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Dear Rep. Pressley: I’m Your Constituent. Will you Condemn Antisemitic Rhetoric From ‘The Squad’?
Dear Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, I am one of your Jewish constituents. I live in Brighton, Massachusetts, in the Seventh Congressional District. Over the past several days, I have become increasingly disappointed and concerned about your silence with regards to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Omar and Tlaib, members of the “Squad” which you…
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Opinion Israel’s Policy To Empty Gaza Isn’t Just Dehumanizing. It’s Dangerous.
This week, a senior Israeli official admitted that his government has been actively pushing Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza for a year. This Israeli-induced one-way emigration from Gaza is fundamentally wrong on many levels. It’s absolute cowardice to prioritize emptying Gaza of its people over working to end the miseries suffered by its caged population….
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Opinion Trump’s Bigotry Isn’t Accidental. We Must Unite To Fight It.
In a strike of incredible irony, Donald Trump engaged in horrific anti-Jewish bigotry while in the course of leveling false charges of anti-Semitism against two of his political opponents: Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. While attempting to make the false and baseless case for why these Congresswomen supposedly hate Jews, Trump stated that “any…
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Opinion This Week Proves It: Politicians Won’t Call Out Anti-Semitism On Their Own Side
President Trump, long a trafficker in anti-Semitic stereotypes, treated American Jews to a classic anti-Semitic canard Tuesday afternoon. When asked about two Congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who had been barred from Israel at Trump’s own behest, he broke out an oldie but a goodie from the closet of anti-Semitic tropes. “Any Jewish people…
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Opinion Tokenism Is Racism – Except For Jews
Back in February, a U.S. representative from my home state of Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, pointed out how tokenism is a form of racism. During the Michael Cohen hearings, Tlaib said it was racist for North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows to use an African American employee of Donald Trump as a “prop” to try to prove…
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Opinion I’m Jewish And My Partner Is Palestinian. I Was Barred From Israel.
I wish I could say I was shocked and surprised like so many of my fellow Jewish Americans when Israel denied entry to US Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib last week. However, for me it was business as usual. As I read through the hand-wringing theories about who was to blame — Trump, Netanyahu,…
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Opinion To The Williamsburg Jewish Community: A Letter Of Support From Liberal Brooklyn Rabbis
To the Jewish Community of Williamsburg, We are appalled by the recent violent attacks on the Chasidic community of Williamsburg. These attacks on the Jewish community are unconscionable acts of cruelty. We reach out with love and support to our Jewish brothers and sisters as they find themselves the most current target in the uptick…
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Opinion Omar And Tlaib Just Exposed The Fiction Of Bipartisan Support For Israel
In the aftermath of the flap created by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to deny Rashida Tlaib (MI-D) and Ilhan Omar (MN-D) the right to visit occupied Palestinian lands, the Congresswomen held a press conference refocusing our attention on Israel’s occupation and the denial of Palestinian human rights. “All I can do … is…
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Opinion Iraqi Victims Of The Nazis Deserve Compensation. Why Is Israel Denying Them?
This past week, the government of Israel announced that the history of North African Jews during World War II would be incorporated into the Holocaust curriculum. “For years, the story of Jews living in Muslim countries under the Nazi occupation has been absent from our discourse,” Minister of Education Rafi Peretz said. “The painful stories…
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Opinion It’s Not Enough To Call Out Netanyahu’s Ban On Omar And Tlaib. Oppose The Racism That Led To It.
Somewhat surprisingly, in the immediate aftermath of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s denial of congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s requested entry to Israel, criticism and condemnation came from Jewish organizational leaders and rabbis across the political spectrum. While Rep. Tlaib was ultimately granted conditional permission to visit her family in Palestine on a humanitarian visa, which…
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Opinion The Left Can No Longer Excuse Its Anti-Semitism
A couple of days into the social media storm that erupted following Israeli government’s decision not to let Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar enter the country, the two Congresswomen circulated a cartoon on their Instagram accounts, in Instagram stories, which disappear after 24 hours: The cartoon depicted Benjamin Netanyahu extending one blue-suited arm toward…
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