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What Gaza Really Needs Is For Israel To Recognize The Humanity Of Its Residents
On March 13, Jared Kushner and Jason D. Greenblatt held a White House summit on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with leaders from Israel, several Arab nations and Western countries — but there were no leaders from either the Palestinian Authority or Gaza in attendance. “We all know that none of this will be easy,”…
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Opinion Detaining Immigrants Indefinitely Is Un-American. Shame On The Supreme Court.
I first met Alexander Lora on a chilly day in December of 2013. A 31-year-old permanent resident born in the Dominican Republic and a New York resident since age seven, he was wearing a bright orange jumpsuit and seated uncomfortably on a hard plastic chair with his hands shackled to a heavy metal chain around…
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Opinion A New Lens On My Jewishness, In The Form Of A Genetic Disease
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! I begin this newsletter on a personal note. I’ve had a series of blood tests recently and learned a surprising thing about myself: I have a rare genetic bleeding disorder known as Factor…
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Opinion Actually, Blaming The Jews Is Bad, And So Is Putin For Doing It
Blaming the Jews is an old-school rhetorical move. It’s also, dispiritingly often, quite effective. You can see it in American far-righters blaming George Soros for financing their political opponents; in Steve Bannon’s menacing rhetoric about the influence of “globalists;” and, yes, in Louis Farrakhan’s screeds about Jews controlling the FBI. The notion of the Jew…
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Opinion What Black People Hear When You Demand That They Denounce Louis Farrakhan
Over the past couple of weeks, a familiar character has been haunting Twitter: Louis Farrakhan, leader of Nation of Islam. A few weeks ago, Farrkhan gave his annual Savior’s Day Address, which was laden with the anti-Semitic comments he is known for. The “powerful Jews are my enemy,” he said, “responsible for all of this…
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Opinion Alan Dershowitz: My Take On Al Jazeera’s Israel Lobby Documentary
Clayton Swisher has produced a film for Al Jazeera that used a Jewish undercover journalist pretending to be a Zionist to infiltrate and report on pro-Israel organizations. Now, in an op ed in these pages, Swisher is trying to use me to provide a “qualified seal of approval” for the unfairly one-sided video. But he…
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Opinion No, Putin Is Not An Anti-Semite
In an interview with NBC’s Megyn Kelly in Moscow that aired on March 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about the 13 Russian nationals indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with a covert social media campaign. Through a translator, Putin responded: “Maybe they’re not even Russians….
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Opinion Why People Who Oppose BDS Should Oppose Anti-BDS Laws, Too
When UC-Berkeley Lecturer Hatem Bazian was invited to speak at Arizona State University by a group of Muslim students, he found something unexpected in his contract: a clause requiring him to certify he wouldn’t boycott Israel. Bazian was previously best known (depending on who you ask) either for being the founder of Students for Justice…
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Opinion It’s Time To Put To Rest The Myth That Palestinian Mothers Don’t Love Their Children
Many years ago, I spoke at a Reform synagogue in Chicago about the Palestinian experience. It was the height of the Second Intifada, and during the Question and Answer session, a woman asked me with a concerned look, “Why don’t Palestinian mothers love their children?” Confused, I was sure I had misheard the question. “I’m…
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Opinion Do Not Stand Idly By: The Holocaust Lesson Poland Hasn’t Yet Learned
Only a few years ago it seemed that the fraught narrative of Poland and its Jews was evolving from uneasy suspicion to tentative embrace. The 2014 opening of the core exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, was the joyful epitome of this developing story; lauded by politicians and celebrated…
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Opinion I Called Out Orthodox Racists. It’s Time For The Women’s March To Call Out Theirs.
The first time I heard the N-word spoken aloud, I was an adult in an Orthodox yeshiva. I was shocked. Before I enrolled in yeshiva as an adult, I had never heard the word except when reminded not to say it or in a movie. I had grown up my whole life in liberal Jewish…
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