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Culture Marjorie Taylor Greene says “Jewish lives matter,” and then posts a Soros conspiracy theory
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had a storied pre-Congress career spreading lies about Rothschild-funded space lasers, tweeted in support of Jewish lives Monday night and just this morning trotted out a Jewish conspiracy theory. Both tweets were bad in distinct, but non-mutually exclusive ways. “Jewish lives matter,” Greene replied to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who…
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Culture John Oliver draws praise and condemnation for his segment on conflict in Gaza
John Oliver is no stranger to upsetting people — I mean, he upset the city of Danbury so much they named a sewage plant after him. But on Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver took his own trademark Etonian anger to the Levant, accusing Israel of war crimes in their response to rocket fire…
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Opinion INTERVIEW: ‘The wound is much deeper than before’ — Mohammad Darawshe on Arab-Jewish violence
While far too much in the latest escalation between Israel and Gaza militants is tragically familiar, the new and in many ways most frightening aspect is the internal Arab-Jewish violence plaguing Israel’s so-called mixed cities that many have worried could spiral into a civil war. Arab rioters have torched synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses. Mobs of…
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Community Why can’t my progressive friends understand what Israelis are going through?
I am grieving. I am grieving the small seeds of hope for change I have witnessed over my time living in Israel. I am grieving as I sit with my Palestinian housemates, both of us afraid to leave the house for fear of rockets and rioting blazing through our community. I have enmeshed myself in…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu says Gaza operation “will take time” as escalation enters second week, with total death toll topping 200
For live updates on the conflict from our partners at Haaretz, click here. The intense battle between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip showed no signs of abating as it entered its second week, despite a United Nations Security Council meeting and other international diplomacy aimed at brokering a ceasefire. Gaza health officials…
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Fast Forward Israeli-Gaza battle intensifies: Airstrikes kill dozens, destroy media building; Biden speaks to Netanyahu, Abbas
At least 182 Palestinians and 12 Israelis have been killed over the last week of intense fighting between the Israeli military and militants in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza health ministry says the dead there include 52 children, and that there are about 1,2000 wounded from airstrikes and artillery fire. On the Israeli side, two…
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News As conflict in Gaza rages again, a shift in the American Jewish response
When Israel responded to Hamas rocket fire from Gaza with air strikes and a ground invasion of the seaside enclave in the summer of 2014, the Union for Reform Judaism published a prayer defending the operation Israel called Protective Edge. “This is not easy. It is not desired,” read the prayer written by Alden Solovy,…
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News Pro-Israel demonstrators take to the streets of L.A., other cities
One day after some 200 protesters gathered outside the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles protesting against Israel’s actions in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem and Gaza, pro-Israel supporters took to the streets for their own rally. Around 300 hundred pro-Israel supporters gathered the Federal Building in West Los Angeles holding Israeli flags and signs that read, “We…
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