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Fast Forward Largest Presbyterian denomination labels Israel an apartheid state
Many Jewish groups had lobbied against the resolution
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Pro-Palestinian media reported on the vote as a historic first in the European Union
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Opinion I’m a Jewish gay man who resisted apartheid. LGBTQ rights in the U.S. are slipping away from us.
As we celebrate another Pride Month, our nation is backsliding, and our hard-fought gains are in peril.
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Opinion Here’s what to say about Israel and apartheid
The report from Amnesty Internationalthis week accusing Israel of “committing the crime of apartheid” against Palestinians within and outside Israel’s 1967 borders set off a storm of controversy. It also sent me to reread my new go-to response to Israel and the A-word, Danny Sokatch’s 2021 book, “Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for…
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News Amnesty International describes Israel as an apartheid state in new report
Amnesty International, a widely respected human rights group, plans to release a report on Tuesday accusing Israel of committing apartheid and describing its existence as a Jewish state as a deprivation of Palestinians’ basic rights. Israeli officials on Sunday denounced the report as “antisemitism.” In a 211-page report set for publication on Tuesday and obtained…
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Opinion I fought South African Apartheid and the Israeli occupation. Sally Rooney’s decision is wrong
Dear Ms. Rooney, No contemporary writer has gotten under my skin as you have. I have devoured your three novels and several of your stories, moved and astonished by the desires, anxieties and ambivalences of your characters and by the interplay among them; and not only moved and astonished but delighted by the quicksilver movements…
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Opinion Even ‘apartheid’ doesn’t capture fullness of our Palestinian suffering. But it helps.
In a recent meeting with a representative of the United Nations, I was asked to suggest concepts that would capture the suffering my family and loved ones in Gaza endure. I froze for a moment, not only because of the surprise of a legal scholar unsuccessfully looking for a concept that would precisely capture Gaza’s…
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