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Community Why can’t my progressive friends understand what Israelis are going through?
I am grieving. I am grieving the small seeds of hope for change I have witnessed over my time living in Israel. I am grieving as I sit with my Palestinian housemates, both of us afraid to leave the house for fear of rockets and rioting blazing through our community. I have enmeshed myself in…
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Fast Forward Nets star Kyrie Irving says he’s more focused on the Israel-Gaza conflict than basketball right now
(JTA) — The Brooklyn Nets are about to embark on a playoff run that their fans hope can bring the team its first championship trophy in over 40 years. But one of their key star players says his focus is elsewhere: the Israeli-Palestinian violence that is raging right now. “I’m not going to lie to…
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Fast Forward Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Israel an apartheid state
(JTA) — Influential progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Israel an apartheid state in a tweet on Saturday that marked an inflection point in her increasing criticism of Israel. “Apartheid states aren’t democracies,” she wrote in a tweet that garnered 275,000 likes. Ocasio-Cortez has been unabashedly critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies since joining Congress…
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News As conflict in Gaza rages again, a shift in the American Jewish response
When Israel responded to Hamas rocket fire from Gaza with air strikes and a ground invasion of the seaside enclave in the summer of 2014, the Union for Reform Judaism published a prayer defending the operation Israel called Protective Edge. “This is not easy. It is not desired,” read the prayer written by Alden Solovy,…
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Opinion Wokeness goes to war
As rockets continue to crisscross the skies between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, as horrific riots break out in cities from Lod to Ashkelon, a more far-flung front has opened up as a result of the violence in Israel: a war for public opinion here in the United States. Just as the scale of…
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Fast Forward Israel said it sent ground troops into Gaza. It may have been a trick.
(JTA) — International media reported that Israeli troops have begun a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip on Thursday night. It hadn’t. According to at least two seasoned analysts in Israel, the reports were part of a misdirection by Israel to lure Hamas forces into defensive positions that Israel hoped would be easier to identify…
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Opinion On a bridge near Abu Gosh, Arabs and Jews showed me a better way
“We can be together,” the flyer said. Jews and Arabs. And we were. At 6 p.m. on Thursday, dozens gathered on a bridge outside Abu Gosh, a town on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, wearing jeans and T-shirts, dancing and singing, holding up their hopeful signs. “The solution to racism is cooperation between Jews and Arabs,”…
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Fast Forward NYC comptroller candidate pledges solidarity visit to Israel if elected
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, one of the leading candidates for New York City comptroller, said Thursday that in light of recent turmoil, she will travel to Israel if elected. “Supporting our longtime friends in Israel is more important today than ever,” Caruso-Cabrera told the Forward. “That’s why the first international trip I will take following my primary…
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