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Fast Forward Israel Thanks India for Nepal Quake Rescue Help
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, for helping to rescue Israelis from Nepal. Netanyahu spoke to Modi on Thursday and delivered his condolences for loss of life in India in the April 25 earthquake, Israel Radio reported. More than 6,000 people died in the disaster, the vast majority in Nepal,…
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Fast Forward Europe Urged To Keep Tight Rein on Aid to Palestinians
Citing alleged corruption by Palestinian recipients of aid money, the European Parliament’s Israel-relations czar urged more conditionality by E.U. donor states. Fulvio Martusciello, the chairman of the parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Israel, issued the call during a parliamentary debate Wednesday in Strasbourg on E.U. funding for the Middle East, his office wrote in a…
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Fast Forward Indiana Becomes Second State To Pass Anti-BDS Measure
Indiana’s state senate passed a nonbinding resolution opposing boycotts of Israel. Resolution 74, adopted earlier this week, makes Indiana’s legislature the second in the United States to pass a resolution condemning BDS, or the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign. Tennessee passed a similar appeal last month. The Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed the anti-BDS…
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Fast Forward Steven Salaita Gets Backing From Professors Group in Feud Over Israel Tweets
The University of Illinois violated the principles of academic freedom and tenure in rescinding the appointment of Steven Salaita over anti-Semitic tweets, a professors’ association found. The American Association of University Professors released a report this week with its findings. It will vote next month on whether to censure the university at its annual meeting,…
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Opinion Why Israel’s Alliance With Azerbaijan Is So Shortsighted
Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, took two steps forward when he met with Israeli Armenian leaders on April 24 but one step back when he failed to characterize the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks for what it was — genocide. As many Jewish scholars have pointed out, this…
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Fast Forward Israeli Rescuers Pull Nepalese Woman From Rubble
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli NGO’s search-and-rescue team in Kathmandu led an international effort in locating and extracting a young Nepalese woman from the earthquake rubble. The IsraAid team on Thursday afternoon guided the rescue of Krishna Devi Khadka, who was stuck in a hotel for five days in an air pocket covered by a…
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News Hundreds Protest Police Brutality Against Blacks — in Israel
Hundreds of Ethiopian-Israelis are now protesting in front of Israel’s national police headquarters in Jerusalem, following the surfacing of showing two police officers, one of whom was a volunteer, punching and tackling an Ethiopian-Israeli male soldier—while in his army uniform—for no apparent reason. The protesters have blocked a section of route 1 in the capital,…
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Fast Forward Susan Rice Expects New Israeli Coalition To Recommit to 2-State Solution
The Obama administration expects a commitment to the two-state solution from the next Israeli government and from the Palestinian Authority, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said. “President Obama has made clear that we need to take a hard look at our approach to the conflict, and that resolving it is in the national security interest…
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