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Why Does The Left Give Louis Farrakhan A Pass?
It has been a month of purging on Twitter. Accounts of well-known conservatives, whose rhetoric has been deemed unacceptable, were shut down with no notice or explanation. GayPatriot, RightWingNews, and Gavin McInnes all were disappeared. Dd they all tweet something beyond the pale? It’s possible. But no one could point to exactly what. The email…
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Opinion The Anti-Trans Nuremberg Laws Are Upon Us
When I came out in 1990 as a fifteen-year-old queer (my gender-nonconforming nature required no announcement) and promptly started being public about it, my father sat me down for a talk. My father, who attended a Hillel weekend in college that was surrounded by jeering anti-Semites from which he had to be snuck out a…
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Opinion Israel Has Chosen Settlements Over Security
Since its 2005 disengagement of forces from the Gaza Strip, Israel has been engaged in recurring hostilities and five medium-to-large scale military operations against the Hamas regime and other militant groups in Gaza. This year has seen a new form of warfare from Gaza: incendiary kites and balloons have caused thousands of fires, which burned…
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Opinion EXCLUSIVE: President Of Israel’s Call For Justice, Equality And A New Dialogue With The Diaspora
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed one of the most important representative bodies of the Jewish diaspora at Expo Tel Aviv on the morning of October 22. He provided the Forward with the exclusive rights to reproduce the text of the speech he gave to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America at…
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Opinion What Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Means For Israel
In early September, I texted my friend Jamal Khashoggi to inquire whether he would be able to meet for coffee “sometime within the next week or so.” It had been a few months since our last meeting, when we met for breakfast at Le Pen Quotidien in Tysons Corner. We had chatted about the “Dreamer”…
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Opinion How The Jewish Left Learned To Stop Playing Defense And Fight Anti-Semitism
It is no surprise that the British Labour party would ask an anti-Zionist to help fight anti-Semitism. Labor’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has long supported the Palestinian cause, and facing a long-running scandal over Jew hatred in Labor, it is natural that the British Left would turn to the Jewish Left. Indeed, Corbyn has long been…
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Opinion On The Anniversary Of Rabin’s Assassination, I Fear Another One
A few days ago, Oren Hazan, a popular Knesset member of the Israel’s Likud party, posted a picture on Facebook depicting the director of the human rights organization B’Tselem, Hagai Elad, as a wanted criminal who must be brought to justice, dead or alive. The photo, published after Elad’s speech in the United Nations in…
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Opinion What Chelsea Clinton Got Wrong About Louis Farrakhan
In a recent if typical tweet, Louis Farrakhan posted a video in which he used dehumanizing rhetoric to compare Jews to insects. I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite. pic.twitter.com/L5dPQcnVg4 — MINISTER FARRAKHAN (@LouisFarrakhan) October 16, 2018 Watching video recording broke my heart. Hearing these words directed at me and my community shook me to my…
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Letters Lara Alqasem Was A Victory For Liberal Zionism
The Israeli Supreme Court was slammed by leading Israeli politicians for its recent ruling not to deport the young Lara Alqasem, an American student with Palestinian origins. Gilead Erdan, Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, who led the campaign to deport Alqasem, said that the court’s ruling constitutes a victory to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
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Opinion Jared Kushner Shrugged Off Khashoggi’s Murder. It Shouldn’t Surprise You.
Almost everyone believes Mohammed bin Salman knew of, or directed, the gruesome murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. But, The New York Times reports, bin Salman’s close ally Jared Kushner has been urging the president to stand by the Saudi Crown Prince. Jared Kushner reportedly argued that the…
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Opinion Stop Pretending Modesty Can Prevent Sexual Assault
What if there were a simple set of rules that could put an end to the entire #MeToo crisis, effectively relegating sexual assault to the dark ages? It’s something a certain group of religious writers, whose belief systems range from Jewish Orthodoxy to Islam and Christianity, seem to believe. “Do we really imagine that true…
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