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  Joe Biden’s Moral Cowardice On israel

  What politicians don’t say is often as important as what they do. In his foreign policy speech on Thursday at The City University of New York, Joe Biden warned about the “Rapid advance of authoritarianism, nationalism and illiberal tendencies around the world — not just in Russia and China but among our allies, in places…

  By Peter Beinart

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  Jeremy Corbyn Can’t Fix Labour’s Anti-Semitism Because He Caused It

  Louise Withers Green joined the British Labour Party’s Complaints and Disputes Office in February 2017, handling cases of anti-Semitism among the party’s membership. “I wanted to work for the party for the same reason I joined as a member,” she told the Guardian. “I believe and still believe the Labour Party can be the greatest…

  By Liam Hoare Jul 11, 2019 | 4 min read
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  These Hasbara Tours Bribe Jews To Be Pro-Israel And Make Birthright Seem Lefty

  Last week, J Street U, the campus arm of J Street, wrapped up its inaugural free trip to Israel for Jewish college students. The “Let My People Know” trip was conceived as a response to protests against Birthright, which does not include meetings with Palestinians on its trips, or discussions about the occupation. While the…

  By Scott Boxer Jul 10, 2019 | 4 min read

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  Does The Palestinian Authority ‘Pay To Slay’ Jews? Here’s How We Palestinians See It

  Trump’s envoy for Mideast Peace, Jason Greenblatt, has a peculiar habit. He likes to troll Palestinians on Twitter. He mostly tweets out unsubstantiated claims that reiterate right-wing Israeli propaganda, or insensitive statements glorifying Netanyahu’s rightwing government, whitewashing its systematic assault on the peace process. And of course, there’s Greenblatt’s repeated claim that the Palestinian Authority…

  By Muhammad Shehada Jul 10, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Israel’s Fight Against BDS Is Keeping A Failed Movement Alive

  The German parliament’s passage on May 17 of a non-binding resolution condemning BDS as anti-Semitic — which secured the votes of parties from the left, right, and center of German politics — was, in a sense, a victory for Israeli interests and the country’s otherwise-entirely redundant Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy. When the…

  By Liam Hoare Jul 10, 2019 | 4 min read
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  The Middle Class Is Being Priced Out Of Judaism

  I will never forget that mercifully mild February night in 2011 when I camped out overnight with 30 other parents. All of us hoping to secure spots for our children at the local public school. While it’s not the norm to line up overnight, families do it every year. One reason is that this school…

  By Julie Matlin Jul 10, 2019 | 4 min read
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  As A Jew, I Cringed Over Jeffrey Epstein – And Played Into The Anti-Semites’ Hands.

  When I heard that Jeffrey Epstein had been arrested on sex-trafficking charges, I cringed. I’m sure I was not the only Jewish person who did, or whose first thought was,Why does this sorry excuse for a human have to be Jewish? And I probably also wasn’t the only Jewish person whose second thought was, Given…

  By Howard Lovy Jul 9, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Linda Sarsour And Bibi Netanyahu Are In A Cat Fight About Jesus. Don’t Engage.

  Not all fights are worth having. Some things don’t matter. Others are puerile and ought to be beneath rational adult discourse. If a fellow adult approaches you on the street, looks you straight in the eye and tells you that his daddy is richer, stronger, more attractive than, or otherwise superior to your daddy, the…

  By Abe Silberstein Jul 8, 2019 | 4 min read
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  A Shameful History: FDR Made It Harder For Jews To Immigrate During The Holocaust

  Dear Editor: In Jane Eisner’s piece “We Failed To Save Refugees From The Holocaust. We’re Failing Again Today,” she writes: “President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was repeatedly presented with the opportunity to take in Jewish refugees but, more often than not, acceded to political expediency and public pressure by doing nothing.” Actually, FDR did worse than…

  By Rafael Medoff Jul 8, 2019 | 2 min read
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  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…

  By Etan Nechin Jul 8, 2019 | 4 min read
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  My Fellow Israelis: Black Lives Matter Is Your Fight, Too

  I grew up in Kiryat Malachi, Israel. Scratch that. I grew up black in Kiryat Malachi, Israel. My family came to Israel from Ethiopia when I was somewhere between five and six years old. I was number eight of ten children, part of a veritable private tribe. Generations of my family dreamed of making aliya….

  By Avi Yalou Jul 3, 2019 | 3 min read