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Alan Dershowitz: Enough With The Anti-Trump McCarthyism!
I don’t know what is worse about Talia Lavin‘s article calling me a Trump Jew: is it her blatant McCarthyism or her insistence that Jews behave like “guests” in an alien country? Let’s begin with her mendacious McCarthyism: I am not a Trump Jew. I voted, campaigned and contributed against Trump and for Hillary Clinton….
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Opinion It’s Time To Stop Apologizing For Israel And Start Celebrating
This piece is one of a series of pieces commissioned from leaders to speak to their feelings about Israel at 70. You will find the others here. Birthdays are a time for celebrating one’s life, giving thanks, friendship, taking stock of the trials that led to the day, and wishing for a happy and healthy…
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Opinion The Arab Summit’s Shocking Reveal: Arab Leaders Support Trump’s Peace Plan
Much of the press coverage of this weekend’s Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia centered on the unanimous condemnation by Arab leaders of President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But overlooked by many is the fact that Arab leaders also quietly support his peace plan for the region, even though Palestinian leadership…
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Opinion With More Republican Jewish Leaders In Disgrace, Who Has The Moral High Ground?
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! “What the heck is going on at the RNC?” CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked on Friday, in an on air interview with Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee. Tapper’s…
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Opinion The Two State Solution Is Dead. Supporting It Is Supporting Occupation.
The past three weekends in Gaza, we have watched, stunned, as unarmed Palestinian protesters have been gunned down by Israeli snipers. The soldiers were given explicit orders to shoot anyone approaching the fence that separates Israel and Gaza, in violation of international law, and condemnation of Israel’s actions has been swift and widespread. The International…
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Opinion Could Alan Dershowitz Rescue An Israeli Being Held Hostage By Hamas?
On September 7, 2014, a 28-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli named Avera Mengistu climbed over the fence separating Israel from Gaza and disappeared into the Gaza Strip. Though the Israeli military had been watching him through a security camera for half an hour as he marched down the beach towards the border, nobody stopped him. Ten months later,…
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Opinion Trump’s Jews Are A Shonda For Di Goyim
My first job in journalism was at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a venerable, century-old newswire which provides coverage to Jewish papers around the world. As a jack-of-all trades intern, one of my jobs was to monitor our web traffic. To my surprise, I found that one of our top referrers was frequently Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi…
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Opinion No, Sephardic Pronunciation Is Not More ‘Correct’ Than Ashkenazi
Many people believe that when it comes to the Hebrew language, the Sephardic pronunciation is the correct one. It’s common to hear that this is the reason that modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation is based on the Sephardic one. People have told me for instance that the phonetics of the Sephardic speech is closer to the…
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Opinion Millions Of Palestinians Marching To ‘Return’ To Israel Is Not Peaceful
Just an easy hour’s drive south along the Mediterranean coast from where I live, Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar encouraged a crowd of protesters gathering last Friday for the supposedly peaceful “Great March of Return” near the border with Israel: “We will uproot the borders, we will pluck out their hearts, and we will pray…
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Opinion Trump Loves Jews Like Cohen And Dershowitz — For All The Wrong Reasons
At a conference on religion about 15 years ago, the journalist Franklin Foer made this witty observation: “Philo-Semites are anti-Semites who like Jews.” Little could Foer have imagined that he would be describing Donald Trump as President. We now have in the White House a man with a confounding and often contradictory relationship with Jews….
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Opinion I Was Pushed To The Back Of A Protest Because I’m A Zionist. Here’s What It Taught Me About Tribalism And Jews
One evening in November, I found myself standing at the back of a crowd of protesters. It was a protest organized by IfNotNow, the Jewish anti-occupation group, to protest the Zionist Organization of America’s hosting of Steve Bannon at their annual gala. IfNotNow does “not take a unified stance on BDS, Zionism or the question…
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