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Israel News Photo Activists Shoot Against the Grain — Win Both Respect and Hatred in Israel
On a recent Saturday night, during one of the most heated days of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, a group of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv and protested for an end to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Anti-war demonstrations during wartime are not unusual in Israel. They rarely bring out more than a few…
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Israel News Jews March in New York Rally Against Israel War in Gaza
Holding signs emblazoned with slogans like “Boycott Israeli Apartheid” and “New York Jews Say: Not in Our Name,” hundreds of protesters marched through lower Manhattan on Thursday demanding an end to American support for Israel’s operation in Gaza. The event was one of many held in the U.S. and around the world as part of…
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Fast Forward Extremist Rabbi Issues Ruling Saying Jewish Law Permits Destruction of Gaza
Rabbi Dov Lior, a leading West Bank rabbi who endorsed a book justifying the killing of non-Jews, issued a religious ruling saying that Jewish law permits the destruction of Gaza to keep southern Israel safe. Lior, chief rabbi of the Kiryat Arba settlement, issued the opinion after receiving questions about Jewish law’s position on harming…
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Fast Forward San Francisco Jewish Film Fest Directors Call For Peace in Gaza
Some of the directors who have had their films shown in the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival have issued a statement calling for peace in Gaza and Israel. The statement said that “in these violent days, it is impossible to talk only about cinema while ignoring the killing and horrifying events” taking place on Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Spokesman Admits Army ‘Should Have’ Spared Boys Playing Soccer on Gaza Beach
A top Israeli spokesman conceded the Israeli military should have been able to tell that four Palestinian boys killed on a Gaza beach while playing soccer were not terrorists. “The IDF had a target, a Hamas terrorist target,” Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner told ABC, an Australian TV news outlet. “We had intelligence pointing specifically to…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldiers Punished for WhatsApp Leaks of Dead Comrades’ Names
The Israeli military said it had detained several soldiers and a civilian on suspicion of leaking Gaza casualty figures over social media before families of the dead or wounded could be formally informed. A week into ground fighting with Hamas that has killed at least 32 soldiers, some Israelis complain of first learning their relatives…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Exits Israel Political Stage After 6 Decades
Outgoing Israeli President Shimon Peres officially exited Israeli politics for the first time in six decades as new President Reuven Rivlin was sworn in. The inauguration ceremony at Israel’s Knesset Thursday evening was low-key owing to Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein opened the ceremony with a prayer for Israel Defense Forces…
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Opinion No, Birthright Didn’t Kill Max Steinberg
L.A. native Max Steinberg, killed in combat during fighting with Gaza / Courtesy of Steinberg Family I’ve gone on the record about my ambivalence about Birthright, having argued that it actually discouraged a connection to Israel for Jews like me due to the clear bias of its agenda. Should I have been offered a more…
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