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Fast Forward BDS Motions Scrapped in 4 Spanish Cities After Judicial Ruling
— Following legal action by supporters of Israel, four Spanish municipalities dropped their former policy of support for boycotts of the Jewish state. Occurring amid an unprecedented judicial crackdown in Spain against the phenomenon, three of the four reversals last month came following court-issued injunctions that suspended municipal motions passed in support of a boycott, ACOM,…
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News ‘Zionist Pig’ Student Protesters Get Slap on Wrist From Brooklyn College
A City University of New York disciplinary committee handed down the minimum punishment to two Brooklyn College students involved in an “anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish” February protest, where a faculty member said he heard someone called a “Zionist pig.” Sarah Aly and Thomas DeAngelis, seniors who both belong to the activist group Students for Justice in…
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Israel News Women of the Wall Leader Arrested for Smuggling Torah Scroll Into Kotel
Women of the Wall executive director Lesley Sachs was detained by Jerusalem police on June 7 for smuggling a small Torah scroll into the women’s section of the Western Wall. The group said she was detained for “disturbing the public order” after a prayer service of about 80 female worshippers read from the Torah. Sachs…
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Opinion Why Andrew Cuomo Is Worst Possible Face of the Anti-BDS Movement
Pro-Israel activists who are battling the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territory emphasize the freedom and democracy of Israeli society and juxtapose it to the intolerance of the BDS movement. With his new anti-BDS bill, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made it that much harder for…
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Fast Forward Second Helpless Palestinian Was Shot Dead by Israeli Soldier: Rights Group
JERUSALEM ) — The second Palestinian in a March stabbing attack against Israeli soldiers in Hebron also was executed after being downed with minor injuries, the B’Tselem human rights organization claims. According to a statement issued Monday by the Israeli group, Ramzi al-Qasrawi was executed with a shot to the head after he was down…
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News J Street Pushes ‘Balanced’ Democratic Platform Plank on Israel
J Street is reportedly pushing for a “balanced” Democratic Party platform plank on Israel, one that would include criticism of the Israeli occupation and some recognition of the need to push for Palestinian rights. The dovish pro-Israel group is circulating a memo that seems to underline the possibility that Israel could become a major flashpoint…
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News Archives Reveal Israel’s Secret 1967 Plan To ‘Drive Out All the Arabs from the West Bank’
The military archives have released generals’ testimonies that put the reader on the ground during Israel’s capture of Jerusalem’s Old City in the 1967 Six-Day War. The testimonies were given as part of the Israel Defense Forces’ efforts to draw lessons from the conflict, in which Israel took the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula and Golan…
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News BDS Battle Shifts From Campus to Statehouse — Will Pro-Israel Strategy Work Better?
Efforts to combat the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement are rapidly shifting from college campuses to statehouses, where a growing number of legislatures is considering laws to ban any company that boycotts Israel from winning government contracts or investments. Even New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo is planning to order all New York State agencies to…
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Yiddish נײַע איבערזעצונג: דאָס לעבן און טויט פֿון אַ שטעטל בעת דער רוסישער בירגערקריגNew translation: The life and death of a shtetl during the Russian Civil Wars
אָן רחל פֿײַגנבערגס בוך פֿון 1926 וואָלט מען אפֿשר אַפֿילו נישט געוווּסט אַז דאָס שטעטל דובאָווע האָט אַ מאָל עקזיסטירט.
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Yiddish בײַ די פֿרומע קרײַזן אין אַמאָליקן טשערנאָוויץThe Orthodox community in pre-war Czernowitz
הרבֿ מאיר מאָסקאָוויץ, וואָס איז די וואָך ניפֿטר געוואָרן, איז געווען דער זון פֿונעם שאָצער רבין אין טשערנאָוויץ
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