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Opinion You don’t have to choose between loving Israel and opposing the occupation
I recently joined a rally to protest the horrific conditions at Rikers’ Island, where 14 people, all awaiting trial, have died in the past year. I walked away in tears at the pain of these families and individuals, and angered yet again by the racist structures that put a disproportionate number of people of color…
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News Exclusive: Reading Huma Abedin’s book through a Jewish lens
“I couldn’t manage peace in the Middle East, but the fact that I can do this is pretty darn close.” These were former President Bill Clinton’s words when Huma Abedin, a Muslim-American deputy chief of staff to his wife Hillary Clinton, offered him the job of officiating her wedding in 2010 with her Jewish fiance,…
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Yiddish World Being pro-Israel is taboo among my fellow students on Instagram
Teenagers today, like many adults, seem to have become obsessed with Israel and Israeli politics. Last May, when a ceasefire was called after 11 days of fighting in Israel, my fellow students at Columbia Secondary School in Manhattan, who had never posted anything about Israel on Instagram, were suddenly spokespeople for the “anti-Israel movement.” As…
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Opinion Finally, muscular two-state U.S. legislation has been introduced. Biden must back it
“I support a two-state solution.” Great to hear! But unless the year is 1993, it’s hardly a bold statement. The two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has sadly become one of the many causes that politicians love to say they support but then do little or nothing to actively advance. Nowhere has this dynamic been…
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Opinion I’m a leftist. Progressives’ move to strip Iron Dome from spending bill smacks of ignorance
The first time I sprinted to a bomb shelter, it was a stairwell in a rental-car agency in Tel Aviv, Israel. The siren blared as my then-Burning Man fling (now husband) and I were finalizing the paperwork. He grabbed my hand and shoved me into the stairwell along with several employees. Ten seconds later, there…
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Culture Is Facebook biased against Palestinians?
During the most recent Gaza conflagration, both Israelis and Palestinians hurled accusations of censorship at social media giants, including Facebook and Instagram. Palestinians said that their posts about Israeli soldiers entering the al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem were disappearing without even a warning, and so were other posts accusing Israel of violence. Meanwhile, Israeli influencers…
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Opinion It’s time for Jews to join Palestinians in civil resistance to the occupation
It’s time for Jews to join with Palestinians and engage in intercommunal civil resistance to the Israeli occupation. Though ending this vicious regime depends on a multitude of factors, joint nonviolent resistance by Palestinians and Jews constitutes an essential element. We are both a part of this living, binational movement against the ongoing oppression of…
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Culture Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries
Sunday night, after Jews around the world mourn the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem on Tisha B’av, CNN will premiere a series that — in so many words — traces 3,000 years’ worth of conflict to the laying of those structures’ cornerstones. Solomon’s Temple, author Susan Wise Bauer argues in “Jerusalem: City of Faith…
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