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Opinion What Marc Lamont Hill Debacle Teaches Us About Fairness For Both Peoples
Barely 24 hours passed between the speech that Marc Lamont Hill gave at the United Nations, calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” and the announcement that CNN had fired him from his job as political commentator for the network. The move came after the Anti-Defamation League and other American Jewish…
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Opinion Marc Lamont Hill’s Jewish Problems Didn’t Start With Bashing Israel
At the United Nations on Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill was rewarded with enthusiastic applause for his speech that ended with a call for “a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.” But once the news of his speech spread on social media, there was considerable dismay and outrage. The Anti-Defamation League soon weighed in,…
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Fast Forward What You Need To Know About Fired CNN Commentator Marc Lamont Hill
CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill was let go by the news network on Thursday, one day after Hill called in a United Nations forum for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” Many Palestinian groups, including the terrorist group Hamas, have used that phrase to call for the elimination of Israel, though Hill…
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Opinion Demonizing Israel Isn’t Anti-Semitic — But Marc Lamont Hill Crossed The Line
On Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill, then a CNN contributor and professor at Temple University, came under fire for a speech he gave at the United Nations to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The impassioned speech was existentially critical of Israel, and Hill stated that “we have an opportunity to not…
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Fast Forward Anatoly Altman, Soviet Jew Who Tried To Hijack A Plane To Israel, Dies
(JTA) — Anatoly Altman, a former prisoner of Zion who tried to hijack a plane to escape the former Soviet Union, has died. Born in what today is Ukraine, Altman was a member of “Operation Wedding,” an attempt by several Jews who were arrested in 1970 at a St. Petersburg airport, where they had gathered…
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Art Can Virtual Reality Bring Palestinians And Jews Closer Together?
Raji Sabateen, 56, lives in the village of Husan in the Palestinian West Bank, a place where few Israelis dare to visit. But over the past five months, thousands of Israelis have spent time inside Sabateen’s home through the power of virtual reality. Sabateen’s home is featured at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum as part of “Eye…
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Fast Forward Israeli Archaeologists Say They Found The Ring Of Jesus’s Killer
(JTA) — Israeli researchers say they have found a ring that belonged to Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect who had Jesus crucified. The copper alloy jewelry was one of the artifacts found during a 1968-69 dig unearthing a section of a tomb and palace belonging to the biblical King Herod near Bethlehem in the West…
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Fast Forward Marc Lamont Hill Dumped By CNN For ‘River To Sea’ Barb Against Israel
Commentator Marc Lamont Hill has been dumped by CNN for anti=Israel comments calling for a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.” Hill’s remarks were quickly condemned by the Anti-Defamation League Thursday, which said the slogan calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. But Hill, a professor at Temple University, insisted he meant…
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