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Opinion What Israelis Hear When You Say There Was A ‘Massacre’ In Gaza
Living in Israel, it has been a surreal experience watching the international community’s response to the riots on the Gaza border. It is as though context, history, identity, and motive don’t matter. This apathy would be unthinkable in any other context and any other country. Imagine the mobilization of 30,000 people on your border, less…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Report Man Shot And Killed By Israeli Troops At Gaza Border
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 25-year-old Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli troops near the border in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinians are reporting. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as Ahmed Omar Arfa and said he was shot in his chest with live fire east of the Bureij refugee camp, the…
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Life Chernobyl’s Jewish Liquidators Remain Forgotten In Israel, 32 Years Later
Alexander Kalantirksy speaks halting Hebrew with a heavy Russian accent. He was seated in a straight-backed chair in his small, dark apartment in Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv. “Nu, I am not a hero,” he said matter-of-factly, and a bit impatiently. “I am an engineer. I knew what it meant. It had to…
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Fast Forward Human Rights Watch: Israelis Responsible For Gaza Protest Killings
The watchdog group Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that senior Israeli officials were responsible for the deaths of 14 Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border on Friday, and the injuries of hundreds of others. “Israeli soldiers were not merely using excessive force, but were apparently acting on orders that all but ensured a bloody military…
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Fast Forward IfNotNow Activists Lock Themselves To Israeli Consulate To Protest Gaza Killings
Young Jewish activists affiliated with the leftist group IfNotNow locked themselves to the doors of the office building where Israel’s Boston consulate is located on Tuesday morning to protest last week’s killing of protesters in Gaza, the group said in a statement. Eight activists physically locked themselves to each other and to the doors of…
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Israel News Israel At 70: How 1948 Changed American Jews
(JTA) — One year after Israel’s establishment, in the dead of night, three students ascended a tower at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and raised the Israeli flag. The next morning, the Conservative rabbinical school’s administration took it down. That act of surreptitious Zionist protest was one of several at JTS during the…
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Opinion After Suspending His Refugee Protection Plan, Netanyahu Is Trumpier Than Ever
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Today, just when the Israeli government was about to do the right thing, its prime minister turned into a spineless and inept politician, more interested in appeasing an extreme section of his domestic…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Backtracks On African Immigrant Plan Amid Right-Wing Fury
Updated 6:45 p.m. Only hours after the Israeli government reached an agreement with the United Nations over its plan to deport thousands of African asylum-seekers while allowing thousands more to stay, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Facebook that the plan was being suspended. Netanyahu wrote that he would be meeting on Tuesday morning with…
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