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News BDS movement targets Standing Together over ‘normalization’
A wing of the international boycott movement said that Standing Together, one of the leading voices in Israel opposed to the war in Gaza, sought to 'whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide'
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Fast Forward Hamas reportedly rejects 2-month ceasefire as White House, Qatar say talks are ‘serious’
Hamas has rejected what Israel has laid down as red lines, including the removal of Hamas’s leadership from the Gaza Strip
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News How a new group is convincing Democrats to separate Israel criticism from antisemitism
An academic task force that has been quietly lobbying Democrats over Israel and antisemitism has found traction with the White House and Congress — now it’s staffing up
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News American campuses aren’t the only ones erupting over Gaza. Welcome to Haifa University.
The war has torn apart an institution that has been a rare oasis of shared society between Israeli Jews and Arabs
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Opinion Nikki Haley has better pro-Israel bona fides than President Trump. Here’s why it doesn’t matter
Like it or not, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are the only real candidates in the 2024 election.
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Fast Forward Progressives divided about ‘cease-fire’ write-in to protest Biden in New Hampshire primary
Activists launched the effort to send a message to Biden, who is not on the ballot, about the urgent need for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
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Opinion Both the Israeli and Palestinian governments should be obligated to recognize the other’s right to statehood
Netanyahu explicitly rejects a Palestinian state, yet continues to receive U.S. assistance.
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Fast Forward ‘Nasty Palestinians’: Israel director for leading Canadian Jewish group hit over columns
David Weinberg, who runs the Israel office at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, has argued that 'humanitarian concerns' should 'be relegated to the sidelines' during the Gaza war
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