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Opinion Black Lives Matter Lost Me With That Israel-Bashing Platform
Why has Black Lives Matter let itself be co-opted? Black Lives Matter put out a policy platform this week, with demands for reforms in six areas, with specific policy proposals on the state and federal levels. It’s good that the leadership is moving from slogans and rallies to tangible policy, and there are many good…
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Fast Forward Facebook Feature Eliminates Flag of Israel from List of Olympic Participants
(JTA) — A Facebook feature has eliminated the flag of Israel in a list of countries participating in the Olympic games in Rio. A called Profile Frames, which puts the country of your choice’s flag and the Rio 2016 logo below your photo or in place of your profile picture, features a list of the…
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Fast Forward Black Lives Matter Platform Says Israel An ‘Apartheid State’ Committing ‘Genocide’
— The wide-ranging new platform of a coalition growing out of the Black Lives Matter movement includes harsh criticism of Israel, which it describes as an “apartheid state” that, it claims, perpetrates “genocide” against the Palestinian people. Released Monday, the platform of the Movement for Black Lives calls for “an end to the war against Black people”…
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Opinion We Won’t Give Up On Israel, Even If American Jewish Historians Do
Private Hasia Diner, overwhelmed by the pressures of war, abandoned the battlefield this week. Her resignation letter in Haaretz projects the death of her fighting spirit onto the state of Israel. She is wrong about Israel. The young state is doing fine. Her disqualifying critiques are exaggerated. They reflect the natural growing pains of a…
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Israel News Religious Rift Deepens Between Israel and Diaspora
Chances for de-escalation between Israel’s religious establishment and non-Orthodox movements in Israel and North America appear increasingly unlikely as new developments pile atop old ones adding layers of injury. Today, events seem to be careening toward a perfect storm. In recent weeks alone, the government has made clear that it intends to renege, for the…
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Fast Forward Former U.S. Envoy Michael Oren Named Knesset Deputy Minister
JERUSALEM — Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, has been appointed deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office. The PMO announced the appointment, which also makes Oren head of public diplomacy, on Monday evening. Oren is part of the Kulanu Party, which joined the government after the elections in 2015. Oren served…
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Fast Forward From LA to Israel: One Swimmer’s Journey to the Rio Olympics
NETANYA, Israel (JTA) – Andrea Murez steps on the diving board, adjusts her goggles, swings her long arms and propels herself into the water at the Wingate Institute athletic complex here. Murez is training with a dozen other swimmers. She is the one preparing for the Summer Olympics a few weeks later. The 24-year-old Los…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Planned to Blow Up Light Rail in Retaliation for Temple Mount Visits
A Palestinian man caught earlier this month trying to board the Jerusalem Light Rail with a bag full of pipe bombs planned to detonate them in retaliation for Jewish visits to the Temple Mount. Ali Abu Hassan, 21, a civil engineering student at the Polytechnic University in Hebron, made the bombs himself. The bombs included…
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