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Fast Forward Anthropologists Won’t Oppose Israel Boycott
The American Anthropological Association rejected a proposed resolution that would oppose the academic boycott of Israel. The association, an organization of 12,000 scholars and practitioners, voted on the motion Friday at its annual business meeting, which had 700 attendees. Just 52 participants voted in favor of the resolution and the no votes were not tabulated…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Upgrade Status at International Criminal Court
The Palestinians have become a non-state observer at the International Criminal Court based in The Hague. The ICC upgraded the Palestine Liberation Organization on Monday, during a summit meeting of the 122 countries that are members of the court. The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told the Palestinian Maan news agency that…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Makes Bread-and-Butter Push
In nearly nine years as Israel’s prime minister spread over three terms, Benjamin Netanyahu has been a security hawk, promising to do whatever it takes to combat the threat from Palestinian militants or a nuclear-armed Iran. But as he opened his campaign for a fourth term ahead of elections set for March 17, Netanyahu stepped…
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Israel News Ultra-Orthodox Women Threatened for Demanding Israel Political Voice
(Haaretz) — The backlash against ultra-Orthodox women who are daring to demand a public voice in government didn’t come as a big surprise, but it did come swiftly and harshly. Last week a formal campaign called “No Female Candidate, No Female Vote” was launched to pressure ultra-Orthodox political parties Shas and the United Torah Judaism…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Knesset Votes to Dissolve Government, Sets New Elections
Israel’s Knesset voted unanimously to dissolve the government and set new elections. Some 93 lawmakers out of 120 voted Monday evening on the second and third readings of the dissolution bill, which set elections for March 17. In the morning, the Knesset’s House Committee had approved the bill and sent it to the full Knesset….
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Israel News Birthright Alumni Program Ends Subsidized Shabbat
Birthright NEXT is ending its subsidized Shabbat meal program for Birthright alumni, the group announced in an email to constituents on December 4. NEXT will also end two similar programs that help pay for Passover seders and High Holiday dinners. The group said that it had helped fund 21,800 events through the three programs since…
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Opinion 7 Israeli Laws America Should Pass Right Now
Life’s good when you’re floating in the Dead Sea / Thinkstock Avital Burg’s recent post “If America Had Laws Like Israel” imagines an American parallel to Israel’s nation-state bill, and invites the reader to deplore what would happen if this bill became law here in the U.S. Though this probably wasn’t the writer’s intention, the…
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Opinion Is It Kosher To Fake a Photo for Peace?
Photographer Kitra Cahana on the hills overlooking Ramallah / Ed Ou Editor’s Note: The Forward’s story “Iconic Mideast Photo Is a Fake — and Heartbreaking One at That” generated a lot of debate about the ethics of staging photographs. For added insight, we put a few questions to Kitra Cahana, a documentary photojournalist whose work…
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