Stuart Appelbaum
By Stuart Appelbaum
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Opinion LGBT Activists Should Know Friends From Foes
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in the Muslim world face lethal homophobia. Yet too many LGBT progressives in the West — Jews and non-Jews alike — focus their ire on Israel, branding it a pariah state and placing themselves on the wrong side of history. Israel is the only — with a capital “O”…
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Opinion American Labor Can Help Right Anti-Israel Left
For more than two years, Israelis living in Sderot and other towns near Gaza have been the target of choice for Hamas terrorists. Launching its arsenal of Qassam rockets from residential neighborhoods and even schoolyards, they have as much as dared Israel to fight back. Now it has. Predictably, much of the world is expressing…
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