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What Is Ivanka Trump Selling?
Last weekend, while her father President Trump was wandering around the stage looking longingly at the blossoming friendship between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and Vladimir Putin, Ivanka Trump was pressing the flesh at this year’s G-20 summit in Argentina. But it’s hard not to notice that the president’s favorite female has certainly been…
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Opinion If David Duke Agrees With You On Israel, You Probably Hate Jews
CNN’s recent decision to sever ties with Marc Lamont Hill following his controversial speech at the UN in late November triggered a veritable tsunami of critical commentary. The furious reactions by Hill’s supporters reflected the widely-held conviction that he should be applauded for his passionate advocacy for Palestinian rights and that his critics were trying…
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Opinion Israel Keeps Covering For Its Anti-Semitic Friends — And Endangering Diaspora Jews
The Israeli government is collaborating with nationalist regimes in Eastern Europe to diminish the legacy of the Holocaust. Again. That is the gist of an exclusive report from Barak Ravid, a leading journalist in Israel, regarding a controversial planned museum in Hungary. Scoop: Israel negotiating with Hungary over controversial revisionist Holocaust museum – my story…
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Opinion Here We Are. Talking About Anti-Semitism Again.
As we lined up backstage this morning at the Anti-Defamation League’s “Never Is Now” summit, historian Deborah Lipstadt remarked that she never thought we’d be here. Not here speaking about anti-Semitism before a large audience of concerned citizens. If I wade into the topic with some regularity, Deborah — author of a soon-to-be released book…
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Opinion I Walked Off My Birthright Trip. I Applaud Rashida Tlaib For Walking Off AIPAC’s.
On April 10th 1967, Marian Wright, a lawyer working for the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund in Mississippi led then senators Joseph S. Clark and Robert F. Kennedy on a tour of the Mississippi Delta. Wright hoped to expose the realities of severe poverty and hunger which sadly, many did not know existed in the United…
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Opinion Rashida Tlaib And Her ‘Squad’ Of Israel Critics Own The Future
If you want to understand the divide inside the congressional Democratic Party on Israel, consider two events from earlier this week. On Sunday night, Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer, the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, sat on stage at the Israeli-American Council, an organization funded, in part, by Sheldon Adelson. Alongside Schumer and…
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Opinion The Democratic Party Is Becoming The Party Of BDS. Will Liberal Jews Speak Up?
Will the Jewish left ever speak up for Israel? The Intercept recently reported that Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib would forego the traditional AIPAC trip to Israel, choosing instead to lead a delegation to the West Bank. “I want us to see that segregation and how that has really harmed us being able to achieve real peace…
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Opinion What The Women’s March Can Learn From Marc Lamont Hill
Last Wednesday, Temple University professor and former CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill gave a now-infamous speech to the United Nations on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. His conclusion sent shockwaves through the Jewish community. At the end of his impassioned speech condemning Israel, he suggested that there is a place for resistance…
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Opinion Why Is Rashida Tlaib Letting AIPAC – And Bibi – Off The Hook
In a major scoop, The Intercept revealed on Monday that Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian to enter U.S. Congress, would be leading her own delegation to the West Bank, instead of taking the trip to Israel sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The AIPAC trip is something of a rite of passage for…
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Opinion Angry At Airbnb For Boycotting The Settlements? Birthright Does The Same Thing.
When I was growing up there was a memorable commercial on TV against drug use. A father, finding a basket of illicit drugs in his son’s closet, confronts him with rapid-fire questions, finally yelling at him: “Who taught you how to use this stuff?!” And the cornered son blurts out, “You, alright! I learned it…
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Opinion ‘From The River To The Sea’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
A 2018 piece on what the phrase means to Palestinian activists who use it
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