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  How a new Iran Deal could restore bipartisanship in Washington

  Last weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Director of Mossad Yossi Cohen reportedly flew to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS. Together, they purportedly discussed how to deal with Iran as well as the issue of normalization in the wake of an incoming Biden Administration. Both leaders…

  By Blake Fleisher and Harry Hoshovsky

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  This Black Friday, commit to boycotting companies that use forced Uighur labor

  Many of us are familiar with the thrill of Black Friday shopping: anxiously counting down the minutes to the sale, frantically entering our credit card information, smiling with satisfaction as we receive our confirmation emails, happily awaiting our packages. But this year, as we dive into the rush of holiday sales and bargains, our purchases…

  By Chantal Polinsky and Fortune Manopla Nov 24, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Debate | What should Biden’s approach to Israel be?

  On Monday evening, President Trump finally agreed to allow President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team to do its job. What this means is that the next presidency is on its way in. What will a Biden administration’s approach to Israel be? What should it be? We asked Forward contributing columnists Ari Hoffman and Joel Swanson to…

  By Ari Hoffman and Joel Swanson Nov 24, 2020 | 8 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson Mamdani’s victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement

  

• Rob Eshman Pro-Palestinian protesters are suddenly supporting Iran. They might want to talk to some Palestinians

  

• Nora Berman Did Netanyahu coerce Trump into attacking Iran? No — but he tried with Obama

  

• Dan Perry For Trump and Netanyahu, statecraft is now synonymous with stagecraft

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  Bibi’s Trip To Saudi Arabia was all about a New Iran Deal

  It is not exactly a secret that both the Israeli and Saudi governments would have strongly preferred a second term for President Donald Trump. Israel was thoroughly enamored with Trump, who, assuming the December 14 Electoral College vote confirms Joe Biden’s presumptive victory, will leave behind a legacy as the most unquestionably pro-Israel American leader…

  By Josh Hammer Nov 23, 2020 | 3 min read
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  I’m glad Jonathan Pollard is moving to Israel. He doesn’t belong here.

  Growing up in the fairly right-wing Orthodox community of Midwood, Brooklyn, during the immediate post-9/11 era, there were a number of active political causes that did not sound quite right to my young self. Through that potent combination of intellectual curiosity and adolescent rebellion, I began to define myself as a liberal, a rather dirty…

  By Abe Silberstein Nov 23, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Why Jews especially should be terrified by Trump’s refusal to concede

  Almost two weeks after the 2020 election, President Trump has not conceded that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden. Legal challenges to the final tally have collapsed in outcomes ranging from frivolity to farce, and the President’s conspiracy theories have grown alongside Biden’s lead in both the popular vote and Electoral College. As Rudy Giuliani’s…

  By Ari Hoffman Nov 20, 2020 | 3 min read
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  To reestablish trust in America, Biden must start with Israel.

  On Thursday, the US State Department announced that it will allow products made in Area C of the West Bank — the section of the territory which is entirely governed by Israel under the interim Oslo Accords — to be labeled “Made in Israel” upon entry to the United States. The State Department said the…

  By Abe Silberstein Nov 19, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Trump united Muslims and Jews. We must build on that to prevent another Trump.

  Donald Trump is truly a uniter — unintentionally, that is. During his presidency, he brought Jews and Muslims together to stand up to bigotry directed against both communities and to vote against him by bigger margins than any other American faith groups. With Trump leaving office in January, these alliances must continue to strengthen, so…

  By Dean Obeidallah Nov 18, 2020 | 4 min read
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  President-elect Biden: As former Israeli ambassador, my advice to you is to pursue Extreme Centrism.

  Dear President-elect Biden, Congratulations, or as Barbara Emhoff, the incoming Second Mother-in-Law would say, Mazel Tov! You conducted a tough and dignified battle and won. I wish you great success from Israel as the 46th President of the United States. The ultimate Jewish leader was Moses. He faced a daunting challenge: to liberate the Hebrews…

  By Dani Dayan Nov 18, 2020 | 5 min read
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  UK Labour’s Corbyn debacle is a blueprint for mainstreaming antisemitism

  Late last month, British Jews were vindicated after facing years of abuse for calling out antisemitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s U.K. Labour Party. An independent human rights watchdog, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, published a report which found “unlawful harassment” including “using antisemitic tropes and suggesting that complaints of antisemitism were fake or smears.” Corbyn…

  By Emily Shire Nov 18, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Effi Eitam leading Yad Vashem disgraces the memory of the 6 million

  What if an American university appointed a known, vocal racist with no academic training in the field to head its Holocaust Studies program? Surely an outcry would occur. Many would decry the defamation of the memory of the 6 million, and the contempt for the integrity of scholarship such an appointment would signify. That outcry…

  By Derek Penslar and Susannah Heschel Nov 18, 2020 | 2 min read