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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Groups Slam Attack on Philadelphia College Student
Among the 12 organizations that signed on to the statement were StandWithUs, the Zionist Organization of America and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
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Fast Forward Israeli Teens Gripped by Virulent Racism
(Haaretz) — “For me, personally, Arabs are something I can’t look at and can’t stand,” a 10th-grade girl from a high school in the central part of the country says in abominable Hebrew. “I am tremendously racist. I come from a racist home. If I get the chance in the army to shoot one of…
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Fast Forward Hamas Endorses International Criminal Court War Crimes Push
Hamas leaders said on Saturday they had given their consent for the Palestinians to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that could open up both Israel and the militant group to war crime probes over the fighting in Gaza. Moussa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas leader based in Cairo, said he had signed a…
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Fast Forward Israel Pounds Gaza After 4-Year-Old Boy Slain by Rocket
(Reuters) — Israeli aircraft bombed the Gaza Strip on Saturday and Palestinian militants fired rockets at the Jewish state, the military said, with no end in sight to the deadliest violence between the sides in years. Gaza health officials said five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in central Gaza. The…
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The Schmooze Turning Brownstones Green: Interview with Eitan Baron
Courtesy of Greenstone It takes a certain set of skills to make it in New York, and when Eitan Baron moved to the Big Apple in 2000, he definitely didn’t have it. Picking up a suitcase and moving from Azor, Israel, to try his luck at selling oil paintings in Florida was not quite what…
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Fast Forward European Powers Propose Gaza Ceasefire Monitor Plan
Britain, France and Germany have floated the idea of creating a monitoring and verification mechanism for any future ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to prevent future conflicts, a senior British diplomat said on Friday. The proposal was contained in an outline for a possible draft resolution prepared by the three…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Vows ‘Heavy Price’ for 4-Year-Old Israeli Killed by Rocket
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to escalate the fight against Hamas, vowing the group would “pay a heavy price” after a four-year-old Israeli boy was killed by a mortar attack from Gaza, the first Israeli child to die in the six-week conflict. Shortly after his remarks, Palestinian officials said Israel had flattened a house…
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The Schmooze When Russell Brand Dropped Acid at Seder
Getty Images Russell Brand wants you to know he’s not an anti-Semite. In light of accusations made by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in the New York Observer on Monday that Brand is an “Israel hater,” the British comedian has written an essay in the Huffington Post explaining his side of things. Being Russell Brand, the piece…
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Culture In this Holocaust story, there are few words, no swastikas, no yellow stars — just movement, passion and empathy
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