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The Trump Administration Has Just Deprived 5 Million Palestinians Of Food
During the summer of 2005, while the Israeli army was preparing to evacuate 7,500 Jewish settlers and end its 38-year military presence in Gaza, I spent quite a bit of time wandering around the coastal territory, talking to soon-to-be-displaced Israelis and to Palestinian residents. I moved between the destitute Palestinian refugee camps, crowded and slumlike,…
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Opinion Why MuslimGirl’s Rejection Of Gal Gadot Is A Good Thing
This week, a Muslim blogger turned down a prestigious award – over Gal Gadot. Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, the founder of the popular blog and brand MuslimGirl.com, made international headlines by refusing to accept the Revlon Changemaker Award. As Al-Khatahtbeh wrote in an open letter to Gadot, she could not in good conscience accept an award from…
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Opinion Homeland Security Is Wrong. Most Extremists Are American Born
A new report, commissioned by the Trump Administration as part of its efforts to enact new restrictions on immigration, bends over backwards to selectively pick and choose cases in which immigrants who entered the country through the diversity visa lottery or other immigration programs were directly linked to terror plots. The unsubtle agenda of the…
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Opinion Abbas’s Comments Are Indefensible
Even if there might be reasons for his rage, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s series of statements over the last few days cannot be dismissed, ignored or justified. They provoke anger, dismay and condemnation because they give voice to the most insidious, damning accusation against Jews: That we have no valid claim to the land…
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Letters I Was Called A White Jew — During World War II
To the Editor: Tamar Manasseh writes in “Stop Calling Me a ‘Black Jew’ ” (Jan. 14) that she has never heard anybody referred to as a “White Jew.” Well I have. It was during World War II, when the armed forces were segregated and I was taking my basic infantry training in Florida, with a…
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Opinion The Notorious R.B.G., Live And In Person
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! She’s 84 years old, a stooped, frail two-time cancer survivor, grandmother and widow, with a job that requires discretion and neutrality and is so guarded that she and her colleagues wear the same-looking…
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Opinion Trump Has Handed The Israel Lobby To Evangelicals. That’s Terrifying.
Vice President Mike Pence’s on again, off again visit to Israel is apparently on again for next week, but the actual timing was never the real thing. Pence and other deeply conservative white Christian evangelicals now driving American policy toward Israel and the Palestinians are playing a very long game that extends far beyond one…
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Opinion Like Pharaoh, Trump’s Most Salient Trait Is His Ingratitude
Until now, I have refrained from commenting on President Trump’s latest outrageous comments because so many others have said so much. After The New York Times editorial page on Saturday called him racist, ignorant, incompetent, undignified and a liar, is there anything more to add? Yes. He’s ungrateful. Before you accuse me of piling on,…
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Opinion Stop Calling Me A ‘Black Jew’
I’ve gotten a lot of questions since I started introducing my opinions in these pages. Some have been good questions. Some have been difficult ones. And some I won’t even dignify with an answer. But the most common question I’ve received, and the one I feel compelled to discuss this Martin Luther King Day, is…
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Opinion My Daughter Is A Ghanaian Jew. Trump Just Called Her Shit
My home has two Ghanaian Jews in it: my husband and my baby. When I look at them, I know who they are. They are innately worthy. They are innately beautiful and kind. And according to our president, they are shit. When President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he doesn’t want people from “shithole”…
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Opinion Abbas Is Wrong About Jewish History – But He’s Not Totally Wrong
This week, in response to the Trump administration’s declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared in a scathing speech that “Israel is a colonialist project that has nothing to do with Jews.” Abbas did not invent this characterization of Israel; it is a longstanding contention of anti-Zionists. Zionism’s…
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