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Fast Forward Israel Says It Won’t Deport African Immigrants After All
The Israeli government said on Tuesday it was abandoning a plan to forcibly deport African migrants who entered the country illegally. The government had been working for months on an arrangement to expel thousands of mostly Eritrean and Sudanese men who crossed into Israel through Egypt’s Sinai desert. “At this stage, the possibility of carrying…
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Community Teachers Can’t Hide The Occupation From Our Students
As Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) came and went, alongside the news of 39 Palestinian protesters killed along the Gaza fence (including 15 year old Mohammed Ayoub), I was once again forced to reckon with the version of Israel that I was taught as a student — and the perspective I offer my students as…
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Israel News Natalie Portman Has Snubbed Israel. Why Aren’t Pro-Israel Groups Snubbing Her?
American pro-Israel organizations normally hew to the Israeli government’s line on controversial issues. But after Natalie Portman announced last week that she would not travel to Israel to accept the Genesis Prize because of her opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government reacted with fury — while their American allies did not…
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Community Jewish Students At Barnard Were Key To Passing BDS Referendum
It is almost a rite of passage to stumble across your first protest around Israel and Palestine at Columbia University and Barnard College. I remember mine, six years ago, like it was yesterday. A group of students with Palestinian flags and signs stood on one side of College Walk, with a larger group of Jewish…
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Fast Forward ‘Anti-Semitic’ Dutch Cartoon Shows Israeli Soldier Using Palestinian For Target Practice
A cartoon in a Dutch newspaper that depicts an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian youth was condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as anti-Semitic. The Jewish human rights organization announced on Monday that the cartoon printed in Volkskrant depicted Israel “as a murderous bully celebrating its 70th birthday by gunning down defenseless Palestinians at the…
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Fast Forward Barnard BDS Landslide Rejected By Administration
Barnard College’s president Monday rejected the landslide student vote in favor of a referendum calling on the school to divest from several companies tied to Israel. Sian Leah Beilock sent an email to the Student Government Association (SGA) representative council, which was then forwarded to the entire Barnard community, calling the measure inappropriate. On Wednesday,…
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The Schmooze Joshua Kushner Takes Supermodel Girlfriend Karlie Kloss To The Holy Land
Joshua Kushner, the prodigal son of the Kushner family (in the sense that ‘prodigal’ means loosely liberal) the founder of Oscar Health insurance, the man who some see as a modern-day-Moses figure, is currently cavorting around Israel (in the sense that ‘cavorting’ means ‘taking spectacular photos for Instagram’.) A proposal seems imminent. A conversion of…
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The Schmooze Here’s A Hilarious Interview With ‘Traitorous’ Michael Chabon And Ayelet Waldman
Ever wanted to call someone a “leftist s***head” right to their face? Aviva Zimmerman has. Well — her satirical alter-ego “Avi” of “Avi Does The Holy Land,” has. In brand new episodes the very funny, slightly raunchy web series, Zimmerman interrogates Israeli-American relations in brief aggressive interviews. First up: “celebrated lefty sh*$-head authors” Michael Chabon…
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