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Community Will AIPAC Speak Out Against Islamophobia?
Last Shabbat I found a letter in my mailbox. The address line said only, “Shabbat Shalom.” I live in the Jewish Culture House at Tufts, and the letter was meant for us. It was from a group of Iranian students. They’d heard about a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States – the overturned…
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News How Did IfNotNow Protestors Make It Into AIPAC Conference?
The plan to enter AIPAC’s policy conference was hatched months in advance. A dozen IfNotNow activists registered to participate in the conference, with a clear intent of staging a distraction that would draw attention to their protest against the pro-Israel lobby. Of the dozen, only four got approved. The rest did not pas AIPAC’s screening,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Sings Trump’s Praises At AIPAC — Opposition Leader Sounds Hope For Peace
Israeli prime minister, in the midst of a coalition crisis at home, chose to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference by satellite from Jerusalem, delivering a brief address stressing the strength of relations with the U.S. Netanyahu thanked President Trump for his support for Israel and praised United Nations ambassador Nikki…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence Promises To ‘Consider’ Embassy Move To Jerusalem At AIPAC
Promising President Trump’s full support for Israel but offering few specifics, Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday the new administration is “giving serious consideration” to moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Pence, speaking to nearly 20,000 members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference for the lobby’s annual policy conference, sought to assure the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Jewish Defense League Clashes With Protestors At AIPAC
Protesters carrying flags of the Jewish Defense League clashed with demonstrators outside the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee gathering on Sunday. The scuffle was caught in a Facebook video from the New York-based Jewish Voice website. Some of the activity is off screen, but during the altercation one man, wearing the JDL insignia, beat…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence Tells AIPAC Trump Is Defender Of Israel And The Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Vice President Mike Pence delivered a fierce defense to AIPAC of President Donald Trump as a defender of Israel and the Jewish people. “He’s a man of action,” Pence said of Trump, closing out the first day Sunday of the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference. “For the first time…
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Fast Forward WATCH: IfNotNow Protesters At AIPAC Conference
Activists from the IfNotNow group entered a conference held by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee Sunday, demanding that American Jews stop supporting what they say are Israeli abuses toward the Palestinians. Security at the AIPAC conference, the largest pro-Israel conference of the year, was extremely strict and according to IfNotNow members, the four activists…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Revoked Credentials Of IfNotNow Activists Registered To Conference
Hundreds of Jewish activists marched outside and blocked the entrances of the largest pro-Israel conference of the year to oppose what they say is support for Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians, even as several members claimed they were rejected from the conference because of their political views. “We’re proving the consensus is changing in the American…
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