Joshua Leifer
By Joshua Leifer
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Opinion Wake Up, American Jews: You’ve Enabled Israel’s Racism For Years.
Much like Donald Trump’s election, the merger between the right-wing settler Jewish Home party and the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit — encouraged and facilitated by Prime Minister Netanyahu — marks less a break with the status quo than its unmasking. There was once a time when even Likud members felt obligated to object to the Kahanists’…
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Opinion Ilhan Omar Writes Bad Tweets. But The Right Has Jewish Blood On Its Hands.
It should go without saying that these two things can simultaneously be true: that criticism of the Israeli government and AIPAC’s lobbying for U.S. support of it is not anti-Semitism, and that Representative Ilhan Omar’s recent tweet about “the Benjamins” was a mark of poor judgement, for which she has commendably apologized. It’s all about…
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