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  (Almost) Everything You Knew About The Polls And Israel Is Wrong

  Why do Gallup and Pew polls find such different levels of U.S. support for Israel?

  By Laura E. Adkins

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  I’m A Gay Jew Of Color Who Supports Israel. The Left Hates Me

  I’m a gay Mizrahi Jew who supports Israel. And the left hates me. It’s ironic. I am the embodiment of intersectionality. I’m the son of an Iraqi mother and North African Berber-Amazigh father. I grew up in an underprivileged community, a gay boy in the closet who then became an openly gay man. I identify…

  By Hen Mazzig Apr 29, 2018 | 5 min read
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  I’ve Been Racially Profiled. The ADL Can’t Teach Racism To Starbucks

  “Excuse me sir,” my mother would say in her precise and native Hebrew to the first security agent she would spot at the Israeli airport. “I am an Arab.” This was the strategy my mom had adopted to deal with racial profiling when traveling back to the US from Israel with her two children. We…

  By Yousef Munayyer Apr 27, 2018 | 6 min read

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  Growing Up Orthodox, I Was Taught To Fear Black People

  Raised in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, New York, I was trained to distrust anyone who wasn’t “chosen.” Even though I was a good boy, who studied lots of Torah and kept the Sabbath, I was frightened of anyone who didn’t have the same skin color, didn’t dress like me or didn’t believe in…

  By Moshe Schulman Apr 26, 2018 | 5 min read
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  American Jews Have Abandoned Gaza — And The Truth

  Join Peter Beinart for a Twitter conversation about this piece with the hashtag #ForwardIsraelChat on Tuesday, 5/1, at 5pm. “In our time,” wrote George Orwell in 1946, “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.” British colonialism, the Soviet gulag and America’s dropping of an atomic bomb, he argued, “can indeed be…

  By Peter Beinart Apr 26, 2018 | 15 min read
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  Polish Court Set To Rule On Holocaust Law. Criminalizing Speech Is Not The Way.

  In a few weeks’ time, the Polish Constitutional Court will deliver its ruling on whether the anti-defamation law introduced earlier this year (which criminalizes any mischaracterization of Poland’s role in the Holocaust including use of the phrase “Polish death camps”) will be declared unconstitutional. Here in the Bay Area, I was heartened to speak recently…

  By Tad Taube Apr 25, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Of Course We Should Call Out Trayon White

  Rafael Shimunov’s piece entitled “The Shameful Character Assassination of Trayon White” does not advance a credible argument. Mr. White got into trouble by making ridiculous claims that the Rothschilds control the weather and the federal government. There may be a reasoned argument that Mr. White was taken in by such wild conspiracy theories because of…

  By James A. Feldman Apr 25, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Trayon White Is Not The Story. Rising Anti-Semitism Is The Story.

  Over a month after Trayon White made the headlines for his infamous video accusing the Rothschilds of controlling the climate, the embattled D.C. City Councilmember is back in the news. After a Washington Post report detailing White’s visit to the United States Holocaust Museum gone wrong (White and others in attendance deny the report), Jews…

  By Yehudah Rodman Apr 25, 2018 | 2 min read
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  Can We Talk About Rape In The Holocaust Yet?

  They used to tell young Orthodox Jewish girls a story – they may still – about 93 Bais Yaakov girls who were selected by the Nazis to be their sex slaves and put in an apartment full of beds. And when the Nazis arrived to claim their plunder, they found 93 corpses. 93 Bais Yaakov…

  By Batya Ungar-Sargon Apr 25, 2018 | 8 min read
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  Readers Flock To Stories About Natalie Portman, A Rorschach Test For How To Criticize Israel

  Ever since the news broke Thursday night, the Forward’s coverage of Natalie Portman’s decision not to accept the Genesis Prize in Jerusalem didn’t just hit a nerve. It lit up the whole body. Weekend traffic to our website was the highest in a year, with both news stories and opinion pieces attracting readers, while the…

  By Jane Eisner Apr 24, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Have Your Say: Did Natalie Portman Betray Israel?

  Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Tell us in the comments below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline.

  By Forward Staff Apr 23, 2018 | < 1 min read