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Community Why You Should Care About Israel’s Anti-Corruption Protests
In recent months, anti-corruption demonstrations against Netanyahu have spread from suburban Petah-Tikvah to urban Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. For two weeks in a row, tens of thousands left their comfy homes to attend the Game of Thrones inspired “March of Shame.” And the crowds were not the usual left wingers of anti-Occupation rallies, but average…
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Fast Forward Knesset Passes Law Keeping Supermarkets Closed On Shabbat
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset approved a controversial bill which will keep supermarkets and other businesses closed on the Sabbath. The so-called mini-markets bill passed Tuesday morning by a narrow vote of 58 to 57 in its second and third readings. The vote came after a 15-hour filibuster by the opposition parties. Under the new legislation,…
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Fast Forward Syrian Army Says Israel Attacked Military Base Outside Of Damascus
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel attacked a military base outside of Damascus with airstrikes and ground missiles, the Syrian army said. An arms depot was destroyed in the early Tuesday morning attacks, according to reports. The Syrian army announced the attacks on state television. It claimed to have hit one of the Israeli jets and intercepted…
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Fast Forward American Jews Urge Israel To Not Deport African Refugees
A group of American Jewish leaders sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a letter Monday urging him to rethink plans to deport tens of thousands of African refugees — and to do the “Jewish thing” and recognize them as refugees “deserving protection.” “We are asking Israel to do the right thing, the Jewish thing, to be…
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Community Should BDS Advocates Be Banned From Israel? No Way, Forward Readers Say.
As of January 2018, members of Jewish Voice For Peace (JVP) and 5 other U.S. groups who support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement will be banned from entering Israel. We took to Twitter to see what our readers thought of the move, and two-thirds of those polled felt that the move was wrong:…
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Opinion Israel Is Right To Boycott Its Boycotters
This weekend Israel published a list of 20 mainly European and U.S.-based pro-BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) organizations whose senior members will be automatically barred from entering the country. The list is a follow up to Israel’s decision last March to amend its 1952 Entry Into Israel Law so that foreign nationals who support a…
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Fast Forward Yitzhak Rabin Statue Defaced With Swastika In Tel Aviv
An Israeli man armed with two knives was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly scrawling a swastika on a bust of Yitzhak Rabin, the assassinated Prime Minister of Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported. Police reported that the man was drunk and was also carrying writing utensils. He was picked up several hundred yards from the site…
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Opinion Israel’s Deplorable Boycott Of BDS Supporters Is Just The Beginning
Over the weekend, in a decision redolent of the repressive policies of the old Soviet Union, the Israeli government blacklisted 20 international organizations, officially barring entry to these groups’ officials and activists expressly for their peaceful opposition to the Israeli government’s policies. It would be bad enough – for all who cherish progressive democratic values…
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