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Remembering Watergate, and Wondering Whether the Lessons Still Apply Today
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! The tumult of political events last week, so many involving high profile American Jews, made me think again about Watergate. The scandal and cover-up that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation 44 years…
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Opinion Trump Treatment Of The Palestinians Isn’t Just Cruel. It’s Dangerous.
On a warm day in 2014 in al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, Mohammad Eliyan, who represents the central West Bank refugee camps at the PLO, was complaining to me about UNRWA. Every year for the past five, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees had been scaling back its services, he said. At that point,…
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Opinion How Trump Is Killing The Two State Solution – And Giving Hamas Power
The Israelis and Palestinians are reaching an inflection point. The Oslo Accords, which charted a path forward to a two-state solution, effectively collapsed at the end of John Kerry’s intensive negotiations during the Obama Administration. President Trump has made a series of significant decisions, starting with the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and…
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Opinion Why Jeremy Corbyn’s Dog Whistles Are As Dangerous As Actual Anti-Semitism
Sometimes anti-Semitism is obvious. When Adolf Hitler said, “Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews,” he didn’t leave a lot of room for interpretation. A plan to murder all Jewish people, a plan that was moreover actually implemented, is obviously anti-Semitic. Only anti-Semites would…
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Opinion Now Israel’s Gun Crazy, Too. Just Ask Sacha Baron Cohen.
The season finale of Sacha Baron Cohen’s viral and satirical documentary series “Who Is America” aired on Sunday night, ending a brilliant seven-episode season. The genius of “Who Is America” lies in Cohen’s ability to hold up a mirror to American society and culture, giving audiences a glimpse of the virulent and entrenched racism and…
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Opinion It’s Not About Whether Julia Salazar Is Jewish. It’s About Telling The Truth.
On Thursday afternoon, an explosive piece was published in Tablet Magazine arguing that Julia Salazar, the 27-year old democratic socialist candidate for State Senate in north Brooklyn’s 18th district, is not who she says she is. In interviews and profiles, including in The Intercept, Jacobin and The Forward, Salazar identified herself as an immigrant from…
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Opinion Want To Stop Hemorrhaging Diaspora Support, Israel? Here’s What We Need
It has become axiomatic that a widening schism exists in relations between Israel and Diaspora Jewry. Relations with American Jews (who constitute over 70% of Diaspora Jewry) are increasingly fraught. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems unperturbed. After all, who needs American Jews when (in his view) evangelical Christians are better friends to Israel? Against that…
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Opinion Will Michael Cohen Unleash A Torrent Of Anti-Semitism By Turning Against Trump?
I can already hear the dog whistles. New York Lawyer. Shylock. Judas. Michael (((Cohen))). Whether we would have chosen him or not, the President’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, who pled guilty on Tuesday to evading personal income taxes, making an unlawful corporate campaign contribution and six other counts, is a Jew. This unfortunately makes him…
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Opinion Black Jews Are Being Chased Out Of the Jewish Community By Racism. Here Are Their Stories.
If someone asked you to name the most urgent crisis facing the Jewish community, “anti-blackness” or “intra-community racism” might not be among your first thoughts. But it should be. That’s because anti-blackness in the Jewish community is pushing black Jews out. Countless black Jews have made the difficult decision to leave Judaism completely, no longer…
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Opinion Letter: The ADL’s Record Calling Out Eastern European Anti-Semitism Is Unimpeachable
In his recent article in these pages entitled “Jeremy Corbyn And The Hypocrisy Of The American Jewish Leadership, Lev Golinkin argued that while American Jewish organizations like ADL are strong on condemning Jeremy Corbyn, we go easy on anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe. Golinkin is correct with the first half of his argument, that ADL’s “denunciations…
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Opinion Has Michael Cohen Gone From Sleazy Stereotype To Flawed Hero?
Michael Cohen is the Trump-world version of the cinematic Norman. You remember Norman? Norman Oppenheimer? The sad, grasping, grating yet somehow endearing go-between in Joseph Cedar’s 2016 film by that name. Brilliantly played by the quintessentially goyish Richard Gere, he personified the ultimate Jewish fixer — too conniving to be a conventional nebbish, always on…
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