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A Modest Proposal: All Palestinians Should Convert to Judaism
Now that the dust has settled on the commemoration of the Balfour Declaration’s centenary, Israel still has a problem. It has established a state in what was Mandate Palestine. But it’s struggling to cement its control over the whole of the land, even though, since 1967, it has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into…
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Opinion Take It From A British Jew: Anti-Zionism Leads To Anti-Semitism
This week, Nigel Farage, the right wing politician who instigated Brexit, said in an interview that the “Jewish lobby” should worry Americans more than the Russians. But we British Jews are used to getting it from all sides, and left-wing anti-Semitism has recently been much more prominent than the right-wing variety. Two years ago, Jeremy…
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Opinion Israel: Take Note — The NYPD Didn’t Kill Manhattan Terrorist
I watched in horror along with the rest of the world as a terror attack unfolded in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, October 31. A 29-year-old from Uzbekistan named Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov intentionally plowed into bicyclists and pedestrians before finally crashing into a school bus and brandishing two imitation firearms. Over the next hour, fatalities began…
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Opinion How Trump’s Bumbling And Netanyahu’s Cunning Landed Them In The Same Place
It’s hard not to notice the similarities between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Critics love to comment on the two men’s shared resume of defiant nationalism, open warfare with the press, testy relations with other Western leaders and voluble contempt for their liberal opposition. There’s a crucial difference, of course: One of them is a…
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Opinion What can America learn from Israel about lone wolf attacks?
It was in September 2014 that Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a senior leader of the Islamic State group, propagated via internet the following iconic advice for attacking Westerners: “If you are not able to find an IED (improvised explosive device) or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash…
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Opinion It’s time to admit that Arthur Balfour was a white supremacist — and an anti-Semite, too
A century ago, 67 words changed the course of history in the Middle East. In a statement that could fit into two tweets, Arthur Balfour, then the British Foreign Secretary, announced that the British government would support establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. One hundred years later, the profound legacy of…
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Opinion Trump’s double standard for New York and Las Vegas attacks threatens America’s safety
How can you truly measure the horror of a terror attack? You can’t. One life lost that way is one life too many. But not for Donald Trump. When a man murders eight people and injures almost a dozen others in Manhattan, and then shouts “God is great!” in Arabic, the president waited only hours…
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Opinion Yes, that cartoon of me was anti-Semitic
When the official newspaper of Berkeley published a color caricature of me as a spider-like creature with one leg stomping on a Palestinian child and another holding an IDF soldier spilling the blood of an unarmed Palestinian, there was universal condemnation of what was widely seen as a throwback to the anti-Semitic imagery of the…
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Opinion John Kelly erased slavery — just like Trump ignores the Palestinians
On Monday on Fox News, President Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, discussed the Civil War. He called Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee “an honorable man.” He blamed the conflict on “the lack of an ability to compromise.” And he never mentioned the word “slavery.” Commentators pounced. “Compromise on what?” historian Joshua Zeitz tweeted. “Extending…
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Opinion How the left got sold on the idea that Zionism is racism
A few weeks ago, after the Harvey Weinstein revelations left many reeling, one article on sexual harassment connected gender violence to, of all things, Zionism. In a piece on the blog Feministing called “#MeToo: Gender Violence Does Not Exist Without White Supremacy”, Mahroh Jahangiri argued that “gender-based violence does not exist without other systems of…
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Opinion We asked 22 rabbis: Is intermarriage a problem or an opportunity?
As a part of our Rabbi Roundtable series, we brought together leading rabbis from all corners of the Jewish world to offer their thoughts on the big questions. This week, we asked our rabbis, “Is intermarriage a problem? Or an opportunity?” Here are their responses: Asher Lopatin, Orthodox, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School: Intermarriage is…
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