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Fast Forward Oslo Festival Rejects Israeli Dancers, Citing Efforts To ‘Whitewash’ Occupation
(JTA) — An arts festival focusing on femininity and gender identity in Oslo, Norway rejected the participation of six Israeli choreographers, saying Israel uses culture to “whitewash” its treatment of the Palestinians. The six Israeli artists who applied to participate in the “Feminine Tripper” festival — Eden Wiseman, Roni Rotem, Nitzan Lederman, Maayan Cohen Marciano,…
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Fast Forward Austria Recalls Israeli Embassy Employee Over Nazi Shirt
Austria’s foreign ministry has recalled an employee of its embassy in Israel after an Austrian weekly said he posted a picture of himself on social media wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of a Nazi tank division. The Falter weekly published a screenshot of the attache’s Facebook page which shows him in a green shirt…
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Fast Forward Cheap Flights To Israel From San Francisco After United Switches Planes
If residents of the Bay Area were looking for an excuse to visit Israel, United Airlines may have just given them one. Starting in May, United will use ER 777-300 airliners with 366 seats on flights from San Francisco International Airport to Ben-Gurion International Airport, instead the 219 seats per flight at present. This will…
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Friendship With A Saudi Prince Is Endangering Israel
True to his nature, President Donald Trump once again threw out the rulebook of international diplomacy when he hosted Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince and de-facto ruler, Muhammad bin Salman, also known as MbS, at the White House on Tuesday. It was then that Trump announced that Washington would sell some $200 billion in arms,…
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Opinion I Had To Leave A Jewish Organization For My Beliefs. Now Its President Shares Them
In late 2015, I joined the World Jewish Congress’ young professional group, the “Jewish Diplomatic Corps,” as a volunteer. In early 2017, I ended my participation after a very rocky tenure. The tipping point came following the inauguration of President Trump in early 2017. It was then that the WJC became an outlier among major…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Secret Raid On Syria’s North Korean-Made Nuclear Reactor
The operation was codenamed “Outside The Box,” and for 11 years Israeli officials kept a tight lid of secrecy around the bombing. POLITICO published a story about the raid, which is only now being confirmed by Israeli officials. The Israeli air force bombed an unmarked building in Syria on September 6, 2007. Both the Mossad…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbi Of Israel Calls Black People ‘Monkeys’
The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel called black people “monkeys” during his weekly sermon on Saturday evening. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was addressing Jewish legal aspects of the blessing on seeing fruit trees blossoming, and whether one should bless one tree or at least two. In that context, he mentioned a blessing uttered upon seeing an…
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Fast Forward Cambridge Analytica Says It Used Israeli Spies For Intelligence Gathering
(JTA) — Cambridge Analytica claims to have used Israeli companies and former Israeli spies in its intelligence gathering. The British data-mining company used information inappropriately collected from the accounts of over 50 million Facebook users while working on the Trump presidential campaign in order to influence the vote, The New York Times has reported in…
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