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Fast Forward Amnesty International Warns Israel on West Bank ‘War Crimes’
Israeli forces are using excessive, reckless violence in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what might constitute a war crime, Amnesty International said on Thursday. In a report entitled “Trigger Happy”, the human rights group accused Israel of allowing its soldiers to act with virtual impunity and…
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Opinion Will Israel’s Haredi Draft Bill Empower Women?
Getty Images As the Israeli government prepares to present the Knesset with its bill to draft yeshiva students into the army, the Haredi community is seething. But even as it kicks into reactionary mode, you’ve got to wonder whether, paradoxically, this could present an opportunity for some limited advancement among Haredi women. The Haredi media…
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Fast Forward Extremist Rabbi Warns Yair Lapid Could Be Assassinated Like Yitzhak Rabin
Israeli police launched an investigation into a well-known haredi Orthodox rabbi’s statement that Finance Minister Yair Lapid could be assassinated in the same way as Yitzhak Rabin. Rabbi Dov Halbertal made his remarks in an interview this week on Galei Israel Radio. “I had a guest over on Shabbat, an important scholar, and he told…
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Opinion Handing the Western Wall to the Judaizers
Wikipedia Quick, if you’re a settler-dominated government uninterested in sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinian people, what’s a good way to telegraph your position without raising a ruckus? Well, one good way would be to turn over a sizable portion of Judaism’s holiest site to the management of a maximalist settler group — which is precisely…
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Fast Forward UCLA Student Council Rejects Israel Divestment Bid in Narrow 7-5 Vote
The UCLA student council rejected a resolution calling for divestment from five American companies that are accused of abusing Palestinian human rights. The 7-5 vote early Wednesday morning by the Undergraduate Students Association Council followed nine hours of public comment and was held by secret ballot after one council member reported receiving anonymous threats by…
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Fast Forward NYU Grad Students Plan Pro-BDS Conference
The New York University American studies program’s annual conference this year is focused on the boycott-Israel movement and dominated by its supporters. The student-organized conference is scheduled to take place this Friday and Saturday and is titled “Circuits of Influence: U.S., Israel and Palestine.” A flyer advertising the conference promises discussion on how “recent American…
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Israel News Feud Over Israel Erupts at Jewish Institutions
A senior editor of The New Republic is invited, disinvited and — after protests — re-invited to discuss his widely reviewed new book on U.S. policy toward Israel at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. A renowned literature and philosophy professor is forced to withdraw from giving a presentation on Franz Kafka, one of her…
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Israel News For Alice Herz-Sommer, Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Music Was a Religion
At 110 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer died too soon. As the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, Herz-Sommer, a noted musician, was limited in recent years in her daily existence. She lived alone in London in a tiny cocoon-like efficiency apartment. But she revered life and mused on its mystery and majesty. Where others saw a tree…
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