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Culture Are Instagram infographics driving the narrative around the Israeli-Palestinian crisis?
Hashtag activism isn’t known for making a long-lasting impact, but it’s certainly a way to spread news and hot takes far and wide — the hotter the take, the more viral the post. While social media’s full impact on the evolving conflict in Gaza and Jerusalem is still emerging, blaring headlines and infographics have already…
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Fast Forward As Gaza barrage continues, internal Jewish-Arab violence spreads to several Israeli cities
Click here for live updates from Haaretz on the fighting. The Israeli army claimed on Thursday that it struck more than 600 targets in the Gaza Strip since the start of its military operation, with the health authorities in the coastal enclave reporting 67 Palestinians dead, in the most heated exchanges since 2014. According to…
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Fast Forward Six Israelis, at least 40 Palestinians killed in worst fighting since 2014 Gaza war
Click here for live updates on the situation from Haaretz. Fighting between Israel and Hamas escalated Wednesday in the most intensive aerial exchanges since the deadly summer-long 2014 war in Gaza. Six Israelis were killed and dozens injured in the intensifying conflict, which included a barrage of some 130 rockets on the Tel Aviv area,…
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News Biden can neither ignore nor address Israeli-Palestinian violence
As President Biden is preparing to engage in talks with Republican leaders on a bold infrastructure package, a rash of events in the Middle East is threatening to pull the U.S. back into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Biden administration immediately condemned “in the strongest terms” the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel late…
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Opinion The fights over Sheikh Jarrah reveal the folly of relitigating Israel’s founding
Defending the pending evictions of as many as 300 Palestinian residents from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Aryeh King rhetorically asked: “If you are the owner of the property, and someone was squatting on your property, wouldn’t you have the right to take him from your property?” But the story is more…
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Fast Forward Jamaal Bowman defends support of bill to regulate aid to Israel
Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York is defending his support of a bill that would regulate U.S. military assistance to Israel, a measure opposed by many mainstream Jewish and pro-Israel groups. Bowman is one of 18 Democratic House members who have co-sponsored a bill introduced by Congresswoman Betty McCollum of Minnesota that prohibits Israel from…
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Culture What almost saved — but ultimately doomed — peace in the Middle East
Yasser Arafat once insisted on cutting up Dennis Ross’s chicken during a dinner; Ross was then head of the American effort to arbitrate peace between Israel and Palestine. At the time, it seemed like a sign of hospitality and hope — Ross joked that Arafat had “a Jewish mother syndrome.” These days, after the Human…
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Opinion I left apartheid South Africa. Applying the term to Israel is disingenous.
Human Rights Watch could do with a new pair of glasses. The organization’s new report, “A Threshold Crossed — Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” is blind to fact and reality. Every paragraph in the 213-page diatribe serves one goal: brand Israel as an apartheid state. I left South Africa as a…
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