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Trump Is Going to Nix the Iran Deal. Now What?
As a proud veteran of the Obama Administration, I don’t think it surprises anyone that I am a supporter of the Iran nuclear deal. It was not a perfect deal — there was no such thing — but it removed key materials and infrastructure from Iran’s possession and imposed an intrusive monitoring regime, ensuring that…
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Opinion Your California Anti-Semite Is A Hoax. Typical Liberals.
Dear Editor, I wanted to call attention to your recent article entitled “Top Republican In California Senate Race Called For Government ‘Free From Jews’” dated April 29th. I found it to be quite odd. “The top challenger to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her upcoming re-election campaign is a candidate who has repeatedly espoused anti-Semitism…
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Letters A Letter From Pew Research On Our Israel Polling
Laura E. Adkins discusses in her April 29 opinion piece (Almost) Everything You Knew About The Polls And Israel Is Wrong recent Pew Research Center and Gallup findings that examine public opinion towards Israel and the Palestinians. Ms. Adkins thoughtfully examines several possible reasons, including differences in question wording, for why the two surveys got…
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Letters Letter: American Jews Need To Stop Telling Israelis What Is Right And Wrong
Dear Editor, As a Jewish publication, I’m really disgusted by the large number of anti-Israel opinion pieces which appear in the Forward. These articles seem to be the overwhelming majority. I don’t care for Jews who live safely outside of Israel, telling Israelis what is wrong with us and our state. Come, put your life…
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Opinion Abbas’s Shameful Anti-Semitic Comments Remind Me Of Netanyahu
Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered a disgusting, virulently anti-Semitic speech this week in which he blamed the Holocaust on the “social behavior” and financial dealings of Germany’s Jews. Abbas was appropriately and roundly criticized by American Jewish leaders and Israeli politicians, with the most vociferous castigation coming from Binyamin Netanyahu, who called upon the…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Speech Proves What We Knew All Along — And That Changes Everything
Make no mistake: the Iranian archives that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently presented to the world are very important. Maybe the information we have seen so far is not new, although there is a multitude of documents that we might still hear about. But it comes straight from the horse’s mouth. These are Iranian…
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Opinion What ADL Should Learn From The Starbucks Debacle
Last month, two black men waiting in a Starbucks in Philadelphia were arrested for the new crime of Waiting While Black. Shortly thereafter, Starbucks announced that it would undertake anti-bias training to ensure this did not happen again — which was good. The plan is to close all 8,000+ of their locations on May 29th…
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Opinion Pulling Out Of The Iran Deal Will Hurt Israel
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s presentation Monday afternoon offered little new information on Iran’s illicit nuclear activities. But it did shift debate over the Iranian nuclear deal into high gear ahead of a May 12 deadline to extend sanctions relief tied to the deal. Throughout this debate Israel has been a key player. But a US withdrawal…
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Opinion I’m A Puerto Rican Jew Being Targeted By Canary Mission. This Has To Stop.
I received a call a week ago from my dad, early in the morning. It took me a second to realize what he was saying, between the exhaustion and horrible connection that comes with any call from my home in Puerto Rico. But then the words “What is Canary Mission?” came out of his mouth….
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Opinion Actually, Netanyahu’s Speech Was A Warning — And Not For Trump
Israeli PM Netanyahu’s cartoonish presentation to the world on Monday of Iran’s stolen nuclear archive predictably aroused a broad spectrum of reaction. Much of the scorn heaped on the presentation is technically correct. There was nothing really new here. There was no smoking gun of Iranian violation of the JCPOA nuclear deal. And this was…
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Opinion How American Jews Enable Bibi’s Never-Ending Cycle Of Abuse
There once was a feeling among American Jews that Benjamin Netanyahu was one of theirs. For decades, Israel had been represented on the international stage by a parade of grey, rumpled bureaucrats, brash generals and uncouth political hacks. When Bibi arrived on the scene, immaculately dressed and without a trace of accent, it was as…
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