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Fast Forward Amos Oz Shuns Israel Government Events To Protest Right-Wing Policies
Israeli writer Amos Oz announced that, to protest what he sees as extremist government policies, he will no longer participate in Israeli embassy-sponsored events. Oz, who is arguably Israel’s most famous and most widely translate author, told the Jerusalem Post Thursday that “Following the radicalization in the policy of the present government in various areas,…
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News When Anti-Israel Activist Blasts Renoir, Media Sits Up and Takes Notice
Max Geller flew to Chicago in late October to help organize two rallies: one against Israel and one against a dead French impressionist. On October 25, Geller marched with a group of 250 people outside the Jewish National Fund’s national conference. The march featured a human-sized JNF-style blue tzedakah, or charity box bearing the anti-JNF…
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Fast Forward 53% of Israeli Jews Want Terror Suspects Executed on Spot
More than half of Jewish-Israelis say they believe any Palestinian “who has perpetrated a terror attack against Jews should be killed on the spot,” according to a new survey. The Peace Index, a monthly poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute, released a report Thursday focusing on views about the current wave of Palestinian stabbing…
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Opinion Why Disrupting Israeli Law Professor’s Speech Was So Wrong
Why did the disruption of Moshe Halbertal’s recent lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School garner such widespread attention? Halbertal, a noted Israeli philosopher and professor, was invited to the law school to deliver the John Dewey Lecture in the Philosophy of Law. But the lecture was delayed 40 minutes by shouts and chants…
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Fast Forward White House Expects Benjamin Netanyahu To Outline Ways To Preserve Two-State Option
President Barack Obama expects Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to outline how he plans to make progress toward a two-state solution when they meet next week, his top aides said. The officials, Robert Malley, the top National Security Council official handling the Middle East; Ben Rhodes, another top NSC official; and Dan Shapiro, the U.S….
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Fast Forward French Grocery Giant Rejects Boycott of Israeli Products
Citing Israeli producers’ “full compliance” with French law, the Monoprix supermarket chain declined a request to boycott products from Israel. Monoprix gave its refusal in a letter it sent last week to Claudine Vegas of Toulouse, who heads the Collectif Palestine Libre (“Free Palestine Collective”) – a group that lobbies for the boycott of Israeli…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Eyes More U.S. Aid in Make-Up Meeting With Barack Obama
Rare agreement between two long-bickering leaders may actually be in the cards when Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama meet on Monday for the first time since the signing of the Iran nuclear deal. Their White House talks will be an important step towards a new U.S. military aid package that could burnish…
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Fast Forward Elderly Palestinian Woman Shot 15 Times After Alleged Car-Ramming
The Israeli army shot dead two Palestinians on Friday, one an elderly woman accused of trying to run over soldiers in the occupied West Bank and the other a man who took part in a violent Gaza Strip protest, hospital officials said. Separately, three Israelis were wounded in the West Bank, two of them shot…
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