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The True Cost Of The Trump-Netanyahu Alliance
Of course, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would promise to name a new community in the Golan Heights for President Trump. Why should he stop there? For all the ways Trump has answered Netanyahu’s prayers — tearing up the nuclear deal with Iran, unilaterally moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the…
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Opinion Democrats Hate Bibi But Not Israel – Just Like Their 2020 Candidates, Study Finds
On Tuesday, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) scolded Senator Bernie Sanders for expressing his low regard for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Sanders had called Netanyahu’s government racist. The U.S.-Israel alliance serves America’s interests. We benefit from the close bonds between the governments and peoples. Name-calling…
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Opinion I Wanted To Meet With Arabs – So Israel Treated Me Like One
I’ve never felt much fear or anxiety about traveling to Israel. I always knew I was protected by my American passport and, above all, by my status as a Jewish person. And I knew that Israeli Arab citizens do not share this sense of safety while traveling to or from their home country. But an…
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Opinion The Best Way To Fight Anti-Semitism? Remember Our Allies In Other Communities
It’s hard to read the news these days without encountering evidence of a significant rise in anti-Semitism. Defaced gravestones in France. A Belgian carnival float featuring puppet caricatures of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Here in the US, protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting “Jews will not replace us.” And, of course the continuing specter of the shootings at…
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Opinion Ukraine Is Teeming With Anti-Semitism. It Just Elected A Jewish President.
Ukraine’s always been a complex place when it comes to Judaism. The latest proof came on Sunday, when Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelensky trounced incumbent president Petro Poroshenko in a landslide. After Zelensky’s inauguration, Ukraine will become the only country outside Israel to have a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister. But it’ll also be…
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Opinion Zionists And Anti-Zionists Don’t Agree About What Zionism Is
Last night, at a CNN town hall, Bernie Sanders put to rest the idea that the 2020 Democratic primaries are going to be about Israel. “I am 100% pro Israel,” he said. “Israel has every right in the world to exist, and to exist in peace and security, and not to be subjected to terrorist…
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Opinion Trump Induces Hysteria. It’s Worth Resisting.
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg was not pleased at the results of the Mueller investigation and the attempt by Attorney General William Barr to spin it in favor of President Trump. “That arrogant, willfully misleading press conference was shocking even by 2019 standards. We continue to underreact to our government’s transformation into an authoritarian…
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Opinion The Democrats’ New Strategy On Israel: Blame Bibi
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made waves this week when she said that cutting aid to Israel should be on the table. Explaining her position on Yahoo’s Skullduggery podcast, Ocasio-Cortez described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “Trump-like figure,” calling him part of the “ascent of authoritarianism across the world.” Whether knowingly or not, Ocasio-Cortez was…
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Opinion Why Are Jewish Millennials Flocking To Socialism? Passover Has The Answer
Every year at the Passover seder, I make a point of recounting a midrash I once read about the Haggadah’s Four Children casting each child as a different generation of American Jewry. The wise child is the pious immigrant. The wicked child is the assimilated rebel who refuses their parents’ foreign language and customs. The…
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Letters Letter | The ADL Is Wrong. A Zionist Would Dream Of Annexing Judea and Samaria
Editor’s Note: This letter was accepted and published before we were made aware of a social media post by its author that falls well outside the bounds of what The Forward deems acceptable discourse. The social media post has been deleted. We regret the error. Dear Editor: I read the ADL’s Kenneth Jacobson’s “The ADL…
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Opinion Give Trump’s Peace Deal A Chance
We know little about the coming plan for Middle East peace being offered by the Trump Administration, but the pre-emptive strikes against it have begun. “Dead on arrival” is a phrase we’re hearing a lot these days. It’s odd: If the White House is trying to resolve the century-long conflict between Jews and Arabs, should…
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