Etan Nechin
By Etan Nechin
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Culture What happens when you turn the Holocaust into a video game?
Luc Bernard hopes his upcoming video game ‘The Light in the Darkness’ will help combat rising antisemitism in the gaming community and raise awareness among the young about the Shoah.
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Opinion AOC abandoned peace to satisfy the purity demands of the left
Last week, the pro-peace organization Americans for Peace Now proudly announced that Bronx Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the young and charismatic avatar of the new American left, would participate in an event honoring Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 25 years ago for making peace with the Palestinians. But their announcement resulted in a barrage of online…
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Opinion Why do Jews recognize the racism of George Floyd’s murder but not Iyad Hallaq’s?
On Saturday, when the U.S. was already engulfed in protests over the brutal murder of George Floyd, Iyad Hallaq, a 32-year-old Palestinian with special needs was shot and killed by Israeli border police in Jerusalem’s Wadi Joz neighborhood. The officer who shot him claimed he believed Hallaq was holding a gun. They chased him. Hallaq,…
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Opinion Bibi’s ‘emergency government’ is a land grab disguised as a health crisis
When Donald Trump announced his “Deal of the Century” at the White House in late January with Netanyahu at his side, many in Israel and the US dismissed it as an PR stunt to boost his election campaign. With Palestinians outright rejecting the plan and the Israeli right up in arms over potential recognition of…
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Opinion Israel’s emergency government betrays voters
Today marks Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day. It’s one of the most solemn days in the country, and falls precisely a week before our Memorial Day, followed by Independence Day a day later; the state’s history condenses into a week in April each year. But this year, a number of unprecedented circumstances came together…
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Opinion To Counter Israel’s Racism, Every Israeli Jew Should Vote For The Arab Joint List
It happens in every election cycle: After beating the drum of the threat Iran poses to Israel, and after attacking the media, flying to Ukraine and England, and touting his special relationship with President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist Likud Party always finish off their campaign with one final, racist push…
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Opinion How Young American Jews Made Palestinian Rights All About Themselves
There’s a lot of talk about how young American Jews are abandoning Israel. It’s spoken of as an existential threat for the American Jewish community, whose identity is so tightly bound up with Israel education and advocacy. But this account is wrong on two fronts. Young Jews aren’t abandoning Israel so much as vocally opposing…
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Opinion Pittsburgh Bloodbath Exposes Hypocrisy Of Netanyahu’s Attacks On Liberal Jews
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his weekly cabinet meeting with a moment of silence and said that “Israel stands together with the Jewish community in Pittsburgh, and with all Jewish communities in the United States, and with the American people.” Netanyahu then talked about anti-Semitism in America, Western Europe, and the battle…
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