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Opinion Inside the Twisted Anti-Semitic Mind of Oberlin Professor Joy Karega
Isabel Sherrel, an alumna of Oberlin College, recently did something courageous. She decided to treat her alma mater’s assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, Dr. Joy Karega, like a human being and actually reach out. She wanted to dialogue over the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Karega had reportedly been posting about on Facebook. Karega has…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans First ‘Miss Transgender’ Pageant
Israel will be holding its first beauty pageant for transgender women. Nearly 30 transgender Jews and Arabs auditioned Thursday at a Tel Aviv club for a place in the Miss Trans Israel pageant, according to The Associated Press. “Definitely we are achieving, enlightening the people to accept and empower transsexuals,” Israela Stephanie Lev, the pageant’s…
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Fast Forward Dinner With Israeli Envoy Gets Egypt Lawmaker Kicked Out of Parliament
Egypt’s parliament voted on Wednesday to expel an independent lawmaker who invited the Israeli ambassador in Cairo for dinner, drawing widespread criticism and prompting a fellow deputy to attack him with his shoe. Speaker Ali Abdelaal announced that 465 lawmakers, out of 490 who attended the session voted to expel Tawfik Okasha from the legislature,…
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Fast Forward 40 Columbia Professors Sign BDS Petition Led by Rashid Khalidi
Forty Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition urging the New York school to divest from companies that “supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.” The petition was released Monday morning to mark the first day of Israel Apartheid Week, the Columbia Spectator reported. According to the petition,…
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Fast Forward Americans Sympathetic to Israel Over Palestinians by 62%-to-15%
Americans remain overwhelmingly sympathetic to Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a new Gallup poll shows, with those over 50 and Republicans the most supportive. Some 62 percent of Americans surveyed said they are more sympathetic to the Israelis, while 15 percent favored the Palestinians. Another 23 percent said they are sympathetic to neither, both or…
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Fast Forward Israel Touts Gay Friendly Climate — but Religious Leaders Block Progress
(JTA) — It felt like Israel’s gay community had taken a major step forward. On Feb. 23, eight separate Israeli parliamentary committees convened to discuss a broad set of issues facing the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Lawmakers from a range of parties talked about protecting LGBT Israelis in the classroom, at home, in…
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Fast Forward Israel Accuses Syria Government Forces of Using Chemical Weapons
Israel said on Tuesday that Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons against civilians since the start of a ceasefire aimed at preparing the way for an end to the five-year civil war. The truce, sponsored by Russia and the United States, began on Saturday and has been dogged by opposition charges of non-compliance by…
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News GOP Jews Cannot Unite Against Donald Trump — Despite ‘Neutral’ on Israel Declaration
Prominent Jewish Republican leaders and activists show little sign of being able to unify publicly in responding to Donald Trump’s emergence as their party’s presidential front-runner — even after Trump’s failure to condemn dedicated anti-Semites and racists and his declaration that he would be “neutral” on Israel. With Trump’s triumph in the March 1 Super…
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