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News As Israel’s Arab Home Demolitions Surge, A Non-Profit Group Proudly Takes Credit
A big row is brewing between Israeli Arab citizens and their government, and it all seems to stem from a surprisingly small activist source. The year 2017 began with protests as thousands of Arab citizens took to the streets to counter the demolitions of homes without permits in their neighborhoods. In Umm al-Hiran, a Bedouin…
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Fast Forward French Arab Coexistence Champion Authored Anti-Semitic Tweets
(JTA) – A former culture minister of France distanced herself from an up-and-coming journalist who interviewed her recently following the discovery of virulent anti-Semitic tweets he authored. Christiane Taubira, who last month granted a wide-ranging interview to Mehdi Meklat, 24, of the Les Inrocks magazine, said she would not have afforded him that access had…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Israeli Arab’s Musical Hebrew Lesson Goes Viral
Jehan Jaber, a Hebrew teacher from central Israel, has become an unlikely celebrity over there after the Arab teacher’s instructional song went viral on the Internet, drawing hundreds of thousands of views. “I did not put the video on the Web. I just filmed myself to see how I could improve my teaching methods. I…
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Fast Forward Jews and Arabs Demonstrate Together Against Israeli Home Demolitions — and Trump
Thousands of Arabs and Jews waving Israeli and Palestinian flags protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday against home demolitions in Arab villages. Organizers estimated that some 5,000 protesters marched in central Tel Aviv in a demonstration that also referenced President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim nations. “No Ban! No Wall! No Demolitions!”…
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Fast Forward ‘Israeli MIT’ Triples Arab Enrollment in Decade
Despite a persistent divide in educational attainment between Jews and Arabs in Israel, Haifa’s Technion University has managed to triple the enrollment of Arab students over the past decade. Referred to as Israel’s MIT, and reputed for its math and science talent, the Haifa school now has a student body that’s 20 percent of Arab…
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Community What the Death of My Mother Taught Me About Charedi Jews and Arab Israelis
The plane was rapidly approaching Tel Aviv airport. Leafing through the newspapers distributed earlier by the flight attendant, I couldn’t escape the headlines. They were filled with reports about the latest violence erupting between the charedim and “secular” Jews, the tensions with the Arab-Israeli population, the dissatisfied immigrants from the former USSR and Ethiopia, the…
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Books 9 Books Bret Stephens Should Read Before Saying Arabs Have a ‘Stunted Literary Culture’
Writing this week in The Wall Street Journal, columnist Bret Stephens had some strange things to say about Arab-majority countries. From an Egyptian’s refusal to shake hands with an Israeli after their Olympics judo match, the one-time editor of The Jerusalem Post extrapolates all of recent politics and history across 22 countries. He makes reference…
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Fast Forward Knesset Passes Law Aimed at Booting Outspoken Arab Lawmakers
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Knesset passed an amendment to the Basic Law that would allow lawmakers to expel any member who supports armed struggle against Israel or incites racial hatred. Lawmakers approved the suspension law on its second and third reading late Tuesday night by a vote of 62 to 45. Under the new law, setting the…
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