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Fast Forward Israeli Court Upholds Detention Of American Student Activist Lara Alqasem
An Israeli court on Friday upheld the barring of an American student from the country over her activities in support of an international boycott campaign by pro-Palestinian groups. Lara Alqasem, 22, flew to Israel last week on a student visa but was refused entry. While in airport detention, she filed an appeal with Tel Aviv…
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Fast Forward Israeli Nation-State Law Is ‘Apartheid,’ Says Democratic Congresswoman
A Democratic congresswoman described Israel’s nation-state law as “apartheid” at a Palestinian rights event, Mondoweiss reported last week. Accepting a leadership award at the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights conference on September 30, Rep. Betty McCollum said that Israel’s policies were “brutal” and “cruel” and explained her bill to end U.S. funding for the detention…
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Fast Forward Pompeo: Trump Admin Will Leverage Aid To Syria To Remove Iranian Troops
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration’s goal is to remove Iran and its proxies from Syria, and it will use assistance to Syria as an incentive to do so. That formula is likely to disappoint Israel, where security and government officials have held out for a more forceful…
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News Israeli Spy Firm That Approached Trump First Proposed Dirty Tricks Against BDS
The Israeli private intelligence company that offered to manipulate social media for the Trump campaign offered similar services a year earlier to a group of U.S. Jewish donors who sought to target Israel’s critics, according to a document obtained by the Forward. In late 2015, the Israeli private intelligence firm Psy-Group approached an ad hoc…
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Opinion For Israelis, Zionism Is Patriotism. For Diaspora Jews, It’s White Privilege.
On October 2, an American student with a visa to enter Israel named Lara Alqasem was refused entry because of alleged past involvement with the movement to boycott Israel. She has since been detained by the Israeli authorities, who won’t let her enter Israel. When pressed, Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said that if Alqasem…
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Opinion Thank You, Ambassador Haley, For Standing Up For Jews
“I wear heels, but it is not a fashion statement,” U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said at the AIPAC Policy Conference last year. “It is because if I see something wrong, I’m going to kick ‘em every single time.” This is perhaps the most iconic statement made by, arguably, the most pro-Israel U.S….
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Opinion Don’t Be Fooled: Nikki Haley Is Just Like Trump
Nikki Haley’s abrupt departure from her position as US Ambassador to the UN quickly sparked hope in the beleaguered ranks of Never-Trump Republicans, eager for the former South Carolina governor to challenge President Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries. But though foreign policy conservatives want to see in Haley an alternative to the president’s erratic…
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Opinion Nikki Haley Was A Nightmare For Us Palestinians
Six months after President Trump took office, his newly-appointed ambassador to the UN and former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, concluded a tour around Israel and the occupied West Bank with a hopeful tweet, featuring Haley with UNRWA female refugee students. She had discussed their “dreams and hopes.” This morning we visited an UNRWA refugee…
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