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Opinion Why Simone Zimmerman and Bernie Sanders Are Still on Same Side on Israel — Suspension or No
Just weeks after thousands of Israel advocates applauded Donald Trump at AIPAC, some of the same voices attempted a coordinated campaign to force Bernie Sanders to back off from his progressive positions on Israel before a Brooklyn debate. Sanders refused to back down in the debate. In order to solve the Mideast conflict, he argued,…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Vows Israel Will Keep Golan Heights ‘Forever’
“The Golan Heights will forever remain in Israel’s hands,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, being held for the first time on the land captured from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War. “I chose to hold this festive Cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights in order to…
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Opinion Will Bernie Sanders’s Debate Criticism End Grip of Israel Lobby — or Be a Footnote in History?
University of Wisconsin Professors Vernon Allen and John Levine conducted a series of experiments in the late 1960s to examine psychologist Solomon Asch’s theories about conformity and the influence of social forces on individual opinions. They found that even one dissenter from supposedly unanimous views enables others to express their opinions more freely. Liberals and…
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Fast Forward Israel Takes Center Stage in NY Presidential Debate
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders accused Hillary Clinton of neglecting the Palestinians, and Clinton said her rival was more prone to criticizing than solving problems when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Independent senator from Vermont and the former secretary of state had a lengthy and heated exchange on Israel and the Palestinians during their…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Doesn’t Know What To Call the West Bank
Partway through a Trump Tower interview with two dozen reporters and ultra-Orthodox activists Thursday afternoon, the leading Republican candidate for president deferred to a real estate attorney for help answering a question about Israel. “Jason, how would you respond to that?” Trump asked, gesturing to the chief legal officer of the Trump Organization, Jason Greenblatt….
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News Is ‘Jeremy Corbyn Effect’ Driving Jews Away From Britain’s Labour Party?
(JTA) — Even before he was kicked out of Britain’s Labour Party for saying that Israel runs the Islamic State terrorist group, Bob Campbell was a marginal figure within the party. A former forest ranger and first-aid trainer from northern England, Campbell, 49, began his Labour career last year volunteering to help the campaign of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldier Who Killed Palestinian Lying on Street Faces Manslaughter — Not Murder
The Israeli soldier who shot dead a subdued Palestinian assailant in Hebron will be charged with manslaughter, the military prosecution announced on Thursday in the military court in Jaffa. The prosecution requested that remand against the soldier be extended until Monday in order to present the court with an indictment in that time. The soldier’s lawyers opposed the…
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Israel News Israeli Hospitals Admit Enabling Separation — Deny Racism
Israeli hospital officials and their American fundraising arms have forcefully rejected claims in the Israeli press that their medical facilities practice ethnic and religious segregation in their maternity wards. But hospital administrators did describe efforts the hospitals make to accommodate requests from patients who want to room with other patients with whom they share “cultural…
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