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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Knesset Members Call Bedouin Resettlement Plan ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Arab-Israeli members of the Knesset called the plan to resettle Bedouin in the Negev an “ethnic cleansing” and said it violates international law. The letter was delivered to Kerry on Thursday, during the U.S. official’s visit to the region to meet with Israeli Prime Minister…
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Fast Forward Kerry Assures Netanyahu Core Sanctions on Iran Will Remain Despite New Deal
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that core sanctions against Iran would remain in place despite its interim nuclear deal with world powers. The Nov. 24 accord in Geneva was denounced as a “historic mistake” by Netanyahu, increasing strains in an alliance already marked by his past…
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Fast Forward Progress Being Made in Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Says Kerry
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said progress is being made in the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kerry also pledged that the Obama administration would consult with Israel on a final status deal with Iran over curbing its nuclear program, during a news conference following the…
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Books Remembering Israeli Literature’s Only Nobel Laureate
Sitting in a lecture hall in the Talpiot section of Jerusalem, a group of 25 immigrants is discussing “A City and Its Fullness” (“Ir U’meloah” in Hebrew), a collection of 150 stories by Shai Agnon about the author’s ancestral home of Buczacz, located in present-day Ukraine. The meeting, part of a five-week course titled “Agnon’s…
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Opinion Words Are Battleground in Holy Land
I recently interviewed Yehudah Glick for the Forward. He’s, an Israeli Jewish activist who went on a hunger strike after being banned from the Temple Mount. While writing the introduction for the Q&A, I tried to dot all my i’s and cross my t’s, making sure to mention that the Haram al-Sharif (as the Temple…
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Opinion Academic Hypocrisy
The decision by the National Council of the American Studies Association to support a boycott of Israeli academic institutions is hypocritical and short-sighted. We’re not of the belief that college campuses are as rife with anti-Israel sentiment as some activists contend, but this unanimous vote by the leadership of a sizable cohort of scholars is…
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News American Studies Association Posts Terms of Israeli University Boycott
The American Studies Association posed the terms of a boycott of Israeli universities, although it had yet to announce a formal boycott. According to the Frequently Asked Question page posted on the ASA website, the boycott will not inhibit collaboration with individual Israeli academics. “The ASA understands boycott as limited to a refusal on the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Court Awards $70M From Iran To Victims of American Jerusalem Terror Attack
A San Diego federal court awarded $70 million in compensation from Iran to five U.S. citizens injured in a 1997 terror attack in Jerusalem. Culminating a 10-year legal battle, Judge Barry Moskowitz ruled on Tuesday that Cubic Defense Systems transfer the money to the plaintiffs. A U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., had awarded the…
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