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What Israelis Hear When You Say There Was A ‘Massacre’ In Gaza
Living in Israel, it has been a surreal experience watching the international community’s response to the riots on the Gaza border. It is as though context, history, identity, and motive don’t matter. This apathy would be unthinkable in any other context and any other country. Imagine the mobilization of 30,000 people on your border, less…
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Opinion What Really Happened In Gaza
This weekend, hundreds of Gazans were injured by the Israeli Defense Forces during a Palestinian demonstration near the border with Israel. To some, like Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Israeli soldiers deserve a medal for the amount of restraint they showed in not mowing down more civilians. To others, the whole event was a “propaganda…
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Opinion Why It’s Anti-Semitic To Criticize Jeremy Corbyn For Attending Our Seder
Last week I wrote a piece in the Forward criticizing the opponents of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, including much of the UK Jewish establishment, for using anti-Semitism as a political weapon against a leader who for many young Jews, represents the first hope for political change we’ve seen in this country. To me, none of…
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Opinion Sorry, British Non-Jews: You Don’t Get To Decide Who The Good Jews Are
It’s a very strange time to be a Jew in Britain. With the issue of anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party dominating the headlines for the last couple of weeks, we’ve now reached the point where arcane questions of Jewish communal politics are now of national interest. The latest example concerns Jewdas, an irreverent collective…
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Opinion After Suspending His Refugee Protection Plan, Netanyahu Is Trumpier Than Ever
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Today, just when the Israeli government was about to do the right thing, its prime minister turned into a spineless and inept politician, more interested in appeasing an extreme section of his domestic…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Flip-Flop On Protecting Refugees Is Spineless And Shameful
Just when the Israeli government was about to do the right thing, its prime minister today turned into a spineless and inept politician, more interested in appeasing an extreme section of his domestic base than in leading with moral clarity and consistency. That’s the only way I can view the seesawing behavior of Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Opinion Don’t Blame The Heartbroken WASP For Using Anti-Semitic Tropes — Blame Her Editor
The Washington Post published a personal essay by a woman who had two relationships with Jewish men fail and now no longer wants to date Jewish men, and a lot of people are very mad. The essay is rife with seemingly accidental anti-semitism, including a cocktail the writer is “determined” to create, named “A Jewish…
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Opinion How Dare Jewish Men Keep Breaking Up With Me
Editor’s note: The following is a satirical response to a March 29 Washington Post op-ed entitled, “I am tired of being a Jewish man’s rebellion.” Hi there, readers! It’s me, a woman who will now cutesily compare myself to Carrie Bradshaw, as if I am simply a spunky newsgal, and not at all someone about…
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Opinion Carnage In Gaza Is A Disaster For Israel Too
The Israel Defense Forces are currently confronting masses of Gazans along the Gaza-Israel boundary fence. Sadly, the confrontation brings into focus the abject lack of a viable strategy on the part of all sides to this conflict. Accordingly, when the smoke clears a month or so from now, there will be no winners. And everybody…
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Opinion The Real Reason That Palestinians In Gaza Are Marching
Editor’s Note: This piece is part of a number of articles on this topic. For another point of view on Friday’s march, see here. As Jews and non-Jews prepare for the 70th anniversary of Israel’s creation, both Hamas and Fatah are preparing for the commemoration of the Nakba. Now on the eve of Passover and…
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Opinion Believe Us: Our Protest In Gaza Will Be Peaceful
Editor’s Note: This piece reflects the point of view of its author alone. Many observers believe that Friday’s march signals a new position for Hamas, in calling for nonviolent, rather than violent, resistance. For another point of view on Friday’s march, see here. Like the rest of the inhabitants of the world, Palestinians are a…
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