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Fast Forward Illinois Threatens To Blackball Airbnb Over Settlement Listings Dispute
The Illinois state body that sets investment policy gave Airbnb 90 days to explain why it will not list properties in West Bank settlements. At the request of Gov. Bruce Rauner, the outgoing Republican governor, the Illinois Investment Policy Board on Wednesday unanimously voted to notify Airbnb it is in violation of state law that…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Is Perfectly Qualified To Talk About ‘Racist’ Israeli Law
Film star Natalie Portman told the British Arabic newspaper Al Quds Al-Arabi that she thinks Israel’s nation-state law is “racist.” “I do not agree with it,” Portman said, adding, “I only hope that we will be able to truly love our neighbors and that we can work together.” Agree? Disagree? It’s all legitimate. But heed:…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Suspected Of Killing 2 Israelis Shot Dead By IDF
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian man suspected of killing two Jewish-Israeli co-workers at a factory in the Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank was killed in a shootout with Israeli forces who came to arrest him. Ashraf Naalwa, 23, was killed early Thursday morning after Israeli forces surrounded his hideout. He was armed when…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Soldiers Killed In West Bank Shooting Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israelis were killed and two seriously injured in a second shooting near a bus stop in the West Bank. The attack on Thursday morning occurred at a bus stop outside of the Givat Asaf settlement, about a mile down the same road from the settlement of Ofra, where in an attack…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Spokesman Resigns After Sexual Misconduct Allegations
JERUSALEM (JTA) — David Keyes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s U.S.-born foreign press spokesman, resigned Wednesday several months after allegations of sexual misconduct were reported in the U.S. and Israeli press. The accusations, made by a number of women, including then-New York State Senate candidate Julia Salazar, dated back to Keyes’ time as a human rights…
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The Schmooze Kathie Lee Gifford Will Leave The Today Show And Work On A Project In Israel
It’s the end of an early morning, brassy-voiced era: Kathie Lee Gifford has announced that she will leave the “Today” show on NBC, which she has co-hosted with Hoda Kotb for nearly eleven years, this April. Gifford, who on Tuesday morning announced her departure through tears, will be headed to greener — or maybe drier…
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Community Could Benny Gantz Become The Next Prime Minister Of Israel?
Despite multiple corruption scandals, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retains significant public support and still has the best chance of any candidate to keep his position when the next Israeli elections roll around. But a new political player is rising in the polls: Benny Gantz, former chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. Over…
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Opinion Can The Occupation’s Cheerleader Win Over American Jews? Q&A With Naftali Bennett
It’s no secret that American Jews and their Israeli counterparts have less in common with every passing day. But where you locate the source of that chasm depends on which side of the Atlantic you’re standing on. For American Jews, Israel’s dispossession of Palestinian civil rights, the monopoly of the ultra-Orthodox over religious matters, and…
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