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Opinion Now Even Winnipeg Disinvites Speakers Over Israel Politics
Getty Images The struggle over Israel in the Jewish community is heating up in Winnipeg, Canada. David Barnard, the President of the University of Manitoba — the city’s largest university — has been publicly un-invited to speak at one of the larger shuls in the city, Shaarey Zedek. The president was to have spoken at…
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Opinion Israeli Neighbors Fundraise for Fureidis After Attack
A separate but similar price tag attack in Beit Hanina in June 2013. / Haaretz Right-wing Jewish Israelis raided Fureidis, an Arab village located just tens of miles south of Haifa, a few days ago. Under cover of night, they slashed the tires of some 20 cars and spray painted the village’s mosque with a…
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Fast Forward 3 Price Tag Attacks Discovered This Weekend Alone
Suspected price tag attacks were discovered outside of Jerusalem and in the West Bank. An Arab-owned construction site in the community of Kiryat Ye’arim, also known as Telz-Stone, located west of Jerusalem, was spray-painted late Saturday night with anti-Arab graffiti, including “price tag” and “Kahane was right.” Also on Saturday, a Star of David was…
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Fast Forward Settler Rabbi Blames Israel ‘Establishment’ for Clashes With Soldiers
The “establishment,” or the army and the government of Israel, are responsible for the current clashes between soldiers and settlers, the head of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar said in a statement. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh released the statement on Friday, addressing the takeover of the yeshiva earlier this month by the Israel Defense…
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Fast Forward ‘Price Tag’ Extremists Deface Palestinian Hero’s Tomb
The tomb of a Palestinian national hero was vandalized in a suspected “price tag” attack near Haifa. The vandalism against the grave of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the Muslim preacher who provided inspiration for Hamas’ military wing, was discovered Friday morning in the city of Nesher, Army Radio reported. The perpetrators spray-painted the words “price tag…
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Fast Forward Winnepeg College Chief Shunned by Shul for Allowing Israel Apartheid Week
Winnipeg’s leading synagogue withdrew an invitation for the University of Manitoba’s president to address its Yom Hashoah interfaith service following anti-Israel events on the university campus, the National Post reported. David Barnard, the university president, allowed Israel Apartheid Week to take place over the objections of the U of M student government who feared the…
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Music Roger Waters Urges Rolling Stones To Boycott Israel
Two founding members of the Pink Floyd rock band called on their colleagues from The Rolling Stones to cancel a concert in Israel. Roger Waters and Nick Mason made the call in an op-ed that was published Thursday on Salon.com. “Playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of…
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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Battles Prostate Cancer
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, newly banned from basketball over racist comments attributed to him, has been battling prostate cancer, sports network ESPN and other media reported on Thursday. The reports come after the National Basketball Association launched a bid on Thursday to oust the 80-year-old as owner of the franchise, as urged by…
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