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Fast Forward Turkey Recalls Ambassadors To U.S. And Israel Amid Gaza Violence
(JTA) — Turkey recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Israel after at least 50 Palestinian protesters were reportedly killed at the Gaza border. South Africa also recalled its envoy to Israel earlier on Monday, Agence France-Presse reported. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of “genocide” over the killings in Gaza. Tens of thousands…
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Community Why Is Amnesty International Providing Excuses For Hamas?
For many years, Amnesty International has been a leader in the intense political war to demonize Israel using the façade of international law and human rights. Using the organization’s vast resources, officials have issued a torrent of statements, “reports,” and social media posts in this assault, including calls for war crimes investigations by the International…
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Fast Forward Natalie Portman Will Still Receive Genesis Prize Even Though She’s Snubbing It
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Genesis Prize Foundation, whose award is nicknamed the “Jewish Nobel,” said it will not rescind its honor to Natalie Portman after she said she would not attend the award ceremony in Israel. In a statement released on Thursday, the foundation criticized Portman’s decision and said it had informed her that Israeli…
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Fast Forward 55 Killed By Israel In Gaza Protests Over Jerusalem Embassy Opening
Israeli forces killed at least 55 Palestinians along the Gaza border on Monday as angry protesters demonstrated at the frontier on the day the United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem, health officials said. It was the highest Palestinian death toll in a single day since a series of protests dubbed the “Great March of…
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Opinion Moving the Embassy To Jerusalem Makes Me Giddy – Until I Remember Who’s Doing It
Jerusalem. It has been the center of Jewish prayer, longing, and hope for over 2,000 years. It is where every generation of Jews has turned to, what all of our exiled people have dreamed of, and to where we finally returned as a free nation from the four corners of the world, battered but alive,…
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Opinion Is Israel Justified In Shooting Protestors On Gaza Border?
For the past six weeks, social media has been ablaze with the spectacle of thousands of Palestinians moving towards the border fence separating the Gaza Strip and Israel. Departing from six separate tent encampments built a few hundred meters from the border, the “Great Return March” has led to violent clashes, the loss of lives,…
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Fast Forward Israeli ‘Terror’ Group Funded By David Friedman Blames Listing On ‘Ignorance’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The leader of Qomemiyut, a group that received funds from a charity headed by David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said his group is not the same as a group with an identical name on the U.S. State Department list of designated terrorist groups. Mussa Cohen had told JTA on Friday,…
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Fast Forward Jared And Ivanka Blessed By Israeli Rabbi Who Compared Black People To Monkeys
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reportedly received a blessing in Jerusalem on Sunday from Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef — who was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League earlier this year for comparing black people to monkeys. Kushner and Trump, both senior advisors to President Trump, are in Israel as part of the American delegation…
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