether Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, was being subjected to anti-Semitic treatment from his critics. The short answer was that in some cases yes, in some cases no, so we better…
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Opinion After Brexit, Europe’s Right Wing Will Try To Woo Jews. Resist!
It’s all over and the results are clear. British voters chose to leave the European Union. Even before the deal is finalized, we can see the winners and losers. Xenophobic UKIP and the right flank of the Tories won, and the losers are outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the British…
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Opinion How Hasidic-Owned B&H Photo Store Puts Money Before God’s Word
(CLARIFICATION BELOW) Muslims have the Kaaba in Mecca. Sikhs have the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Photographers have B&H on the west side of Manhattan. To call it an audio and visual equipment store is like calling Katz’s Deli a mere sandwich shop. There’s a reason you’ll hear numerous languages spoken on the floors of B&H….
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Opinion Why Andrew Cuomo Is Worst Possible Face of the Anti-BDS Movement
Pro-Israel activists who are battling the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territory emphasize the freedom and democracy of Israeli society and juxtapose it to the intolerance of the BDS movement. With his new anti-BDS bill, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made it that much harder for…
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Opinion Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Feeling the Bern — Let That Be a Lesson to Democrats!
Top Democrats are considering removing Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Congresswoman from south Florida, from her post — much to the delight of Bernie Sanders supporters. Many see Wasserman Schultz as a figurehead of the party establishment that is nakedly stacking the deck in favor of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries….
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