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Fast Forward Did McGill Student Board Bar Pro-Israel Students?
MONTREAL (JTA)—McGill University is investigating charges by Jewish groups and pro-Israel students that three undergrads are being barred from sitting on its undergrad student union board because they are too pro-Israel. At a Monday meeting of the General Assembly of the McGill’s Student Society, or SSMU, seven students were voted onto the board. But three…
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Fast Forward Texas Town Pulls BDS Clause From Hurricane Relief Application
(JTA) — Private citizens who apply for Hurricane Harvey rebuilding funds in Dickinson, Texas no longer have to certify that they will not boycott Israel. The Dickinson City Council on Tuesday voted to remove a clause from a relief application that had drawn the ire of the American Civil Liberties Union and pro-boycott activists, the Houston…
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Community Most Charedim In Israel Are Not Protesting The IDF
On Monday evening October 23, there were big protests in Jerusalem in which approximately 2,000 Charedi Israelis blocked traffic and stopped local and regional public transportation from functioning properly for a few hours. These actions took place in response to the arrest by the IDF’s military police of two Charedi Israeli men who did not…
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Community What It’s Like To Never Be Allowed To Leave Your Home
I mentor four writers in Gaza through We Are Not Numbers, a nonprofit organization founded in 2015 by an American journalist to pair Palestinians under 30 with international mentors. The goal is to help develop the English language skills of Palestinian youth and to educate Westerners about the complexity of life and identity in Gaza….
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Fast Forward Kuwait Airways Probed For Refusing To Fly Israeli Passengers
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Germany’s transport minister opened an investigation into whether Kuwait Airways violated laws by denying passage to an Israeli passenger bound for Thailand. German media reported this week that the Federal Transport Ministry investigation, ordered by Alexander Dobrindt, is in addition to a lawsuit brought by the Israeli. “Our team will continue to…
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Fast Forward Mnuchin To Visit Israel During Anti-Terrorism Tour
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is stopping in Israel during a Middle East tour focused on combating terrorism. News of Mnuchin’s Israel stop came from Yad Vashem, which said Mnuchin would tour Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum on Thursday. It’s not clear yet which Israeli officials he will meet. Mnuchin, who is Jewish, is…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Diplomatic Envoy Resigns
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic envoy, attorney Yitzhak Molcho, has resigned. Molcho served as Netanyahu’s diplomatic envoy during his first term as prime minister in 1996-99 and again since Netanyahu returned to office in 2009. He served as an Israeli negotiator during the 2013-14 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. He will leave his position…
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Community The Israeli Right Versus Global Judaism
Last month, when Yair Netanyahu, son of Israel’s Prime Minister himself, posted anit-Semitic content on Facebook, the entire world watched. The picture in question, which used neo-Nazi imagery and targeted notable Jews like George Soros and Ehud Barak, forced The Anti-Defamation League into the peculiar position of having to criticize one of the most influential…
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