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Fast Forward Black Israeli Woman Bombarded With ‘Crude’ Racist Slurs On Bus
A black Israeli woman was bombarded by racial slurs while riding a public bus in the southern town of Be’er Sheva in a widely-shared video. “This kind of racism I have never experienced,” Hasedia Bat Israel, a member of the Hebrew Israelite group, told Channel 2 News in Israel, according to the Times of Israel….
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Fast Forward ACLU Sues Kansas Over Law Targeting Israel Boycotters
(JTA) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Kansas law banning state business with companies that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The ACLU said Wednesday it was representing public school math teacher Esther Koontz, who was denied a state contract because she participates in the anti-Israel boycott….
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Fast Forward Israel Caught Russia Cyber-Snooping For U.S. Secrets
Israeli intelligence caught Russian spies attempting hack out classified American documents in computers across the globe, the New York Times reported. The Russians used a widely used antivirus program to effectively search millions of computers for documents from the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and other branches of government. The antivirus program is made by…
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Fast Forward Brazilian Restaurant Apologizes Over Israel ‘Genocide’ Sign
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Brazilian Arab food restaurant apologized for placing anti-Israel signs at its entrance after a massive Jewish-led boycott campaign on social media. One of the owners of Papaya Verde restaurant, in Recife, sent a note to the Pernambuco Jewish federation stressing that the big and colorful “Free Palestine! it’s not…
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Fast Forward American Doctor At Israel Hospital Injured By Gunfire From Syria
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An American doctor working in an Israeli field hospital in the Golan Heights was injured by gunfire from Syria. The doctor, who was not named, was treating Syrians wounded in the country’s long-running civil war as part of the Israel Defense Forces’ Operation Good Neighbor when he was injured on Tuesday evening,…
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Opinion What Just Happened to Jemele Hill Happened to Me — Over Israel
Jemele Hill, an ESPN reporter, has been feuding with Donald Trump on Twitter for the better part of a month. It began early in September when Hill tweeted, Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists. — Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017 In response, the White House…
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Opinion Stephen Walt Is Walking Back his Israel Lobby Theory Beyond Recognition
Stephen Walt’s response to our article critiquing his attempt to show how recent history has proven his and John Mearsheimer’s writings on the Israel Lobby accuses us of attacking strawmen without offering a coherent restatement of his own thesis. Our core claim is that Walt has failed to show how the Israel Lobby—a loose group…
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Fast Forward Al Jazeera Plants Undercover Reporter In Pro-Israel Groups
(JTA) — An Al Jazeera editor acknowledged planting an undercover reporter inside pro-Israel organizations last year in Washington, D.C. Clayton Swisher, the international news network’s head of investigative reporting, made the revelation Monday in an interview on Al Jazeera’s main Arabic channel. He said a documentary will be aired based on the reporter’s work. Earlier in…
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